On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Huib Laurens Abigor@forgotten-beauty.comwrote:
effe iets anders schreef:
Hi Huib,
yes, that seems to be an accurate description of the current situation. However, what would you /want/ it to be, and /why/ ? :)
Thanks,
eia
2009/6/16 Huib Laurens Abigor@forgotten-beauty.com
2> Commons is not ready to be a service project to replace local uploads, translations aren't good enough and there a not enough administrators to give enough service to all language projects.
Several of the largest wikipedias have already disabled local uploads and rely completely on commons to provide freely-licensed only images. And we're not talking small wikis, but big wikipedias. So there's factual evidence that commons is ready to replace local uploads.
3> If we make Commons a service project we will end up with users getting blocked because the are blocked on other wiki's. A independent Commons can be a safe harbour for users blocked from other projects to make a fresh start. (It happened it the past).
I believe if Commons is a service project we need to change a lot of things in a short time with a lot of people involved, A independent Commons still have to deal with the same problems, but the community can work on it without the need of extra interference.
Huib
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