Erik Moeller wrote:
Now that the Wikimedia Commons is being widely used as a central image archive - if you haven't already, check out http://commons.wikimedia.org/
- we are facing the question again whether we want to store image
galleries in Wikipedia.
I think it's worth suggesting that people take a look, but the commons is not really ready for primetime; while there's been a lot of energetic image dumping, not so much effort has gone into organization or cross-reference support. My experience so far has been to be confronted with piles of random uploads of monster pictures, sort of like some horrible museum where if you express interest in something, the docent grabs you and shoves you up against the painting, and you have to walk back and forth with your nose to the wall in order to view it. :-)
It also seems that there is not a consensus as to whether the commons is a bare repository for editors to draw upon, versus something that you want to send readers to. It would be unfortunate to move a gallery there and then have somebody delete it because "that's not what the commons is for."
Stan