Creating good content will attract more, not starting over. We have
already
established that this would be a fork and nothing in this proposed project could not be put into Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons.
Of course, by this rationale, Wikimedia Commons itself is an unnecessary fork, since all the images in the Commons could be put into Wikipedia itself.
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Creating good content will attract more, not starting over. We have
already
established that this would be a fork and nothing in this proposed project could not be put into Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons.
Of course, by this rationale, Wikimedia Commons itself is an unnecessary fork, since all the images in the Commons could be put into Wikipedia itself.
Tsk tsk, being English-centric. Don't you realize that the Italian wikipedia can't refer to an English WP image directly, but has to upload each one to it:WP specifically? We have thousands of cloned images by now. The Commons is actually an anti-fork that will make all the images accessible to all WPs equally.
Stan
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:20:04AM -0400, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Creating good content will attract more, not starting over. We have
already
established that this would be a fork and nothing in this proposed project could not be put into Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons.
Of course, by this rationale, Wikimedia Commons itself is an unnecessary fork, since all the images in the Commons could be put into Wikipedia itself.
additionally to stan's statement, Commons will also allow to upload more images than actually need in the articles, thus we can build up a nice images ressource.
ciao, tom
--- Anthony DiPierro anthonydipierro@hotmail.com wrote:
Of course, by this rationale, Wikimedia Commons itself is an unnecessary fork, since all the images in the Commons could be put into Wikipedia itself.
No it is not since the Commons is a common place to host data and files that are used by more than one wiki. It therefore helps to bind us together, not divide us.
-- mav
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