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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: arnomane@gmx.de arnomane@gmx.de Date: 2006-05-19 14:12 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons and local wikis can finally grow together To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org

Hi,

Although this list is about the organisational part of the Wikimedia project I think it's right notifying you about a new technology (in fact it's technically nothing advanced but it just rocks IMHO :) that changes and improves heavily the communication between a central repository like Wikimedia Commons and Wikimedia projects that use it.

CommonsTicker is a tool witten by Duesentrieb for collecting critical events regarding media files on Commons and posts them to the wikis using the respective file. Given the Wikimedia Commons <-> Wikipedia problems highlighted on a recent flame war on this very list I don't overestimate it if I call it *THE solution* to these communication and quality problems. You can find its project page at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker

This technology *works right now* and has already started in the German language Wikipedia at:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CommonsTicker

This page sums up automatically all changes to Commons that are relevant to de.wikipedia and only those. So people can concentrate on the information that is improtant to them and don't need to filter and sort the large amount of maintenance information in Commons for themselves. And of course CommonsTicker is translateable and customizable in a large range by local projects.

So please spread the word and read

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker

in order to get as well a CommonsTicker for your Wikimedia wiki you are working at. This is crucial to the sucess of Wikimedia Commons becoming a true rival to Getty Images and the improvement of multimedia inside Wikipedia which deserves heavy improvement compared to other encyclopedias. The quality of illustration and multimedia is the only larger negative point of Wikipedia in all Wikipedia vs. traditional encyclopedias comparisons.

May be there no lack of interproject communication anylonger.

Have fun, Arnomane - Wikimedia Commons _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l