On 01/05/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> If Commons is to be an effective service project,
it needs the
> infrastructure. A kludged-together usage detector that misses en:wp is
> not a substitute for something showing right there in the image page
> if the file is in use.
That doesn't have any bearing on the fact that
Commons is meant for the
wider population, where such detection is much tricker, as well as our
own projects, of course.
Yes, though the service project function is (a) what it was created
for at all (b) a solvable problem.
It would be a bit silly if Wikimedia had to start a second service
project because Commons had gone off on crack ;-)
- d.