On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
I'm continuing my work, and I will upload PDF files to Wikimedia Commons, but I will keep the editable source files (ODT) offline.
Wikimedia Commons is already full of posters and brochures in PDF, where the editable source files are unavailable. That is sad.
Yes, sad. I think everysone agrees. But not trivial to fix. So, help with fixing it, or wait for someone else to fix it. Complaining doesn't help. Such is the nature of open source projects.
There are other repository for free culture, www.archiver.org, that could be another option for people. Posting the PDF in Wikipedia, and the ODT or archive.org. Bonus points adding a comment to the WP page of the pdf with a link to the archive.org src file.
This is another way to pimp free culture. Wikipedia is popular, widly popular, sharing that popularity with another good agents can result on good things. For hence, one day the Wikipedia will die. One basket, all eggs. A bus can hit the wikipedia.