[Commons-l] The disastrous popularity of Commons

[David Gerard]

On 08/04/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is just what came into my head in ten minutes. There is tons of
> interesting stuff that could be done. Please do some if intend to come
> to Wikimania :]


I don't, sadly :-) but it's also interesting for Commons press releases.

Here's a somewhat-related question: I have ideas for press releases to
drag the general public to Commons at a *fantastic* rate. But do we
want that?

+ more good stuff under free licenses
+ awareness as a separate project
- 10% copyvio rate as is; need more copyright paranoid admins ready to
just go through crap allll the tiiiime
- search still sucks
- Commons is not Flickr - will people try to use it as their personal gallery?
- what to do when people who don't quite get it realise what they've
done (e.g. released pictures of selves or kids under a free content
licence) and want to change their mind?
- stratospheric bandwidth bills. You think it's bad now.

More pluses and minuses please.

I still think Wikipedia got way too popular way too quickly and I
would be much happier if it were a Top 100 site rather than a Top 10
site. It would also be cheaper in bandwidth.


- d.