[Commons-l] Cross project perception of Commons?

[Stephen Bain]

On 8/24/07, Herby <herbythyme at fmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> To me this is a wider PR thing.  When I was on en wp I knew next to
> nothing about commons.  On this list recently we were equated with a
> "service" to Wikipedia.  Elsewhere (I forget again where) I mentioned
> that I changed an upload warning template on Meta that suggested
> uploading material to en wp.  I really do not think that we (our
> function & us) are well understood and I think this is worth some
> thought.

Commons is like the MediaWiki software. It's many things to many
people, but fundamentally it's there to support the other Wikimedia
projects.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com