[Commons-l] Software impreovments (was: Should Commons be renamed?)

[Uber Halogen]

On 03/07/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Barcex <barcexwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I Agree on this point, and think that the real problems why Commons is not
> > so successful are not related to its name but to the MediaWiki software (as
> > is now) that is very good to write encyclopedias but awful to implement an
> > image bank. The concept of "wiki" (easy edit with full history of changes)
> > is very useful for our needs, but the implementation with MediaWiki is far
> > from being good.
> >
> > Barcex
> >
> This issue has come up multiple times, but without much result. What
> specific features does Commons need to have? A list of this might be
> interesting, because their are very likely users who are willing to
> implement those kind of things, either as an extension, javascript
> hack or external service.
>
> Bryan
>
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I believe there is already a page at [1] if that helps.
--UH.

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bugs