On 7/3/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/07/07, Ayelie <ayelie.at.large(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/3/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
More to the point, all Wikisource material has
"language" as a
fundamental attribute, which isn't really applicable here.
The equivalent fragmentation in Commons would presumably be, oh,
something like -
image.commons
video.commons
audio.commons
Where would animations fit in? They aren't movies per se, but neither
are
they strictly images.
I dunno. Maybe we could have month-long flamewars over whether
image.commons contained *just* "traditional" images, or upstart modern
dialects like animations ;-)
Or we could have...
jpg.commons
svg.commons
png.commons
gif.commons
ogg.commons
djvu.commons
pdf.commons
[...]
Why not just break ourselves up into "languages" like all other projects?
Shouldn't be *too* much of a hassle.... I mean, I wouldn't apply for
adminship on ogg.commons or pdf.commons but I might pass on jpg/svg/png
.commons ... "Hello! My name is Ayelie and I'm an administrator on
jpg.commons.org,
svg.commons.org,
png.commons.org, and
gif.commons.org; if
you have any questions pertaining to
ogg.commons.org or
pdf.commons.org I'm
afraid I'm clueless but feel free to ask one of the 3 admins who are
semi-active on those projects..."
I really do not see how dividing ourselves up is going to achieve anything
other than a LOT of confusion and conflicts and annoyance. I don't think
metawiki should be merged with us either; we get enough vandalism on license
templates and images as it is without having to deal with people vandalising
pages that are transcluded on multiple projects, not to mention the fact
that a lot of the great admins on that project know very little about
licensing and so would be lost as admins on Commons.
Commons is a media repository, meta is an information repository.
Two similar, but very different projects - and merging them may make sense
on some levels but I really don't think in the large scheme of things it
would work.
--
Ayelie
~Editor at Large