On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Maybe we should turn the system around, so our
Swedish newcomers
can upload images to the Swedish Wikipedia, where they are
patrolled by Swedish speaking admins. Then, the patrolled images
can be automatically forwarded to Commons, instead of the other
way around. Even though this would require software development,
this seems a lot easier than trying to manage the admin community
on Commons.
That's an interesting proposal.
How about this: Keep uploads at Commons, but automatically tag the
image description with a (hidden) category of the interface language
used on the upload page (except maybe for en)? That would allow for
* determining the language to use when contacting a user
* subgroup/filter images (e.g. all deletion requests uploaded in Swedish)
Should be easy enough to incorporate into the software. Initially, we
could fall back to JavaScript (wgUserLanguage), which we use in the
upload form anyway...
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