[Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening
Lars Aronsson
lars at aronsson.se
Sat Dec 6 20:46:15 UTC 2008
Patricia Rodrigues wrote:
> That's a wonderful idea! But many times our main problem is the
> lack of manpower in different languages to actually address
> different users.
The more I think about this human side of the problem, the more I
think we should go back to local uploading. The forwarding to
Commons could be implemented by adding a "category:Suitable for
Commons" and a bot that scans this category. Then if the image is
deleted from Commons, the local copy would still exist.
If we want Wikipedia to scale from the narrow nerd community to a
wider society, including elderly, we need to greet them with
respect and in their own language. I don't see how we could
manage this on Commons, even if uploaded images were marked with
the uploader's interface language. We will always have the narrow
nerd community too, which can act as admins and an interface
towards the international community.
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Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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