[Commons-l] Thoughts about 'Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening'

[Florian Straub]

Hi there,

since I'm, subscribed via digest I have no mail to reply, so here some 
random ideas (rough brainstorming) about the issues mentioned in the 
thread 'Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening':

* We need to have at least one (leading) person per language to 
translate the messages. They should be contactable via email as well. 
Maybe coordinated by a mailing-list. Wasn't there one?

* We could "use" the translation power of the folks at betawiki 
(http://translatewiki.net/ )

* I tried to launch a mentoring programme some months ago, but with no 
success: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mentoring

* Maybe we could include SOME contact people directly in the templates.

* What about something like ambassadors?

These are just some spontaneous ideas, I wanted to share. Maybe you have 
some to say about some of them ...


Best regards,


Flo