[Commons-l] "Wikis Take Manhattan"

[Alex]

This is being discussed at
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Commons:Wikis_Take_Manhattan_and_project_scope>

Giggy

On 10/17/08, Nicolas Guérin <nguerin.zurich at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that a picture contest "Wikis Take Manhattan" has been approved by
> the Wikimedia Foundation and happened recently.
>
> However, looking at the related uploaded pictures on Commons (see
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wikis_Take_Manhattan_by_participant/team),
> i think there's many problems :
> * All the pictures have no source and date
> * Most of the pictures have no description
> * Many needs "Personnality right warning"
> * Many seems to be out of Commons scope ( see
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:WSTM_Three_Blind_Mice_0068.JPG)
> * Many are duplicated pictures
>
> In a general case, most of those pictures seem not to meet Commons criteria.
> Please have a look at all these pictures and try to fix the problems.
>
>   Guérin Nicolas
>