[Foundation-l] Launch of the Wikimedia Commons

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am pleased to announce that a database has now been set up for the
> Wikimedia Commons.

This is great news! 
 
> The site is temporarily located at http://commons.wikimedia.org/ until
> the project gets its own domain.

I'm pretty sure the plan was to keep the domain name exactly like it is now
since it is a *common* resource for all Wikimedia projects (just like Meta). 
 
> This provides a space for those interested to begin forming the
> guidelines for the site, and to discuss how the software will need to
> adapt to make the Commons as useful as possible.
> 
> The previous discussions are now linked to from
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_plan.
> 
> Batches of files may be uploaded as compressed zip files. Some time in
> the next few days, a script will be written to decompress these zip
> files on the server side. Please make sure you use appropriate file
> names inside the archives.

Hm. Lot's of images to transfer. Could the transwiki function be tweaked in
order to do this? 

-- mav


		
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