[Foundation-l] Re: 100, 000 files uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Tue May 24 01:04:27 UTC 2005



Erik Moeller a écrit:
> Anthere-
> 
>> It is easy to use the work done by others to make one's appear great.
> 
> 
> Yes. It is not quite as easy to write a press release from scratch, to 
> find media examples, to determine the 100,000th file with an SQL query 
> and contact the uploader for a quote, to get another quote from Jimbo, 
> to count the number of files of particlar types, to get the community 
> involved in all of this, to coordinate translations and, finally, to 
> distribute the press release. Besides doing this, I also managed the 
> Directmedia upload, which is part of the press release and was a 
> time-intensive project over several weeks. Of the press release itself, 
> I wrote 79.8%.

Thank god, everyone

> It's nice that you indirectly contributed to the press release and 
> coordinated the honorary mentions, thank you. Thanks also to everyone 
> else who helped, particularly Raul654 (8.3%), Angela (11.2%), and the 
> translators. Now, as for the above, I will interpret it as a general 
> rant and not directed at me. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Erik





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