[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Bands from Brazil - Why?

[David Gerard]

On 14/11/06, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:

> David, you're generalizing. Say "some Commons admins" if you wish, but
> don't paint everyone with the same brush.


And the dissenting voices were ...


> In addition, there's definitely a problem if projects decide to close
> local uploads and redirect everybody to commons and:
> 1) They don't warn Commons beforehand.
> 2) At least some of their admins don't apply for adminship on Commons.
> We just cannot cope with languages we don't speak.


The whole point is to be a service project. All wikis that don't allow
non-free images were ultimately supposed to use Commons.

If you're saying Commons really can't handle that, then the thing
that's seriously wrong is at the Commons end.


- d.