[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

[Christiano Moreschi]

Civility much, Mark?

Snark apart, the basic problem with commons isn't the people (although they don't help), it's the software. MediaWiki is just not terribly well suited to this sort of thing. Categorisation is problematic. On encyclopedia projects this isn't the end of the world, because there's a search button and wikilinks to find your way to other articles: it's not a killer that en's categorisation sucks (and probably everyone else's catting too).

But on a project like commons it's the end.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.



> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 16:48:57 -0500
> From: michaeldavid86 at comcast.net
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons	less	frightening
> 
> on 12/6/08 4:10 PM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > 2008/12/6 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> > 
> >>> Discussions please. (Not denial that this problem is a problem, thanks.)
> > 
> >> If you want to encourage discussion, don't start by restricting the
> >> discussion to only people that agree with you. You won't get any
> >> useful results that way.
> > 
> > 
> > Are you speaking hypothetically, or don't you think this is a problem?
> > 
> What I hear in what he is saying is that your pathological need to control
> is surfacing again.
> 
> Marc Riddell
> 
> 
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