[Foundation-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

[David Gerard]

2008/12/6 Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com>:

> I can think of two solutions here. One is to simply have more
> multi-project admins. Wikimedia ought to be one big community with a
> commons goal. Unfortunately (but not unsurprisingly) Wikimedia has
> been separated into many different islands separated by language
> borders, which are very hard to open up. Commons was born as a
> multilingual project, but in that aspect has failed I believe.


Relations between Commons and en:wp are clunky at the best of times,
so it's certainly not just a language issue at all.

It's Commons forgetting it's a service project or Commons admins
actively working against being a service project, because they want to
be regarded as a completely independent project.


- d.