[Foundation-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:59 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Please provide an example of what you call "actively working against
being a service project".


Bryan