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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Commons provides no benefit except for sharing the same picture to people
who do not read / write English. They cannot possibly find pictures and
consequently for them Commons is useless. Add to this the extreme loads of
work of the Commons admins resulting in an unfriendly attitude towards
people who do not frequent Commons and those who do not speak English and
you appreciate why Commons has only 3.600.201 media files.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2008/12/8 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>

> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I speak as a big fan of and participant in Wikimedia Commons.
> >
> > But: Is it time to deprecate Commons as a WMF service project? It's
> > clearly failing and the local "community" is actively hostile to
> > contributors from other wikis.
> >
> > Commons appears to have forgotten it was created as a service project
> > for other WMF wikis. It's not doing the job any more.
> >
> > Discussions please. (Not denial that this problem is a problem, thanks.)
>
> I don't participate in Commons (photography's not really my thing).
> But I *do* actively promote it as an awesome place to find free media.
> I was under the impression that the project had some time ago moved
> beyond simply being a technically convenient service project, and
> everyone was pretty well agreed on that. Am I wrong? Is this about the
> idea of Commons per se, or about issues with the individual people
> involved?
>
> -- phoebe
>
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