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

[teun spaans]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> teun spaans wrote:
> > Many times it works well.
> > But the procedures also irregularly goes amiss.
> >
> > I also received deletion messages of a pic i had uploaded with a correct
> > license. Some wikimedian had accidently removed the license, making a bot
> > come along and warn me. By pure coincidence i happened to come along at
> > commons - sometimes months go by without me dropping in - and was able to
> > restore the license, protest angainst its deletion, and so on.
> > 7 days is awfully short. One easy thing that can be approved is an email
> > instead of a bot message on a talk page.
> >
> > But that wont change the self centered attitude of commonists.
>
> You *will* get an email if have chosen on your Preferences to get an
> email whenever your talk page is modified.
> Having that option available on WMF wikis was pushed from commons
> community, and in fact Commons was one of the first projects where it
> was added. Now it is enabled on all wikis but the big ones.
>
> Thank you, I now have this enabled on commons.
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