[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] 1.6 Billion USD to spare? How about liberation of some pic...

[White Cat]

Yes, currently among the major problems are keeping track of images. If I
delete an image as a copyvio and it is reuploaded, it is very hard to know.
Even if the image in question is an exact replica. Not to mention reuploads
of stuff for vandalism. This for example is not something an external tool
can handle unless it has a complete copy of commons image database which is
rather large in size.

I want to see toolserv tools get integrated to mediawiki when dealing with
images.

Also the multi-lingual interface support needs work. For example to display
licenses in multiple languages.

     - White Cat

On Jan 23, 2008 6:50 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:11, "Brianna Laugher"
> <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have the impression that the developers and the Board are somewhat
> > aware of Commons' wishes and concerns (although naturally no one makes
> > any promises :)) and when the new software developers are hired I hope
> > and believe our requests may start to be seriously considered.
>
> Indeed; currently we have very limited resources. We've been promised
> the opportunity to bring on more full time devs but we're not as far
> as hiring yet.
>
> In the meantime, the sad circumstance is that the work Commons needs
> isn't able to get much dedicated attention from WMF. Interested
> volunteers would be very welcome; the JS and toolserver tools going on
> are an *awesome* start but more integrated stuff is needed for upload,
> tagging, and search.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
> >
> >
> > In general I share Florence's wish for a MediaWiki roadmap to be
> > developed during this year.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Brianna
> >
> > --
> > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
> > http://modernthings.org/
> >
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