[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

[Geoffrey Plourde]

"Its only point"=what is does=store images for other projects

I was not referring to the cabinet makers, just the filing cabinets. It was the closest metaphor for Commons my caffeine deprived brain could think of. Following along it, a cabinet maker is one who makes cabinets. The cabinets themselves are repositories. 







On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Commons is an oddball project. Other projects produce work, but Commons
> stores it. Wikisource could be considered another oddball for the same
> reason. At this point in time, I would class Commons as a service project
> (and wikisource as well) because it provides a service to other projects and
> its only point is to provide a service to other projects.


By "other projects", do you mean "other Wikimedia projects"?  And how are
you determining what "its only point" is?

All Wikimedia projects are service projects in a sense.



Unfortunately, I can not fathom any reason that Commons should be or is a
> independent project in its own right. It would be like making all the filing
> cabinets in an office their own division.


Most cabinet makers are independent from the office where those cabinets are
used.

I really don't see the dichotomy between independence and service.
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