[Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

[Fred Bauder]

> On 2 June 2011 14:21, Fae <faenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Briefly responding to a couple of points raised so far:
>>
>> Yes, there is a need for a policy as otherwise the WMF would have no
>> long term operational archive plan.
>
> Why would we have an archive plan? Archives are for things that aren't
> expected to needed on a regular basis any more but may need to be
> referred to in the future. We're not going to archive things on
> Commons, they'll just stay on Commons indefinitely.

If an image is hosted on Commons for 100 years and NEVER used by any
other Wikimedia project would we, or why should we, retain it?

Fred