[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

David Richfield davidrichfield at gmail.com
Mon May 16 20:43:30 UTC 2011


Ah, sorry, I missed the point that it was on the Wikipedias solely as a
Commons POTD, and that it hadn't been selected by the wikipedias
themselves.
On 16 May 2011 10:10 PM, "Robert Rohde" <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/5/16 David Richfield <davidrichfield at gmail.com>:
>> How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
>> tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.
>
> The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations
> of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no
> claim to notability at all. In general, "notability" has very little
> to do with Commons at any level.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
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