[Foundation-l] Making Wikimedia Commons into a central repository of creative commons content

[David Gerard]

On 4 March 2012 13:11, James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wikimedia Commons has the potential to become a central repository of
> creative commons content. There are a large number of other sites running
> Mediawiki software to partner with. If we could either host their images or
> allow users of other sites to simultaneously upload to both Commons and the
> other wiki in question we could increase the rate we are expanding out
> image content and hopefully bring more people into the movement


For them, this has the fundamental cloud problem, i.e. their images
are at the mercy of Commons local policy. I can't see how we could
recommend in good conscience that others give up control like this.


- d.