[Wikipedia-l] Wikicommons

[Andre Engels]

I have asked for this for several months now, but it seems that those who 
actually can do something prefer to use extreme delay policy here. I propose 
to hijack one of the currently inactive Wikimedia Wikis, and just start 
this. I'm tired of waiting.

Andre Engels


On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:24:56 +0200 Gerard Meijssen <gerardm at myrealbox.com> 
wrote:
>Hoi,
>There has been much talk about starting a repository for all kinds of 
>media. Pictures etc  that have a license compatible with the ideas of 
>wikimedia. The idea lives to have one repository for all pictures so that 
>we need to store it only once.
>The idea lives to make Wikicommons ??  the location where the userid's for 
>the wikimedia projects may live.
>
>Anyway, Wikicommons does not exist and we have all these harddrives full of 
>our digital snapshots.that may eventually end up on wikisomewhere. Wouldn't 
>it be nice to start Wikicommons and have a place to dump these pictures now 
>for people to find?
>
>Yes, we cannot use Wikicommons pictures in the diverse projects yet, but 
>now we do not have the pictures either. What is stopping us from creating 
>this space and get something going ??
>
>Personally I have nice pictures from within the Vatican, a scull of a Homo 
>erectus etc etc. I have been to many musea and I have pictures a plenty 
>from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Brussels, Oostvaardersplassen. I am sure 
>that I am not the only one with interesting pictures that are usefull to 
>others.
>
>Please let us start the Wikicommons and add functionality when we think of 
>some, when we program some.
>
>Thanks,
>    GerardM
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