"Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de schrieb:
Andre-
It has been discussed before, I think I want to go beyond discussion, and get this thing rolling. I would like to start setting up a database of public domain and copyleft images, using the Wikipedia technology.
As noted earlier, this should be done under the name "Wikimedia Commons", and reside at commons.wikimedia.org, to allow for other content than just images, and to make it clear that that this is not just for Wikipedia, but for all Wikimedia projects.
I don't like the name 'commons', and although I do agree that we want to be broader than just images, in practice it will be 99% images - textual material that might be put here should I think go to wikiquote (or if it's longer wikisource) instead, so I think what is left apart from images are sound bites and video footing. On the other hand I fully agree with you that it should be connected to Wikimedia rather than wikipedia.
Andre Engels