Hoi, There is an essential difference between the Commons data and the Wikisource data. The Commons data has as a restriction that the content needs to be potentially usefull for one of the Wikimedia projects.
Images and sounds uploaded to Commons are directly usable in all the projects. There is no such facility for Wikisource.
When we remove this requirement for usefullness in the projects there is no longer any restriction for uploading material. We already have problems with bodyparts on public view. Currently we do not suffer from fools who upload megabytes of XXX material.
Thanks, GerardM
On 4/26/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
However, your case underscores my standing argument that Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons should be merged, since they both serve very similar purposes (repositories of free content), and transformations like yours would be natural in a single repository.
Exactly. Commons should be the resource for all shared media. Text is a major form of media.
-- mav
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