On 6/29/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
When you use tools in stead of communication I agree, the point is that the Commons community has in the past deliberately, pointedly and repeatedly indicated that they are not interested in informing and discussing proposed change to the Commons policies prior to aking that change
The right place to discuss Commons policy in a multilingual community with over 600 wikis are the Commons forums and mailing list. Everyone is free to participate there. If policy is not discussed in the right places _on_ Commons, then this is a failing of the Commons community. But cooperation also means participation.
Imagine that we didn't have separate wikis, and only a single big one. Surely the right place to discuss image policy would be the pages about image policy? The separation of Commons and other projects is essentially one that only exists in our heads, with the exception of separate accounts and some minor user interface issues. Commons is simply the section of the Wikimedia community that deals with multimedia. And of course these people develop policies and practices around multimedia. If you disagree with these policies and practices, _get involved_.
Virtually all the active members of the Commons community also have a "home wiki" where they are active. It is not some separate entity. It is a subset of the Wikimedia community.
Erik