Just because several projects have decided to disable local uploads does not mean that Commons is ready to accept them.
________________________________ From: Pedro Sanchez <pdsanc...@gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:41:51 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not? On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Huib Laurens <abi...@forgotten-beauty.com>wrote: > effe iets anders schreef: > > Hi Huib, > > > > yes, that seems to be an accurate description of the current situation. > > However, what would you /want/ it to be, and /why/ ? :) > > > > Thanks, > > > > eia > > > > 2009/6/16 Huib Laurens <abi...@forgotten-beauty.com> > > > > > > > > > 2> Commons is not ready to be a service project to replace local > uploads, translations aren't good enough and there a not enough > administrators to give enough service to all language projects. > Several of the largest wikipedias have already disabled local uploads and rely completely on commons to provide freely-licensed only images. And we're not talking small wikis, but big wikipedias. So there's factual evidence that commons is ready to replace local uploads. > > 3> If we make Commons a service project we will end up with users > getting blocked because the are blocked on other wiki's. A independent > Commons can be a safe harbour for users blocked from other projects to > make a fresh start. (It happened it the past). > > I believe if Commons is a service project we need to change a lot of > things in a short time with a lot of people involved, A independent > Commons still have to deal with the same problems, but the community can > work on it without the need of extra interference. > > Huib > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
