On 5/16/11 11:56 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > There is no good reason to conform to blue-nose standards. >
This is where I strongly disagree. Rightly or wrongly, the reality is that first-time visitors will make an overall conclusion about Commons based on what they see on the front page, and that conclusion in turn affects decisions about whether to contribute the stashes of old photos to Commons, to another site not committed to freeness, or simply to forget about them and not contribute at all. To look at it another way, we already pick and choose what goes on the front page - we don't put up the latest blurry phone camera pic of somebody making random shapes with the fingers, we only put up our better material. Why do we do that? Could it be that we are trying to make a good impression on visitors? Stan _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
