Hi Rama,

Sorry, but you have it all wrong.

1. Wikimedia is a repository for other Wikimedia projects. It is its
primary mission.

2. But this does not make Commons contributors second-class. On the
opposite, importing and managing files for other projects make them
first-class IMHO. ;oD

Yann


2014-06-21 10:04 GMT+05:30 Rama Neko <[email protected]>:
> Commons is not there to serve other projects. Commons is a project of its
> own standing, and the other projects are there to serve it just as much as
> it is there to serve other projects.
>
> It is really dispiriting to see how certain people see Commonists as some
> sort of second-class contributors. That is wrong in every sense of the word
> -- it is an error and an injustice.
>   -- Rama
>
>
>
> On 20 June 2014 23:45, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 20 June 2014 22:28, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Blocking because people do not agree with you is very much antagonising.
>> > The
>> > intention is that Commons serves other projects so why is someone
>> > blocked
>> > when they make sure people take notice of what is happening at Commons?
>> > I fins it is rather offensive all these !@#$%%. It gives the impression
>> > that
>> > there is no conversation possible and that it has degenerated into a
>> > power
>> > play.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've noted before: If Commons doesn't want to be regarded as a problem
>> by other projects, it really needs to start behaving less like one.
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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