Hello Robert, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:59 AM, R M Harris <rmhar...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> the time has come, I think, to actively begin a discussion within the > communities > about some of the questions which I've encountered, specifically around > Commons > and images within Commons. I'd love to see better summaries as Excirial suggests. More specifically, instead of another discussion, how about "...summarizing existing discussions into clusters of ideas that can be identified with common use cases or user preferences, and informed by better research or turned into specific proposals and recommendations" ? We have hundreds of overlapping threads, hundreds of existing policies and guidelines on different projects, dozens of different use cases and concerns, and many different ideas and suggestions. a few of these have turned into specific draft proposals, but those have not been consolidated or aligned with one another or with existing policies and guidelines. Making good summaries may reuiqre finding editors to help out as clerks -- organizing and refactoring existing discussions in a central place. And you would definitely need some translation help to cover existing discussions in a variety of languages. Ideally, those who have expressed themselves clearly in previous discussions would not need to repeat themselves -- lest you end up with an unwanted contest of volume. SJ PS - The most recent problem we've had is on the Acehnese Wikipedia: [[Requests for comment/ace.wikipedia and Prophet Muhammad images]]. It is concerned with a combination of image context and the availability of certain images within Commons. Your reflections on that discussion (and mapping it onto the questoins you raise) might illuminate related issues. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l