As a Commoner, I can tell we certainly are, James, please apply here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators
Even if your sysop actions are rather occasional or seasonal, or focused on a certain topic, like mine, all help is very much welcomed there. Best, Paulo James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> escreveu no dia segunda, 13/05/2019 à(s) 11:02: > I have a fairly good understanding of copyright. Deal with a fair bit of > copyright issues occurring via paid editing and flicker washing of images > and would be happy to do admin work around that if the Commons community > was interested. > > James > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 4:00 AM Paulo Santos Perneta < > paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Wikimedia project communities in general seem to be quite stagnant, if > not > > declining, apart from Wikidata, which is and always will be a whole > > different case. In the case of Commons it was already very much as it is > > now when I joined in 2009. I always found it a very pleasant place, but > > overtime I understood I was the exception there, and most people had bad > > experiences. And it is as Yann has shown there, it's a few sysops running > > the entire show almost alone, not because they want that, but because > > nobody else helps with that. > > > > IMO the problem is not with the existing sysops, but because people in > > general do not feel attracted to copyright and other similar minucious > > stuff which marks everyday life in Commons. And, without that knowledge > it > > is pointless, if not counterproductive, to place a candidacy to sysop. No > > idea what the solution could be, but it certainly is not blaming Commons > > and the existing sysops. If more people was interested in copyright, less > > mistakes would be happening in Commons as well. Whatever the solution is, > > it probably passes by that. > > > > Best, > > Paulo > > > > Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com> escreveu no dia > segunda, > > 13/05/2019 à(s) 07:09: > > > > > A good question to ask would be why the admin group is not growing. And > > > maybe (maybe) we can find a common answer to both problems pointed > here. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
