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Request for starting Wikicommons
About one month ago, I asked about WikiCommons, and Eloquence answered that
he would not object against early creation any more. I have let it pass
because of my holidays, but now would like to get started with this, hoping
to have something set up when I start my new job on October 1.

Thus, I would ask for the Wiki to be set up, proposed address:
commons.wikimedia.org, perhaps with a redirect from commons.wikipedia.org.

I would also like to know how far attempts at getting a new upload form have
now come.

Once it has been set up, I would like to invite everyone to come over to
join in early policy discussion and get an upload basis, as well as to join
with Eloquence in his work to improve the Mediawiki software for this
purpose (see [[meta:Wikimedia Commons]]).

People who have already shown interest in the project will be contacted by
me once it is set up, as will be the various (other) Wikimedia projects.

Andre Engels
Re: Request for starting Wikicommons [ In reply to ]
Hi,

Le Monday 16 August 2004 14:13, Andre Engels a écrit :
> About one month ago, I asked about WikiCommons, and Eloquence answered that
> he would not object against early creation any more. I have let it pass
> because of my holidays, but now would like to get started with this, hoping
> to have something set up when I start my new job on October 1.
>
> Thus, I would ask for the Wiki to be set up, proposed address:
> commons.wikimedia.org, perhaps with a redirect from commons.wikipedia.org.
>
> I would also like to know how far attempts at getting a new upload form
> have now come.
>
> Once it has been set up, I would like to invite everyone to come over to
> join in early policy discussion and get an upload basis, as well as to join
> with Eloquence in his work to improve the Mediawiki software for this
> purpose (see [[meta:Wikimedia Commons]]).
>
> People who have already shown interest in the project will be contacted by
> me once it is set up, as will be the various (other) Wikimedia projects.
>
> Andre Engels

Yes, I think that would be great.

Yann

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Re: Request for starting Wikicommons [ In reply to ]
On 08/16/04 12:13, Andre Engels wrote:

> Thus, I would ask for the Wiki to be set up, proposed address:
> commons.wikimedia.org, perhaps with a redirect from commons.wikipedia.org.
> Once it has been set up, I would like to invite everyone to come over to
> join in early policy discussion and get an upload basis, as well as to
> join with Eloquence in his work to improve the Mediawiki software for
> this purpose (see [[meta:Wikimedia Commons]]).
> People who have already shown interest in the project will be contacted
> by me once it is set up, as will be the various (other) Wikimedia projects.


Yes please. Seconded. Eagerly awaited.

(I do like the idea of somewhere I can put all the pics of buildings,
monuments and so on that I took a pic of because I thought they'd be a
nice idea for Wikipedia if I ever write the article ...)


- d.
Re: Request for starting Wikicommons [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:10:48 +0000, David Gerard
<fun@thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On 08/16/04 12:13, Andre Engels wrote:
>
> > Thus, I would ask for the Wiki to be set up, proposed address:
> > commons.wikimedia.org, perhaps with a redirect from commons.wikipedia.org.
>
> Yes please. Seconded. Eagerly awaited.
>
> (I do like the idea of somewhere I can put all the pics of buildings,
> monuments and so on that I took a pic of because I thought they'd be a
> nice idea for Wikipedia if I ever write the article ...)

*AOL* This would be excellent.

Upload form : The text of the new upload form is available in 8 languages now,
with partial translations into 5 more, although all need to be updated
to conform
to the latest changes to the German original.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation/New_upload_form

I don't know who is working on implementing the code changes involved.

~sj~