Commons talk:The Commoner

A good idea. --Túrelio (talk) 12:10, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

+1. Count me in! :) Jean-Fred (talk) 13:24, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Me too! —Clockery Fairfeld who, me? 13:33, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Awesome! --Dschwen (talk) 14:08, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

I like the header too. :P --Nemo 14:13, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

+1! -Pete F (talk) 19:09, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

+1 --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:10, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Emphasize Multimedia

I think rather than copying the signpost to Commons, we could try hard getting as must as possible screencasts, videos and content in other than written formats in. Needless to say a newspaper journal for Commons is a great idea. -- Rillke^(q?) 12:21, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Profiles of donors

One thing which I have wanted to do for a long time is do profiles of donors who have provided media under a free licence. It would, of course, have input from those donors on issues such as why they CC licence, what benefits they foresaw when doing so, what benefits they have seen, etc, etc. This could then be used to encourage other donors to release media under a CC licence. I'd be happy to pursue and write such profiles if people think this could be beneficial. russavia (talk) 12:24, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Of course that'd be interesting. An archive of these would be great to point the unconvinced to. Could imagine a teaser for the different categories of The Commoner, though as the whole story would be probably very long to deliver to everywhere. -- Rillke^(q?) 15:48, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Weekly? Fortnightly? Monthly?

A weekly publication, whilst being good for providing timely information on immediate issues as they relate to Commons, e.g. software updates, etc, would require a lot of work to "fill" the rest of a publication. Would a fortnightly publication be something that is more achievable? This would be especially considering that I can imagine most people would contribute would have other things that they do on Commons that takes up a lot of time. Thoughts? russavia (talk) 12:33, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Stating up as monthly or fortnightly is better. When we have a strong team, can think about a weekly base? Jee 12:36, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Don't we'd better defer this discussion until we have contents for the first issue? It'll be hard to predict how many contributors will join. -- Rillke^(q?) 12:46, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Sure! Jee 12:49, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Story ideas

• I just published a blog post addressing the oft-repeated claim that Commons is "ethically broken." I think it would be nice if the inaugural issue took on this question. Thoughts? http://wikistrategies.net/wikimedia-commons-is-far-from-ethically-broken/ -Pete F (talk) 23:09, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

• Oh no; it only give the impression that this newspaper is created to defend Commons. We can concentrate more on constructive moves like our attempt to explore our contents. A news blurb about LGBT-related challenge as part of Wiki Loves Pride 2014? may be a good example (?). Jee 02:38, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

OK, I think you're right. I do think there are different ways this could be approached (it doesn't have to be defensive), but you're right -- maybe not best for the first issue, after all. -Pete F (talk) 16:44, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

• Or a spotlight on people who regularly upload images in undercovered areas? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:00, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

• Indeed; we can highlight volunteers from underrepresented countries from, Asia, Africa, South America, etc and there rare and valuable contributions. They usually neglected in main pages as they may not be FP/QI because of the average equipment they use. And, I've noticed Pine has a plan to promote equip grant for the suitable candidates. He had asked several times (at AN etc.) whether an admin can help him on that matter. Jee 13:58, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

• That sounds like an interesting project. Wikimedia Indonesia received a request for such a grant ($3000 for photographic equipment sufficient for birding), but I'm not sure how that turned out. Hope Pine is able to shake the world with this. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)