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Hey again!

I'm kicking a hornets nest again... in a good way <G>

I hope you're off camping and having fun, but if not...

You would be a good feedback resource, I think, on what looks to be a far reaching 'Meta-project'. Some implications are Tfd and Cfd constraints on things so en.wikipedia is a bit less iconoclastic, but those are relatively minor. It all happened accidentally.

I'd just invented some template tools to aid in reorganizing maps categories and reconciling those and their parent cats here on en.wp, and when I gave some publicitity to those tools on the commons, answering questions and concerns basically 'gelled' into a glimpse of what could be a big fundamental change to all wikipedia's and a lot better co-ordination with the commons and access to it's resources.

The best part is it's at little cost. A template each on the commons and wikipedia category page.

Conrad Dunkerson (CBDunkerson, my template guru and fellow engineer) may be the only one so far that realizes how important and truly good this will likely be. So take a read and chime in. Here's the extant email list if you just want to jump into that side of things. Email me and the list asap and ask to be CC'd.

I'll forward anything that's on going and important you may have missed. (including the updated list, most all are admins on the sister projects, one a Beaurocrat, I believe.) By Tuesday, things will be popping, I'd guess. The mail list spans the globe! <g>

Best regards, FrankB 03:14, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

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My maps category work on the commons is generating what looks to be a boon to image management in the form and capabilities of the interconnection system of templates I devised for the maps re-catting and cross connecting parent categories of same between en.wikipedia and the commons.

I'd like to invite you (meant to email Friday, but you were hiding in my Archives pages) to join in discussing any benefits and pitfalls of the proto-type interwiki category connection system' before it is formally proposed, which now looks to be best done on Meta as a project.

This is all just beginning to begin shaking out, being summer etc. and I've essentially concluded as a result of the questions and answers on my commons talk late in the week that it needs a preliminary kicking around between knowledgable editors that can see the potential benefits and/or pitfalls, discuss those in an (preferably) email 'copyall' mode for a week or so, then put up as a MetaProject proposal ASAP. Of course, you can add in on the aforementioned talk as well.

   The thread starts at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fabartus#Templates_and_Wikipedia, and is quite lengthy. The early exchange is particularly badly organized being talk give and take in a long post. The follow-ons are interleaved and much easier to glean context. Happens in dialog. Reading the 'tmp2' page mentioned below which was preped specifically for you and a few other wiki-email invitees will enable you to minimize the false starts and confusion in that first section of talk-re-talk-talk-re-talk.

Among other things, I'm minded to push for some interwiki transfering of images as part of it, as the 'general system' lends itself to synching all the XX.wikipedias with the commons. As well as reconciling things like incompatible copyrights tags. So it has a lot of potential, imho!

So bear with me as the initial exchanges on my commons talk Commons:user talk:Fabartus start sectionor are somewhat untargeted at first.

This is a A better introduction:
      is the two 'tmp2' files, where I've been putting together a thread specifically for those being contacted via wikipedia email services like yourself, and we can all watchlist. It started by posting interwiki emails sent to those not doing the copyall yet on direct email, and these invitations. Those links is w:user:fabartus/tmp2 and Commons equivilent (Both content-synched with page of same name when updated. See either. The second navigates to the commons, and both have a link to my commons talk where the talk-excanges are occuring).

So that's the best place to begin.

Thanks, FrankB 01:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC) aka FrankB

Direct email:Fabartus-AT-comcast.net