Talk:Main page/Draft

Proposed objectives:

• Create a better browsing experience for the "casual" user, and to make it more easy to find content. - I think that browsing content starting in the main page could be easier.
• Reducing text in the main page to improve design and usability for the new user. - Moving text of interest to the intermediate user to other pages, and create links to it from the main page.

"Welcome" section

Hi.

Should "Wellcome" section include a small text saying that all files in the commons are under a free licence and can be used in other projects, as long as they respect the file licence ? I imagined that text on the "Wellcome" section should be about using the images, not uploading or improving them. The "Participate" section is about uploading images. --OsvaldoGago 02:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

There should be a very prominent link about how to contribute your files, as many users will be directed here by people on the local projects, see en:Special:Upload for example. Thryduulf 02:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I think the initial Welcome to Wikimedia Commons section ought to be above the other languages. Not necessarily all of it, but the initial impression I get is "what is this about". Perhaps a combined Welcome/other languages link should be there, with "Welcome", "Wilkommen", "Croeso", etc around the commons logo similar to the http://www.wikipedia.org multilingual wikipedia portal. It would need to be arranged that no language was directly at the top to avoid it being "pointed to" by the commons logo. Thryduulf 02:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Why not to essay that ideia in Main page/Draft 2 ? --OsvaldoGago 19:52, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• This section should definitely stay on the left side! - Pete 03:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

POTD

I think the POTD should be smaller while it is user-chosen and not Featured. (ie, once it is FP-only, make it bigger again)

The thing is, who do we think visits commons? I think it would almost exclusively editors from other wikimedia projects. So to me, the main page should be about orienting them around commons, knowing that they have the basic knowledge of how a sister project works. But at the moment it's set up almost for casual viewers, how they would get here, I don't know... pfctdayelise 13:10, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

From saving space on the servers to free Stock Photography (and other media)

Hi.

At first the commons was addressed to Wikimedia projects editors, but things are changing fast.

As I see it, Wikimedia Commons may become the next en:Alamy, en:Corbis (Bill Gates Stock agency) or en:Getty Images of free content projects.

Wikimedia Commons could become for stock photography what the wikipedia is for online encyclopedias - The free choice.

It will provide images for non profit, or for academic works who can't pay the high fees of stock photography. It will make possible for underdeveloped countries to publish more ilustrated books or e-books. At least if we let it. (Sorry my English is not very good) --OsvaldoGago 15:58, 19 December 2005 (UTC)