Hi Joseph et al
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011(a)reagle.org>wrote;wrote:
On 05/23/2013 02:58 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
How strange that people take the trouble to
upload those!
I've been wondering about this myself. Why do people port collections of
images from Flickr CC to Commons in the first place? If someone really
needed a weird nude picture for an article, they could still find it at
Flickr and import it then. (This might be part of my bias that WC is
supposed to support other projects and not be an inclusive repo of all CC
content in the world.) Indeed, I wonder what percentage of WC resources is
not used by an affiliated project?
Simply put, because Commons is a repository of freely licenced media. We
now have over 17 million files on Commons, so it is likely that a large
percentage of files are not in use, but alas being a repository we hold
such collections for potential future use.
One of my favourite "porn" categories is
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Nippon_Airways_aircraft_at_T…
(I
use "porn" because in some minds its all Commons hosts and not much else).
Do we require 773 photos of All Nippon Airways aircraft at Tokyo
International Airport? Probably not, but as you can see it has a wide range
of aircraft, individual registrations, different stages of aircraft
operation (take-off, landing, taxiing, etc), different views of aircraft in
operation, etc. Most of those photos are from a single photographer --
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Kentaro_Iemoto_Flickr…
--
he relicenced his stream after I contacted him -- nearly 4,000 photos of
all sorts of aircraft, airlines, airports, views, etc, etc, etc.
This one category makes most sexuality categories pale in comparison. But
yet we don't see anything being said about this category.
Russavia