I do not claim that Alexa is accurate, I'm just pointing out that Spanish Wikipedia has at least a significant amount of traffic and users in order be very vidible on Commons. On the other hand, closing the uploads on a 1000-article Wikipedia of course won't impact on Commons.
<br><br>Barcex<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/11/12, David Monniaux <<a href="mailto:David.Monniaux@free.fr">David.Monniaux@free.fr</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Barcex wrote:<br><br>> I agree that educating better to the users could help, but it will<br>> never stop the problem, because people just don't care, they just want<br>> to upload an image, and they do not care about licensing, and I'm not
<br>> very optimistic in that sense. Most of them are new users. The problem<br>> is seen on the Spanish Wikipedia users just because it is a very<br>> active Wikipedia (the second in number of accesses according Alexa)
<br><br>PLEASE (this is offtopic for the conversation but I think it's important<br>to set this straight)<br><br>Alexa's numbers are derived from measurements done from users of Alexa's<br>toolbar, which is available only in English. As a consequence, its
<br>measurements are meaningful only for anglophone users. Alexa's numbers<br>CANNOT be used to compare the number of accesses of the various languages!<br><br>(If I were to make a wild guess, I'd think that the large number of
<br>hispanophones with the Alexa toolbar are from the "Hispanic" population<br>in the US.)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Commons-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Commons-l@wikimedia.org">
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