[WikiEN-l] Untagged image help

[Jay Converse]

I've always wondered why there isn't a drop-down box to allow the image
uploader to select the copyright that they think fits best and then it
auto-inserts the template when the image info page is created.  Is there a
technical reason behind this?

On 1/22/06, Peta Holmes <holmespeta at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On English Wikipedia there is a list of untagged  images, it started at 38
> 000+, about 6000 of these have been tagged in  5 weeks; see
> [[Wikipedia:Untagged images]]. From the several hundred I  have tagged, 2/10
> can be speedied as orphaned fair use images; 7/10  have no source and/or no
> license information and most likely would only  be able to be used as fair
> use; ~1/10 is a logo, album cover or a gfdl  image without a template.
> Tagging these images is a big drain on  contributors time, especially if
> they aren't admins.
>
>   Technically all these images identified as untagged are speediable
> if  they are tagged as no license or no source, so on behalf of
> the  untagged images project I am looking for someone who could write a
> bot  to tag these all these images and notify the up loader.
>
>   There needs to be a better mechanism to deal with the lack of
> copyright  information provided for images, and  the incorrect
> copyright  information that is being added to images as a result of the
> license  drop down box. Is it possible for all images uploaded to Wikipedia
> to  be tagged as no licence by defalut, forcing the uploader to
> provide  copyright information after the image is uploaded?
>
>   --Peta
>
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