[WikiEN-l] Image statistics -- 374 000+ "fair use" images

[geni]

On 7/17/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> > It's recommended but not required. There aren't many reasons left
> > to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting
> > the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result
> > in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal
> > inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is
> > up and running.
>
> It's not so much "inertia resisting the change" as "difficulty
> migrating content to Commons". We don't even discourage people from
> uploading free content to en.wikipedia. Buried in a whole page of
> daunting instructions on the upload page is a note that "if you are
> uploading a file under a free license (not fair use!), consider
> uploading it to the Wikimedia Commons".

Well yes. While I may not entirely trust commons I fail to see what it
has done to deserve being on the reciveing end of en's image uploads.
I don't think anyone hates it that much.

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geni