[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image license tags

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 3/8/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> Mark Wagner wrote:
>
> >To get an idea as to what sort of image tagging is currently being used, I
> >did a survey of the license tags applied to the 2000 most recent images
> >uploaded (which represents about 24 hours and 20 minutes of uploading).  Of
> >those images, 134 were duplicate uploads or otherwise not accounted for,
> >leaving 1,866 images to check for tags.  The detailed results are at
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/upload_stats
> >
> >For 1,866 images uploaded, 2,014 license tags were applied:
> >
> >745 images were tagged as some sort of "fair use".  The vast majority used
> >one of the boilerplate templates, with most of the images being tagged as
> >screenshots, covers, logos, and promotional images.  Only 26 generic "fair
> >use" tags were used, with most of them being "fair use in".
> >
> This is good news actually! Boilerplates can be handled en masse with
> tools as we improve our policy. It's the generic tags that require the
> one-by-one manual evaluation.
>
Boilerplates can only be handled en masse if the images are tagged
correctly.  From what I've seen, there are a whole lot of boilerplated
images which are not tagged correctly.

Anthony