[WikiEN-l] Fair use issues; we need serious help

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 18:57:26 UTC 2007


On 8/22/07, Garion96 <garion96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Over 300.000 non-free images? I knew it was bad, but this... So close to
> half of all the images on Wikipedia are non-free. Excluding Commons of
> course.

Given the constant drain of images to commons holding stead at 50%
means a lot of free images are being uploaded.


> I know it is unfair but when you compare it to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RedWolf/Image_Statistics :)
>
> Garion96

Untagged stuff is likely mostly under fair use today. That being the
case it would appear the 50:50 ration has been stable for some time.

-- 
geni



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