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.
Barcex
2006/11/12, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr:
Barcex wrote:
I agree that educating better to the users could help, but it will never stop the problem, because people just don't care, they just want to upload an image, and they do not care about licensing, and I'm not very optimistic in that sense. Most of them are new users. The problem is seen on the Spanish Wikipedia users just because it is a very active Wikipedia (the second in number of accesses according Alexa)
PLEASE (this is offtopic for the conversation but I think it's important to set this straight)
Alexa's numbers are derived from measurements done from users of Alexa's toolbar, which is available only in English. As a consequence, its measurements are meaningful only for anglophone users. Alexa's numbers CANNOT be used to compare the number of accesses of the various languages!
(If I were to make a wild guess, I'd think that the large number of hispanophones with the Alexa toolbar are from the "Hispanic" population in the US.)
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