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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