If there has been any research it is likely to be out of date. Wikimedia
Commons is probably our fastest growing major project - it has grown by a
fifth in just the last 8 months. Last August it had only 14 million files
and has gained 2.8 million since then.
The contents are much more skewed to mass imports from elsewhere than
Wikipedia is, and as those mass imports happen so they change the average
composition of the wiki.
Another big influence is national legislation, we probably have far more
images from countries which have freedom of panorama laws that are
compatible with commons than from countries that don't have such
laws.Another factor is historical, countries that have systematically
replaced old monuments may have less to take pictures of. Hence Commons has
a massive skew towards the UK which has 0.1% of the world's landmass, 1% of
its population but rather more than 10% of Commons files. I've uploaded
quite a few UK images myself, and I have hundreds of images of Georgia that
I can't upload to Commons but can upload to other image sharing sites.
If you are considering research by useage you might find it useful to check
https://toolserver.org/~magnus/glamorous.php
Jonathan
On 29 April 2013 19:59, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It is very interesting but very little has been
researched
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons
The same with other sister projects (Wiktionary, wikibooks, wikisource...).
Research is highly biased towards Wikipedia. Neither other wikifarms have
been studied.
2013/4/29 Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com>
Does anyone know of research on images on
Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons?
Thanks in advance!
Best,
heather.
Heather Ford
Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Programme
www.ethnographymatters.net
@hfordsa on Twitter
http://hblog.org
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