If there has been any research it is likely to be out of date.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@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@gmail.com

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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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This is so so helpful, thank you, Jonathan! And really interesting re. UK, Emilio.

I'm really excited about this research :) It's going to be fun :)

On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:37 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:

If there has been any research it is likely to be out of date.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@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@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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Thanks so much, Han-Ten, Haitham!

Han-teng, I'm looking at practices of image use, replacement and deletion in articles about the Arab Spring with questions around who is involved, what kinds of activities constitute image work, how actors work together to produce the narrative, what code/spaces are used to discuss which images should be chosen, replaced, deleted etc -

Best, Heather.

On Apr 30, 2013, at 3:54 AM, Han-Teng Liao wrote:

What's the research question? I am aware of one piece that puts "Wikimedia Commons image bank" in the context of cultural institutions to explore the new diffusion of cultural heritage.

"Wiki Loves Monuments 2011: the experience in Spain and reflections regarding the diffusion of cultural heritage" http://www.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/article/viewFile/n14-aibar-fuster/...

Although a topic-based literature review might be useful, sometimes it is also useful to have a hypothesis-based one as well.

Perhaps you will get more answers if you also share your research questions on Wikimedia Commons.

Best, han-teng liao

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com wrote:

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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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