On 7/13/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
User:Kotepho queried the en: database as of July 4, 2006 to get numbers on media we are hosting. The results are at [[User:Kotepho/reports/Images by copyright status statistics]].
In short, we had the following: 853 215 tagged as having a free license 374 304 tagged with a variant of "fair use" As a point of comparison, Commons has 677 813 media files as of this email's timestamp
Um.
I suspect he's double counting somehow. A month ago there were only 492,308 *total* image pages on enwiki.
Ditto for his fair use numbers.. about 2x reality from my last measurements. The commons total looks about right.
I welcome anyone interested in running stats to contact me for a sanity check on their queries... there are a number of common pitfalls like counting directly from the category tables, and failing to filter for distinct or assuming images will never have a free tag and a fair use tag at the same time... that can cause incorrect results.