On 7/13/06, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu <jkelly(a)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.