On 8 Mar 2006, at 08:11, Mark Wagner wrote:
To get an idea as to what sort of image tagging is currently being used, I did a survey of the license tags applied to the 2000 most recent images uploaded (which represents about 24 hours and 20 minutes of uploading). Of those images, 134 were duplicate uploads or otherwise not accounted for, leaving 1,866 images to check for tags. The detailed results are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/upload_stats
Very useful.
So every day we get about 1200 pages of non free content added to wikipedia.
Call it 350,000 pages a year, assuming the rate is not increasing.
This is shameful, utterly and totally. It must stop.
This has been going on for far too long, and there has been no real progress.
We should stop all uploads of images now; free stuff can go to commons, so that we stop the increase: we have hundreds of thousands of old images to deal with. Its one setting on the software, we might need to get a bunch of admins to become commons admins to cope with the extra load there.
If there is no will to deal with it, forking en is the only other option.
Justinc