On 9/28/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/27/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Close on 50% of the images on en are non free.
Text on the other hand?
A few percent maybe.
Maybe you mean "a few percent" of all articles contain unfree exerpts
of a larger published work... I could stomach that.
But saying "a few percent" of all article text is unfree... that seems
excessive, and hopefully incorrect.
Well, it depends on what we're looking at, but I assume most articles
contain at the very least quotations under copyright. I would be surprised
if the absolute number of articles with copyrighted text in them is only a
few percent. I would not be surprised if the overall proportion of
copyrighted text in Wikipedia, however, is a few percent - that seems about
right. You can't write a proper, comprehensive encyclopaedia article without
quoting someone (be it a historian, the article's subject, etc.), unless
you're intentionally going out of your way to make life difficult for
yourself and your readership.
Johnleemk