Garion96 wrote:
On 8/22/07, Tracy Poff tracy.poff@gmail.com wrote:
I'm fairly certain that it was mentioned a few weeks ago or so, when this came up, but I'll repeat it: ideally /all/ of the images on en.wiki will be non-free, because we want all of the free images to be on commons.
Not all, since in some cases a local copy of an image moved to Commons will be kept on en.wiki. :) (just read that amusing history on AN/I today)
Look at it this way: between commons and en.wiki, there are about 2.5 million images; only about 12% of these are non-free. It doesn't sound so bad, now, does it?
Less bad, but still bad. I still think it is excessive that we have over 300.000 non-free images (anyone has the exact number?) for two million articles.
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Yes, that sounds bad. Imagine that 12.5% of our articles were cut-and-paste copyvios. The idea here is to be making a -free content- encyclopedia, not just any old encyclopedia, and we seem to be failing at that.