On 8/22/07, Tracy Poff <tracy.poff(a)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.
Garion96
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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.