Five hundred! It took me years to get there, and I spend far too much
time on Wikipedia. What about 75?
On 6/23/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/23/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/22/06, Mark Wagner
<carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A great many users, including some of our most
prolific editors, have
no clue about image copyright law or policy. The ability to block
them from uploading images would be quite useful.
What would be even more useful would be for image uploading to be a
privilege, not a right: you don't get the ability to upload images
simply by registering an account.
A proper experiment on this would be a good thing. Measure the number
of "good", "bad" and "borderline" images before and after
the
implementation of such a privilege system.
Well, the "before" results certainly aren't encouraging:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-March/041534.html
Roughly 50% of all uploads have incorrect license tags. Roughly 35%
of all fair-use claims are immediately obvious as invalid, and I
expect at least another 25% to be found invalid on further inspection.
Preliminary results on who's doing the uploading indicate that about
35% of all uploads are by users with fewer than 50 edits; 15% are by
users with fewer than ten. Less than a quarter are by users with a
thousand or more edits. I don't have precise statistics, but in
general, the bad images I've seen go by tend to have been uploaded by
users with redlinked userpages.
In the past six months, OrphanBot has handed out 37,000 notices to
24,000 users. 200 users have received ten or more notices, with one
user receiving 53 notices. For the majority of these users, the only
things on the user's talk page are a welcome notice and notifications
from OrphanBot.
How would you work out who to give initial
priveleges to? Is there
enough history to determine which editors have uploaded more problem
images than good ones?
I'd start by letting anyone with at least five hundred edits upload
images. They may not be any better at uploading good images, but at
least they've got enough invested in Wikipedia that they'll stick
around to learn about the image use policy.
--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]
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