On 7/19/07, WikipediaEditor Durin wikidurin@gmail.com wrote:
Reviewing five days worth of uploads, we are (at least this month) going to upload about 76 thousand images. Fully 33 thousand of them are or will be tagged as non-free content.
A significant number will be deleted.
Let THAT sink in for a bit. 33 thousand per month. Over a year, assuming growth, we're looking at a whopping half million images uploaded over the next year under a non-free license.
Probably a bit less but not to bad given likely artice growth in the same period and that maybe 1/3 -1/2 will be deleted.
We need a culture change. We need it now.
A lot of uploaders are not exactly part of any wikipedia culture.
The English Wikipedia is no longer a free content encyclopedia and is not working towards our mission of providing neutral educational content under a free content license.
No longer?
Either we need to drop the charade that we are a free content encyclopedia, or we need to harshly restrict image uploads until better tools are in place to handle the overwhelming deluge of non-free content we are being hit with on a daily basis, and the overwhelming mass of non-free images we are currently suffering under is reviewed.
Can't. Would be throwing away too much free content.
If the people are on this mailing list are unable to make decisions on this, who should I take this matter to?
WP:VP
I'm of the understanding that Jimbo wanted this list to be the main source of business work, so to speak. Yet, the support I've seen regarding fair use issues brought up in an earlier thread is weak at best. Is there another place I should be taking this?
Not really. Short of a foundation ruleing there are unlikely to be any significant changes in our upload system without a software change.