On 4/22/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
How do the commons get such a low copyvio rate in images?
Be having the majority of their uploads done by experienced users. Commons has a number of advantages
1)For most users it is not their first project so they avoid complete newbies that cause most of our problems (they ran into some issues when one of the larger wikipedias decided to send all uploaders direct to commons) 2)A lot of their images are taken from other projects which in effect gives them two lots of filtering for copyvios 3)A lot are taken from flickr by fairly experienced users which keeps the copyvio rate down.
On the other hand
Commons does not have it's image deletion processes optimised the way en.wikipedia does. Commons does not have en.wikipedia's angry fruit salad upload page.