Mark Wagner wrote:
Wikipedia's got a problem with images. 2000 of them are uploaded every day, and most of them have inadequate source information, an incorrect license tag, or an invalid fair-use claim.
A quick and easy way to reduce the flood of images would be to remove the link to Special:Upload from the sidebar, and instead point the "upload file" link to [[Wikipedia:Image use policy]]. If users have to hunt around for a bit for the actual upload link (and hopefully read some of the page), they're less likely to upload every image they can find on Google Image Search.
Not to be too cynical about the abilities of some of our editors, but I bet simply moving upload under Special pages will cut the number of bad uploads in half. Or make the link appear only if you set the "allow uploading" preference correctly.
Requiring as little as a week of WP experience will also cut down on bad uploads. There are an amazing number of logins whose complete list of contributions is the uploading of one or two copyright violations, and maybe an attempt to actually edit an article, all within the space of an hour.
Stan