Garion96 wrote: [snip]
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.
Until recently we could only guess but a recent massive template standardization effort, mostly undertaken by Cyde, now makes counting them trivial:
At this moment there are 323,495 non-free media on Wikipedia out of 757,395 files. This is down from a recent high of something like 450k ... due to cleaning up the backlog of unused images, and some general large scale non-free media clean up efforts. (Many of which have been a bit over-zealous in my view.. but thats another story).
On 8/22/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Now, I dare you to ask how many of the 1.75 million commons images are actually used in enwp articles.
I think the more useful question is not what percentage of the images are non-free, but "what percentage of the articles contain no non-free images?".
... of course, what you think would be a good or bad answer to that one depends on your feelings on a lot of different subjects including things what percentage of WP articles you feel should be about pop-culture subjects.