On 24/09/2007, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
You know, the number of Wikipedia articles with pictures in them is really plummeting.
No it isn't. Total number of media files on en is currently 758,221. It bounces around a fair bit but on average it seems to have been pretty much flatlineing
I just went from [[Talia Shire]] to [[Joey Tribbiani]] to [[Matt LeBlanc]] and noticed that there were no pictures in any of them.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Matt_leblanc_1995_emmy_awards.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Matthew_Perry_by_David_Shankbone.jpg
I know the reason(s), of course, but viewing Wikipedia as a user (as I was this morning), this really significantly decreases its quality and usefulness. I'm afraid I know the answer, but would there be any way of reversing the various death-to-all-but-the- most-rampantly-free-images trends?
Yes. Is there a way that would widely be considered ethical? No.