On 24/09/2007, Steve Summit <scs(a)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.
--
geni