Well some people do, but it is when they get trolled by other contributors and/or overzealous Admin comes along and deletes the file. They quickly lose interest, in turn telling other people not to bother.
I just had another lot of photographs tagged by a troll, in which an Admin deletes ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File:Ra... https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File:Ab...). These have been on Commons for two + years, using the same camera gear I have used over the years. If it is enough for me to give up on the project, it would be the same for any other user but for a newbie it is something that would make me run for the hills (depart quickly as possible)!
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 1:07 PM Benjamin Ikuta benjaminikuta@gmail.com wrote:
Anecdotally, it seems people sometimes don't upload their photos to Commons because they don't realize that the scope of Commons is much broader than that of Wikipedia.
Has there been, or should there be, any research into this, or why people don't contribute more broadly?
~Benjamin
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