On 22 June 2015 at 13:17, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Yes I agree an example of what Wikipedia would look like if this regulation passed is an excellent idea. Could we base it on the geo tags?
Geotags on their own would be haphazard apart from certain types of Wikipedia articles, such as those for notable buildings in Europe, designed in the mid 20th century onwards. It is possible to put some SQL queries together like this, but the resulting lists or statistics would only ever be a small slice of relevant articles that could be affected.
A simple analysis for Commons can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:F%C3%A6#number_of_files_under_FOP.3F which gives a sense of size, along with relevant Freedom of Panorama (FoP) categories. However, as noted there, keep in mind that it is probable that *most* public domain photographs that in some way rely on European FoP provisions are not categorized in a way that we can current track relevance to FoP, so statistics are going to remain less useful than educated guesstimates.
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