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After just working my way through 150 untagged images on en.wikipedia (an that is only a small fraction!) I thought about ways to improve the tagging process.
Many of the images had no image description at all. But making descriptions mandatory would only lead to things like "asdfghjk" as a description. Having a mandatory dropdown box with licenses would make things even worse, as newbies/vandals/people-who-don't-care might choose one at random, making it much harder to find copyright violations. (They can already do that by putting a false tag in the description, but that requires knowledge of the tagging system and something bordering on criminal energy).
So I thought, why not, upon upload of a new image, *automatically* add "{{unverified}}" to any image dewscription that does *not* contain the sequence "{{"? This is dead easy technically, and will bring untagged images to our attention without wasting time and effort of people who could do something more constructive.
Image descriptions that contain "{{" but *not* a copyright tag can still be found through the current scanning process.
The "{{unverified}}" could be stored in [[Mediawiki:AutoImageTag]] or something, so each wikipedia can use the one appropriate for the language/tagging system.
Magnus