On 6/28/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote

On 6/28/06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:

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By talking about it as if there is a crisis, you make it a crisis; it seems as if we are at war.. I am not convinced AT ALL.

I would be interested to know on what data you rest your conclusions. GMaxwell will back up his statements about the nature of the problem with actual numbers (won't you Greg?) =)

I don't know about Greg, but I certainly can: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-March/041534.html

As of last March, approximately 2000 images were uploaded to the English Wikipedia each day. Of those, roughly 50% had clearly incorrect license information. Of the images claimed as "fair use", roughly 35% of the claims were immediately obvious as being invalid. I haven't seen any sign of the ratios changing since then.

Based on a random sampling of 50 talk pages of users uploading images without source information or license information, 80% of these users have no talkpage traffic other than notices about image problems, and maybe a welcome message.