[WikiEN-l] Untagged image help

[Justin Cormack]

On 23 Jan 2006, at 02:02, Peta Holmes wrote:

> On English Wikipedia there is a list of untagged  images, it  
> started at 38 000+, about 6000 of these have been tagged in  5  
> weeks; see [[Wikipedia:Untagged images]]. From the several hundred  
> I  have tagged, 2/10 can be speedied as orphaned fair use images;  
> 7/10  have no source and/or no license information and most likely  
> would only  be able to be used as fair use; ~1/10 is a logo, album  
> cover or a gfdl  image without a template. Tagging these images is  
> a big drain on  contributors time, especially if they aren't admins.
>
>   Technically all these images identified as untagged are  
> speediable if  they are tagged as no license or no source, so on  
> behalf of the  untagged images project I am looking for someone who  
> could write a bot  to tag these all these images and notify the up  
> loader.

There was one for a bit. Alas the small number of people who write  
bots, and the incredible bureaucracy involved
in running them makes this hard.

>   There needs to be a better mechanism to deal with the lack of  
> copyright  information provided for images, and  the incorrect  
> copyright  information that is being added to images as a result of  
> the license  drop down box. Is it possible for all images uploaded  
> to Wikipedia to  be tagged as no licence by defalut, forcing the  
> uploader to provide  copyright information after the image is  
> uploaded?

Remove the norification requirement and just speedy all untagged images.

Justinc