Matt Brown wrote:
On 1/23/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
I'm inclining this way myself. Commons' shoot-on-sight policy seems to work pretty well at keeping it clean, while on en: the images are being uploaded faster than they are being tagged, so we're falling behind. The untagged images worry me more than the declared fair use ones actually, because we simply don't know what's in there.
And at least a fair use claim requires some source information, even if the fair use claim is shaky.
Some days I find that half or more of the images I look at with the generic fair use tag are source-less - gets them a ticket on the fast track to oblivion.
How many of the untagged images are old, prior to the requirement for image tagging?
Not so many, less than 10% that I've seen - previous retroactive image-tagging initiatives must have caught most of them. I see a "bulge" around summer 2005, which I think is after the last big tagging push and before uploading screen was reworded, or it could just be clueless uploads by students on vacation.
Stan