[WikiEN-l] Image statistics -- 374 000+ "fair use" images

[Oldak Quill]

In theory, the number of free-content images on en.wikipedia should be
close to zero (a few meta-images are acceptable). I'm not sure whether
to be more concerned by that fact or by the fact that there are so
many fair use images.

On 13/07/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/06, jkelly at fas.harvard.edu <jkelly at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >   User:Kotepho queried the en: database as of July 4, 2006 to get numbers on
> > media we are hosting.  The results are at [[User:Kotepho/reports/Images by
> > copyright status statistics]].
> >
> >   In short, we had the following:
> >   853 215 tagged as having a free license
> >   374 304 tagged with a variant of "fair use"
> >   As a point of comparison, Commons has
> >   677 813 media files as of this email's timestamp
>
> Um.
>
> I suspect he's double counting somehow.
> A month ago there were only 492,308 *total* image pages on enwiki.
>
> Ditto for his fair use numbers.. about 2x reality from my last
> measurements. The commons total looks about right.
>
> I welcome anyone interested in running stats to contact me for a
> sanity check on their queries... there are a number of common pitfalls
> like  counting directly from the category tables, and failing to
> filter for distinct or assuming images will never have a free tag and
> a fair use tag at the same time... that can cause incorrect results.
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