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@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/13/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l