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

[Steve Bennett]

On 7/18/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's so much benefit to uploading them to Commons (improving the
> status of Commons as a free repository, getting images used across all
> of the Wikipedias, etc.), it seems almost criminal to not upload them
> there.

Though to be fair, uploading is only half the job. Most people don't
realise that categorising them makes them actually useful. At the very
least, a category describing the thing it's a photo of:
[[Sulfur-crested cockatoo]], [[Kilkenny Castle]] or [[MacDonalds]].
Strangely, we don't seem to mention that fact much.

> That's my take on it too. Something which seems quite natural to a
> bunch of US editors, steeped in US copyright notions and law, can
> often be quite complicated when introduced into a more international
> forum, without even taking into account language differences. But it
> generally works out, eventually.

Examples probably help.

Steve