[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image license tags

[Justin Cormack]

On 8 Mar 2006, at 08:11, Mark Wagner wrote:

> To get an idea as to what sort of image tagging is currently being  
> used, I
> did a survey of the license tags applied to the 2000 most recent  
> images
> uploaded (which represents about 24 hours and 20 minutes of  
> uploading).  Of
> those images, 134 were duplicate uploads or otherwise not accounted  
> for,
> leaving 1,866 images to check for tags.  The detailed results are at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/upload_stats

Very useful.

So every day we get about 1200 pages of non free content added to  
wikipedia.

Call it 350,000 pages a year, assuming the rate is not increasing.

This is shameful, utterly and totally. It must stop.

This has been going on for far too long, and there has been no real  
progress.

We should stop all uploads of images now; free stuff can go to commons,
so that we stop the increase: we have hundreds of thousands of old  
images
to deal with. Its one setting on the software, we might need to get a
bunch of admins to become commons admins to cope with the extra load  
there.

If there is no will to deal with it, forking en is the only other  
option.

Justinc