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

[Stan Shebs]

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
>
>For 1,866 images uploaded, 2,014 license tags were applied:
>
>745 images were tagged as some sort of "fair use".  The vast majority used
>one of the boilerplate templates, with most of the images being tagged as
>screenshots, covers, logos, and promotional images.  Only 26 generic "fair
>use" tags were used, with most of them being "fair use in".
>
This is good news actually! Boilerplates can be handled en masse with
tools as we improve our policy. It's the generic tags that require the
one-by-one manual evaluation.

>
>The "CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat" tag is a problem: of the seven images
>so tagged, two of them had decidedly non-free "provided that" clauses,
>forbidding modification and commercial use.
>
I wouldn't miss it if it were retired, it's just confusing.

It would be interesting to retain the list of images and then see what's
happened to them a month from now. Empirically I've noticed that a lot of
fair use images are uploaded for articles that are soon deleted, and are
in turn deleted because they are orphans. I wouldn't be surprised if most
of the day's non-free uploads were gone after a month or two.

Stan