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

[Mark Wagner]

On 3/8/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> 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 only tag that can be handled completely automatically is
{{fairusein}} -- such images can be removed from any article they
don't have a tag for.  All the other tags require human evaluation to
decide if the tag is applied correctly ({{promophoto}} and
{{promotional}} are frequently applied to any image found on official
or fan websites) and decide if the image is being used in a way that
the template allows.

> 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.

I've got the list.  The problem is that my program collecting the
statistics didn't distinguish between deleted images and those with
blank image description pages.  I noticed that the images with
more...interesting...titles (Image:Hentai - Pokemon - May, Misty & Ash
(1) (1).jpg, anyone?) tended to be deleted quickly, though.

--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]