[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image tagging followup

[Stan Shebs]

Mark Wagner wrote:

>
>Untagged images: 67 of 500 images had no templates whatsoever on them.  Less
>than half that number had been tagged as "no source" or "no license".  I get
>the feeling that the image-tagging project is falling behind here.
>
We're still catching up! People are crunching lists going back to
last summer, not what was uploaded yesterday. 67 untagged per day
is easily dealt with in an hour, if those are the only images needing
tagging. Another proposal is to autoschedule new untagged uploads
for deletion.

>3) People don't understand "fair use".  The vast majority of uploaders think
>"fair use" means "I think it's fair that this Wikipedia article should be
>illustrated", while those who are aware that it's part of copyright law tend
>to have mistaken ideas, such as "educational use" allows anything.
>
Here's a thought - "fair use" images need to go through a review process
*before* uploading, sort of like featured articles. If the "fair use image
candidate" gets through the process, then it can be recorded and we don't
have to fight about it anymore.

>4) Tags that are not in the upload menu are almost always used correctly.
>
Certainly an argument for dropping the menu...

Stan