[WikiEN-l] A Solution to the Image Problem

Mark Wagner carnildo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 22 19:30:37 UTC 2006


Wikipedia's got a problem with images.  2000 of them are uploaded
every day, and most of them have inadequate source information, an
incorrect license tag, or an invalid fair-use claim.

A quick and easy way to reduce the flood of images would be to remove
the link to Special:Upload from the sidebar, and instead point the
"upload file" link to [[Wikipedia:Image use policy]].  If users have
to hunt around for a bit for the actual upload link (and hopefully
read some of the page), they're less likely to upload every image they
can find on Google Image Search.

Thoughts?

--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]



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