[WikiEN-l] Fair use issues; we need serious help

[Garion96]

On 8/22/07, WikipediaEditor Durin <wikidurin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/22/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > One of those issues is that we are a
> > free-content project. That's not negotiable, and that's also not
> > happening if we scatter nonfree material all over the place. They can
> > and should enforce that strictly; I'd be happy myself to see them say
> > "The Germans got it right folks, this is the FREE encyclopedia and
> > nonfree content has no place here." Until and unless that should happen,
> > we must at least keep it to a minimum.
>
>
> We've already failed in that. There's ~300 thousand non-free images on
> en.wikipedia, and growing larger all the time.


Over 300.000 non-free images? I knew it was bad, but this... So close to
half of all the images on Wikipedia are non-free. Excluding Commons of
course.

I know it is unfair but when you compare it to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RedWolf/Image_Statistics :)

Garion96