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

[Tracy Poff]

On 8/22/07, Garion96 <garion96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

I'm fairly certain that it was mentioned a few weeks ago or so, when
this came up, but I'll repeat it: ideally /all/ of the images on
en.wiki will be non-free, because we want all of the free images to be
on commons.

Look at it this way: between commons and en.wiki, there are about 2.5
million images; only about 12% of these are non-free. It doesn't sound
so bad, now, does it?

Tracy Poff