[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[geni]

On 24/09/2007, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> You know, the number of Wikipedia articles with pictures in them
> is really plummeting.

No it isn't. Total number of media files on en is currently 758,221.
It bounces around a fair bit but on average it seems to have been
pretty much flatlineing

> I just went from [[Talia Shire]] to [[Joey
> Tribbiani]] to [[Matt LeBlanc]] and noticed that there were no
> pictures in any of them.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Matt_leblanc_1995_emmy_awards.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Matthew_Perry_by_David_Shankbone.jpg


> I know the reason(s), of course, but viewing Wikipedia as a user
> (as I was this morning), this really significantly decreases its
> quality and usefulness.  I'm afraid I know the answer, but would
> there be any way of reversing the various death-to-all-but-the-
> most-rampantly-free-images trends?

Yes. Is there a way that would widely be considered ethical? No.

-- 
geni