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

[Steven Walling]

 The idea that the number of images in articles is plummeting absolutely
depends on which types of articles you're looking at. The examples you cited
all seem to be bios. Obviously it's much harder to get images, especially
free ones, for bios than other subjects. But if you want to look at articles
that have surpluses of images, just check out zoological articles. The dog
and cat breed articles are usually the worst offenders, sometimes with a
dozen+ images of one breed (at least until WikiProject Dog reached a
consensus to generally disallow galleries in breed articles).

On 9/24/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, great.  A couple things: how do you expect me to
> determine a vague criterion such as 'could be used in
> articles'?  Wikipaedia covers a wide variety of topics, so
> pretty much everything *could* be used in an article.  A more
> realistic statistic would be how many articles (or pages?) an
> image actually *is* being used in, but then again, some pics
> may not be being used as much as they could be, so it is
> unclear how useful such a statistic would be.
>
> I am also not sure how you expect me statisticise a block /
> ban reason.
>
> On 24/09/2007, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, go through banned users, find editors that uploaded images they
> > created themselves and are used in articles or could be used in articles
> (20
> > photos of their gerbil doesn't really count) and get back to us. Also,
> cross
> > reference for the block reason, it might well be that they've gone
> something
> > really weird with their images, like tried to revoke the licence, or
> > something.
> >
> > On 24/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You want statistics?  If you want, I can go through
> >> Wikipedia:List of banned users and keep track of how many
> >> of them contributed non-deleted images, and if you want other
> >> numbers.  How many contributed non-fair use images?  How
> >> many contributed images attributed to the user him or her self?
> >> What sorts of numbers do you want?  Bear in mind the more
> >> detailed statistics you ask for, the longer it will take, not to
> >> mention I will probably put this off until I am done with a
> >> different statistical study.  Also bear in mind some things, like
> >> reasons people were banned, do not fit into statistics.
>
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