[Foundation-l] Towards actual clean-up...

[David Goodman]

I expected, in fact, a considerably lower figure, perhaps 25%, so it
It seems to me that 50% being used is a very high proportion ,
indicating good selectivity.

 A secondary purpose of Commons in for material to be used
elsewhere--have we any way for checking that?   I'd even say that the
true success of Commons is when the material there is used elsewhere,
not just in Wikimedia projects..

I interpret your number as a demonstration that there is no serious
problem of excess on this particular topic. Perhaps other topics in
the field will be lower or higher--my guess is that all or almost will
be higher, because I think you have indeed selected the category most
likely to be abused,.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many people have generally agreed that there are or have been a large
> number of redundant, low-quality penis pics on Commons.
>
> Towards understanding this better, I wrote a script to traverse
> [[:Category:Human genitalia]] and all of it's subcategories (it is
> refreshingly finite).
>
> In this category we have 772 images of male and female genitalia.
> Most appear to photographs, though some are illustrations or other
> art.
>
> For each image, I then determined whether it was in use in the main
> namespace of any Wikimedia project.  Of the 772 genitalia images, 347
> are currently being used to illustrate some page in the main namespace
> of some project.  (That's still a lot of penis / vulva pics but I'll
> assume that the projects are at least somewhat reasonable about their
> uses.)
>
> The remaining 425 images aren't used in the main namespace of any
> project.  They may still appear in other places, such as discussion
> pages or user pages, but are likely to be less valuable.  I would
> assume it is images like these that are most likely to warrant
> exclusion by any policy that aims to address the proliferation of
> low-quality and redundant penis pics.  Perhaps by looking at this list
> one can get an idea of what the issue is and consider the best ways to
> address it.
>
> I've compiled the list at:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:List_of_genitalia_for_review
>
> (There are actually only 411 on the list, as I dropped 14 after my
> editor mangled the UTF8).
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
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