On 11/28/05, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
20 000 images tagged as having no source information
5 000 images tagged as having no copyright information
8 000 images tagged as being "fair use", but unused in any article
And how many were by unique individuals? It's not like someone can't
be notified about more than one image at the same time.
If the administrator places a warning on the
uploader's talk page, in
addition to removing the image from articles where it's used, and
waits a week to give the uploader a chance to respond, it takes over
two minutes to delete an image. This represents the additional time
needed to check for responses on the user's talk page, check for
responses on the talk page of the admin informing the user, and check
for responses on the image description page and image talk page -- and
99% of the time, it's wasted effort, as the uploader has forgotten
about Wikipedia entirely. Total effort involved in cleaning up the
problem images: 1100 man-hours.
So if 25 people spend 1 hour a week it'll take...less than a year.
The problem with this would be?
Even if it's wasted effort 99% of the time (and I think this is a
gross exaggeration), what about at least notifying users who *are*
active, like, say, someone who currently serves on the board of the
foundation?
It's not as if efforts to notify people
haven't been undertaken. The
policy change was announced on the WikiEn-L mailing list, on the
administrators' noticeboard, on several Village Pump subpages, in the
Signpost, and for several weeks everyone's watchlist had a note on the
top informing them of the change. The only thing that hasn't been
done was individual notification on the talk pages of uploaders, and
that's because there are almost 35000 problem images.
--
[[User:Carnildo]]
It's a big problem. I don't see that as an excuse to not do things right.
Anthony