[Wikipedia-l] Require confirmed email address to upload images?

Wed Jun 28 21:25:01 UTC 2006

Gerard Meijssen wrote:

>
>I also dispute that our problem becomes bigger. I am convinced that the 
>problem is like a bell-curve, as the absolute number of pictures goes 
>up, the percentage of what you consider "problematic" pictures stays the 
>same however the number of material that you still want to check 
>increases. When you confuse this with a growing problem you easily 
>forget the number of files that have been checked. Because people are 
>working hard on this in a best effort way and as we are quite ready to 
>remove material that is in violation of our copyright rules the problem 
>is not what is depicted.
>
Try your hand at reviewing and fixing up the day's thousand uploads
in less than 24 hours, then come back and tell us if you still think
it's not a serious problem.

Stan