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

Wed Jun 28 22:32:08 UTC 2006

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I would be interested to know on what data you rest your conclusions.
>> GMaxwell will back up his statements about the nature of the problem with
>> actual numbers (won't you Greg?)  =)
>>     
>
> Sure,
>
> I think the most compelling bit of backup is the anecdotal one which
> every person who has deleted images on Enwiki can tell you:  we are
> unable to get answers to basic questions for many images and must
> delete them.  Does anyone here who's done a substantial amount of
> image patrolling on enwiki disagree?  It's easy to produce examples,
> just look for at orphanbot's deleted edits.
>
> However, I like numbers... they can mislead but they can also be food
> for thought. Keep in mind we don't current recommend that anyone use
> the email this user to contact inactive uploaders simply because few
> of the images which are eligible for deletion have a confirmed user.
>
> There were 57,472 images uploaded to enwiki in march.
> *21,000 come from uploaders with confirmed emails.
> *36,472 come from uploaders without confirmed emails
>
> There were 30,981 total images deleted on enwiki in march.
> *5,149 were uploaded by users who had confirmed emails.
> *25,832 were uploaded by users who did not have confirmed emails.
>
> I wanted to give stats on what percentage of deleted images came from
> users who had recent editing activity, but query is too expensive to
> answer off hand.
>
> I think the policy makes sense based both on my experience and based
> on the numbers.
Hoi,
These numbers provide a snapshot. They do not indicate how these numbers 
relate to the overall number of Commons and they do not indicate if the 
problem becomes worse. The argument was that this trend should be seen 
in percentages, this is not provided by the data. What was the average 
time that deleted pictures were on the system ??

This policy is very much going to happen as you lot seem determined to 
push it through.. Never mind ..

What I would be interested in knowing is the usage in percentage of 
Commons pictures used in articles per project.

Thanks,
    GerardM