[WikiEN-l] Untagged image help

Mon Jan 23 02:02:08 UTC 2006

On English Wikipedia there is a list of untagged  images, it started at 38 000+, about 6000 of these have been tagged in  5 weeks; see [[Wikipedia:Untagged images]]. From the several hundred I  have tagged, 2/10 can be speedied as orphaned fair use images; 7/10  have no source and/or no license information and most likely would only  be able to be used as fair use; ~1/10 is a logo, album cover or a gfdl  image without a template. Tagging these images is a big drain on  contributors time, especially if they aren't admins.

  Technically all these images identified as untagged are speediable if  they are tagged as no license or no source, so on behalf of the  untagged images project I am looking for someone who could write a bot  to tag these all these images and notify the up loader. 

  There needs to be a better mechanism to deal with the lack of copyright  information provided for images, and  the incorrect copyright  information that is being added to images as a result of the license  drop down box. Is it possible for all images uploaded to Wikipedia to  be tagged as no licence by defalut, forcing the uploader to provide  copyright information after the image is uploaded?

  --Peta

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