David Gerard wrote: > 2009/7/11 John at Darkstar <[email protected]>: > >> In the case of GalleriNOR several people uploaded images from the site >> without prior agreement with neither NB nor NF. After a while I get in >> touch with them and asked how we should handle the case, what people >> believed was the right thing to do from our side and what NB and NF >> wanted to do. First the stand was established as "the images must be >> deleted" and "we don't want to delete them", then we said "okey we will >> attempt to get them deleted through due process - but hey, how much of >> the traffic come from our site?" Then things get a bit amusing. The >> thing is, about 60% of the traffic originates from Wikimedia Commons and >> with the additional internal traffic generated from this we probably >> generates over 80% of the traffic on the site. This isn't neglible >> amouths of traffic on a site, removing the images on Commons would pull >> the plug on the majority of the traffic. > > :-D > > We should ask the NPG about their website traffic ;-)
Well, their site had a problem after the story has appeared on Slashdot. > Do all NPG images have a link back? They should. Yes, they have a link with this template http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:SourceNPGLondon > - d. Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
