Apologies. This might be better:
Category "Wiki_Loves_Africa" has 50677 files.
Total image usages 8522
Distinct images used 3967 (7.83% of all images of category)
best,
Jos
Op di 30 apr. 2019 om 00:40 schreef Isaac Olatunde :
> Hello Jos,
>
> This thread is about "Wiki
Hello Jos,
This thread is about "Wiki Loves Africa" and "WikiAfrica" is not the same
as "Wiki Loves Africa". I am not sure how your statistics on " WikiAfrica"
might be useful.
Regards,
Isaac
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 11:30 PM Jos Damen Dear all,
>
> Some figures:
>
> Category "WikiAfrica" has
Dear all,
Some figures:
Category "WikiAfrica" has 115283 files.
Total image usages 29734
Distinct images used 7671 (6.65% of all images of category)
You can now check it realtime at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiAfrica (image uptake stats)
best regards,
Jos Damen (NL)
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:19 PM Florence Devouard
wrote:
>
> Le 29/04/2019 à 22:52, Nkansah Rexford a écrit :
>
> Hello Isaac,
>
> > In this year edition alone, about USD 25,000 was spent on the contest
> but only 8,983 photos were contributed. Many of them are either copyright
> violations or
Le 29/04/2019 à 22:52, Nkansah Rexford a écrit :
Hello Isaac,
> In this year edition alone, about USD 25,000 was spent on the
contest but only 8,983 photos were contributed. Many of them are
either copyright violations or unusable. I don't think this is an
effective way of spending donors
Hello Isaac,
> In this year edition alone, about USD 25,000 was spent on the contest but
only 8,983 photos were contributed. Many of them are either copyright
violations or unusable. I don't think this is an effective way of spending
donors fund and regrettably, the attitude of the organizers
Dear Ingo
First, let me state that I would never ignore you, and never ignore such
an email sent by a reasonable person. I never saw that email...
I had to go to archive to find it. For my defense, I was travelling that
entire week, first in Stockholm, then Geneva. Obviously the email
> *1. Do others share my impression that images from the competition are
hardly ever used in wikipedia articles?*
Yes. I also do share your impressions.
> *2. Do others have the impression that the present approach for Wiki
Loves Africa does not help much to close the knowledge gap about Africa?
Dear Wikimedians,
1Lib1Ref is happening again from *15 May to 5 June*, the campaigns focus is
to improve the reliability of Wikipedia through citation improvements and
fact sourcing on the platform. You can engage your community in this
exercise during the campaign period to improve the quality
