2013/4/29 WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>
> Hence Commons has a massive skew towards the UK which has 0.1% of the > world's landmass, 1% of its population but rather more than 10% of Commons > files. I've uploaded quite a few UK images myself, and I have hundreds of > images of Georgia that I can't upload to Commons but can upload to other > image sharing sites. > > Yes, that was due to the Geograph Britain and Ireland imports http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project A tiny visualization I made some time ago shows the bias in Wikimedia Commons coverage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geolocated_images_in_Wikimedia_Commons_2012-01-21.png > > > On 29 April 2013 19:59, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It is very interesting but very little has been researched >> http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons >> >> The same with other sister projects (Wiktionary, wikibooks, >> wikisource...). >> >> Research is highly biased towards Wikipedia. Neither other wikifarms have >> been studied. >> >> >> 2013/4/29 Heather Ford <[email protected]> >> >>> Does anyone know of research on images on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons? >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> Best, >>> heather. >>> >>> Heather Ford >>> Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Programme >>> www.ethnographymatters.net >>> @hfordsa on Twitter >>> http://hblog.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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