This is so so helpful, thank you, Jonathan! And really interesting re. UK, Emilio.
I'm really excited about this research :) It's going to be fun :) On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:37 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > If there has been any research it is likely to be out of date. Wikimedia > Commons is probably our fastest growing major project - it has grown by a > fifth in just the last 8 months. Last August it had only 14 million files and > has gained 2.8 million since then. > > The contents are much more skewed to mass imports from elsewhere than > Wikipedia is, and as those mass imports happen so they change the average > composition of the wiki. > > Another big influence is national legislation, we probably have far more > images from countries which have freedom of panorama laws that are compatible > with commons than from countries that don't have such laws.Another factor is > historical, countries that have systematically replaced old monuments may > have less to take pictures of. 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. > > If you are considering research by useage you might find it useful to check > https://toolserver.org/~magnus/glamorous.php > > Jonathan > > > 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 Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Programme www.ethnographymatters.net @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org
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