https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62598
Lupo <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #35 from Lupo <[email protected]> --- The numbers Steinsplitter mentioned above (85%, 14%) are my estimates after having patrolled the Mobile/Web uploads for the past weeks closely. The remaining 1% contains some usable images. I didn't keep track of exact counts, though. In any case the number of copyvios and unusable selfies/instagram/twitter images is overwhelming. If in a day's uploads through this channel we get a handful of useful pictures, we're lucky. The very large majority is just copied from the web somewhere. It takes substantial effort to track down these copyvios, tag them, delete them. This is not worth our volunteers' time. I don't think the uploaders act in bad faith. But I do think that they just do not get at all what this feature does. The uploaders have no clue about what they are doing (witness the countless selfies that then remain unused -- in fact, many other uploads through Mobile/Web also remain unused), they have no clue about what the Commons is, no clue about free licenses, no clue about the fact that Wikipedia is supposed to be "free", and no clue that such a thing as copyright even exists. This twitter/instagram/pinterest generation just sees another upload button through which it can send its pixel diarrhea. If the warning that was implemented in response to this bug report is shown at all (I didn't notice any improvement), it's clicked away. I do think this feature needs to be shut off. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
