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We parsed the wikitext of all files in Commons xml data dumps of November 20, 2017. Out of the total 43,268,565 files, 41,796,560 (96.6%) files have a infobox, 41,309,028 (95.47%) have some contents in their description fields (description, title, depicted people, depicted place, etc).
Caveat:
- There are a large number of infobox-like templates (e.g. Infobox_templates:_based_on_Information_template, Data_ingestion_layout_templates, templates only for one batch of uploads like this) with description fields of various names (e.g. some use commons_description instead of description). This makes counting very difficult because we cannot enumerate all of these infobox names and description field names.
- Some users create their own templates on top of other infobox templates for upload convenience. This makes the file description masked -- they cannot be search. For example, the wikitext of File:Cyclopaedia, Chambers - Volume 1 - 0133.jpg is:
{{Cyclopaedia, Chambers page
| volume = 1
| prev = 0132
| page = 0133
| next = 0134
}}A lot of the information we see on the web page is actually hidden in its template Template:Cyclopaedia,_Chambers_page. This makes it very hard to find this file through search, because search is done through the above shown wikitext of this file. We should encourage our users to clean up this kind of templates.
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