2009/3/21 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I think the percentages given as plausible, but do we really have 10 >> million contributors? The English Wikipedia apparently has 9,237,657 >> registered users, but I believe a very large proportion of them have >> never made an edit, an even larger proportion won't have any edits >> which still exist in articles. I find it very unlikely that there are >> 10 million contributors, even across all Wikimedia projects, that have >> copyrightable contributions. (Of course, I'm ignoring anons - I don't >> see how they can realistically sue for copyright infringement.) So I >> think the expected number of problematic cases is significantly less >> than 1, but it certainly isn't 0. > > We'll have. If you start with just 100.000 contributors and raise > percentage to 10% (which may be reasonable too), you'll end with 100 > cases.
10% doesn't sound at all reasonable to me. > But, it is reasonable to suppose that Mike's legal predictions are > more relevant than mine :) So, legal part is no issue anymore for me. Only the last percentage is really a legal prediction, the rest are more predictions of human behaviour. That said, the last percentage is probably the only one that anyone can give anything more than a wild guess at (which is why I didn't choose any stronger words than "plausible" to describe them). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l