On Sat, Oct 6, 2007 at 5:05 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been putting placeholder images on a lot of articles on en:wp. > e.g. [[Image:Replace this image male.svg]], which goes to > [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]], which asks people to upload an image if they > own one. > > I know it's inspired people to add free content images to articles in > several cases. What I'm interested in is numbers. So what I'd need is > a list of edits where one of the SVGs that redirects to > [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]] is replaced with an image. (Checking which of > those are actually free images can come next.) > > Is there a tolerably easy way to get this info from a dump? Any > Wikipedia statistics fans who think this'd be easy? > > (If the placeholders do work, then it'd also be useful convincing some > wikiprojects to encourage the things. Not that there's ownership of > articles on en:wp, of *course* ...)
Just this morning I noticed arbcom member Wizardman (of Colbert Report fame) serially removing these images. Did you ever find these statistics, David, Greg? Last I heard was this: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:20 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/10/10 Philip Sandifer <snowspin...@gmail.com>: >> On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote: > >>> If anyone has statistics for how many photos have been submitted via >>> clicking on the placeholder, now would a good time to break 'em out. > >> I believe David Gerard knows these. David? > > > I don't, actually. Greg Maxwell said to me a while ago it would be > easy to run them from a full history dump - Greg? > > > - d. —C.W. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
