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#### Request **Name for main point of contact and contact preference** Fiona Romeo, email or slack **What teams or departments is this for?** GLAM and Culture **Is this request urgent or time sensitive?** ---- - How many pictures on Wikipedia don't have captions? - How many pictures on Wikipedia don't have alt text? They're both handled as MediaWiki markup right now, rather than being saved in a structured way.

#### Request **Name for main point of contact and contact preference** Fiona Romeo, email or slack **What teams or departments is this for?** GLAM and Culture **How will you use this data or analysis?** For next fiscal year, I'm planning a new public program with GLAMs focused on image description. It would help with the business case for that. More immediately, it could help to unblock a community debate about alt text implementation. It first started in 2017 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166094) but revived in the last week with a Wikidata property proposal (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/alt_text). I'm also hoping to bring in the perspective of an accessibility expert and people with lived experience. ---- - How many pictures on Wikipedia don't have captions? - How many pictures on Wikipedia don't have alt text? They're both handled as MediaWiki markup right now, rather than being saved in a structured way.

#### Request **Name for main point of contact and contact preference** Fiona Romeo, email or slack **What teams or departments is this for?** GLAM and Culture **Is this request urgent**How will you use this data or time sensitiveanalysis?** For next fiscal year, I'm planning a new public program with GLAMs focused on image description. It would help with the business case for that. More immediately, it could help to unblock a community debate about alt text implementation. It first started in 2017 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166094) but revived in the last week with a Wikidata property proposal (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/alt_text). I'm also hoping to bring in the perspective of an accessibility expert and people with lived experience. ---- - How many pictures on Wikipedia don't have captions? - How many pictures on Wikipedia don't have alt text? They're both handled as MediaWiki markup right now, rather than being saved in a structured way.