Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004 to provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.

The project is growing rapidly. In July 2008, it reached three millionmultimedia files, less than a year after reaching two million. Wikimedia Commons received an honorary mention for Digital Community at the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica awards in May 2005.

The project has two community-driven mechanisms for highlighting quality contributions: Featured pictureswhich acknowledge the cream of the crop, and Quality images, which recognise well-composed creations by Wikimedia editors. Since 2006 it has run a Picture of the Yearcompetition, which invites the wider Wikimedia community to share in the celebration of the inspiring free content imagery. Two pages, Meet our photographersand Meet our illustrators, showcase a selection of the highly skilled contributors who choose to use free content licenses and donate their work to the Wikimedia Commons.

For more information on Commons, please see Spotlight on Wikimedia Commons.

16 Febr. 2008

Spotlight on Wikimedia Commons

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By Brianna Laugher, September 2007

Name: Wikimedia Commons
URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Licenses used: GFDL, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, public domain, Free Art Licence, CeCILL
Translations of the Main Page: 70
Date founded: September 7, 2004
Number of registered users: 191,174
Number of administrators: 218 (0.1%)
Number of media files: 1,819,667
Database size: 953.7 GB
Number of Featured Pictures: 945 (0.05%)
Number of pages: 2,299,595 (second only to English Wikipediaamong the Wikimedia Foundation projects)
Strangest edit war: colours of the Italian flag(see the talk page)
Confusion about a connection to Creative Commons: moderate

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