Commons:The Commons Log/2000s
See also[edit]
- Commons:Journal (June 2006 only)
- Commons:Milestones (2004 - present)
- Commons:Community news (2004 - 2013)
- Meta:Goings-on/Archive
2004[edit]
- 19 March 2004: Project Commons proposed by Erik Moller. (mailing list)
- 24 September 2004: Commons opens. (m:Wikimedia_News/2004#September_7.2C_2004)
- 4 October 2004: 1000th file uploaded. (m:Wikimedia_News/2004#October_5.2C_2004)
- 31 October 2004: Support for automatic use of Commons files within Wikimedia projects was enabled. (Wikipedia Village pump)
- November 2004: Commons logo created by Reidab adopted. (Commons:Logo/Vote)
- November 2004: Commons:Featured pictures process started.
- 11 November 2004: First post to commons-l mailing list. (post)
2005[edit]
Information template[edit]
April 2005: Creation of the {{Information}} template.
Mass upload program[edit]
April 2005: Release of Commonplace, an application for Microsoft Windows to upload images to the Commons (discontinued since)
DirectMedia paintings donation[edit]
- April 2005: Files uploaded from DirectMedia partnership
Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention[edit]
- May 2005: Commons receives an Honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica awards in Austria.
100,000 media files[edit]
24 May 2005: Wikimedia Commons reaches 100,000 media files. 100,000th file uploaded was Image:Dataflowfiringnodes.png.
Self template[edit]
June 2005: Creation of the {{Self}} template.
FlickrLickr[edit]
September 2005: Launching of the FlickrLickr program, to retrieve freely-licensed files from Flickr. In a month, 14,000 files are reviewed.
SVG[edit]
26 October 2005: SVG becomes possible in MediaWiki. This means Commons can accept files in Scalable Vector Graphics format. This format is preferred over PNG in most cases.
2006[edit]
500,000 media files[edit]
25 March 2006: Wikimedia Commons reaches 500,000 media files (Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2006/03#Half_million_items).
600,000 media files[edit]
15 May 2006: Wikimedia Commons reaches 600,000 media files
- 600,000th file uploaded was Image:Peperomia graveolens - Botanischer Garten Bonn.jpg. (Commons:Village_pump_archive-30#600.2C000_files)
Quality Images process launched[edit]
- June 2006: Commons:Quality Images process started.
File Undeletion enabled[edit]
16 June 2006: File undeletion enabled. (announcement)
COM:AN launched[edit]
- 19 August 2006: Administrators' noticeboard started (previously such discussion was at the Village pump). (first edit)
CommonsDelinker[edit]
September 2006: The CommonsDelinker, which prevents red image links from appearing in local wikis after being deleted in Wikimedia Commons by delinking, makes its first edits. It gets approved in November.
FlickreviewR[edit]
November 2006: Deployment and approval of FlickreviewR, a robot which checks the image status at Flickr, and confirms whether the license on Flickr is one acceptable on the Commons.
One million media files[edit]
30 November 2006: Wikimedia Commons reaches one million media files
2007[edit]
Picture of the Year process launched[edit]
3 March 2007: Voting for the inaugural Commons:Picture of the Year/2006 competition concludes. 658 Wikimedians voted. Winner was Image:Polarlicht 2.jpg.
Flickr upload bot[edit]
May 2007: Deployment of Flickr upload bot, a robot which helps in transferring freely-licensed files from Flickr, using a user interface hosted on the Toolserver. (See Village Pump, commons-l).
1.5 million media files[edit]
25 May 2007: Wikimedia Commons reaches 1.5 million media files
Two million media files[edit]
8 October 2007: Wikimedia Commons reaches two million media files
1000 Featured Pictures[edit]
October 2007: Commons reached the milestone of 1,000 Featured Pictures. Featured Pictures are nominated and voted on by the wiki community, and represent "the best of the best" in free content images and photography. The tradition of voting for Featured Pictures began in November 2004, two months after Wikimedia Commons was founded.
2008[edit]
Picture of the Year[edit]
25 January 2008: Voting for the Commons:Picture of the Year/2007 competition concludes. 919 Wikimedians voted. Winner was File:Broadway tower edit.jpg.
Unified login[edit]
May 2008: Unified login is deployed (background).
Valued Images process launched[edit]
June 2008: Commons:Valued images process started.
Three million media files[edit]
16 July 2008: Wikimedia Commons reaches three million media files
PD tag deprecated[edit]
20 October 2008: the {{PD}} copyright tag is deprecated. Claims of public domain status now require more specific templates.
InstantCommons[edit]
November 2008: ForeignApiRepo is deployed in the MediaWiki software, allowing an install to specify another wiki to pull images and other media files from − including Wikimedia Commons, making InstantCommons a reality.
Patrol interface[edit]
8 November 2010: New Commons Upload Patrol interface. A new interface is available to administrators and patrollers for assistance in patrolling new files. See documentation on Meta.
Bundesarchiv uploads[edit]
4 December 2008: Starting on Thursday December 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons witnessed a massive upload of new images. We received more than 80,000 files from a donation from the German Federal Archives. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the German Democratic Republic) and are part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archives.
2009[edit]
Picture of the Year[edit]
30 April 2009: Voting for the Commons:Picture of the Year/2008 competition concludes. 712 Wikimedians voted. Winner was File:Biandintz eta zaldiak - modified2.jpg.
Four million media files[edit]
4 March 2009: Wikimedia Commons reaches four million media files with File:Masca-2009.jpg.
Deutsche Fotothek collaboration[edit]
31 March 2009: en:Deutsche Fotothek and Wikimedia Germany e.V. announced details of a cooperation on a joint press conference. The most visible aspect of this cooperation is the release of some 250,000 images from the Fotothek under Creative Commons cc-by-sa 3.0 and its subsequent uploading to Wikimedia Commons.
File annotation[edit]
June 2009: Deployment of the ImageAnnotator gadget.
Licensing update[edit]
June 2009 Licensing update : Wikimedia material under GFDL is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. 544,990 files are migrated, while it was redundant for 2,902,667.
National Portrait Gallery copyright dispute[edit]
July 2009: the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) sent an email letter warning of possible legal action for alleged copyright infringement to Derrick Coetzee, which stated that Coetzee had downloaded more than 3,300 high-resolution images from the British National Portrait Gallery's database of images and in March 2009 had posted them on Wikimedia Commons.
- Category:Images from the National Portrait Gallery, London
- National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute
Five million media files[edit]
2 September 2009: Wikimedia Commons reaches five million media files with File:Kjøbenhavnsposten 28 nov 1838 side 1.jpg.
Renaming files[edit]
September 2009: It is now possible for administrators to rename files.
Tool to batch upload files from Flick[edit]
September 2009: FlickrRipper, part of the Pywikipedia framework, allows to easily batch upload files from Flickr.
GlobalUsage[edit]
September 2009: Deployment of GlobalUsage, which allows to see usage of a file on other wikis. (background)
Tropenmuseum collaboration[edit]
November 2009: Collaboration with the Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam, with the donation of 35,000 images about Indonesia to Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedias using Commons - statistics[edit]
