Commons:The Commons Log/2014

2014

The 20M milestone file.

picture of the year 2014

Fast Category Intersection

January 2014: Deployment of the FastCCI button, an interface to a powerful tool for fast Commons category operations such as loop detection, deep traversal, category intersection and category subtraction.

Request for comments on MP4 support

January 2014 The Wikimedia Foudation starts a community discussion on whether or not to support the MP4 video file format on Wikimedia projects, which is rejected by the Wikimedia community (see Commons:Requests for comment/MP4 Video)

20m files

25 January 2014 : Milestone of 20 million hosted files.

URAA redux

February 2014: Four Wikimedia chapters publish open letters to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees regarding Wikimedia Commons policy on files affected by the URAA. Together with the Board answer, they lead to a community debate on whether files deleted on URAA grounds should be massively restored.

Media of the Day debate

8 May 2014: The stil frame displayed for the media of the day, a video of the Buchenwald concentration camp, sparks a debate on the Wikimedia-l mailing list.

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2014 Picture of the Year vote is File:A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador.jpg by the Dirección de Información Turística del Ministerio de Turismo del Ecuador.