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Articles tagged: wikimediacommons[edit]
In the media Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
2023-11-20
Comic-con, Media summit, and a classic!
Technology report View it! A new tool for image discovery
2023-01-16
The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.
In the media Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
2023-01-16
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.
Serendipity Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
2023-01-01
How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.
From the archives Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
2023-01-01
Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".
Obituary A tribute to Michael Gäbler
2022-11-28
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
CommonsComix Joker's trick
2022-11-28
A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.
Serendipity Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos
2022-09-30
Suggestion: promote removal of visible copyright signs of images under a CC-BY license.
Technology report Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
2022-08-31
Plus, the Private Incident Reporting System, and new bots & user scripts!
From the archives 5, 10, and 15 years ago
2022-08-31
The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.
Serendipity Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
2022-04-24
Why not just link to an article to attribute famous photographers?
Interview On a war and a map
2022-04-24
How a war map predated Wikimedia's map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Gallery A voyage around the world with WLM winners
2022-04-24
Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 winners announced
Technology report What does it take to upload a file?
2021-11-29
How MediaWiki works with media files.
Serendipity How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
2021-10-31
Details can make all the difference!
Community view Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
2021-09-26
Help us piece together WikiProject Craft!
In the media Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
2021-06-27
Will he hang it in the Oval Office?
Recent research 10%–30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
2021-03-28
And other recent research results
In the media Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
2017-06-23
The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile edits, hacked articles, and one particular newborn growing up.
Op-ed Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing
2016-06-15
Two for the price of one—do the popular Commons image contest and Wikidata licensing serve the community as well as they should?
Recent research OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
2015-08-26
OpenSym 2015 report: A look at the research presented at the OpenSym 2015 conference.
Special report Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014
2015-03-25
The Wikipedia Commons annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded, with 6,698 people voting, its largest participation yet.
News and notes Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
2014-07-23
Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
News and notes US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons
2014-06-25
US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan: The US National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) have committed to engaging with Wikimedia projects in their newest Open Government Plan. The biannual effort is a roadmap for how the agency will accomplish its goals in the digital age.
News and notes Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
2014-03-26
Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.
Forum Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?
2014-03-19
Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.
News and notes Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy
2014-02-26
Following a trend started by Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Argentina has published an open letter challenging the recent deletion of hundreds of images from the Commons under its policy on URAA-restored copyrights, relating to the United States' 1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
Op-ed Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
2013-10-02
Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.
In the media Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
2013-06-26
The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.
Op-ed Two responses to "The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"
2013-06-19
Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons': Following last week's op-ed by Gigs ("The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"), the Signpost is carrying two contrary opinions from MichaelMaggs, a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons, and Mattbuck, a British Commons administrator.
Op-ed The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
2013-06-12
I've long thought that we should get rid of the Wikimedia Commons as we know it. Commons has evolved into a project with interests that compete with the needs of the primary users of Commons and the reason it was created. It's also understaffed, which results in poor curation, large administrative backlogs, and poor policy development.
News and notes Launch of annual picture competition, new grant scheme
2013-01-14
On January 16, voting for the first round of the 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest will begin. Wikimedia editors with 75 edits or one project are eligible to vote to select their favorite image featured in 2012. ... On January 15, the foundation launched its latest grant scheme, called Individual Engagement Grants (IEG).
News and notes Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture
2012-06-04
News and notes Update on Global Development, Wikipedia Day NYC is a success, JFK audio on Commons
2012-01-30
News and notes WMF on the looming SOPA blackout, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files
2012-01-16
News and notes Arabic Wikipedia gets video intros, Smithsonian gifts images, and WikiProject Conservatism scrutinized
2011-10-17
News and notes Picture of the Year voting begins; Internet culture covered in Sweden and consulted in Russia; brief news
2011-05-02
News and notes Commons milestone; newbie contributions assessed; German community to decide on €200,000 budget; brief news
2011-04-18
News and notes New General Counsel hired; reuse of Google Art Project debated; GLAM newsletter started; news in brief
2011-02-07
News and notes Berlin WikiConference, Brooklyn Museum & Google.org collaborations, review backlog removed, 1 billion edits
2010-04-19
News and notes Article Incubator, Wikipedians take Manhattan, new features in testing, and much more
2009-10-05