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Wikimedia Commons: Ten million files

The ten millionth file: a photograph taken during a Wikiexpedition associated with Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk

Wikimedia Commons, the multilingual free-content media repository project of the Wikimedia Foundation, reached the milestone of ten million files uploaded on April 15, 2011. The 5 millionth uploaded file was attained on September 9, 2009, so the project has doubled in size in only nineteen months.

The ten millionth file is a photo of an observation platform taken during a Wikiexpedition by User:Leinad and has been licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0.

Previous milestone images

We don't know exactly what image corresponds to exactly what upload number, especially now that the pace of uploads has become so rapid. For example, it would be almost impossible to determine exactly what file was the nine-millionth: it came during an extremely rapid upload of Geograph photos.

1 million, reached on 2006-11-30
3 million, reached on 2008-07-16
4 million, reached on 2009-03-04
5 million, reached on 2009-09-02
6 million, reached on 2010-01-31

Quality milestones

Something about - featured pictures, quality images, valued images, pictures of the year

First picture of the day (featured picture) by Dixi (GFDL, cc-by-sa 3.0)
The 1000th featured picture
A valued image of the "Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymous Bosch
Picture of the Year 2009: Sikh pilgrim at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in India.
Leadenhall Market In London: an example of a quality image in the "technical/exposure" category.

Commons currently has 3,406 featured pictures, over 16,400 quality images and 2,179 valued images.

Major projects

(Add further discussion of, for example, Commons:State Library of Queensland, Commons:Geograph...)

A typical Geograph image

Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based probject that provides geographically located and freely licensed imagery of the Great Britain and Ireland. With the assistance of Geograph's developers, much of the Geograph database has been uploaded to Commons. This is the largest single upload to date on Commons, and has contributed over 1.8 million files in the past 18 months. About 80% of all the geographically located files on Commons are from Geograph.

A global collaboration

"Babel problems" - Category:Users by language (native speakers); 2553 user en-N and 1601 user en-1, hmm 2813 user de-N; Skandinavians like Commons
Copyright problems
Collaboration with external institutions (Wiki Love Arts/Monuments -> Commons Love Arts/Monuments), NASA, Bundesarchive...)
Flickr Community
Wikimedia Community/Communities Multimedia:Initial survey

"Geotagged map" and terra incognita

Geocoded images on a worldmap

We have got millions of photos, but mostly from Europe, North America and Asia. What indeed about Africa? It's still terra incognita?

Locations have been specified for over two million files by means of the latitude and longitude from where the media was recorded. Several exports are made - for example to this OpenStreetMap world map (please zoom in to a region) showing geocoded files.

Commons is easy or not?

Commons:Prototype upload wizard feedback
- on the Foundation blog
gadgets etc.

Press releases

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Wikimedia Foundation – Ten million free media files and counting
Wikimedia Argentina – Wikimedia Commons llegó a los 10 millones de archivos
Wikimédia France – Wikimédia Commons atteint les 10 millions de fichiers
Wikimedia Deutschland – 10 Millionen Bilder zur freien Nutzung
Wikimedia Hungary – Tízmillió szabad kép a Wikipédia testvéroldalán
Wikimedia Ukraine – Wikipedia sister site tops 10,000,000 media files

Press coverage