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The Commons Log

• Sunday, 7 July 2024 •

The Commons Log is an ad hoc record of notable events on Wikimedia Commons. It may be updated by anyone, as rarely or as frequently as desired. The guideline for whether events are suitable for inclusion is (i) that events are of sitewide interest and (ii) that the events are reasonably significant in the context of Commons events in that year. The Log is intended to be archived only once per year.

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.

2015

picture of the year 2015

25m files

11 March 2015 : Milestone of 25 million hosted files.

Freedom of Panorama threatened in Europe

July 2015: Commons:Freedom of Panorama 2015

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2015 Picture of the Year vote is File:Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT.jpg by NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

2016

picture of the year 2016

30m files

13 January 2016 : Milestone of 30 million hosted files.

Release of Pattypan upload tool

May 2019: First release of Pattypan, a desktop upload tool using spreadsheets, intended especially for small-to-medium GLAMs.

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2016 Picture of the Year vote is File:Jubilee and Munin, Ravens, Tower of London 2016-04-30.jpg by Colin.

2017

picture of the year 2017

40m files

21 June 2017 : Milestone of 40 million hosted files.

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2017 Picture of the Year vote is File:Perereca-macaco - Phyllomedusa rohdei.jpg by Renato Augusto Martins.

2018

picture of the year 2018

Deployment of the 3D extension

20 February 2018: Deployment of the the 3D extension, allowing the upload and rendering of 3D files in the STL format (note).

50m files

7 October 2018 : Milestone of 50 million hosted files.

GFDL-1.2 license phase out

15 October 2018 : The {{GFDL-1.2}} license is phased out for new media (decision)

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2018 Picture of the Year vote is File:Evolution of a Tornado.jpg by JasonWeingart.

2019

picture of the year 2019

Deployment of File captions

11 January 2019: Deployment of the file captions, first feature part of the Structured data project.

Deployment of Depicts

24 April 2019: Deployment of depicts, second feature part of the Structured data project.

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2019 Picture of the Year vote is File:Mud Cow Racing - Pacu Jawi - West Sumatra, Indonesia.jpg by Rodney Ee.

2020

picture of the year 2020

60m files

18 March 2020: Milestone of 60 million hosted files.

Structured Data spreads

August 2020: Half of all files (32,8M out of 64,5M) have at least one Structured data statement. [1]

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2020 Picture of the Year vote is File:Alcedo atthis - Riserve naturali e aree contigue della fascia fluviale del Po.jpg by Luca Casale.

2021

picture of the year 2021

70m files

16 March 2021 : Milestone of 70 million hosted files.

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2021 Picture of the Year vote is File:Holy SURP Hovhannes Church.jpg by Farzin Izaddoust dar.

2022

picture of the year 2022

80m files

11 January 2022 : Milestone of 80 million hosted files.

Picture of the Year

Winner of the 2022 Picture of the Year vote is File:Phalacrocorax carbo, Egretta garzetta and Mareca strepera in Taudha Lake.jpg by Prasan Shrestha.

2023

90m files

11 January 2023 : Milestone of 90 million hosted files.

100m files

16 November 2023 : Milestone of 100 million hosted files.

500 TB

November 2023 : Commons' total media file storage volume exceeded 500 terabyte (455 tebibyte) for the first time between the 22nd and 25th of November

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