2010 edit

Main license templates use TranslateWiki edit

  31 January 2010: The main licence templates now use translations provided by TranslateWiki.

Six million media files edit

  31 January 2010: Wikimedia Commons reaches six million media files The six millionth file was uploaded on January 31, 2010, five months after the five millionth file, with the bot assisted upload of some 250,000 images from the Geograph project.

Vector skin becomes default edit

  26 March 2010: Commons has now changed the default look to a new theme called Vector, which makes many functions much easier to find.

Picture of the Year edit

  June 2010: Voting for the Commons:Picture of the Year/2009 competition concludes. 742 Wikimedians voted. Winner was File:Sikh pilgrim at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, India.jpg.

File movers edit

  May 2010: The file movers can now rename files.

Explicit images deletions controversy edit

May 2010: Controversy after Jimmy Wales spearheaded a purge of explicit content on Wikimedia Commons

TIFF support enabled edit

  August 2010: Support of the TIFF format is enabled.

Institution template edit

  August 2010: Creation of the {{Institution}} template.

UploadWizard in public beta edit

  October 2010: The UploadWizard launches in beta.

Illustrated tutorial edit

 
Puzzly, hero of the licensing tutorial

  November 2010: An illustrated tutorial is created by the Wikimedia Foundation to educated users on copyright issues during the UploadWizard process. It features Puzzly.

One-click reuse buttons edit

 
Stockphoto gadget in action, for anonymouse users

  October 2010: Enabling of the Stockphoto gadget, meant to help with media reuse, by adding on file pages buttons helping wirth credit lines, licensing requirements and code generation.

Localisation for anonymous users edit

  December 2010: Interface gets localised for anonymous users (background)

Eight million media files edit

  30 December 2010: Wikimedia Commons reaches eight million media files (Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2010/12#8M_milestone).