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Wikimedia Foundation Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons...Gets $300K for Wikimedia Commons The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia's repository for free, sharable multimedia files. The grant will fund a study of... In this article: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Commons, Ford Foundation, Wikipedia, Sue Gardner, and Jenny Toomey |
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Creative Commons » CC News | October 27, 2009
PicScout Looking for Creative Professionals to Beta Test ImageExchange
...something we've been thinking a lot about. Take for example, the vigilant editors and administrators of Wikimedia Commons, which serves as the multimedia backend for all of the Wikipedia projects. A good portion of their time is spent weeding...
In this article: Flickr, Wikipedia, All rights reserved, Google Images, and Google Image Search
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Wikipedia | July 08, 2009
Erik Moller
...of the MediaWiki software and of Wikinews. He drafted the initial project proposal for Wikinews (using the screenname Eloquence), and also was instrumental in developing Wikimedia Commons. He first proposed the idea for Wikimedia Commons...
In this article: Erik Moller, Wikinews, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia of Life, Sue Gardner, and Daily Kos
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ResourceShelf | August 08, 2009
Wikimedia Netherlands Adds 2100 High Quality Images to Wikimedia Commons
...Maroon culture of Suriname. As part of this collaboration, the museum will make approximately 2100 pictures available through Wikimedia Commons, the shared image repository used for Wikipedia and related projects. By involving multiple...
In this article: Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Netherlands, Amsterdam, and Suriname
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Creative Commons » CC News | August 17, 2009
Wiki* milestones and mania
...not counting discussion pages and other errata. As RWW also notes, Wikimedia Commons, the media repository sibling of Wikipedia, is about to pass the 5 million file mark. And it just happens that the vast number of wikis hosted by...
In this article: Wikipedia, License, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikia, Creative Commons Attribution, English Wikipedia, Wikitravel, and Planet Math
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Google Code Blog | October 02, 2009
SVG at Google and in Internet Explorer
...of SVG files that are under Creative Commons licenses. Every one of these files is available in the Wikimedia Commons; for example here is the Linux penguin Tux as SVG. We've been working with Wikipedia to enable interactive zooming...
In this article: Internet Explorer, Google, JavaScript, HTML, Wikipedia, Vector, Inkscape, and Firefox
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Wikipedia | January 24, 2009
File:IE7 Quick Tabs.png
...does not assist in illegal reproduction of the software. The web pages depicted in the screenshot are from Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, which license their content under GFDL. Since the shot does not include a representation of their...
In this article: Internet Explorer 7, GFDL, and Wikipedia
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ResourceShelf | September 02, 2009
Milestones: Wikimedia Commons Breaks 5,000,000 Files
...users is the space where all of Wikipedia's images are stored. Few would dispute that Wikimedia Commons is the largest single collection of freely reusable images on the internet. And the 5,000,00th file? Although it's tough to pinpoint,...
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Xconomy | July 17, 2009
Art Isn't Free: The Tragedy of the Wikimedia Commons
Let me back up and explain the Wikimedia case. The Wikimedia Commons is a public file repository maintained by Wikimedia Foundation, the same non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia. (Most of the images you see alongside Wikipedia...
In this article: Wikimedia Foundation, NASA, Revenue, Google Book Search, Wikipedia, US, and UK
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Wikipedia | April 19, 2009
Category:Wisconsin geography stubs
...needing a photograph, use <nowiki> in the talk page, which adds the article to :Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Wisconsin. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons .
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Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, from which uploaded files can be used across all Wikimedia projects in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use, as all of the content is either in the public domain or released under free licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License. As of May 2009, the repository contains over 4.5 million media files.
- Name:
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type:
- Media repository
- Owned by:
- Wikimedia Foundation
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