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News from the Community Portal gets archived here in reverse order (latest first). See also Commons:The Commons Log.

[edit] 2011

[edit] 2011-02-23

Nine millionth file uploaded

Wikimedia Commons now has over 9 million files as of February 23, 2011. Over a million files having been added since the 8 millionth file was added sometime in December, 2010.

[edit] 2011-04-15

Ten millionth file uploaded

Wikimedia Commons now has over 10 million files as of April 15, 2011. Over a million files having been added since the 9 millionth file that was added on February 23, 2011.

[edit] 2011-08-06

Wikipedia Takes Montreal, the photographic hunt

For the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, the encyclopedia is organizing a photographic hunt in Montreal. The contributors have identified over 300 targets to photograph to illustrate the articles of the encyclopedia that concern the city. Registration is free, more than $ 1000 in win prizes and the chance to see your best photo appear in the quality image repertory of Wikimedia Commons.

See: Wikipedia Takes Montreal

[edit] 2010-12-30

Eight millionth file uploaded

Wikimedia Commons now has over 8 million files as of December 30, 2010.

[edit] 2010-11-08

New Commons Upload Patrol interface

A new interface is available to administrators and patrollers for assistance in patrolling new files. See documentation on Meta.

[edit] 2010-07-17

Seven millionth file uploaded

The seven millionth file was uploaded on July 17, 2010, less than six months after the six millionth file.

[edit] 2010-06-21

Commons Picture of the Year 2009

The winners of the Picture of the Year 2009 announced.

[edit] 2010-03-26

Default skin now "Vector"

Commons has now changed the default look to a new theme called Vector, which makes many functions much easier to find. Logged-in users have the option to return to the classic functionality using a four-click process. Submit feedback at the Village Pump.

[edit] 2010-01-31

Six millionth file uploaded

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.

[edit] 2009-09-02

Five millionth file uploaded!: The five millionth file was uploaded on September 2, 2009, less than six months after the four millionth file.

[edit] 2009-03-04

Four millionth file uploaded!: The four millionth file was uploaded on March 4, 2009, less than a eight months after the three millionth file.

[edit] 2008-07-16

Three millionth file uploaded!: The three millionth file was uploaded on July 16, 2008, less than a year after the two millionth file.

[edit] 2007-10-25

1000+ Featured pictures: Commons now has well over 1000 featured pictures. The 1000th was Image:Neuschwanstein_Castle_LOC_print_rotated.jpg.

[edit] 2007-10-09

Two millionth file uploaded!: On October 9th, 2007, less than one year after the one millionth file, the two millionth file was uploaded.

[edit] 2006-11-30

One millionth file uploaded!: The Wikimedia Foundation announced today that the one millionth file had been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. These files have been chosen or created by 91,006 registered users from more than 12 different languages.

[edit] 2006-06-02

CommonsTicker is now live!: It allows you to easily follow in your local Wikimedia project relevant edits made to Commons images that are used there. Request one today!

[edit] 2006-03-07

Help page maintenance urgently needed: Most of the help and policy pages in Commons-namespace were last updated in May 2005 even in English and are in most cases completly outdated and anything but helpful and of course there are also several duplicates. So please help cleaning up and translating all these pages and join Help page maintenance now.

[edit] 2005-10-26

SVG now possible in MediaWiki: The Commons now accepts files in Scalable Vector Graphics format. This format is preferred over PNG in most cases. If you want to transform old PNG-flags please join CommonsProject Insignia for coordination.

[edit] 2005-06-29

Update to MediaWiki 1.5 Beta3: WikiMedia Commons has been updated to the new version of MediaWiki. It is now running MediaWiki 1.5 Beta3. Some good features have been added to this version. To learn more, please visit MediaWiki in Wikicommons.

[edit] 2005-05-02

Templates: A list of templates available for use in Commons pages including category, image and talk namespaces.

[edit] 2004-12-28

Multilingual interface: Thanks to the implementation of Mediawiki 1.4, you can choose which language to use for the Commons interface. Go to your preferences and click on User data.

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