Commons:The Commons Log/2009
2009[edit]
Picture of the Year[edit]
30 April 2009: Voting for the Commons:Picture of the Year/2008 competition concludes. 712 Wikimedians voted. Winner was File:Biandintz eta zaldiak - modified2.jpg.
Four million media files[edit]
4 March 2009: Wikimedia Commons reaches four million media files with File:Masca-2009.jpg.
Deutsche Fotothek collaboration[edit]
31 March 2009: en:Deutsche Fotothek and Wikimedia Germany e.V. announced details of a cooperation on a joint press conference. The most visible aspect of this cooperation is the release of some 250,000 images from the Fotothek under Creative Commons cc-by-sa 3.0 and its subsequent uploading to Wikimedia Commons.
File annotation[edit]
June 2009: Deployment of the ImageAnnotator gadget.
Licensing update[edit]
June 2009 Licensing update : Wikimedia material under GFDL is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. 544,990 files are migrated, while it was redundant for 2,902,667.
National Portrait Gallery copyright dispute[edit]
July 2009: the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) sent an email letter warning of possible legal action for alleged copyright infringement to Derrick Coetzee, which stated that Coetzee had downloaded more than 3,300 high-resolution images from the British National Portrait Gallery's database of images and in March 2009 had posted them on Wikimedia Commons.
- Category:Images from the National Portrait Gallery, London
- National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute
Five million media files[edit]
2 September 2009: Wikimedia Commons reaches five million media files with File:Kjøbenhavnsposten 28 nov 1838 side 1.jpg.
Renaming files[edit]
September 2009: It is now possible for administrators to rename files.
Tool to batch upload files from Flick[edit]
September 2009: FlickrRipper, part of the Pywikipedia framework, allows to easily batch upload files from Flickr.
GlobalUsage[edit]
September 2009: Deployment of GlobalUsage, which allows to see usage of a file on other wikis. (background)
Tropenmuseum collaboration[edit]
November 2009: Collaboration with the Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam, with the donation of 35,000 images about Indonesia to Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedias using Commons - statistics[edit]
