Commons:The Commons Log/2007

2007

Picture of the Year process launched

3 March 2007: Voting for the inaugural Commons:Picture of the Year/2006 competition concludes. 658 Wikimedians voted. Winner was Image:Polarlicht 2.jpg.

Flickr upload bot

May 2007: Deployment of Flickr upload bot, a robot which helps in transferring freely-licensed files from Flickr, using a user interface hosted on the Toolserver. (See Village Pump, commons-l).

1.5 million media files

25 May 2007: Wikimedia Commons reaches 1.5 million media files

Two million media files

8 October 2007: Wikimedia Commons reaches two million media files

• Commons:Press releases/2M
• en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-15/Two-million Commons.

1000 Featured Pictures

October 2007: Commons reached the milestone of 1,000 Featured Pictures. Featured Pictures are nominated and voted on by the wiki community, and represent "the best of the best" in free content images and photography. The tradition of voting for Featured Pictures began in November 2004, two months after Wikimedia Commons was founded.

• Commons:Press releases/1000FP