Commons:The Commons Log/2013

2013

URAA enforcement

January 2013: Increase in the enforcement of URAA leads to multiple deletion requests and an initiative to transfer deleted files to a Canada-based third-party website.

16m files

2 February 2013 : Milestone of 16 million hosted files.

URAA statement

6 February 2013: The Wikimedia Foundation Legal team publishes a statement concerning URAA and its enforcement. (discussion)

New search extension enabled

25 May 2013: Activation of SearchExtraNS extension.

Picture of the Year

February 2013: The Commons:Picture of the Year/2012 competition concludes. Winner was File:Pair of Merops apiaster feeding.jpg.

Footer cleanup

10 March 2013: Activation of Vector extension FooterCleanup (bugzilla:45946)

Lua

March 2013: Deployment of Lua, a programming language for templates.

Commons App

29 April 2013: Announcement of the official Commons app for iOS and Android source)

17m files

16 May 2013 : Milestone of 17 million hosted files.

Maximum size for thumbnails raised

May 2013 The maximum size for thumbnails is raised from 25 megapixels to 50 megapixels (bugzilla:47363, discussion)

Multilinguism extensions, Universal Language Selector and Translate, enabled

13 May 2013: Universal Language Selector and Translate extensions are enabled. (RFC 1 RFC 2).

FLAC and WAV support

8 July 2013: Support for FLAC container and WAV format is enabled (note, note)

HotCat enabled by default

10 July 2013: The HotCat gadget is enabled by default for all logged-in users.

Deployment of VipsScaler

18 July 2013: Deployment of VipsScaler, a new thumbnailer for PNG images bacground)

Update to Upload Campaigns

22 July 2013: As part of work on Mobile, the underlying infrastructure for Upload campaigns (mainly used for Wiki Loves Monuments) has been rewritten. (more information)

18m files

15 August 2013 : Milestone of 18 million hosted files.

Wikimedia Commons brochure

2 August 2013: After a community process, publication of the Welcome to Commons brochure (source).

Restyling the gallery tag

19 August 2013: New outputs for the <gallery> tag are available (manual)

19m files

21 October 2013 : Milestone of 19 million hosted files.

Maximum file size raised to 1GB

6 November 2013: The maximum file size (using chunked uploads) is raised to 1GB.

Deployment of CirrusSearch

16 December 2013: CirrusSearch, a new backend forthe Search feature, is deployed on Commons as secondary.

Deployment of the GLAMwiki Toolset Project

17 December 2013: Deployment of the GLAMwiki Toolset Project, an extension to help cultural institutions batch upload content & metadata.