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Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2009
Each year the Wikimedia Commons community picks out the best "Picture of the Year", based on the images that have passed through its Featured Picture process during the course of…
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Britain Loves Wikipedia pictures on Commons
In February 2010 we ran Britain Loves Wikipedia - encouraging people to visit 20 museums across the UK to take photographs for Wikipedia, and win prizes in the process. Our…
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Wikimedia Commons reaches 6 million files with the upload of 250,000 Geograph images
Around 250,000 images from the Geograph British Isles Project have recently been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. One of these is a picture of a beautiful landscape setting, featuring sailing on…
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Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia
3 January 2010, UK: The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust have released a number of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose onto Wikipedia. This is the first such…
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Wikipedia celebrates Public Domain Day on 1st January
What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the famed tomb of King Tutankhamen, novelist Ford Madox Ford, and sexologist Havelock Ellis all share in common? They all died in 1939. On…
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Milestone: 5 Years, 5 Million Media Files on Wikimedia Commons
A mosaic of 1,200 of the 5 million media files, forming the Wikimedia logo
