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The idea for the project came from Erik Möller in March 2004 [4] and Wikimedia Commons was started on September 7, 2004. [5] [6] In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000. [7] In 2018 it became possible to upload 3D models to the site in STL format.
All Wikimedia projects in all languages share a single repository of multimedia content which can be used freely for any purpose: Wikimedia Commons. Launched in September 2004, by June 2008 Wikimedia Commons contained more than 2.5 million photos, illustrations, sounds, and video files.
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4 days ago · If you are browsing Commons for the first time, you may want to start with Featured pictures, Quality images, Valued images or Featured media. You can also see some work created by our highly skilled contributors in Meet our photographers and Meet our illustrators. You may also be interested in Picture of the Year.
May 4, 2016 · Timeline of Commons. The site launched 7 Sept 2004, using the MediaWiki software from the start. 2006 It grew to have a million files in two years. 2004-2013 All templates were written in wikitext and parser functions until Lua; 2013 Lua began, perhaps not on Commons yet; 2016 Some metadata was spun off from Commons and stored on Wikidata
While the proposal did not pass as originally posited, Wikimedia Commons was opened on September 7, 2004 to hold images and other media files that could be directly embedded in other Wikimedia projects. Project Sourceberg, with its public domain texts, became Wikisource.
6 days ago · Launched on 7 September 2004, Wikimedia Commons hit the 1,000,000 uploaded media file milestone on 30 November 2006 and currently contains 105,781,846 files. More background information about the Wikimedia Commons project itself can be found in the General disclaimer, at the Wikipedia page about Wikimedia Commons and its page in Meta-wiki.
Optional (required for uploading images) Launched. September 7, 2004. The Wikimedia Commons (also called "Wikicommons", "the Commons", "Wikipedia Commons" or just "Commons") is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. Like Wikipedia, it is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
