@ben #WikimediaCommons is my preferred (and free) choice. https://commons.wikimedia.org

@ben #WikimediaCommons is my preferred (and free) choice. https://commons.wikimedia.org
En fouillant les entrepôts de données à la recherche de photos sous licences libres, je suis tombé en 2023 sur le projet de recherche anglais "Cartes postales du bagne" https://cartespostalesdubagne.com/
J'ai copié les photos de #Figshare vers #WikimediaCommons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Postcards_from_the_Bagne_-_Tourism_in_the_shadow_of_France%27s_overseas_penal_history
Ächz. An einem (!) Tag in Hamburg 499 Fotos gemacht. Wie lange werde ich wohl für Auswahl, Entwicklung, Hochladen, Beschriften und Kategorisieren auf Wikimedia Commons brauchen?
Arubaanse carnavalsfoto’s op Wikimedia Commons!
Tijdens workshop (27/3) werd dit erfgoed vastgelegd en gedeeld.
Nieuw: @wikipediaribaaruba op YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/@wikipediaribaaruba
Beeld: Ginelly.Q, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
#WikipediaOpAruba #CarnavalAruba #WikimediaCommons
I don't think Wikimedia Commons is enough of an alternative, but is the best that exists.
- Wikimedia foundation is underfunded and gets attacked by many powerful people are against it.
- All images uploaded are licensed as Creative Commons or Public Domain, which is good but many people don't want to put a permissive license on their pictures. Photos added to Google Maps don't have to do this and remain copyrighted.
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#WikimediaCommons
Ce dimanche, Michel Becker, coauteur du livre des énigmes de la #Chouettedor était à #Dabo, sur les lieux de la découverte.
Une belle occasion, pas loin de chez moi, pour faire quelques #photos pour #Wikipedia et #WikimediaCommons ! Maintenant, la page de la chasse de la chouette d'or est illustrée.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sur_la_trace_de_la_chouette_d%27or
Finally done processing an additional 50 photos meaning I have now completed doing perspective corrections on 400 photos of NHCP #HistoricalMarkers of the #Philippines !
I hope to complete 500 by the year’s end.
You can browse through all 400 in #WikimediaCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Perspective_corrections_by_Eugene_Alvin_Villar
And if you’re curious how I am doing this, a slightly outdated process is on my blog: https://vaes9.com/posts/perspective_correction
Anyway, I have a backlog of around 140 photos with more on the way: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TODO_-_Needs_perspective_correction
Gestern Abend noch nach der Sendung "Maischberger" die Gäste fotografiert. Leider habe ich dabei auch 2 bestehende Fotos wegen Urheberrechtsverletzungen zum Löschen vorschlagen müssen.
Alle Fotos unter https://w.wiki/Dy5V © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
Que font les wikimédiens quand ils reçoivent une lettre ? Ils la publient sur #WikimediaCommons et #Wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_from_Ed_Martin_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation
@jonny Sounds useful for a potential #WikimediaCommons image dump (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391020) but would it be too much to have over 100M related torrents (one per file)? Would every individual info_hash be in the parent torrent or how does one add all torrents?
@glynmoody Err I wish. That's a minuscule custom-built dataset, nothing like the 600 TB mirror of #WikimediaCommons required to substitute scraping. (Also, good luck downloading TBs of data from a website where you have to click manually to download each file.)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391020
À noter que la #BibliothequeNationaleSuisse a versé plus de 3'000 images prises par ##AnnemarieSchwarzenbach dans #WikimediaCommons
Ces images qui documentent ses voyages à travers le monde et ses amitiés pourraient servir à de belles valorisations dans les autres projets Wikimedia.
À vous de jouer avec la #MemoireDuMonde élevée dans le domaine public!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CH-NB-Annemarie_Schwarzenbach
@stiefkind ohoh. Wichtig auch für #Wikipedia und #WikimediaCommons
@OpenStreetMap66 @boitesalivres
Hello
Plus que de la réutilisation, c'est d'abord de la création : la plupart des boîtes à livres créés sur #OSM et les photos ajoutées sur #WikimediaCommons, le sont par le gestionnaire du site des boîtes à livres lui-même, grâce aux signalements directs de contributeurs sur place.
Here's a quick guide to how you can access and use the images commissioned by Aoife Cawley for Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 via Wikimedia Commons. They are free to use with attribution to the artist! #Openknowledge #wikimediacommons
How crawlers impact the operations of the #Wikimedia projects
Web crawlers collecting training data for #AI models are overwhelming #Wikipedia's infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024, according to the #WikimediaFoundation. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedia content has surged 50% since January, primarily from automated programs scraping #WikimediaCommons' 144 million openly licensed media files.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
Want to know more about the finalists in WLM 2024? The blog about the international winners is live on Diff now.
The complete jury report will be shared through Wikimedia Commons after we have announced the winners in the special prize categories on April 18th.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/08/redemption-the-winners-of-wiki-loves-monuments-2024/
#Wikipedia #Monument #WLM #WikiLovesMonuments #WikimediaCommons #Wikimedia #Photography
I just saw that I have exceeded half a million total edits on all #Wikimedia projects! (I started contributing in late 2002.)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Seav
Granted, 95% of these are on #WikimediaCommons and #Wikidata where I use tools like QuickStatements (by @magnusmanske) and Cat-a-lot that let users quickly rack up edits. But I think my nearly 20000 edits on the English #Wikipedia is respectable.
If you are having problems with a WikiMedia Foundation wiki at the moment, there is some kind of global problem with editing. It is not your account or your WWW browser.