Η Wikimedia Commons celebrates her 10th birthday today. Wikimedia Commons is one of the world's largest sources of free educational media permission of use. It is the central repository for the majority of Wikipedia illustrations, and includes more than 22 millions pictures of everything.
The ones photos μπορείτε να τις χρησιμοποιήσετε και εσείς στα blog ή στις ιστοσελίδες σας, αφού θα είναι πάντα με ελεύθερη άδεια χρήσης. Οι εικόνες συμπεριλαμβάνουν εισφορές από ερασιτέχνες φωτογράφους αλλά και δωρεές από συλλογές κορυφαίων files of the world.
All this is possible thanks to the incredible work of the Wikimedia voluntary community. Over ten years, four million registered users have uploaded images, edited the licensing. searched for information, created accusations, organized metadata, and removed non-educational content or images that did not have a free license.
Wikimedia Commons was officially launched on 7 September 2004 with an email that basically updated the users in the Wikimedia mail list for its existence domain commons.wikimedia.org, and expressed a vague hope that someday project will acquire its own space.
The creation of the Commons was proposed by then volunteer Wikimedian Erik Moeller (now the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation). The original proposal made in March 2004 dreamed of a repository for images, text, and other documents always freely licensed, stating that Commons could “provide the largest repository of freely licensed material, and would have as a mechanism her control quality the Wikimedia community itself.
After 10 creative years with several collaborations, competitions and tough volunteer work, the Commons community can proudly celebrate its original vision becoming a reality.
