Η Wikimedia Commons celebrates her 10th birthday today. THE Wikimedia Commons is one of the world's largest sources of freely licensed educational media. It is the central repository of the majority of his illustrations Wikipedia, and includes more than 22 million images of everything.
The ones photos you can also use them in your blogs or websites, since they will always be under a free license. Images include contributions from amateur photographers as well as donations from the world's leading archival collections.
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 greatest ofcase υλικού με ελεύθερη άδεια χρήσης, και θα έχει σαν μηχανισμό ελέγχου της ποιότητας την ίδια την κοινότητα του Wikimedia.
After 10 creative years with several collaborations, competitions and tough volunteer work, the Commons community can proudly celebrate its original vision becoming a reality.
