Commons:The Commons Log
• Wednesday, 29 November 2023 •
 | The Commons Log is an ad hoc record of notable events on Wikimedia Commons. It may be updated by anyone, as rarely or as frequently as desired. The guideline for whether events are suitable for inclusion is (i) that events are of sitewide interest and (ii) that the events are reasonably significant in the context of Commons events in that year. The Log is intended to be archived only once per year. |
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2014[edit]
Fast Category Intersection[edit]
January 2014: Deployment of the FastCCI button, an interface to a powerful tool for fast Commons category operations such as loop detection, deep traversal, category intersection and category subtraction.
Request for comments on MP4 support[edit]
January 2014 The Wikimedia Foudation starts a community discussion on whether or not to support the MP4 video file format on Wikimedia projects, which is rejected by the Wikimedia community (see Commons:Requests for comment/MP4 Video)
20m files[edit]
25 January 2014 : Milestone of 20 million hosted files.
URAA redux[edit]
February 2014: Four Wikimedia chapters publish open letters to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees regarding Wikimedia Commons policy on files affected by the URAA. Together with the Board answer, they lead to a community debate on whether files deleted on URAA grounds should be massively restored.
Media of the Day debate[edit]
8 May 2014: The stil frame displayed for the media of the day, a video of the Buchenwald concentration camp, sparks a debate on the Wikimedia-l mailing list.
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2014 Picture of the Year vote is File:A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador.jpg by the Dirección de Información Turística del Ministerio de Turismo del Ecuador.
2015[edit]
25m files[edit]
11 March 2015 : Milestone of 25 million hosted files.
Freedom of Panorama threatened in Europe[edit]
July 2015: Commons:Freedom of Panorama 2015
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2015 Picture of the Year vote is File:Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT.jpg by NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.
2016[edit]
30m files[edit]
13 January 2016 : Milestone of 30 million hosted files.
Release of Pattypan upload tool[edit]
May 2019: First release of Pattypan, a desktop upload tool using spreadsheets, intended especially for small-to-medium GLAMs.
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2016 Picture of the Year vote is File:Jubilee and Munin, Ravens, Tower of London 2016-04-30.jpg by Colin.
2017[edit]
40m files[edit]
21 June 2017 : Milestone of 40 million hosted files.
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2017 Picture of the Year vote is File:Perereca-macaco - Phyllomedusa rohdei.jpg by Renato Augusto Martins.
2018[edit]
Deployment of the 3D extension[edit]
20 February 2018: Deployment of the the 3D extension, allowing the upload and rendering of 3D files in the STL format (note).
50m files[edit]
7 October 2018 : Milestone of 50 million hosted files.
GFDL-1.2 license phase out[edit]
15 October 2018 : The {{GFDL-1.2}} license is phased out for new media (decision)
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2018 Picture of the Year vote is File:Evolution of a Tornado.jpg by JasonWeingart.
2019[edit]
Deployment of File captions[edit]
11 January 2019: Deployment of the file captions, first feature part of the Structured data project.
Deployment of Depicts[edit]
24 April 2019: Deployment of depicts, second feature part of the Structured data project.
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2019 Picture of the Year vote is File:Mud Cow Racing - Pacu Jawi - West Sumatra, Indonesia.jpg by Rodney Ee.
2020[edit]
60m files[edit]
18 March 2020: Milestone of 60 million hosted files.
Structured Data spreads[edit]
August 2020: Half of all files (32,8M out of 64,5M) have at least one Structured data statement. [1]
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2020 Picture of the Year vote is File:Alcedo atthis - Riserve naturali e aree contigue della fascia fluviale del Po.jpg by Luca Casale.
2021[edit]
70m files[edit]
16 March 2021 : Milestone of 70 million hosted files.
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2021 Picture of the Year vote is File:Holy SURP Hovhannes Church.jpg by Farzin Izaddoust dar.
2022[edit]
80m files[edit]
11 January 2022 : Milestone of 80 million hosted files.
Picture of the Year[edit]
Winner of the 2022 Picture of the Year vote is File:Phalacrocorax carbo, Egretta garzetta and Mareca strepera in Taudha Lake.jpg by Prasan Shrestha.
2023[edit]
90m files[edit]
11 January 2023 : Milestone of 90 million hosted files.
100m files[edit]
16 November 2023 : Milestone of 100 million hosted files.
500 TB[edit]
November 2023 : Commons' total media file storage volume exceeded 500 terabyte (455 tebibyte) for the first time between the 22nd and 25th of November