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Stories about: Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons Tops 5 Million Files A few weeks ago, Wikipedia managed to amass more than three million articles; this week is Wikimedia Commons' turn to take the glory. A scan of a 1838 Danish newspaper called Kjobenhavnsposten was uploaded by user Saddhiyama to the Commons image repository, thus marking the fifth million file uploaded by a user.... 3 September 2009 04:40 GMT Wikimedia Foundation Receives a $300,000 Grant Wikimedia Foundation has just received a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support its Wikimedia Commons project. The money will go into research, to find the reasons keeping some users from participating, as well as into redesigning the upload process.“The global community that is building Wikimedia C... 3 July 2009 09:48 GMT