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Wikimedia Commons reaches One Million

The lesser known Wikimedia Commons, cousin of Wikipedia, reached a milestone — one million media files today. These are mostly “free” pictures, illustrations and diagrams, though there are also audio and video files as well. By free, Wikimedia Commons generally means ones under public domain, Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike and GNU Free Documentation Licenses.

Daveydweeb reports that after it started in September 2004, Commons’ millionth file was of the Singapore Zoo.

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As you can see there’s great variety in the photos:.

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Sometimes it’s just interesting to click on a random photo from the Commons.

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  • One Response to “Wikimedia Commons reaches One Million”

    1. doug
      November 30th, 2006 23:36
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      Oh, how I miss the Singapore Zoo. It is the best zoo in Asia, by far.

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