#wikimediaCommons

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭seav@en.osm.town
2025-06-27

I rarely leave my neighborhood these days, so when the opportunity came last weekend to visit a town about 80 km from my home, I took a little detour to visit and take photos of the town’s only national historical marker.

(Those who have been following me long enough know that documenting historical markers in #Wikidata and #WikimediaCommons is one of my niche interests.)

wikidata.org/wiki/Q52144727

#history #HistoricalMarkers

Cast iron historical marker with the following white text on black:

Pagdaong sa Nasugbu
Sa pook na ito dumaong ang mga sundalo ng Unang Batalyon at 188th Glider Infantry ng 11th Airborne Division sa pangunguna ni Lt. General Robert Eichelberger, 31 Enero 1945. Nagsilbing kabalikat ng hukbong Amerikano ang mga gerilyang Filipino na pinangunahan ni Tenyente Koronel Marcelo Castillo at Koronel Eleuterio L. Adevoso.Historical marker mounted vertically on a concrete pedestal with a few steps before it and surrounded by a low concrete wall.
Henrik Schönemannlavaeolus@fedihum.org
2025-06-24

Update: Got the right now 🎉
There will be things happening under #SaveOurSigns soon.

Is here someone experienced in setting up #WikimediaCommons Upload Campaigns?

If yes, I got a question re requesting the permission to create one :)
See: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/C
(related to #SafeguardingResearch)

Boosts very welcome
#Wikimedia

2025-06-18

How many images of envelopes does #WikimediaCommons need I wonder. Category:Postal_covers currently has 16,582 files in it, which doesn't seem like all that many. I'm no philatelist, but I can probably add 1,000 or so…

Photograph of the front of a hand-addressed envelope with two or three stamps.
Derk-Jan 💙💛🇺🇦TheDJ
2025-06-11

Been working on some modifications to my script for importing and exporting tabular data pages on Wikimedia Commons from/to CSV/Excel.

Struggling a bit with coming up with the best method to deal with the localized data, as it makes the tables multidimensional, which is hard to represent in Excel.

Considering making each language a separate sheet in the exported file….

2025-06-09

Написал скрипт для gThumb (менеджер и простой редактор фото) для загрузки фотографий в Wikimedia Commons, доволен

Здравствуйте, я загружаю много (как посмотреть) фото (и не только) в Wikimedia Commons . Вместе с Википедией, это важный сервис, особый: некоммерческий, тоже живет на донаты, без рекламы и платных аккаунтов, всё содержимое в свободных лицензиях. Базовый путь загрузки - через веб клиент, который сложный, это не в Фейсбук перетянуть фото. Экосистема, инфраструктура, комьюнити огромно, есть десяток инструментов загрузки . И внезапно, за вечер, я сделал, по моему мнению, один из лучших инструментов, о котором мечтал годами. Получилось так быстро потому что это скрипт для gThumb, который использует официальное SDK Pywikibot на Питоне, и библиотека для чтения/записи IPTC тегов - где указываются категории, категории это важно - Коммонс это не помойка, при загрузке и после ребята стараются систематизировать артефакты, у каждого файла может быть много категорий.

habr.com/ru/articles/916780/

#gthumb #wikimediacommons

Mentxu Ramilo Araujomentux@hispagatos.space
2025-06-05

Hace varios años me borraron mi cuenta de #Instagram sin saber muy bien por qué, con unas 1500 fotos.
Desde entonces, decidí subir mis imágenes a #WikimediaCommons, repositorio libre para imágenes, documentos, audios y vídeos.
Hoy he llegado a los 9000 elementos subidos, principalmente fotos, pero también audios, vídeos y presentaciones:
🖼️ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mai

Pax Ahimsa Gethenfuncrunch@me.dm
2025-06-05

All of the photos in this gallery are @creativecommons licensed and available on #WikimediaCommons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Use

cc @wmlgbt

Wikimedia BelgiumWikimedia_BE
2025-06-04

📰 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲!

👀 Highlights:
🏛️UGent shares 10,000+ heritage scans via
🏦 WikiLovesPublicDomain 2025 - you can help shape it!
🍻 New edition of Wiki Loves Denderland (theme: pubs & breweries!)
🧑‍🎓 Doctorandi and art on Wikipedia
🧭 Review of our General Assembly & the European Wikimedia meeting in Prague

👉 Read all: be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newslett

2025-06-03

Calling all map and train nerds in #Perth (who'd imagine that there'd be a crossover?): this Sunday is the opening of the new railway line Q120871210, and there's going to be an #OpenStreetMap meetup and travelling mapping party:

geogeeks.org/2025/0608_osm-tho

(We'll be uploading photos to #WikimediaCommons.)

2025-06-02

Released into the #PublicDomain and uploaded to #WikimediaCommons, together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

2025-05-30

Ordner mit Unterlagen > 10 Jahre gesichtet und geschreddert. Und dabei noch mind. 1 interessantes Dokument für #Wikipedia #WikimediaCommons gefunden.
Vielleicht erinnert ihr euch: Mehr als 8 Jahre mussten gesetzlich Versicherte EUR 10 / Quartal beim Arztbesuch bezahlen.
Dokment gescannt, anonymisiert und dann hochgeladen.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxisge

Scan der Quittung der Praxisgebühr.
2025-05-30

@Rairii Is this in any way related to the "wikirazzi" phenomenon? Wikipedia's "replaceable fair use" policy rejects photos of living people that aren't released under a Creative Commons license or other license for free cultural works. This encourages Wikipedia editors to become paparazzi, stalking celebrities just to snap a photo that can be used in an article.

#Wikipedia #WikimediaCommons #wikirazzi #FreeContent #CreativeCommons #paparazzi

2025-05-27

Released into the #PublicDomain and uploaded it on #WikimediaCommons, together with the #Mathematica code used to generate it: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

Pierre-Yves BeaudouinPyb@mamot.fr
2025-05-25

Travail photographique impressionnant de la part de Chabe01 qui photographie les rues et plaques de rue. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat #Paris #WikimediaCommons #Rues #PlaquesDeRues

2025-05-24

Kölner*innen, kennt ihr eure Stadt? Wo ist das?

Aber kurz zu meinem Workflow bei der Arbeit für die Wikimedia-Projekte:
1. Fotografieren (logisch)
2. In Lightroom bearbeiten
3. nach Wikimedia Commons hochladen
4. Schauen, ob das Objekt einen Eintrag im KEK (Kulturelles Erbe der Stadt Köln, ein Projekt vom Historisches Archiv mit Rheinischem Bildarchiv) hat. Ja :-)
5. Wikidata-Eintrag zum Kunstwerk anlegen

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#wikipedia #wikidata #wikimediaCommons #Kunst #Fotografie

Junge, der auf einem Löwe sitzt. Bronzefigur
Pax Ahimsa Gethenfuncrunch@me.dm
2025-05-21

@ben #WikimediaCommons is my preferred (and free) choice. commons.wikimedia.org

Pierre-Yves BeaudouinPyb@mamot.fr
2025-05-19

En fouillant les entrepôts de données à la recherche de photos sous licences libres, je suis tombé en 2023 sur le projet de recherche anglais "Cartes postales du bagne" cartespostalesdubagne.com/

J'ai copié les photos de #Figshare vers #WikimediaCommons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat

#Bagne #Guyane #VeilleESR

2025-05-19

Ächz. An einem (!) Tag in Hamburg 499 Fotos gemacht. Wie lange werde ich wohl für Auswahl, Entwicklung, Hochladen, Beschriften und Kategorisieren auf Wikimedia Commons brauchen?

#Hamburg #Fotografie #WikimediaCommons

Screenshot von Lightroom mit der Luftbildkarte von Hamburg und gelben Punkten mit den Standorten, wo die Fotos jeweils gemacht wurde. Vor allem zwischen Außenalster und Ininenstadt sowie einer großen Hafenrundfahrt.
2025-05-19

🎭 Arubaanse carnavalsfoto’s op Wikimedia Commons! 📸 Tijdens workshop (27/3) werd dit erfgoed vastgelegd en gedeeld.

📺 Nieuw: @wikipediaribaaruba op YouTube! 👉 youtube.com/@wikipediaribaarub

Beeld: Ginelly.Q, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
#WikipediaOpAruba #CarnavalAruba #WikimediaCommons

Sunset Sakura (:osm: Nelson)sunset_sakura@en.osm.town
2025-05-09

I don't think Wikimedia Commons is enough of an alternative, but is the best that exists (edit: apart from Panoramax! see next post).
- Wikimedia foundation is underfunded and gets attacked by many powerful people who are against it.
- All images uploaded are licensed as Creative Commons or Public Domain, which is good but... (edit: actually most people are fine with this, and it's important for images to be freely licensed so they can be used by osm editors)

(4/?)
#WikimediaCommons

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