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    7 hours ago

    Are you involved in GLAM projects? or has your institution ever contributed media files from their collections to ? Plus if you are interested in crowdsourced metadata around your collections, then fill this short survey ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

    We are getting closer to the end of the year and closer to the end of our survey about adoption of crowdsourced data from Wikimedia Commons. It takes 10 minutes. 10 minutes that would be very valuable to us.
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    Dec 17

    Ekaterina Vasyagina's first-place photo was praised by one competition judge for a simple reason: it "makes you want to breathe." See more from :

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  3. 19 hours ago

    The top 15 stunning winning photos from contest 2018. This photo, of a person walking through Bangladesh's Satchari National Park, won third place. Photo by Abdul Momin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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  4. Retweeted
    Nov 29

    On this day one year ago, astronaut 's voice was uploaded to for use on (and more!).

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  5. Retweeted
    Nov 19

    This may come as a surprise, but copyrighted works often cannot be used in educational and research materials.

    We’re endorsing a proposed treaty for educational and research exceptions. Here’s why. cc:
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  6. Nov 14

    Wikimedia Israel had developed a web scraper that crawled in various archives in Israel and uploaded more than 28K free images to Wikimedia Commons.

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    Nov 3

    Estimated 5 Million images from (museums etc.) added to (=10%), according to at 2018 - low estimate, as GLAM NL already uploaded 1,2 M images

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  8. Oct 31

    George Oates (), the designer behind Flickr, Flickr Commons and Open Library (among others) has looked at Wikimedia Commons and gives tips from her perspective how it can be improved.

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  9. Oct 24

    Bombardment of Algiers by the Anglo-Dutch fleet, to support the ultimatum to release European slaves, August 1816

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  10. Oct 23

    1803 Cedid Atlas, showing a map of the African continent from the perspective of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans controlled much of Northern Africa between the 14th and 19th centuries, and had vassal arrangements with a number of Saharan states.

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  11. Oct 23

    Ashanti yam ceremony, nineteenth century by Thomas E. Bowdich.

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  12. Oct 8

    Contribute: Ready to get started with Wikimedia Commons? Begin the : Reusing content:

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  13. Oct 8

    11 March 2015: Milestone of 25 million hosted files. 13 January 2016: Milestone of 30 million hosted files. 21 June 2017: Milestone of 40 million hosted files. 7 October 2018: Milestone of 50 million hosted files.

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  14. Retweeted
    Oct 7

    Seit heute 50 Millionen freie Dateien auf Wikimedia Commons! Since today 50 millions of free files on Wikimedia Commons!

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  15. Retweeted
    Oct 4

    Donna Strickland is a laureate who didn't have a article before two days ago. Here's a look at how that happened, and what you can do to help.

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    Sep 30

    kicking off and workshop with mission: Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sun of all knowledge. That’s our commitment.

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  17. Sep 24

    Kamini Roy was a leading Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India . She was the first woman honours graduate in British India.

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  18. Sep 23

    The Earth straddling the limb of the Moon, as seen from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter above Compton crater. NASA/PD

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    Sep 4

    There were over 20 million objects inside the . Did you take a photo of any of them? Help us preserve the memories of as many as we can and add them to . Here's how to do it from your desktop:

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  20. Retweeted
    Aug 26

    Wikimedia Bangladesh has been requesting different institutions to release their photographs under CC license from time to time. As part of that effort, releases photographs under license for use in projects.

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