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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 hours ago

    : What is allowed on Commons? We can accept most images that you create entirely by yourself, so long as your image does not itself depict another copyrighted work. Examples »

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  2. 14 hours ago

    The founder of Craigslist is an incredibly generous supporter of free and open knowledge and the Wikimedia movement. We want to thank him, and we need your help…along with your pigeon photos.

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    15 hours ago

    made it very clear to us that he wants to see more pictures of pigeons on . Our goal is to get 100 new pigeon photos (and 100 new photographers) on in the next week.

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    15 hours ago

    This is a pigeon.

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    15 hours ago

    Thousands of high resolution historic uploads to are well underway, and photos, Posters, and more collections added. See 🤓🤔

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  6. 18 hours ago

    : What is allowed on Commons? You may also upload original graphs, maps, diagrams, and audio as long as they have educational values.

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  7. 18 hours ago

    : What is allowed on Commons? We can accept images created by others so long as the copyright holder of that image is willing to license/ has already licensed it freely. You can use the Interactive Release Generator for that!

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    21 hours ago

    The theme for 2018 has been announced: "Bridging knowledge gaps—the ubuntu way forward."

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    Get involved with Structured Data on

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    Jan 31

    Apparently, I've made my 1,000th edit on . Glad to help even if its only in a small way..

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    Jan 30

    New research helps us understand how structured data can support Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums on .

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    Jan 29

    What can galleries, libraries, archives, and museums ("GLAMs") teach us about multimedia metadata on ? We're researching that.

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  13. Jan 22

    Poker Game - dogs playing poker; 1894 painting by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. This very first painting of Coolidge's 'Poker Game' series realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015.

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    Jan 19

    During you can also upload pictures of your libraries to . E.g: Library computers in Catalonia

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    Jan 19

    It's remarkable how essential and the free knowledge projects were to people’s lives in 2017. Some highlights from our new annual report: 1/

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    Jan 17

    During you can also upload pictures of your libraries to . E.g: Library bookshelves in Catalonia

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 17

    If you have some awesome educational photos, is probably interested. Here's how to upload them. (Bonus: You might get to see your photo on Wikipedia!)

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    Jan 16

    This week a new upload request was for 15,000 scans in the Popular Graphic Arts collection. It'll be uploading all week and there's a lot of fun stuff to help categorize! See

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    Jan 12

    Finding and discovering these photos is sometimes hard. That's why we've embarked on the structured data project, which will address this. (And there are many ways to get involved) 5/

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  20. Jan 12

    French marigold Tagetes patula, possibly a hybrid cultivar. Ukraine. PD

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