Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons | |
Wikimedia Commons mainpage in 2010-12-13 | |
URL | http://commons.wikimedia.org |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Wikimedia Commons is a database of freely usable media files with more than 10 million files (when it held 6.8M files, the size was 6.6TB).
Current size (based on January 18, 2012 estimate): 13.3TB, old versions 881GB
Archiving process
Tools
- Script: python script.py 2005-01-01 2005-01-10 [to download that 10 days range; it generates .7z files by day]
- Feed lists (from 2004 to 2007; more coming soon)
Volunteers
Nick | Start date | End date | Images | Size | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
you |
Dumps
There is no public dump of all images. WikiTeam is working on a scraper.
Pictures of the Year (best ones):
Featured images
Wikimedia Commons contains a lot images of high quality.
Size stats
Combined image sizes hosted in Wikimedia Commons sorted by month.
date sum(img_size) in bytes 2003-1 1360188 2004-10 637349207 2004-11 726517177 2004-12 1503501023 2004-9 188850959 2005-1 1952816194 2005-10 17185495206 2005-11 9950998969 2005-12 11430418722 2005-2 3118680401 2005-3 3820401370 2005-4 5476827971 2005-5 10998180401 2005-6 7160629133 2005-7 9206024659 2005-8 12591218859 2005-9 14060418086 2006-1 15433548270 2006-10 33574470896 2006-11 34231957288 2006-12 30607951770 2006-2 14952310277 2006-3 19415486302 2006-4 23041609453 2006-5 29487911752 2006-6 29856352192 2006-7 32257412994 2006-8 50940607926 2006-9 37624697336 2007-1 40654722866 2007-10 89872715966 2007-11 81975793043 2007-12 75515001911 2007-2 39452895714 2007-3 53706627561 2007-4 72917771224 2007-5 72944518827 2007-6 63504951958 2007-7 76230887667 2007-8 91290158697 2007-9 100120203171 2008-1 84582810181 2008-10 122360827827 2008-11 116290099578 2008-12 126446332364 2008-2 77416420840 2008-3 89120317630 2008-4 98180062150 2008-5 117840970706 2008-6 100352888576 2008-7 128266650486 2008-8 130452484462 2008-9 120247362867 2009-1 127226957021 2009-10 345591510325 2009-11 197991117397 2009-12 228003186895 2009-2 125819024255 2009-3 273597778760 2009-4 212175602700 2009-5 191651496603 2009-6 195998789357 2009-7 241366758346 2009-8 262927838267 2009-9 184963508476 2010-1 226919138307 2010-2 191615007774 2010-3 216425793739 2010-4 312177184245 2010-5 312240110181 2010-6 283374261868 2010-7 362175217639 2010-8 172072631498
See also
- Wikipedia, some Wikipedias have enabled the local upload form, English Wikipedia contains about 800000 images, a lot of under fair use