Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons mainpage in 2010-12-13
Wikimedia Commons mainpage in 2010-12-13
URL http://commons.wikimedia.org
Status Online!
Archiving status In progress...
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

How-to

Download the script and the feed lists (unpack it, it is a .csv file) in the same directory. Then run:

  • python commonsdownloader.py 2005-01-01 2005-01-10 [to download that 10 days range; it generates zip files by day]

Volunteers

Nick Start date End date Images Size Status
db48x 2004-09-07 2004-09-30 ? ? Downloading
Nemo 2004-10-01 2005-06-30 ? ? Downloading
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Uploading

Please, do not upload files to Internet Archive yet. We have to create a common description for items.

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.

Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons - Wikimedia Commons 1294011879617.png

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

External links