Commons:The Commons Log/2013

2013

URAA enforcement

January 2013: Increase in the enforcement of URAA leads to multiple deletion requests and an initiative to transfer deleted files to a Canada-based third-party website.

16m files

2 February 2013 : Milestone of 16 million hosted files.

URAA statement

6 February 2013: The Wikimedia Foundation Legal team publishes a statement concerning URAA and its enforcement. (discussion)

New search extension enabled

25 May 2013: Activation of SearchExtraNS extension.

Picture of the Year

POTY 2012

February 2013: The Commons:Picture of the Year/2012 competition concludes. Winner was File:Pair of Merops apiaster feeding.jpg.

Footer cleanup

10 March 2013: Activation of Vector extension FooterCleanup (bugzilla:45946)

Lua

March 2013: Deployment of Lua, a programming language for templates.

Commons App

29 April 2013: Announcement of the official Commons app for iOS and Android source)

17m files

The 17 millionth file.

16 May 2013 : Milestone of 17 million hosted files.

Maximum size for thumbnails raised

May 2013 The maximum size for thumbnails is raised from 25 megapixels to 50 megapixels (bugzilla:47363, discussion)

Multilinguism extensions, Universal Language Selector and Translate, enabled

13 May 2013: Universal Language Selector and Translate extensions are enabled. (RFC 1 RFC 2).

FLAC and WAV support

8 July 2013: Support for FLAC container and WAV format is enabled (note, note)

HotCat enabled by default

10 July 2013: The HotCat gadget is enabled by default for all logged-in users.

Deployment of VipsScaler

18 July 2013: Deployment of VipsScaler, a new thumbnailer for PNG images bacground)

Update to Upload Campaigns

22 July 2013: As part of work on Mobile, the underlying infrastructure for Upload campaigns (mainly used for Wiki Loves Monuments) has been rewritten. (more information)

18m files

The 18 millionth file.

15 August 2013 : Milestone of 18 million hosted files.

Wikimedia Commons brochure

The brochure, featuring Puzzly.

2 August 2013: After a community process, publication of the Welcome to Commons brochure (source).

Restyling the gallery tag

19 August 2013: New outputs for the <gallery> tag are available (manual)

19m files

21 October 2013 : Milestone of 19 million hosted files.

Maximum file size raised to 1GB

6 November 2013: The maximum file size (using chunked uploads) is raised to 1GB.

Deployment of CirrusSearch

16 December 2013: CirrusSearch, a new backend forthe Search feature, is deployed on Commons as secondary.

Deployment of the GLAMwiki Toolset Project

17 December 2013: Deployment of the GLAMwiki Toolset Project, an extension to help cultural institutions batch upload content & metadata.