Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-02-01 Thread Rama Neko
And two of these three were copyvios. -- Rama On 01/02/2010, Platonides wrote: > Daniel Schwen wrote: >> Wow, fantastic :-( >> So this had nothing to do with the timing of the mass-upload? >> >>> Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31, >>> 2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geog

Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-02-01 Thread Platonides
Daniel Schwen wrote: > Wow, fantastic :-( > So this had nothing to do with the timing of the mass-upload? > >> Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31, >> 2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geograph.org.uk_-_173422.jpg became our 6 >> millionth file on Commons! Well, the mass up

Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-01-31 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > Yes, it would be nice if these were higher resolution images (does > anyone actually know why they are only 640x480 - uploader choice, or > resized upon upload?) http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Larger-Uploads-Information

Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Peel
Speak for yourself; I'm delighted to see Wikimedia Commons grow even more. It's not just about WIkipedia any more, it's about bringing together freely licensed images and making them available for anyone to see and use more broadly. Servers do break, and websites frequently go away over tim

Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-01-31 Thread Daniel Schwen
I've said it before and I'm happy to repeat. _Storage is meaningless_! The resource we are wasting is contributor time to keep the new images well maintained. The payoff is minimal. The image quality is ridiculous. And if we really have need one of their images we know about geograph.co.uk. This ma

Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-01-31 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Given that recently the amount of storage was upgraded so that we can support our large collections, it is no wonder that a picture that is part of such a collection became the lucky one. I am really happy with the Geograph project, I blogged twice about them and personally I would welcome a

Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-01-31 Thread Daniel Schwen
Wow, fantastic :-( So this had nothing to do with the timing of the mass-upload? > Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31, > 2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geograph.org.uk_-_173422.jpg  became our 6 > millionth file on Commons! ___

[Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

2010-01-31 Thread Techman224
Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31, 2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geograph.org.uk_-_173422.jpg became our 6 millionth file on Commons!___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailma