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Wikimedia Commons reaches 400,000 Files

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-a-lotta-wiki dept.

Brushen writes "Wikimedia Commons, a website built to be a repository of free, public domain, or GFDL images, sounds, and animations, has reached 400,000 files this week. Launched in September 2004 by the Wikimedia Foundation, the creators of Wikipedia, the organization intended for it to be a source of images that could be used in the rest of the organization's projects. As well, recently they've had a best picture comeptition."

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  1. holy shit fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    samuel alito's motives are still unknown

    1. Re:holy shit fp by The_Abortionist · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      personally, he scares me...

      I don't think he's the pro-business kind of republican, but rather the religious conservative type :(

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  2. s/Files/Mistakes/ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    s/Mistakes/Errors, Omissions, and Outright Lies/

  3. Please turn on spellcheck by stevenp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, I may not be the first to report it, but I will also not be the last. Shortly: its Competition, not Comeptition.

    cesond psot! as my grandpa used to say after 3 beers

  4. Quick! by BertieBaggio · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If we /. the wikimedia servers, we can start another fund drive! Who wants to hear another personal appeal from Jimbo?

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    1. Re:Quick! by BertieBaggio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I know. For my next trick, I'll get someone to believe me when I say "Hey, lets /. google!".

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    2. Re:Quick! by DaHat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Bah, there are better things to donate ones money to... like my campaign to pay off my student loan debt! Stop by the URL in my sig for more info.

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    3. Re:Quick! by DaHat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You are idiotic if you honestly think that when you know little about how student loans work.

      Private loans cannot be consolidated with locked in interest rates and the bulk of my loans are private, one at $20,334.44 at 7.53% interest and another at $12,381.53 at 8.00%. Only $18,927.60 of my total $51,643.57 debt is locked in at 2.875%... and that last pile I am not in a bit hurry to pay off, it's the first two are the problem, especially when #1 has only $6 dollars going to principal now due to the interest rate on it going up by over 3% in the last 18 months alone!

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    4. Re:Quick! by AngelofDeath-02 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Wow, only 6$ to your principal every month eh? That sounds like the ideal situation for paying extra. You might want to eliminate one or two of your other expenses and allocate that money to the loan instead - afterall 50$ extra a month now will have greater returns later on .. (in the form of a lower % of your payment going toards interist, thus going toards your principal instead)

      Oh and to the person above - even though 2.875% is a /really/ good interist rate, any interist you pay is wasted money. prolonging that pay cycle just means you're throwing money away no matter how you look at it.

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  5. They had a best picture competition too by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does one haf to spel badly to subskribe to /.?

  6. mod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    guesTs. Some people

  7. Wikimedia to Exhihibit at SCALE 4x by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wikimedia will have a booth on the SCALE 4x exhibit hall floor. SCALE 4x is the 2006 Southern California Linux Expo. It will take place on Feb 10-12 at the Los Angeles Airport Radisson.

  8. Re:Come on CmdrTaco, SpellCheck Isn't Hard by Dpaladin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    stfu u dun haev 2 typ everythign out

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  9. Re:Come on CmdrTaco, SpellCheck Isn't Hard by Tlosk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You must have missed the recent news post where Taco answered a bunch of questions about SD and talked about this point, he basically said that all the grammar and spelling errors are part of the charm of Slashdot.

    In other words, it's a feature, not a bug lol.

    I'd find a link to the discussion but I can't be arsed to wade through the hundreds of posts in the discussion to find it.

    I admit to it bothering the hell out of me before also (the frequent, obvious screwups in the postings), but now that I know they purposefully don't care, it doesn't bother me as much anymore (I guess what bothered me most was the leaving the errors unfixed more than the errors being made in the first place, now I'm not left there hanging, waiting for them to fix the crap and I just move on to the discussion and forget it).

  10. Re:Impressive, but... by syousef · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I suppose calling someone a yobbo is considered polite where you're from.

    No, in fact I'm not even sure that's true. It's certainly not an aspect of US copyright law.

    This was absolutely blantantly false. He was basically telling me I'm an idiot that got it wrong because I don't live in the US and where I'm from the laws are obviously inferior.

    How is it polite to call someone a liar without checking the facts?

    I suggest you get a clue.

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