Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-05-16/Image uploading
Useful image-related software
Bulk uploads to the Commons
The Commonplace tool has become popular among regular users of the Commons and among the English,
Searching for freely licensed Flickr images
Another utility created by Haykinson is the "Wikinews Flickr License Searcher", which searches for images on Flickr which are released under free licenses. Flickr is a photo-sharing website which allows users to tag their images as released under various Creative Commons licenses, some of which are free, and allows them to tag images with keywords. Any user can tag any other user's images. The License Searcher can search the Flickr database for images with a given license which match a given keyword. It is available for download from http://tiredbrain.com/wikinews/flickr/.
As the name suggests, this tool was designed with users of Wikinews in mind, but it is useful to Wikipedians and other editors searching for images online to illustrate articles.
Commons nominated for community award
The Wikimedia Commons has recently been the beneficiary of a large donation of freely licensed scans of 10,000 works of
Last year saw the inauguration of the Digital Communities category, for which Wikipedia itself was nominated. Wikipedia won the top prize, the PAE
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