Image du 10 mars :
Panneaux d'aluminium de la station de métro Hradčanská à Prague (Tchéquie).
License : FAL
Artiste : Ralf Roletschek (talk) - Fahrradtechnik auf fahrradmonteur.de
Crédits : Own work
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65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.
"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
Bolsas abertas para a WikiCon Portugal 2026!
Celebra os 25 anos da Wikipédia em Coimbra, 15–17 maio.
Há 40 bolsas com transporte nacional + 2 noites de alojamento.
Se contribuis para os projetos Wikimedia em português, candidata-te 👇
https://w.wiki/HodL
Summarising for the purpose of pinning:
If there is a #Wikipedia article about you (in any language) which has an unflattering photo of you, or if it doesn't have a photo of you at all, you can fix this! The quickest solution is to take a good photo of yourself – copyright of photos belongs to the photographer, so a selfie simplifies the process. You can also use a photo that someone else has taken if it has an appropriate licence.
Photos and media files are uploaded to #WikimediaCommons so they can be used in any Wikipedia or other #Wikimedia project. All text and media content on Wikimedia projects must have a public domain or free content licence. We prefer CC-BY-SA and CC0. These licences are irrevocable and cannot restrict where or how they are used.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Acceptable_licenses
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Considerations_for_licensors_and_licensees#Considerations_for_licensors
If you don't have a Wikipedia/Wikimedia account, you can post a photo here on the fediverse and a Wikipedian can upload it for you. Post the photo along with the licence declaration in the same post (Mastodon, GoToSocial, etc) or in the caption (Pixelfed).
CC-BY-SA declaration:
I agree to publish this image under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
CC0 declaration:
I agree to publish this image under the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication 1.0 licence.
Tag this post with #Wikipedia and #WikimediaCommons so an editor is likely to see it.
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PICYOU
Edit: posted to my blog at https://www.claudinec.net/posts/2025-12-23-wikimedia-photos/
Edited 261d ago
A long overdue #Introduction.
I take #CreativeCommons photographs (Mostly of #Nature) which I contribute to #WikimediaCommons and when appropriate also to #iNaturalist. I've uploaded over 20,000 photos to #Wikimedia and over 12,000 observations to #iNat (of more than 3,000 species).
I only post my own photos on this account (all of which are #CCBYSA) and make occasional posts about Wikimedia and iNat.
#Photographer #Photography #CitizenScience #Vegan #Neurodivergent #Naturalist
Edited 256d ago
#SaveTheDate 24/04 à partir de 13h30 pour un séminaire hybride « Données culturelles ouvertes et projets Wikimedia : Visibilité, valorisation et appropriation des collections patrimoniales » https://gresec.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/seminaire-information-et-communication-publiques-seance-3-donnees-culturelles-ouvertes-et-projets
The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing.
Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and volunteers
A solidarity initiative is now underway across Wikimedia projects.
Read more & consider supporting:
Edited 113d ago
Do you use #Wikipedia, #Wiktionary, #WikimediaCommons, #Wikidata, or other #Wikimedia resources? The #WikimediaFoundation has just disbanded an entire team of staff who work closely with volunteer contributors, coincidentally while some of those same staff have been working to form a union. Volunteers from various projects are planning collective action in solidarity with the workers. On the English-language Wikipedia, this action might include an editorial strike (no new content) or making the wiki read-only. #union #solidarity
🚨 Save the date:
I will be speaking about @offene_netzwerke at Digital Humanism Conference on the 26th of June in #Vienna
@katjamat is moderating our #dighum26 panel on "Sustaining Digital Commons. The future of open knowledge stewardship" together with @mellifluousbox , Claudia Garád @WikimediaAT & @festal ✨
Come and join us!
🔗 https://dighum.wien/
#digitalcommons #openknowledge #wikimedia #mastodon #fediverse #mastodon #stewardship #open #digitalhumanities
Edited 98d ago
RE: https://bots.ambience.sk/@wikipediatoday/8f01c0cc-64d5-43cf-8fe5-385d3dd957fe
How about a featured daily image from #Wikipedia in your feed to make it nicer?
#wikimedia #commons #openSource #opendata #featured #daily #today #til #fediverse #tip #tips #activityPub #mastodon #bot #photo #photography