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
wikimedia
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/
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 14d 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 9d ago