Flickr Basis is constructing a brand new bridge between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons – Diff
We’re happy to announce a brand new partnership with the Flickr Foundation to increase the good work already completed by way of the Flickr2Commons device to make it even simpler to add CC-licensed photographs from Flickr into Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedia is a foundational supply of data on the web. It supplies content material to Google and different serps, social media platforms, voice assistants, and, more and more, AI purposes. For instance that data, we’ve Wikimedia Commons, the central visible platform for Wikipedia and one of many main sources for open licensed visible content material on-line. Chances are you’ll not know that one of many largest sources for Wikimedia Commons is Flickr.
Since 2004, Flickr has been some of the fashionable platforms for photographers and amateurs to add pictures, movies, illustrations, and extra on-line. It is usually one of many largest on-line repositories of Inventive Commons-licensed content material. Flickr members can assign a license to their uploads, together with these Inventive Commons licenses accepted on Wikimedia Commons: Attribution (CC-BY), Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA), Public Area Dedication (CC0), and the Public Area Mark.
In 2008, Flickr launched the Flickr Commons program, to extend public entry to images collections held at libraries, museums, and archives world wide. Photographs in Flickr Commons are shared with one thing a bit completely different from a license. It’s an assertion referred to as “no recognized copyright restrictions.” This system helps over 100 member institutions, together with The U.S. National Archives, NASA on Commons, the National Library of Scotland, and Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavíkur.
In 2022, the Flickr Foundation was established. It’s a US 501(c)(3) non-profit group with the target of safeguarding Flickr and its tens of billions of photographs for the longer term. It seeks to develop and maintain “…an accessible social and technical infrastructure to guard [this] invaluable assortment.”
This bridge between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons—which we’ve began calling “Flickypedia”—is among the flagship tasks of the Flickr Basis. Constructing in partnership with the Wikimedia Basis, and supported by the Tradition and Heritage workforce, we can be constructing on the utility of the Flickr2Commons device, extending it, after which tending it for the long run.
This mission has been talked about within the 2023-2024 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan below the Fairness / Tradition & Heritage part, in this mailing list update from Flickr Basis, and in the ensuing discussion on Wikimedia Commons’s Village Pump.
About Flickr2Commons
Flickr2Commons is a well-liked device utilized by Wikimedia Commons contributors to add single or a number of information from Flickr into Wikimedia Commons. It was created by Magnus Manske, and first launched in 2013, ten years in the past! The device permits for person authentication, checks for the required licenses, features a metadata enhancing step, after which file switch.
Metrics essential for Flickypedia
With the intention to gauge the doable attain of Flickypedia, we needed to know Flickr2Commons metrics. Magnus helped pull collectively the stats to indicate that roughly 5.4M information have been uploaded by about 2K customers since launch. Utilizing the Wikimedia Hashtags device, we are able to additionally see how a lot Flickr2Commons is used in the present day. In June 2023 solely, for instance, 71,689 information had been uploaded by 147 customers.
We had been additionally in a position to uncover probably the most lively customers of Flickr2Commons within the final six months, from January to June 2023.
It’s been nice to collate all these utilization statistics for Flickr2Commons—each the newer numbers, but additionally in whole during the last 10 years. Seeing all of it collectively provides us a transparent goal for the brand new model to attempt to match.
It is usually price noting that one other device connects Flickr to Wikimedia Commons, referred to as the UploadWizard. We’re making an allowance for that this implies there could have been much more photographs from Flickr via that device. Making ready these metrics has given us concepts on how we would make it even easier to rely into the longer term utilizing Flickypedia.
Our timeline
The Flickypedia partnership mission formally began in June 2023. We plan to spend the following six months or so constructing our Alpha (hopefully to indicate in October) after which Model 1.0 (hopefully December). Please stay in touch when you’d wish to be concerned in testing or have suggestions about Flickr2Commons we must always learn about.
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