Commons:The Commons Log/2011
2011
Picture of the Year
June 2011: The Commons:Picture of the Year/2010 competition concludes. Winner was File:Laser Towards Milky Ways Centre.jpg.
Nine million media files
23 February 2011: Wikimedia Commons reaches nine million media files (Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2011/02#We_broke_9M).
Ten million media files
15 April 2011: Wikimedia Commons reaches ten million media files with File:POL Lipno (jezioro w województwie pomorskim) 02.jpg.
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User galleries
April 2011: The user gallery feature lists all uploads by a user (background). A direct link is provided in the top-right user links in August 2011 (consultation).
UploadWizard is default
May 2011: The UploadWizard is now the default upload tool
NARA
July 2011: Beginning of the collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration
Eleven million media files
21 September 2011: Wikimedia Commons reaches eleven million media files (Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2011/09#11M).
Wiki Loves Monuments
Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 is organised across Europe, with the European-level contest open for entries in the month of September. 169,150 images were uploaded in total. The contest caused a notable peak in the new editors statistics.
Community growth
September 2011: Wikimedia Commons becomes the second largest community (after the English Wikipedia), in terms of active editors (5+ edits per month) and very active editors (100+ edits per month). (Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2011/11#Commons_and_the_September_report_card)
MediaWiki 1.18
4 October 2011: MediaWiki 1.18 deployed to Commons and other Wikimedia sites. Over the following months this caused widely noted issues with picture rotation due to the new use of EXIF data to autorotate images - Commons:Rotation.