Commons:The Commons Log/2013
2013
URAA enforcement
January 2013: Increase in the enforcement of URAA leads to multiple deletion requests and an initiative to transfer deleted files to a Canada-based third-party website.
16m files
2 February 2013 : Milestone of 16 million hosted files.
URAA statement
6 February 2013: The Wikimedia Foundation Legal team publishes a statement concerning URAA and its enforcement. (discussion)
New search extension enabled
25 May 2013: Activation of SearchExtraNS extension.
Picture of the Year
February 2013: The Commons:Picture of the Year/2012 competition concludes. Winner was File:Pair of Merops apiaster feeding.jpg.
Footer cleanup
10 March 2013: Activation of Vector extension FooterCleanup (bugzilla:45946)
Lua
March 2013: Deployment of Lua, a programming language for templates.
Commons App
29 April 2013: Announcement of the official Commons app for iOS and Android source)
17m files
16 May 2013 : Milestone of 17 million hosted files.
Maximum size for thumbnails raised
May 2013 The maximum size for thumbnails is raised from 25 megapixels to 50 megapixels (bugzilla:47363, discussion)
Multilinguism extensions, Universal Language Selector and Translate, enabled
13 May 2013: Universal Language Selector and Translate extensions are enabled. (RFC 1 RFC 2).
FLAC and WAV support
8 July 2013: Support for FLAC container and WAV format is enabled (note, note)
HotCat enabled by default
10 July 2013: The HotCat gadget is enabled by default for all logged-in users.
Deployment of VipsScaler
18 July 2013: Deployment of VipsScaler, a new thumbnailer for PNG images bacground)
Update to Upload Campaigns
22 July 2013: As part of work on Mobile, the underlying infrastructure for Upload campaigns (mainly used for Wiki Loves Monuments) has been rewritten. (more information)
18m files
15 August 2013 : Milestone of 18 million hosted files.
Wikimedia Commons brochure
2 August 2013: After a community process, publication of the Welcome to Commons brochure (source).
Restyling the gallery tag
19 August 2013: New outputs for the <gallery> tag are available (manual)
19m files
21 October 2013 : Milestone of 19 million hosted files.
Maximum file size raised to 1GB
6 November 2013: The maximum file size (using chunked uploads) is raised to 1GB.
Deployment of CirrusSearch
16 December 2013: CirrusSearch, a new backend forthe Search feature, is deployed on Commons as secondary.
Deployment of the GLAMwiki Toolset Project
17 December 2013: Deployment of the GLAMwiki Toolset Project, an extension to help cultural institutions batch upload content & metadata.