Information template

April 2005: Creation of the {{Information}} template.

Mass upload program

April 2005: Release of Commonplace, an application for Microsoft Windows to upload images to the Commons (discontinued since)

DirectMedia paintings donation

• April 2005: Files uploaded from DirectMedia partnership
  • Commons:10,000 paintings from Directmedia

Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention

• May 2005: Commons receives an Honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica awards in Austria.

100,000 media files

24 May 2005: Wikimedia Commons reaches 100,000 media files. 100,000th file uploaded was Image:Dataflowfiringnodes.png.

• Commons:Press releases/100K

Self template

June 2005: Creation of the {{Self}} template.

FlickrLickr

September 2005: Launching of the FlickrLickr program, to retrieve freely-licensed files from Flickr. In a month, 14,000 files are reviewed.

SVG

26 October 2005: SVG becomes possible in MediaWiki. This means Commons can accept files in Scalable Vector Graphics format. This format is preferred over PNG in most cases.