Picture of the Year

25 January 2008: Voting for the Commons:Picture of the Year/2007 competition concludes. 919 Wikimedians voted. Winner was File:Broadway tower edit.jpg.

Unified login

May 2008: Unified login is deployed (background).

Valued Images process launched

June 2008: Commons:Valued images process started.

Three million media files

16 July 2008: Wikimedia Commons reaches three million media files

• Commons:Press releases/3M

PD tag deprecated

20 October 2008: the {{PD}} copyright tag is deprecated. Claims of public domain status now require more specific templates.

InstantCommons

November 2008: ForeignApiRepo is deployed in the MediaWiki software, allowing an install to specify another wiki to pull images and other media files from − including Wikimedia Commons, making InstantCommons a reality.

Patrol interface

8 November 2010: New Commons Upload Patrol interface. A new interface is available to administrators and patrollers for assistance in patrolling new files. See documentation on Meta.

Bundesarchiv uploads

4 December 2008: Starting on Thursday December 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons witnessed a massive upload of new images. We received more than 80,000 files from a donation from the German Federal Archives. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the German Democratic Republic) and are part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archives.

• Commons:Bundesarchiv