On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> Wikimedia Commons, the media repository site used by Wikipedia, today just
> reached the 5 million media files milestone. Every one of these media files
> is available under a free license, such that anyone can use them for any
> purpose. Wikimedia Commons is the largest free media repository on the
> internet.

Not counting the ~5000 non-free files that are currently identified as
"Copyright by Wikimedia".

And not worrying about the 18M CC-BY / CC-BY-SA images on Flickr
(which is arguably still the largest free content image repository,
though that's not the only way Flickr is used).

-Robert Rohde

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