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Wikimedia Commons is a database of 1,635,963 freely reusable media files to which anyone can contribute.

== Description ==
== Description ==
* Links: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Commons], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas Wiki-Atlas]
* Links: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Commons], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas Wiki-Atlas]
* Languages: very multilingual; dozens of languages
* Languages: very multilingual; dozens of languages
* Size: 1.5M images, audio files, videos, and other items
* Size: 1.5M images, audio files, videos, and other items

== OLPC contributions ==

* Contributed materials to library releases 0 and 1 at [http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library/ http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library/].


== Formats ==
== Formats ==
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==Curator Info==
==Curator Info==
'''Groups:''' Many (see caetgories below)
'''Group''': Images, Media


'''Group coordinator''':
'''Group coordinators:''' Peter Kaufman (video)


'''Contributing groups and their curators''': Commons Atlas, more.
'''Curators:''' Commons Atlas, more.


'''Allottable size''': 10M
'''Allottable size:''' 10M


[[Category:Wiki texts]]
[[Category:Books]]
[[Category:Photographs]]
[[Category:Audio]]
[[Category:Video]]


==Assessment==
==Assessment==

Latest revision as of 02:31, 13 August 2008

Wikimedia Commons is a database of 1,635,963 freely reusable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Description

  • Links: Commons, Wiki-Atlas
  • Languages: very multilingual; dozens of languages
  • Size: 1.5M images, audio files, videos, and other items

OLPC contributions

Formats

  • Formats materials are currently in : Ogg Vorbis and Theora
  • Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from current packaging) : pulling metadata from media description pages (via db queries or screenscraping)


Curator Info

Groups: Many (see caetgories below)

Group coordinators: Peter Kaufman (video)

Curators: Commons Atlas, more.

Allottable size: 10M

Assessment

Scope all educational / informational subjects

Completeness great, with some hotspots based around major free collections (science, nature)

Multilingualism excellent, names/categories/descriptions tend to be english, with many in dozens more

Quality excellent; includes adult material

Freeness all free for reuse; largely pd, cc-by, cc-by-sa.


Comments, Tags, and Ratings

XO - smaller materials with links to higher-res materials.
School library -  
Elementary 

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