Dear ones,
Where might I get or mirror a dump of Commons media files?
> It seems worth mentioning on the front page of
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
> It looks like the compressed XML of the ~50M description pages is ~25GB.
> It looks like wiki-team set up a dump script that posted monthly dumps to
the internet archive; in 2013 it stopped include the month+year in the
title; in 2016 it stopped altogether.
https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons
Greetings,
After a year of design and development, Special:MediaSearch [1] will be
released to logged-in users on Wednesday, 12 May 2021. Media Search [2] is
a new content-focused way to search Commons and find freely-licensed media
for use and re-use.
Special:MediaSearch has been default for all anonymous/logged-out users
since 1 April 2021, and once it is default for everyone logged-in users
will have the option to restore Special:Search as their default experience
with a change to a preference.
Feedback is always welcome on the talk page [3], thank you for your time.
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search
3.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Media_search
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Keegan Peterzell (he/him)
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation