Brief comments on happenings around the wiki:
* A process to recognise "featured galleries" has been started. (A "gallery" is a Commons main namespace page that is used to display/organise/annotate/present media files.) If you are interested in helping develop the criteria, or suggest some of your favourite galleries as possible models, please comment at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Featured_galleries . Innovative and unusual presentations are especially welcome.
* Commons is rapidly approaching one million files. How can we celebrate and mark the occasion? See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Commons:One_million_f...
* A new process has been started [for admins] to review images from Flickr, as license changes or license mismatches are a common problem. No decision has been made about how to handle the images with differing licenses. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Para/Flickr http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flickr_review_needed http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Atte...
* There is a fledging project developing to organise and encourage Commons maintenance and cleanup work to be done. Mop and bucket optional. Your help needed at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:CommonTasks .
* A new process for photography feedback has been started. It doesn't offer any shiny awards, but could give you more expansive feedback than COM:QI (Quality images, ala 'Good articles', but only for Wikimedian-created works) or COM:FP (Featured pictures). See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photography_critiques .
regards, Brianna user:pfctdayelise