Hello, Thanks to Gmaxwell, we have some interesting stats about language preferences for registered users at Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Registered_users_by_language_pref… Here's a quick table of how the language codes of the top 14 Wikipedias (by # of articles - these are all the Wikipedias that have over 100,000 articles). WPrank LC Commonsrank W-C 1 en 1 0 2 de 4 (-2) 3 fr 3 0 4 pl 7 (-3) 5 ja 6 (-1) 6 it 8 (-2) 7 nl 9 (-2) 8 pt 5 3 9 es 2 7 10 sv 10 0 11 ru 14 (-3) 12 zh 11 1 13 fi 17 (-4) 14 no 12 2 "W-C" is the Wikipedia rank minus the Commons rank. Spanish and Portugese have much higher Commons ranks than Wikipedia ranks, which no doubt reflects those community's decisions to turn off local uploads and only use Commons. For some of the languages, I have a feeling the negative value reflects the fact that those users use the English interface, rather than choose not to use/aren't aware of Commons. e.g. German and Polish. For others I think it does reflect a lack of awareness/willingness to use Commons and subsequently, little community at Commons, e.g. Italian and Russian. Commons has started a page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimedia_Outreach_Project which will try to improve the awareness and perception of Commons among the rest of the Wikimedia community. For this, we need people who are active in other Wikimedia communities to help spread the message about the benefits (for the local community, *and* Commons) of using Commons. If you would like to help, please take a look at this page and feel free to start a subpage for the project(s) that you edit at. cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/