[Commons-l] Almost 5 million free media files

[Michael Peel]

The draft press release is now up at:

http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/ 
Wikimedia_Commons_5_million_files

Comments / suggestions / direct edits to the page are more than  
welcome. I guess we'll hit the milestone in the next 24 hours or so...

Thanks,
Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK

On 29 Aug 2009, at 22:28, Michael Peel wrote:

>
> On 29 Aug 2009, at 22:21, Isabell Long wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/29 Maarten Dammers <maarten at mdammers.nl>:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> In a couple of days from now (three?) Wikimedia Commons will hit
>>> the 5
>>> million uploaded files (see the statistics at
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics).
>>> At that point Wikimedia Commons also exists almost 5 years.
>>> Wouldn't it
>>> be nice to send out a real press release to a couple of news
>>> agencies to
>>> get some press attention? 5 million files is a big milestone and
>>> should
>>> get some coverage.
>>
>> I agree with that, I think there should be something in the news  
>> about
>> this!  I don't know if this has already been thought of, but Commons
>> doesn't get very much press coverage (mind you nor does Wikipedia in
>> England at least) so it would be very interesting and maybe Commons
>> could gain even more files from it being publicised?!
>
> Wikimedia UK is contemplating sending out a press release about this,
> also highlighting Wikipedia Loves Art [1] and the upcoming Britain
> Loves Wikipedia [2]. Assuming we manage to get it written in time...
>
> Mike
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
> [2] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia
>
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