A milestone was reached yesterday as the 100,000th image from iNaturalist was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, the project that serves as the central repository for all image, audio and video files used on Wikimedia projects. This is a result of the thousands of iNaturalist users that have applied a c…

Thanks for the link, I knew a few pages my images were on. But I see there is 50 on the site, and 6 pages using them. I see one there I didnt know. But I do occasionally google myself to see where images are ending up, since I enjoy seeing if they get to help promote different species.

@lythronax246 Nobody can use your images as they are uploaded under the CC BY-NC license. If you wish for your images to be used you can change it to either the CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licenses.

Nice! At least I am contributing with my pictures without knowing after not really upping my game on creating more articles on wikipedia this year :sweat_smile: … 79 of my pictures are there + some I uploaded on my own (and different nickname) when creating some articles

Oh! Interesting. How might I go about doing that?

How might I go about doing that? Go to “Account Settings”, and then “Content and Display” (top left). Scroll down to “Licensing”, and select your new default image license. Check the little box below to apply it to all your previous observation images and hit “Save settings”. Here is a short (…

[image] Loopy30: A milestone was reached yesterday as the 100,000th image from iNaturalist was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, the project that serves as the central repository for all image, audio and video files used on Wikimedia projects. This is a result of the thousands of iNaturalist users …

[image] AlHugo: What is the process for asking permission to use images for other purposes e.g., educational material? There isn’t any process; one does not need to ask for permission. One merely needs to comply with the terms of the license. cf: https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/ …

For people that also want to share their photo’s with Wikimedia here is a video that explains where to change the license: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFnJJDTYbJs

[image] murphyslab: CC BY = Only attribution is required. You may create derivative works. As long as you attribute the creator of the work, you have complied with the license. I am not a lawyer, but note that the requirements are actually a bit more than just attributing the creator even for…

Thanks for the reminder to finally get around to switching all my photos to CC-BY. I never quite figured out a good workflow for manually adding them to Wikimedia, nor do I really know which ones are likely to be needed, so hopefully someone will do something with some of them. :)

100k iNat images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

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