Wikimedia Commons
Minitex News articles tagged with "Wikimedia Commons" (3):
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Update on the Minitex Wikimedia Project
From August 2024 - February 2025, Minitex partnered with 12 organizations and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to add their open access digital images from the Minnesota Digital Library to Wikimedia Commons. 352,068 files were contributed to Wikimedia Commons, and participants enriched 62 Wikipedia articles, adding 81 images. To date, the images that were added to Wikimedia Commons have over 4 million views.
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Making digital collections more discoverable, Part 1: Wikimedia
In 2023, Minitex and three organizations conducted a small pilot to learn more about using the wiki-based, free-to-use media repository called Wikimedia Commons, along with its sister sites Wikidata and Wikipedia, to increase discoverability of content from digital collections. Soon after adding the very first test image to Wikimedia Commons, it appeared as the top Google Search result. If this sounds intriguing, read on for a brief overview of why we did the pilot and what we learned.
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Making digital collections more discoverable, Part 2: A how-to guide
Part 2 in this article series includes more detailed information and guidance on how we conducted the Minitex Wikimedia pilot; what you would need to know if you wanted to try it at your organization, and links to the templates we created and other resources we used.