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| [[File:Wikimania_2012_Deryck_-_Allison_Kupietzky.JPG|thumb|200px|right| Deryck Chan at Wikimania 2012 with Allison Kupietzky]] | | [[File:Stamford-training-1-optimised.jpg|thumb|200px|right| The training event in Stamford]] |
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| ''You may have heard that Wikimedia Commons, the media file repository which makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content, recently reached the landmark of 15 million files donated. To celebrate this achievement, we asked Commons contributor Deryck Chan to write a guest blog about his experiences of using the site. This is below.''
| | That’s how poet Sir John Betjeman once famously described the picturesque town of Stamford, Lincolnshire. Wikimedians recently had the chance to put that claim to the test. |
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| I grew up in a densely populated residential district in eastern Hong Kong. When I first stumbled upon Wikipedia in 2004, coverage about my own district was almost non-existent.
| | Wikimedia UK received an email a short while ago from Dave Sones of the Stamford Civic Society expressing an interest in learning how to edit Wikipedia. Dave’s idea, along with the Civic Society, was to get together to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of Stamford while creating a digital archive of notable encyclopaedic resources, such as historical documents and images. This drive was given impetus by the recent closure of the local museum and there was a real sense of enthusiasm around the town to share the wonderful resources on their doorstep. |
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| So I started writing about my home district. I found that I could also contribute pictures, so I strolled around, took some pictures, and uploaded them too. Other editors then moved them to Wikimedia Commons and told me Commons is the correct place to upload original pictures which I want to contribute to Wikipedia. That's how I started contributing to Commons.
| | That’s how on Monday 17 December some staff and volunteers from Wikimedia UK arrived at the local college to train a diverse group of local residents, including a sizeable contingent from the Civic Society, on the finer points of what it takes to create and edit content for the largest reference work ever created.<span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/12/new-editor-training-in-the-finest-stone-town-in-england/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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| Over the next two years or so, I filled many more gaps on Wikipedia by uploading my own photographs and drawings onto Commons. Wikipedia was also becoming saturated, and some of my pictures are gradually replaced by higher quality pictures by others, so my contribution tailed off.<span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/12/wikimedia-commons-reaches-15-million-files/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
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