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Aug 14, 2010 11:18 |  #1

I ran across a reference to this site in my reading. A quick search of POTN turned up no reference. Has anyone here had any experience with Wikipedia Commons.

"a database of 7,166,315 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute"




  
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Aug 14, 2010 15:19 |  #2

I'd say you are referring to Wikimedia Commons. Here's the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Wikimedia_Commo​ns (external link)

Aside from that, I don't know anything about it...

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Aug 14, 2010 21:39 as a reply to  @ tonylong's post |  #3

You're exactly right. Thanks.




  
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