Wikispecies is a wiki -based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation . Its aim is to create a comprehensive open content catalogue of all species ; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public. Jimmy Wales stated that editors are not required to fax in their degrees , but that submissions will have to pass muster with a technical audience. Wikispecies is available under the GNU Free Documentation License and CC BY-SA 4.0 .
16-621: [REDACTED] Look up raphia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. [REDACTED] Wikispecies has information related to Raphia . Raphia may refer to: Raphia (moth) , a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae Raffia palm , the genus Raphia of raffia palms Raphia (town) , the Ancient Greek name for Rafah, a town in Gaza Battle of Raphia (217 BC),
32-575: A common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation." Most Wikimedia projects still allow local uploads which are not visible to other projects or languages, but this option is meant to be used primarily for material (such as fair use content) which local project policies allow, but which would not be permitted according to the copyright policy of Commons. For this reason, Wikimedia Commons aims to only host freely licensed media and deletes copyright violations, such as
48-608: A major confrontation between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires. Battle of Raphia (720 BC), a battle between Pharonic Egypt and Assyria, during the reign of Pharaoh Osorkon IV See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Raphia" on Misplaced Pages. Battle of Rafah (disambiguation) , for other battles at the location of Raphia town Rafah (disambiguation) Rafa (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Raphia All pages with titles containing Raphia Topics referred to by
64-573: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wikispecies Started in September 2004, with biologists around the world invited to contribute, the project had grown to a framework encompassing the Linnaean taxonomy with links to Misplaced Pages articles on individual species by April 2005. Benedikt Mandl coordinated the efforts of several people who were interested in getting involved with
80-666: Is known as " Featured pictures ", where works are nominated and other community members vote to accept or reject the nomination. This process began in November 2004. Another process known as " Quality images " began in June 2006, and has a simpler nomination process comparable to "Featured pictures". "Quality images" only accepts works created by Wikimedia users, whereas "Featured pictures" additionally accepts nominations of works by third parties such as NASA . A third image assessment project, known as " Valued images ", began on June 1, 2008, with
96-607: The Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution/ShareAlike licenses, other free content and free software licenses, as well as the public domain . The site has been criticized for hosting large amounts of amateur pornography, often uploaded by exhibitionists who exploit the site for personal gratification, and who are enabled by sympathetic administrators. In 2012, BuzzFeed described Wikimedia Commons as "littered with dicks ". In 2010, Misplaced Pages co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to
112-581: The FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as " lolicon ". After this was reported in the media, Jimmy Wales , founder of the Wikimedia Foundation which hosts Commons, used his administrator status to delete several images without discussion from the Commons community. Wales responded to the backlash from the Commons community by voluntarily relinquishing some site privileges, including
128-546: The ability to delete files. Over time, additional functionality has been developed to interface Wikimedia Commons with the other Wikimedia projects. For instance, there exists a community-maintained Commons Mobile App which allows uploading of photos that document the world, especially notable objects findable in the map in the Nearby List in the app (displaying Wikidata items with coordinates). The app launched in 2012 as an official Wikimedia app and since May 2016, it uses
144-495: The official Wikimedia Commons name and logo. Structured Data on Commons (SDC) is a three-year software development project funded by the Sloan Foundation to provide the infrastructure for Wikimedia Commons volunteers to organize data about media files in a consistent manner. This data is structured more and is made machine-readable . There are three mechanisms on the site for recognizing high-quality works. One
160-444: The project and contacted potential supporters in the early summer of 2004. Databases were evaluated and the administrators contacted; some of them have agreed on providing their data for Wikispecies. Mandl defined two major tasks: Advantages and disadvantages were widely discussed by the wikimedia-I mailing list. The board of directors of the Wikimedia Foundation voted by 4 to 0 in favor of the establishment of Wikispecies. The project
176-527: The repository contains over 108 million free-to-use media files, managed and editable by registered volunteers. The idea for the project came from Erik Möller in March 2004 and Wikimedia Commons was started on September 7, 2004. In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000. In 2018, it became possible to upload 3D models to the site in STL format. One of the first models uploaded to Commons
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#1732773411348192-443: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Raphia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raphia&oldid=1220351154 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Genus disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
208-601: The use of content that does not conform to a free license. Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons , or simply Commons , is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation . Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all of the Wikimedia projects in all languages, including Misplaced Pages , Wikivoyage , Wikisource , Wikiquote , Wiktionary , Wikinews , Wikibooks , and Wikispecies , or downloaded for offsite use. As of August 2024,
224-581: The website aggregating European cultural heritage, shares its digitised images through Commons. During the COVID-19 pandemic , as part of a collaboration with Wikimedia, the World Health Organization (WHO) uploaded its " Mythbusters " infographics to Commons. The stated aim of Wikimedia Commons is to provide a media file repository "that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content to all, and that acts as
240-726: Was a reconstruction of the Lion of Al-lāt statue in Palmyra , Syria , which was heavily damaged by ISIS in 2015. Various notable organizations have uploaded files to Commons. In 2012, the National Archives and Records Administration uploaded 100,000 digitised images from its collection. In 2020, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) started uploading its collections to Commons. In 2022, DPLA uploaded more than two million files. Similarly Europeana ,
256-578: Was launched in August 2004 and is hosted at species.wikimedia.org. It was officially merged into a sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation on September 14, 2004. As a database for taxonomy and nomenclature, Wikispecies comprises taxon pages, and additionally pages about synonyms, taxon authorities, taxonomical publications, type material, and institutions or repositories holding type specimen. Wikispecies has disabled local upload and asks users to use images from Wikimedia Commons . Wikispecies does not allow
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