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Daniela Faris, Johannesburg (South Africa) · 22/11/2007 18:50
On 23 September, the day before South Africa’s national public holiday, Heritage Day, iCommons organised an event to celebrate the diversity of our people’s backgrounds and cultures. The aim was simple – to build an online repository of South African culture and heritage – as lived in the day-to-day lives of ordinary South Africans, to be added to the growing collection of indigenous... [ read ]
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Kerryn McKay (South Africa) · 9/10/2007 17:06
The day dawned early and cool on 26 September for iCommons staff having promised to meet one another at the office at 7am to help carry equipment down to the Rosebank Shopping Mall where our scanning station was going to be set up.
By 9am we had the stand set up, laptops locked and plugged in, data projector in place and we were ready to go ... except that the data projector... [ read ]
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Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter (South Africa) · 17/9/2007 19:46
Loading content onto Wikimedia Commons is not difficult. But you do need to follow a few important steps at the beginning. By doing this, not only will ensure that your work goes into the right place and is easy to find; you’ll also familiarise yourself with the Wikimedia process and style which will make each upload easier.
Step 1 – Create and Account
To create an account,... [ read ]
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New upgrades to icommons.org
We have some exciting new upgrades to icommons.org to report! The latest updates to the site include:
- The ability to upload vertical pictures along with horizontal pictures to the site. We've also set the minimum picture size from 600 to 420 pixels, and you can upload both jpgs and pngs.
- Additions to our list of embedded videos that can be supported on the site - now video... more
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