View source for Libre Pathology:Images on Libre Pathology II

On February 4th, we had some challenges with the '''images on Libre Pathology''' that come via the InstantCommons feature of [[Mediawiki]]. 

The problem was fixed speedily by the team at the WikiMedia Foundation.<ref>URL: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125804 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125804]. Accessed on: February 6, 2016.</ref>
==Background==
Mediawiki is the software that runs [[Libre Pathology|this modest site]] and [[Wikipedia]]. It comes to us from ''WikiMedia'' (formally the ''WikiMedia Foundation'' - abbreviated ''WMF'') the organization that runs [[Wikipedia]] and the ''WikiMedia Commons'' (also ''WikiCommons'' and ''WC'').  

The WikiCommons is the multimedia repository for all the different Wikipedias and Wiki projects of the WMF. 

As the mission of the WMF is to disseminate knowledge, they allow non-WMF project (like this one) to download images to their server via the InstantCommons (much the way the Wikipedias pull their multimedia files from the WikiCommons).

We use the WC as the images are free (libre) and often reasonable quality. [[User:Michael|One of us]] ([[Wikipedia:User:Nephron|being active on the WC and Wikipedia]]) uploaded a good number of them. 

We believe that: 
# The images should be shared widely and see the WC as a vehicle for doing this. 
# Contributing images to the WC demonstrates our commit to open and ensures they have longevity.

==See also==
*[[Libre Pathology news]].
*[[Libre Pathology:Images on Libre Pathology]].

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==External links==
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiMedia Commons (wikimedia.org)].
*[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125799 InstantCommons broken (wikimedia.org)].

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