User:Enow97/Blog 2:My Project at Wikimedia Commons

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another blog!

My Outreachy internship is in its fifth week, and everything is going swimmingly! This week's blog will be about the organization where I'm interning and the project I'm working on. I am pretty sure you will be amazed to discover about the work that Wikimedia Commons performs, and the apps developed by them. So let’s get right in!

What is Wikimedia Commons?

Wikimedia Commons or simply Commons is a media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The repository contains over 87 million free-to-use media files, managed and editable by registered volunteers.

About my project at Wikimedia Commons

These media files are often downloaded and used across all of the Wikimedia projects in all languages. So to increase ease of use by these communities for the download of media files, Wikimedia Commons created an app named Imagebulk. Imagebulk is a tool that allows users to download Wikimedia Commons files in bulk as a single ZIP file. Imagebulk is developed to provide technical support to the Indic community in order to save community members' time, for example, when trying to download a Wikimedia's events photos.