Commons:Milestones

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Number of media in Wikimedia Commons over the years

2004: 1 – 1000

• (2003-01-04: File:Animal2.jpg: file with the oldest timestamp due to servercrash in 2005, cf. [1], renamed to "Deer at the Sigean zoological park.jpg" in 2011)
• 2004-09-07: File:Quail1.PNG: first file uploaded on Commons, cf. [2] (renamed to "Two Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) - Paradise Valley, Arizona, ca 2004.png" in 2013)
• 2004-10-04: 1000th file uploaded: File:Vancouver-Carlos-mission.jpg (m:Wikimedia News/2004#October)

2005: 100,000

• 2005-05-24: 100,000th file uploaded was File:Dataflowfiringnodes.png. (Commons:Press releases/100K)

2006: 500,000 – 1M

• 2006-03-25: 500,000th file uploaded.
• 2006-05-15: 600,000th file uploaded was File:Peperomia graveolens - Botanischer Garten Bonn.jpg. (Commons:Village_pump_archive-30#600.2C000_files)
• 2006-11-30: 1,000,000th file uploaded was File:Singapore Zoo 37.JPG. Wikimedia logo mosaic (warning: many images) created to mark this occasion. See File:Commonsmosaicanimation.gif for a timelapse of its construction. (Commons:Press releases/1M)

2023: 100 millions

• 2023-11-16: 100,000,000th file uploaded: File:DW 188 Smolnica.jpg (see the press release).

Millions

Date	Milestone	File quantity	Source	File
2006-11-30	1M	1,000,000	Commons:Press releases/1M	File:Singapore Zoo 37.JPG
2007-10-09	2M	2,000,000	[3]
2008-07-16	3M	3,000,000	Commons:Press releases/3M	File:Haishan-Station.JPG
2009-03-04	4M	4,000,000	Commons:Press releases/4M	File:Masca-2009.jpg
2009-09-02	5M	5,000,000	Commons:Press releases/5M	File:Kjøbenhavnsposten 28 nov 1838 side 1.jpg
2010-01-31	6M	6,000,000		File:Sailing on Ullswater - geograph.org.uk - 173422.jpg
2010-07-17	7M	7,000,000	2010-07-14/22 [4]
2010-12-30	8M	8,000,000	Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2010/12#8M_milestone
2011-02-23	9M	9,000,000	Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2011/02#We_broke_9M
2011-04-15	10M	10,000,000	Commons:Press releases/10M	File:POL_Lipno_(jezioro_w_województwie_pomorskim)_02.jpg
2011-09-21	11M	11,000,000	Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2011/09#11M
2012-01-12	12M	12,000,000		File:Egyptian_Building.JPG
2012-06-04	13M	13,000,000
2012-09-23	14M	14,000,000
2012-12-04	15M	15,000,000		File:17W Aug 14 1996 0124Z.png
2013-02-02	16M	16,000,000
2013-05-16	17M	17,000,000		File:Nordic Global MD-11 OH-LGC (8709314569).jpg
2013-08-15	18M	18,000,000		File:Open Make Up For Ever 2013 - Camille Guerre - 02.jpg
2013-10-21	19M	19,000,000
2014-01-25	20M	20,000,000		File:WEREFOX at Clubschiff - WAVES VIENNA 2013 09.jpg
2014-05-01	21M	21,000,000	2014-05-01/03 [5]
2014-07-23	22M	22,000,000	[6]
2014-09-26	23M	23,000,000	[7]
2014-12-05	24M	24,000,000		File:Engelskirchen_-_Kastor_04_ies.jpg
2015-03-11	25M	25,000,000		File:Mevlid-i Halil Mosque 08.jpg
2015-05-29	26M	26,000,000	2015-05-27/31 [8]
2015-07-31	27M	27,000,000
2015-09-18	28M	28,000,000
2015-11-05	29M	29,000,000	[9]
2016-01-13	30M	30,000,000	[10]
2016-04-02	31M	31,000,000	[11]
2016-06-15	32M	32,000,000	[12]
2016-08-27	33M	33,000,000	[13]
2016-10-15	34M	34,000,000	[14]
2016-11-30	35M	35,000,000	[15]
2017-01-12	36M	36,000,000	[16]
2017-02-14	37M	37,000,000	[17]
2017-03-31	38M	38,000,000
2017-05-16	39M	39,000,000	[18]
2017-06-21	40M	40,000,000	[19]
2017-08-12	41M	41,000,000	[20]
2017-10-02	42M	42,000,000	[21]
2017-12-01	43M	43,000,000	[22]
2018-01-30	44M	44,000,000	[23]
2018-02-26	45M	45,000,000	[24] (~+500K in 1 day, see day before [25])
2018-04-06	46M	46,000,000	[26]
2018-05-23	47M	47,000,000	[27]
2018-07-10	48M	48,000,000	[28]
2018-08-27	49M	49,000,000	[29] [30]
2018-10-07	50M	50,000,000
2020-03-18	60M	60,000,000
2021-02-15	70M	70,000,000
2022-01-11	80M	80,000,000	[31]
2023-01-11	90M	90,000,000	[32]
2023-10-27	99M	99,000,000	[33]
2023-11-16	100M	100,000,000	[34]

Current figures

• Special:Statistics (currently 110,473,240)