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Commons Archive
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Founded by: Derrick Coetzee
Status: Cannot connect
Language: English
Edit mode: LoginToEdit
Wiki engine: MediaWiki
Wiki license: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
Main topic: Media
As of 20:55, 17 November 2022 (UTC), the wiki site for this Commons Archive article appears to be down and unable to be connected to.
Wiki size: 354 article pages see stats

(Files as of: 2022-01-16)


The Commons Archive wiki site was originally an independent unofficial repository for source materials of works on the Wikimedia Commons wiki site, specifically, file types which were not allowed on Wikimedia Commons. Founded April 2012 by Derrick Coetzee, and located at CommonsArchive.org, the original site went down in May 2015. Users from that original independent Commons Archive then forked the project in to Wikimedia Labs in 2015, itself a Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wiki, and was originally located at Tools.WMFLabs.org/commonsarchive/, though it is now located at CommonsArchive.WMFLabs.org.

Now an official Wikimedia Foundation wiki site, logging-in on the current WMF Commons Archive wiki is done by OAuth (Open Authorisation), and settings require the user to be an autoconfirmed user already at Wikimedia Commons.

This current WMF-hosted Commons Archive wiki was operated by User:Zhuyifei1999 (now retired) and User:Steinsplitter. Derrick Coetzee, the founder of the original unofficial wiki, has no input in this new Wikimedia Cloud VPS-hosted wiki site.

Please do not store private data on the Commons Archive wiki, because it is hosted on Tools (not production).

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