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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''). | 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 repository for all the different Wikipedias and Wiki projects of the WMF. | 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). | 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). |
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