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Europeana 1914-1918
Europeana is pleased to announce that there are now ~800 new items on Commons that have been imported from the Europeana 1914-1918 project relating to the centenary of World War I. This diverse and beautiful collection of files have been "hand picked" from the much larger crowdsourced-digitisation project to ensure both encyclopaedic quality and free-license compatibility. Because these items come from private collections, the accompanying descriptions are in one of 10 European languages and detail personal account of the objects' original owner.
You can see the complete set of files on Wikimedia Commons:The upload was announced on the Europeana blog at the end of June, but has been a long time in planning - the initial upload was of 60 items in 2012!
There are many groups of military-sepecific items. For example:
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lots of munitions and trench art -
Certificates and forms -
Lots of hat and lapel badges -
pieces of uniform items -
medals and commemorative items
....and many can be used to illustrate general interest topic articles. For example,
Your help is requested to better categorise these images and to start using them in the different Wikipedia languages. If you do find a good new use for an image, add it to the 'suggested articles' column in the project page to make it easier for other people to know where the image might be used on their language wikipedia!
