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'''Danny Wool: '''But we haven't hit a million yet on Commons, but it's 999,406 and counting. So, it's really increasing. It's becoming a fabulous repository.

'''Kelly Martin: '''The only question I have now is, how many times are we going to hit a million? HowBecause how many of those are copyvio? I've been talking to Bastique, who is one of the admins and bureaucrats on Commons and is a very active member and very fine Wikimedian, he says he has a lot of concerns about copyright infringement on Commons and we obviously have to be much more aggressive in enforcing our copyright use policies there.

'''Daveydweeb: '''They've also chosen a very interesting way to celebrate those million images. At the English Wikipedia, all we did for 1.5 million articles was to put a thing on the main page to say "Congratulations, 1.5 million articles." At Commons, a large number of users are working to put togeether a collage of thousands and thousands of images to reproduce the Commons logo... or is it the Wikimedia Foundation logo?

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'''Kelly Martin: '''Yes, I think that's very accurate. We have... the Wikimedia Foundation has negotiated with Google for some kind of favoured status, because Google's not stupid, they recognise that Wikimedia, that Wikimedia's websites have a very high [[Google PageRank|PageRank]] and that people are very interested in those pages. And so Google, because they're trying to provide a high-quality product to their customers, has negotiated this arrangement where we feed them with, you know.. we send them a notice saying, "this page has been updated, you might want to fetch it," and they do that, and they do it very promptly, so changes on Wikipedia show up very quickly at Google. That's because Google's trying to deliver quality to their customers, which is the people who do searches.

On the other hand, their ad program.. Wikipedia has no connection with their advertising program, we're not interesting in their advertising program, so we've never had any real reason to negotiate with them on that and they've never asked for that to be made available. There's really no point to it, because why would their ad engine would be looking at our pages.? We're not advertising on their pages.

'''Fuzheado: '''Right, and to be clear that, that feed service Wikimedia does offer to, I think, any company that approaches them for a fee.