UTA Photograph Collection, News Service Photograph Collection Now on Wikimedia Commons, Used in Wikipedia Articles
Abstract
All of the digitized photos in the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Libraries Special Collections' UTA Photograph Collection and UTA News Service Photograph Collection are now on Wikimedia Commons and many of them have already been used to illustrate Wikipedia articles. UTA Libraries has shared 426 individual photographs from these two collections that document university history from its foundation in 1895 to the 2010s with Wikimedia Commons, the image and media host site behind Wikipedia. Already, 94 of them have been used in Wikipedia articles in 19 different languages.