There's a lot of things that have been going on recently on the works of WikiPic. We personally have a couple of announcements to make about the service changes coming very shortly, so let start off by saying thankyou as it has been very minimal however before we go worldwide live we would like to complete our project after almost six months in the works.

1. New design and logo:

WikiPic had a very basic first design, based on the Wikipedia.org design only in green and light grey. However, when the website was revamped in early summer we released the platform as a new blue design (as current) that is designed to easily let the WikiPic team deploy/improve features on the WikiPic platform easily and effectively.

Though we love the current design, as the internet dimensions change so often, we believe we should join by improving our design to something new. Not only that, but we will work on getting a new logo out that should represent our concept a bit better. Though right now we can't explain things properly because of the excessive use of features on our platform, we are looking to make strong changes to make it more easier to work with.

2. Partnership with Image Search facilities

During the past couple of weeks we have been working closely with image-based services and search engines to help them improve or utilize the data we have on the WikiPic platform.

3. Server Upgrade for the new year

That's right. We will work on getting on top of a new multi-million dollar architecture owned by Ferple hopefully between Q1 and Q2 of 2010, and it will highly optimize the data speeds of our rendering engine. To be accurate, WikiPic solely will be capable to handle these amounts of requests after the server upgrade takes place:

- Up to 370,000 requests stimultaneously (per second, including the API). That's around 200 times the size of Flickr and Photobucket, or around 650,000 popular websites using the API architecture or even around half a million users using our bookmarklet at the exact same time.

- Ability to record up to 90,000,000,000,000 (90 TRILLION) image records on our database at optimal speed. We may be moving the database platform from MySQL to Oracle, or MSSQL due to the scalability on the platform.

- As part of our server transition, we will no be longer be using our original copies of images being hosted on the Amazon Web Services platform. Instead we will be building our code on the Ferple platform.

4. Eco-friendly WikiPic in the new fiscal year:

Oh yeah, we are eco-freaks. That means, exceptionally, we're going to make everything on WikiPic as low as in CO2 as possible, and reduce our carbon footprint, that means by reducing the amount of codes and useless features from our service, while also removing inactive data from our servers. We don't want to make features that are from the past if they make an impact to the future environment, because we all live in it and the future generations will too.

5. Relevant images:

We have been testing our relevant images so much, and it is still in a very early stage, so you may find that practically all of the images don't look relevant but acclaim they are 100% accurate. We don't expect you to find it useful at the time, but usually we are looking for feedback from both our team and the community during the testing period. We will keep you updated on this soon.

6. Flagged images

What we've been in demand from since the release our API, and we have finally released it. When you upload an image through our API, a new one at the top will be called "flagged" and if set true it means that the image is marked as adult, copyrighted, inappropriate, or illegal. We work with governments, hosting websites, image farms, and some large outsource data sources to help us load our index and right now we have around 20,000 images altogether and we are rapidly increasing our index. By simply using our API you automatically have access to our index and the ability to change flagged images.

Thankyou,

Bilawal Hameed,

CEO/Founder of WikiPic Limited