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Wikimedia Commons, or simply Commons, is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. [1] It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation . Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all of the Wikimedia projects [ 2 ] in all languages, including Wikipedia , Wikivoyage , Wikisource , Wikiquote ...
Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects: Commons Free media repository
The Wikimedia Commons (also called "Wikicommons", "the Commons", "Wikipedia Commons" or just "Commons") is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. Like Wikipedia, it is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. It provides a common resource repository to all the various Wikimedia sister projects in any language.
A screencast that walks through how to upload files to Wikimedia Commons and add them to Wikipedia articles. If you want to give a link to the file description page in an article, use an extra colon at the front, e.g., "[[:File:pagename". If you type "[[Media:pagename]]", a download link to the media file is created.
Wikimedia Commons's policies only allow files that are in the public domain in the U.S. and the source country, which usually happens 70 years after the death of the author (or 70 years after publication if author is unknown). Files that don't meet this requirement will be deleted from Commons, and should thus remain on English Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Commons; Meta-Wiki; Wikimedia Outreach; Wikidata; Wikiversity; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Uploaded from Commons main page ...
Only transclude a file on the main page when KrinkleBot has transcluded it at Commons:Auto-protected files/wikipedia/en. Do not remove the previous file from the list when adding a new image. Keeping it in the list ensures that it remains protected and ready to reuse if its replacement is removed from the main page.
Since Wikimedia Commons is now the repository for free images, it is redundant and wasteful to upload an image to every Wikipedia language or sister project that wants to use an image. Using Commons, we can store a picture just once on Wikimedia's servers and use it anywhere.