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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.
Wikimedia Commons, or simply Commons, is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
User-created images. Wikipedia encourages users to upload their own images. All user-created images must be licensed under a free license, such as a Creative Commons license, or released into the public domain, which removes all copyright and licensing restrictions. When licensing an image, it is common practice to multi-license under both GFDL ...
There are over 100 million media files on all Wikimedia projects as of January 2024—predominantly images but also sound files, animations, videos, etc. You can see some of our best work at our featured pictures page, the featured pictures page on Commons, or in the results of the annual Picture of the Year contest .
This Finding images tutorial offers a step by step guide to find images that can be licensed as public domain or under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License for Wikipedia. The most important thing while looking for images is to. Be creative with your search!
Uploading Copyright free images to Commons. If your artwork was made before 1923, it is possible that you can upload an image of it to Commons. If you don't have your own image, you can still find images in Flickr that have Creative Commons licensing. Follow the instructions at Commons:Upload
Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs. All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on the Wikipedia website or the partner Wikimedia Commons website.
All images used on Wikipedia must be uploaded to Wikipedia itself or Wikimedia Commons. That is, hotlinking is not supported. Images uploaded to Wikipedia are automatically placed into the File namespace (formerly known as the Image namespace ), i.e., the names of image pages start with the prefix File: .
Wikipedia needs images that document historic events, or that demonstrate the other things we write about, for educational purposes. Because we can't fit all the images on every topic onto the relevant Wikipedia page, we hold extra images at our sister project, Wikimedia Commons.
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.