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Wikimedia Commons
is a repository of
free
images, videos, sounds and other multimedia files. Uploaded files can be used as local files by other projects on the Wikimedia servers, including
Meta-Wiki
MediaWiki
Wikibooks
Wikinews
Wikipedia
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikiversity
Wikivoyage
, and
Wiktionary
. The
InstantCommons
feature also supports imports on other wikis.
This page is an index of all Wikimedia
Commons
' maintenance and
Help
pages. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the Commons community.
Having trouble finding out what you need to know? If it's not covered by the
Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ), try asking at the
help desk
General information
Help page collections
A larger set of help pages can be found in Wikipedia that you might want to consult:
MediaWiki help contents
and
technical manual
Meta-Wiki help contents
and
portal
Wikipedia help contents
and
portal
Community pages
Basic pages:
Main Page
Welcome page
Community portal
Village pump
Help:Searching
Maintenance pages:
Admin noticeboard
Deletion requests
Categories for discussion
Renaming a file
Renaming a category
Getting help:
If you want to post a question about copyright issues that another editor will respond to, you can go here.
If you have a general question about editing, uploading, the scope of the Wikimedia project, or anything else, you can post a question at the
Help Desk
and another user will reply.
MediaWiki
The function of
MediaWiki
itself – the software that Wikimedia Commons runs on – is described at the
MediaWiki User's Guide
in Meta-Wiki.
If you suspect a software bug, ask for feedback at the
village pump
, and then report it using the
Phabricator
bug report system. This is the only way to get MediaWiki developers to notice your bug reports.
The database of Wikimedia Commons can be
downloaded
. There is currently no dump of the media files available.
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General disclaimer
Licensing
Wikimedia Commons help contents
Help for editors
Information for beginners:
Commons:Sandbox
(for experimenting)
First steps
Account
Upload form
License selection
Quality and description
Sorting
File transfer and tools
Reuse
Structured data
Frequently asked questions
Project scope
Category system
Language policy
Namespaces
Copyright information:
Licensing
Copyright rules by territory
Copyright violations & deletion guidelines
Email templates
General information:
Editor's index to Commons
Structured data
Software helpful for Wikimedia Commons:
Media playback help
Software
and tutorials for editing media files
Video
guide for uploading and using video files
Audio
Converting video
File types
Manipulating meta data
Help:Creating a DjVu file
Help:Scanning
Help:SVG
Tools
for making work in Commons easier
Upload tools
Content:
Free media resources
Map resources
Image casebook (Copyright rules by subject matter)
Problematic sources
Bad sources
Templates:
Copyright tags
Tag categories
audio templates
Infobox templates
Taxobox
Template messages
language templates
Wikimedia Commons upload tools
Integrated tools
Upload Wizard
bigChunkedUpload
Cross-wiki upload
Lingua Libre (audio)
Desktop applications
VicuñaUploader
Pattypan
ComeOn!
Sunflower
Commonist
(broken
[1]
Command-line tools
OpenRefine
Mobile applications
Commons Android app
Spell4Wiki
Plugins
dtMediaWiki (for Darktable)
KIPI (for digiKam)
LrMediaWiki (for Adobe Lightroom)
Conversion
Video2commons
Site-specific
Flickr-to-commons
Flickypedia
IAUpload (books)
iNaturalist2Commons
Wikimedia Commons
policies and guidelines
Policies
Project
General disclaimer
Project scope
Allowable file types
Evidence
Neutral point of view
Precautionary principle
Pages, galleries and categories
Use of gender neutral language
Content
Licensing policy
De minimis
Fair use
When to use the PD-Art tag
Deletion policy
Criteria for speedy deletion
Revision deletion
Language policy
Category policy
Behaviour
Blocking policy
Page protection
De-adminship
Paid contribution disclosure
Translation administrators
Signatures
Username policy
Civility
No personal attacks
Harassment
Guidelines
Content
What Commons is not
Non-copyright restrictions
Fan art
Nudity
Photographs of identifiable people
Derivative works
When to use the PD-scan tag
Galleries
Using ImageAnnotator
File naming
File renaming
Overwriting existing files
Grandfathered old files
AI-generated media
Principle of least astonishment
Behaviour
Assume good faith
Copyleft trolling
Ownership of pages and files
Talk page guidelines
User-specific galleries, templates and categories
Administrators
Vandalism
Rollback
Patrol
Licensing help
Village pump
Choosing a license
Copyright rules
Copyright rules by subject matter
Copyright rules by territory
Copyright tags
PD files
Copyright principles
Threshold of originality
Derivative works
2D copying
Screenshots
Free depictions of non-free works
Freedom of panorama
URAA-restored copyrights
Using files
Reusing content outside Wikimedia
Credit line
Reuse of PD-Art photographs
How to detect
copyright violations
License laundering
Problematic sources
Flickr
Bad sources
License review
WMF
policies
Office actions
Community portal
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