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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. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Apr 30, 2016 · Wikimedia Commons includes more than 45 million freely licensed media files—photos, audio, and video—ranging from stunning photos of geographic landscapes to donations from institutions with substantial media collections, like the Smithsonian, NASA, and the British Library.
May 25, 2023 · From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. This category is located at Category:Images. Note: This category should be empty. Any content should be recategorised. This tag should be used on existing categories that are likely to be used by others, even though the "real" category is elsewhere.
Commons does not allow non-free or fair use images. See c:Commons:Licensing. Commons employs a more restrictive interpretation of international copyright law than Wikipedia. Images must be free in both the country of origin and the United States in order to be free enough for Commons.
Aug 22, 2022 · Search for free images on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons, a site owned by the same nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, is another great place to find free images. While all the images...
Picture of the Day. Every day a new image is selected for display on the main page as the Picture of the day. These striking images come from all over the world, and you can view all of them going back to November 2004. Photo Challenges. Wikimedia Commons also hosts monthly photo challenges.
With over 44 million total uploaded files (of all licence types; as of January 2018), it is the largest free "images-only" repository. Commons is the primary repository of media for all Wikimedia projects. Media on Commons can be used readily on all Wikimedia projects, just as if the media were uploaded to the projects directly.
