Wikimedia Commons
From Governance Wiki
The Wikimedia Commons (also referred to as "the 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.
The files uploaded to the Commons repository can be used like locally uploaded files on all other projects on the Wikimedia servers in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use, as all of the content is either in the public domain or released under free licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License.
While the project was originally proposed to also contain free text files, these continue to be hosted on a sister project, Wikisource.
[edit] External links
| File:Commons-logo.svg | Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wikimedia Commons |
- Wikimedia Commons
- Commonist, a Java tool for uploading files to the Wikimedia Commons
- CommonsHelper, an online tool for moving files to the Wikimedia Commons
- Mayflower, a gallery-based search engine for Wikimedia Commons
| This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Wikimedia Commons. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Government Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
