Commons:Community portal
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Community portal introduction |
Help desk uploading |
Village pump copyright • proposals |
Administrators' noticeboard vandalism • user problems • blocks and protections |
Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons community portal
Are you new to Wikimedia Commons? Welcome! Check out what we're all about (and what we are not), or just start searching for images or other media files. You can find collections of similar files grouped by topic or by almost any other characteristic you can think of. You can even start contributing to the project in important ways, regardless of your abilities or interests, and no matter where you live or what language you speak. All information about Commons itself is available in English, and most of it is available in other languages.
News
- “It’s incredible that history decays almost immediately”: Evan Amos and the Vanamo Online Game Museum
- Meet the amateur photographer who has taken the most featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons
- Illustrating the 1968 Democratic National Convention—48 years later
- Wikivacation contest in Poland offers opportunities for tourists and locals alike
- Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public apology
- Wikimedia Israel and the Israeli News Company bring new video content to the Wikimedia projects
- In worldwide vote, Wikimedia users select extraordinary picture of the year
- Share your photos of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves on Wikipedia to inspire the world
- Freely licensed magic at Eurovision
- Wikimedia Highlights, April 2016
Communications
- Help desk
- For questions about how to use Commons.
- Village pump
- Ask questions about features, problems you may have, or policy. Similar pages are available in several other languages.
- Centralized discussion
- List of ongoing discussions on policies, guidelines or other matters that have a wide impact.
- Graphic Lab
- A place where you can request wikigraphists to improve, clean up, or color your images.
- Photography critiques
- A place where you can get feedback on your photography.
- Administrators' noticeboard
- If you need to communicate with an administrator, for example regarding blocks and protections.
- IRC channels
- #wikimedia-commons webchat Wikimedia Commons IRC channel.
- #cvn-commons webchat shows possible vandalism.
- #cvn-commons-uploads webchat shows new uploads.
- International mailing-list
- commons-l (this month)
- Phabricator
- Phabricator: Commons bug reports and feature requests.
Recommendations and tutorials
- Help index
- All help, project, maintenance, discussion, policy pages and further tutorials about how to work in wikis like Wikimedia Commons are listed there. For an overview over the structure of the Wikimedia Commons project itself see Category:Commons.
- Software
- Recommended software for each media type in order to create and edit the content you want to share at Wikimedia Commons.
- Tools
- Tools for uploading and further maintenance of Wikimedia Commons as for example Commonist for uploading large numbers of images. Tool integration helps you add functionality to your Wikimedia Commons web interface.
- How to use Wikimedia Commons' content
- Overview on how to embed Wikimedia Commons content into various Wikimedia wikis and how to reuse Commons' content by third parties. See also the media help for software and hints how to watch images and films and listen to audio files provided by Wikimedia Commons. See Featured pictures, Valued images, Picture of the day and Media of the day for particularly valuable content you can reuse.
Policies and decisions
- Wikimedia Commons project scope
- The project definition and its derived detailed policy pages on licensing, allowed copyright tags and file types give you important information what we are and what not.
- Deletion policy
- The deletion policy is closely related to the Wikimedia Commons project scope. It defines when and how to delete content that does not belong on Wikimedia Commons for various reasons.
- Multilingualism
- Wikimedia Commons is multilingual. Use Babel in order to find contributors who speak your language. Please add information about the languages you understand to your user page. The language policy is discussed at Commons talk:Language policy.
- User's graphics abilities
- Categorizes users by graphic and audio knowledge, abilities or interest on Commons, in order to ease finding help in any area of media expertise.
Content organization
- Creation and upload
- Picture requests, free media resources for uploads to the Wikimedia Commons.
- High quality content
- Improvements
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- Unidentified subjects, like plants, people or animals that need to be identified.
- Images for cleanup, transition to SVG of flags and graphics.
- Uncategorized media
- Media missing infobox template
- Categories for discussion, uncategorized pages, uncategorized categories.
- Maintenance in general
- Copyright issues
- Wikimedia Commons sub-projects
- Commons:Geocoding for adding geographic location information to media, Commons:Stroke Order Project and more WikiProjects.
- Wikimedia Commons templates
- Commons:Templates