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Help:Contents

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From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

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 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?t


itle=Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=4)' maintenance and Help (https://commons.wikimedi
a.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=12) 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.

Search help pages

General information Wikimedia Commons help contents

Help page collections Help for editors


A larger set of help pages can be found in Information for beginners:
Wikipedia that you might want to consult:
Commons:Sandbox (for experimenting)
MediaWiki help contents and technical First steps: Account, Upload form,
manual License selection, Quality and
Meta-Wiki help contents and portal description, Sorting, File transfer and
Wikipedia help contents and portal tools, Reuse, Structured data
Frequently asked questions, Project
scope, Category system, Language
Community pages policy, Namespaces
Basic pages: Copyright information:

Main Page, Welcome page, Community Licensing, Copyright violations & deletion
portal, Village pump, Help:Searching guidelines, Email templates

Maintenance pages: General information:


:
Admin noticeboard, Deletion requests, Editor's index to Commons, Structured
Categories for discussion, Renaming a data
file, Renaming a category
Software helpful for Wikimedia Commons:
Getting help:
Media playback help
If you want to post a question about Software and tutorials for editing media
copyright issues that another editor will files
respond to, you can go here.
Video guide for uploading and using
If you have a general question about
editing, uploading, the scope of the video files
Wikimedia project, or anything else, you Audio, Converting video, File types,
can post a question at the Help Desk Manipulating meta data
and another user will reply. Help:Creating a DjVu file
Help:Scanning
MediaWiki Help:SVG
Tools for making work in Commons
The function of MediaWiki itself – the easier
software that Wikimedia Commons runs on
– is described at the MediaWiki User's Upload tools
Guide in Meta-Wiki. If you suspect a
software bug, ask for feedback at the village Content:
pump, and then report it using the
Phabricator bug report system. This is the Free media resources, Map resources,
only way to get MediaWiki developers to Image casebook (Copyright rules by
notice your bug reports. subject matter), Problematic sources,
Bad sources
The database of Wikimedia Commons can
be downloaded (https://dumps.wikimedia.org Templates:
/commonswiki/). There is currently no dump
of the media files available. Copyright tags, Tag categories, audio
templates, Infobox templates, Taxobox,
Template messages, language templates
Legal information and contact
Contact us, General disclaimer, Privacy
policy, Licensing

Wikimedia Commons upload tools


V · T · E (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Commons_upload_tools&action=edit)

Integrated tools Upload Wizard · GLAMwiki Toolset · bigChunkedUpload


Commonist · VicuñaUploader · Pattypan · ComeOn! · Command-line
Desktop applications
tools
Mobile applications Android application · Spell4Wiki
dtMediaWiki (for Darktable) · KIPI (for digiKam) · LrMediaWiki (for Adobe
Plugins
Lightroom)
Conversion Commons Video Convert · Video2commons
:
Site-specific Flickr-to-commons · IAUpload (https://ia-upload.wmcloud.org/)

Wikimedia Commons policies and guidelines


V · T · E (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Commons_policies_and_guidelines&action=edit)

General disclaimer · Project scope (Allowable file


types · Evidence · Neutral point of view · Precautionary
Project
principle · Pages, galleries and categories) · Use of
gender neutral language
Licensing policy (De minimis · Fair use · When to use
Policies the PD-Art tag) · Deletion policy · Criteria for speedy
Content
deletion · Revision deletion · Language policy ·
Category policy
Blocking policy · Page protection · De-adminship · Paid
Behaviour contribution disclosure · Translation administrators ·
Signatures · Username policy
What Commons is not · Non-copyright restrictions ·
Fan art · Nudity · Photographs of identifiable people ·
Content Derivative works · When to use the PD-scan tag ·
Galleries · Using ImageAnnotator · File renaming ·
Guidelines Overwriting existing files · Grandfathered old files
Assume good faith · Ownership of pages and files ·
Talk page guidelines · User-specific galleries,
Behaviour
templates and categories · Administrators · Vandalism ·
Rollback · Patrol
Copyright rules · Copyright
rules by subject matter ·
Choosing a license
Copyright rules by territory ·
Copyright tags · PD files
Threshold of originality ·
Derivative works (2D
Copyright principles
copying · Screenshots) ·
Freedom of panorama
Licensing help Reusing content outside
(Village pump)
Wikimedia · Credit line ·
Using files
Reuse of PD-Art
photographs
License laundering ·
Problematic sources (Flickr ·
How to detect copyright violations Picasa Web · Bad sources) ·
:
License review

WMF policies Privacy policy · Office actions


Community portal · Help contents

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