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 | This page in a nutshell: Freely licensed files should be moved to the Wikimedia Commons so all Wikimedia Foundation projects can use them. |
Moving files to Commons is an activity of moving freely licensed files from Wikipedia to the Wikimedia Commons, which serves as the central file repository for all Wikimedia Foundation projects. When our local files are transferred there, they will provide the added benefit of becoming instantly and globally available across all Wikimedia Foundation projects.