Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons
Central filled red circle, surrounded by a blue circular outline with a gap and an arrow leading up, plus seven smaller arrows pointing inward to the red circle. Below are the words "WIKIMEDIA COMMONS".
Screenshot of Wikimedia Commons Main Page, featuring a Picture of the Day for 2006-06-05.
Type of site
Media repository
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byWikimedia community
URLcommons.wikimedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional (required for uploading images)
LaunchedSeptember 7, 2004

The Wikimedia Commons (also called "Wikicommons", "the Commons", "Wikipedia Commons" or just "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 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 licenses such as the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.