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'''Wikimedia Commons''' is a major part or 'Project' of the {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF).  More commonly known as simply '''Commons''', it is a [[wiki]] of an online depository {{tag|database}} of over 16 million freely usable {{tag|media}} files to which anyone can contribute.  The files, which include {{tag|images}}, {{tag|video}}s and {{tag|audio}}; are for use by the various Wikimedia projects, such as the [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]].  And whilst the [[English Wikipedia]] will accept 'fair use' images, the Wikimedia Commons will not; all must be completely free to use (either public domain, or an unrestricted copyleft license).
'''Wikimedia Commons''' is a major part or 'Project' of the {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF).  More commonly known as simply '''Commons''', it is a [[wiki]] of an online depository {{tag|database}} of over 16 million freely usable {{tag|media}} files to which anyone can contribute.  The files, which include {{tag|images}}, {{tag|video}}s and {{tag|audio}}; are for use by the various Wikimedia projects, such as [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]].  And whilst the [[English Wikipedia]] will accept 'fair use' images, the Wikimedia Commons will not; all must be completely free to use (either public domain, or an unrestricted copyleft license). Individual language editions of Wikipedia have their own standards for fair use—e.g. [[Español Wikipedia]] will not allow fair use media.
 
[[Wikitravel]] has a similar free media repository with [[Wikitravel Shared]].
 
The [[mw:InstantCommons|InstantCommons]] extension for [[MediaWiki]] will allow non-[[Wikimedia Foundation]] sites to use Commons media.
 
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