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Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons – the free media repository Recent changes • [No WikiNode] • About • Mobile URL | |
Founded by: | unknown |
Status: | Vibrant |
Language: | Multilingual |
Edit mode: | OpenEdit |
Wiki engine: | MediaWiki |
Wiki license: | MultiLicense"MultiLicense" is not in the list (Custom license, Attribution to contributing authors, Copyright to contributing authors, Site retains copyright, WTFPL, Licence Art Libre, Open Content License, Apache License, BSD Documentation License, FreeBSD Documentation License, ...) of allowed values for the "Wiki license" property. |
Main topic: | Media |
Backups: | unknown or dynamic date |
Wiki size: | 86,532,311 article pages see stats |
wikiFactor: | 6 |
(Files count as of: 2022-07-25
wikiFactor as of: 2015-10-18)
Wikimedia Commons – the free media repository — is a major part or 'Project' of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). More commonly known to Wikimedians as merely Commons, it is a very large wiki site of an online depository database of over 86 million freely usable educational media files, to which anyone can contribute. The files, which include images (photographs, graphics, etc), videos, and audio; are primarily for use by all language versions of the various Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikivoyage, etc. With specific regards to Wikipedia, whilst the English Wikipedia will accept 'fair use' images, the Wikimedia Commons will not; all media files uploaded to the Commons must be completely free to use (either public domain (PD), or an unrestricted copyleft license). Other individual language editions of Wikipedia have their own differing standards for fair use; e.g. Español Wikipedia will not allow fair use media.
All textual content on the Commons wiki was initially released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL, or more commonly GFDL). An additional license was subsequently added; the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY-SA 3.0).[1] As of 25 July 2022, the total file size on hard disc for all files is a whopping 350.46 terabytes (TB)![2]
The InstantCommons extension for MediaWiki will allow external non-Wikimedia Foundation sites to use Commons media on their own independent wiki.
Mission and culture
The exact boundaries of the mission for the Wikimedia Commons have seemingly not been clearly defined. It is generally agreed that the Commons should host images that will be useful in other Wikimedia projects; such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity, etc. Less clear is whether it should serve as a general repository for images that are likely to only be useful outside the scope of existing Wikimedia projects. For example, a photograph of a girl holding a flower might be useful as a stock image in corporate promotional brochures, but if there is no Wikipedia (or other WMF wiki) article that requires that image (as could be the case if Wikipedia already has a suitable image to illustrate its articles on flowers, or if the image is unsuitable for Wikipedia or other WMF wikis), then it is an open question whether the Commons should host that image. These matters are generally decided on a case-by-case basis, with little consistency, and are heavily influenced by whether existing Commons users like the media in question; e.g. whether they think they are aesthetically pleasing.
Sometimes, debates arise as to whether users are adding content for the benefit of the Commons, or for their own promotional purposes; e.g., a user may say "These are some images I took, posted to my website, and am sharing with the Commons", other Commons users may object, implying that the true agenda is to promote their website by listing its URL for attribution on the image file page. Another scenario is that frequently, users have uploaded images of their genitals, and been accused of exhibitionism; this has occurred so often that the Commons community has announced that no more images of genitals are needed or welcomed, unless there is a specific request, e.g. if a new genital-relevant article is created on Wikipedia or other WMF wiki that needs an illustration.
See also
- Wikilivres — a complimentary site hosted in Canada and run by volunteers to host materials which are not public domain in the United States of America
- Wikitravel Shared — a similar free media repository for Wikitravel
- Ekopedia Base — the media repository for Ekopedia
- UnCommons — the media repository for the parody project Uncyclomedia
External links
- Template:Wikidata — www.Wikidata.org, at Wikimedia Wikidata
- Wikimedia Commons — at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites
- Commons: Project scope — an official policy on Wikimedia Commons, Commons.Wikimedia.org
- Commons: What Commons is not — an official guideline on Wikimedia Commons, Commons.Wikimedia.org
- Wikimedia Commons — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, Meta.Wikimedia.org
- Wikimedia Commons — on the English Wikipedia, En.Wikipedia.org
- Wikimedia Commons Statistics tables — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia Commons Statistics charts — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Page views for other Projects, raw data, 26 March 2019 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Report card for Wikimedia Commons at a glance December 2018 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia Commons Statistics v2 — Wikistats v2 (Creative Commons CC0), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- WikiStats – List of Wikimedia special projects; Wikimedia Commons — WikiStats.WMCloud.org at Wikistats 2.2 – MediaWiki statistics, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
- Wikiscan Commons wiki statistics — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikiscan.org
- Wikiscan Commons wiki user statistics — at Wikiscan.org
- Wikimedia Commons Pageviews Analysis — Tools.WMFLabs.org at Wikimedia Labs
- Wikimedia Commons Android app — on Google Play
- Wikimedia Commons Interactive Statistics — from Wikistatistics.net
- Monthly independent database dumps of 34 TB of Wikimedia Commons images — from WikiTeam
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF), founded 20 June 2003, is the wiki company and non-profit charitable organization[3] responsible for a very large number (over 900 in total) of very active collaborative user-generated wiki sites, which are grouped together by primary subject and known as a 'project'; as well as the wiki engine software initially developed by themselves, known as MediaWiki. The Wikimedia Foundations' major wiki projects started with Wikipedia (encyclopedia), and subsequently expanded to include Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikibooks (open content textbooks), Wikisource (free content primary-source and secondary-source texts), Wikinews (news source), Wikiversity (open learning community), Wikispecies (free species directory), and many others as listed below. Most of these 'projects' have separate wiki site versions written in many different languages. There is also the Wikimedia Commons (shared multilingual repository for documents, images, videos, and other media and text files), and the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (multilingual coordination of issues common to all Wikimedia projects). The Wikimedia Foundations' global reach is nurtured in its Incubator, where all new language versions for all projects are initiated and developed before being launched as a new separate wiki site. The Foundations' most recent major multi-language wiki project, Wikivoyage (a 'travelpedia'), was inducted to WMF in late 2012 (having being independently established in 2006). Also launched in 2012 was Wikidata (a major multilingual central space knowledge base for structured data used on all WMF projects). The newest WMF project is Wikifunctions, launched in mid 2023, is a library of code functions in many different programming languages.
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Furthermore, the Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, granted April 2005, and headquartered at 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600, San Francisco County, State of California 94104, United States of America.[4]
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- Wikimedia Foundation hosting services
Wikimedia Cloud Services • Wikimedia Cloud VPS
- External links
- www.Wikimedia.org — Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) portal to all of the major WMF projects
- WikimediaFoundation.org — original public wiki of Wikimedia Foundation, closed July 2018, now a WordPress blog
- Wikimedia Foundation Vision — at the WikimediaFoundation.org blog
- Wikimedia Foundation – Terms of Use — at Foundation.Wikimedia.org, the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
- Wikimedia movement — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
- Complete list of Wikimedia projects — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
- Template: Table of Wikimedia projects — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
- List of Wikimedia projects by size (sortable) — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
- SiteMatrix table of all Wikimedia wikis — listed by language, project, inter-project link, and interwiki, Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, along with list of all private and management wiki
- Toolserver: Wiki server assignments — formerly at Wikimedia Toolserver, now at MediaWiki.org
- Current status Wikimedia Foundation – Core services — public website health status for WMF, Status.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Status
- Wikimedia Statistics – Wikistats – comprehensive statistics by project — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia Report Card February 2012 — Wikistats v1 (Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)) published April 2012 by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia – active wikis per project — from creation up to October 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia – total editors per project — up to October 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia – total edits per project — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia – total articles per project — from creation up to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia – new articles per project — from creation up to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikimedia – total pageviews per project — 2008 to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Page views for Wikimedia wikis – sitemap — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Page views for other projects, raw data, 26 March 2019 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Page views for Wikimedia, all projects, both sites, normalized, 26 March 2019 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Report card: summaries for Commons and 9 other projects, at a glance December 2018 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Other Projects: edit and revert counts, since start of project, 31 December 2016 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- Wikistats v2 – all wikis (overview) – Wikimedia Statistics — monthly overviews of reading, contributing, and content; from Wikistats v2 (data available under CC0 1.0); Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
- WikiStats v2.2 – List of Wikimedia special projects — sortable list table of Wikimedia Foundation wiki sites from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
- All Wikimedia projects by size — sortable tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in html output
- All Wikimedia projects by size — tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in downloadable csv (spreadsheet) output
- All Wikimedia projects by size — tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in wikitext (wikitable) output
- Wikiscan statistics — independent statistics website about Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) hosted wiki sites (CC-BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org (founded 2011)
- Database dump progress — list of live database dumps at Dumps.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia Downloads
- Wikimedia Foundation database dumps uploaded to the Internet Archive — by Hydriz at Archive.org
- comScore data on Wikimedia — historical summary from 2010 of comScore data on Wikimedia Foundation sites, from User:Stu at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
- Wikimedia Interactive Statistics — from Martin Poljak at Wikistatistics.net (public domain), via Archive.org from 2015; archived spapshot at 6 May 2013 from archive.is
- Special Wikimedia Projects by size — sortable list from WikiStats by mutante at S23.org (last updated 11 September 2011, but still useful information), via Archive.org
- plain-text database list of all WMF-hosted wiki sites from all projects — at NOC.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia NOC
- plain-text database list of private WMF wiki sites — at NOC.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia NOC
- Wikimedia Grid Report — multiple detailed performance graphs from Ganglia.Wikimedia.org
- Phabricator — formerly Bugzilla.Wikimedia.org, now Wikimedia Phabricator at Phabricator.Wikimedia.org, for bug reporting, tracking, and software development
- Public Mailing Lists — at Lists.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia Lists
- #wikimedia-space:matrix.org — Wikimedia space – unofficial Wikimedia Community space Matrix-channel at Matrix.org
- Wikipediocracy — an extensive highly detailed WordPress blog and internet forum exposing the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related Wikimedia projects
- Wikimedia.org site info — from Alexa.com, archived snapshot on 2022-04-01, via Archive.org
- Official WMF social media and networking
- Further reading
- Bell, Dan (editor) (August 2009); The Wiki Handbook: THE How To on Wiki, Complete Expert's hints and tips guide by the leading experts, everything you need to know about Wiki; [5]; Emereo Publishing; ISBN 1742441661; paperback; 140 pages.
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