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Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons community portal

Are you new to Wikimedia Commons? Welcome! Check out what we're all about (and what we are not), or just start searching for images or other media files. You can find collections of similar files grouped by topic or by almost any other characteristic you can think of. You can even start contributing to the project in important ways, regardless of your abilities or interests, and no matter where you live or what language you speak. All information about Commons itself is available in English, and most of it is available in other languages, as well. If a page is available in multiple languages, you should be able to select your language at the top of the page.

News
Twelve millionth file uploaded

Wikimedia Commons now has over 12 million files as of January 13, 2012. Over two million files having been added since the 10 millionth file that was added on April 15, 2011.


Bernisse.Oostende voor Anker2009.019.jpg
"Ships by name"-category reaches 10,000 ships

Category:Bernisse (ship, 1953) is the 10,000th subcategory. Commons provides consistently named categories with basic information on vessels, many of which don't have Wikipedia articles yet. Several "by" subcategories of Category:Ships allow to find vessels (and images of vessels) with different criteria.

Participants aim to identify ships by name (10,000 by now), year of completion (86%), flag, type/function, IMO or ENI, country of construction (43%), etc. The 10,000 categories include ca. 89,000 images and 490 subcategories.

See: Category:Ships by name, Category:Unidentified ships

Communications
Help desk
For questions about how to use Commons.
Village pump
Ask questions about features, problems you may have, or policy. Similar pages are available in several other languages.
Graphic Lab
A place where you can request wikigraphists to improve, clean up, or color your images.
Administrators' noticeboard
If you need to communicate with an administrator, for example regarding blocks and protections.
IRC channels
#wikimedia-commons Wikimedia Commons IRC channel
#commons.wikimedia to follow the recent changes on IRC.
#cvn-commons shows possible vandalism
#cvn-commons-uploads shows new uploads
International mailing-list
commons-l (this month)
Bugzilla
Bugzilla: Commons (last 7 days) bug reports and feature requests
Content organisation
Creation and Upload
Picture requests, Free media resources for uploads to the Wikimedia Commons
Improvements
Copyright issues
Wikimedia Commons sub projects
Commons:Geocoding for adding geographic location information to media, Commons:Stroke Order Project and more WikiProjects.
Wikimedia Commons templates
Commons:Templates
Policies and decisions
Wikimedia Commons project scope
The project definition and its derived detailed policy pages on licensing, allowed copyright tags and file types give you important information what we are and what not.
Deletion policy
The deletion policy is closely related to the Wikimedia Commons project scope. They define when and how to delete content that does not belong in Wikimedia Commons for various reasons.
Multilingualism
Wikimedia Commons is multilingual. Use Babel in order to find contributors who speak your language. Please add information about the languages you understand to your user page. The language policy is discussed at Commons talk:Language policy.
User's Graphics abilities
Categorizes users by graphic and audio knowledge, abilities or interest on Commons, in order to ease finding help in any area of media expertise. (Part of the Commons 2.0 ! project)
Administrators
List of administrators and votes on adminship requests.
Recommendations and howtos
Help index
All help, project, maintenance, discussion, policy pages and further tutorials about how to work in wikis like Wikimedia Commons are listed there. For an overview over the structure of the Wikimedia Commons project itself see Category:Commons.
Software
Recommended software for each media type in order to create and edit the content you want to share at Wikimedia Commons.
Tools
Tools for uploading and further maintenance of Wikimedia Commons as for example Commonist for uploading large numbers of images. Tool integration helps you add functionality to your Wikimedia Commons web interface.
How to use Wikimedia Commons' content
Overview on how to embed Wikimedia Commons content into various Wikimedia wikis and how to reuse Commons' content by third parties. See also the media help for software and hints how to watch images and films and listen to audio files provided by Wikimedia Commons. See Featured pictures, Valued images, Picture of the day and Media of the day for particularly valuable content you can reuse.
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