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Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free images, sound and other multimedia files. Uploaded files can be used as local files by other projects on the Wikimedia servers, including Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wiktionary. The InstantCommons feature also supports imports on other Wikis. This page is an index of all Wikimedia Commons' maintenance and Help pages. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the Commons community. Having trouble finding out what you need to know? If it's not covered by the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), try asking at the help desk.  Help  Commons  Template

General information Help page collections As Wikimedia Commons is younger than Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects there are larger sets of help pages available in those projects which are often helpful for your work in Wikimedia Commons: MediaWiki help contents and technical manual MetaWikipedia help contents and portal Wikipedia help contents and portal Community pages Basic pages: Main page, Welcome page, Community Portal, Village Pump, Help desk, Copyright questions page Maintenance pages: Admin noticeboard, Administrators votes and overview, Deletion requests, Changing username, Renaming a file MediaWiki The function of MediaWiki itself (the software of Wikimedia Commons) is described at the MediaWiki User's Guide in Meta-wiki. The MediaWiki-handbook in Meta-wiki is not kept here in order to avoid duplicate maintenance work (the same applies to all help pages not specific to Wikimedia Commons). If you suspect a software bug, ask for feedback at the village pump, and then report it using the Bugzilla bug report system. This is the only way to get MediaWiki developers to notice your bug reports. The database of Wikimedia Commons can be downloaded. Sadly the available dumps are only the database text. There is currently no dump of the media files available. Legal information and contact Contact us, Press kit, General disclaimer, Privacy policy, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, GNU Free Documentation License, Logo

Wikimedia Commons help contents Editors' help Beginners' information: Commons:Sandbox (for experimenting) First steps Account, Upload form, License selection, Quality and description, Sorting, File transfer and tools, Reuse Frequently asked questions, Project scope, Category system, Language policy, Namespaces Copyright information: Licensing, Copyright violations & Deletion guidelines, Email templates General information: Editor's index to Commons Software helpful for Wikimedia Commons: Media playback help Software and tutorials for editing media files Video guide for converting, uploading, and using video files. Converting video, File types, Manipulating meta data, Transition to SVG Help:Creating a DjVu file Help:Scanning Help:SVG Tools for making work in Commons easier Commonist, Tool integration, Shortcuts Content: Image casebook, Free media resources, Problematic sources, Bad sources Templates: Copyright tags, Tag categories, audio templates, Taxobox, Template messages, Language templates