Commons:Community portal

Seven millionth file uploaded

The seven millionth file was uploaded on July 17, 2010, less than six months after the six millionth file.

Commons Picture of the Year 2009

The winners of the Picture of the Year 2009 announced.

Default skin now "Vector"

Commons has now changed the default look to a new theme called Vector, which makes many functions much easier to find. Logged-in users have the option to return to the classic functionality using a four-click process. Submit feedback at the Village Pump.

Village pump

Ask questions about features, problems you may have, or policy. Similar pages are available in several other languages.

Administrators' noticeboard

If you need to communicate with an administrator, for example regarding blocks and protections.

Help desk

For questions about how to use Commons.

Graphic Lab

A place where you can request wikigraphists to improve, clean up, or color your images.

IRC channels

#wikimedia-commons Wikimedia Commons IRC channel

#commons.wikimedia to follow the recent changes on IRC.

#cvn-commons shows possible vandalism

#commons-image-uploads shows new uploads

International mailing-list

commons-l

Creation and Upload

Picture requests, Free media resources for uploads to the Wikimedia Commons, Most wanted pages

Improvements

• Featured picture candidates, Valued image candidates and Quality images candidates, picture of the day and media of the day
• Unidentified subjects, like plants, people or animals that need to be identified.
• Images for cleanup, Transition to SVG of flags and graphics
• Uncategorized pages, Uncategorized categories, Uncategorized Media, Orphan pages, Orphan images

Copyright issues

• Deletion requests, Candidates for speedy deletion
• Copyright and licensing questions

Wikimedia Commons sub projects

Help page maintenance, CommonsProject Insignia for coordination of SVG conversion, Graphics abilities Project for categorization of users function of their abilities, Commons:Stroke Order Project and more WikiProjects.

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.

Multilinguality

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. Requests and votes on bot status for bots get handled there too.

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.