Commons:Community Portal

Two millionth file uploaded!

On October 9th, 2007, less than one year after the one millionth file, the two millionth file was uploaded.

1000+ Featured pictures

Commons now has well over 1000 featured pictures. The 1000th was Image:Neuschwanstein_Castle_LOC_print_rotated.jpg.

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.

Graphic Lab School

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.

#vandalism-commons shows possible vandalism and 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

• Voting of Featured picture candidates, reviewing of Quality images candidates, recommendations of pictures for the picture of the day and media of the day
• Unknown 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, Orphan pages, Orphan images

Copyright issues

• Deletion requests, Candidates for speedy deletion
• Copyright 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, Chinese 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 guidelines

The deletion guidelines are closely related to the Wikimedia Commons project scope. They define when and how to delete content that does not belong into 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, pictures of the day and media of the day in order to find particularly valuable content for reuse.