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- Join Wikimedia Canada for a workshop on linking Commons photos to Wikidata items on January 30! Visit the event page for more information.2025-01-28 23:59:59CA:other_projects
- Join Wiki Loves Folklore International media contest to document your local Folk culture on Commons.2025-03-31 23:59:59other_media_contests
- A request for adminship is currently open for discussion. (help translate this text)2025-01-27 12:31:00highly_trusted_election
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| ID | Human readable name | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| policy_new | New policies | Request for Comments about new policies, substantial changes to or the adoption of new policies | |
| policy_change | Policy changes | Recent or intended amendments to policies | |
| highly_trusted_election | Election of important positions | Election of people requiring a high level of trust such as checkusers | |
| technical_new | New features | New technical features | |
| technical_change | Technical changes | Recent or on-going technical changes | |
| technical_issue | Technical issues | Technical issues at Wikimedia Commons | |
| mobile | Mobile | Everything related to Mobile access to Wikimedia Commons | |
| bot_approval | Bot approval | If community input in a bot-approval request is required | |
| i18n | Internationalization | Internationalization and Localization | |
| poty | Picture of the Year | The Picture of the Year contest | |
| wlm | Wiki loves Monuments | The Wiki Loves Monuments contest | |
| photo_challenge | Commons:Photo challenge | The Wikimedia Commons “Photo Challenge” | |
| other_media_contests | Other contests | Other media-related contests | |
| glam | GLAM | Cooperation with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) | |
| other_projects | Look at the wider picture | Information about other projects that may influence Wikimedia Commons | |
| backlogs | Important backlogs | Backlogs at Wikimedia Commons that are important to be cleared in time | |
| meetings_photo | Photographer meetings | Photo workshops, Photographer-relevant topics at general meetings like Wikimania | |
| meetings_tech | Dev- and Tech-Meetings | Hackathons, IRC hours, Wikimedia Commons-relevant topics at general meetings like Wikimania |
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.
The deletion policy is closely related to the Wikimedia Commons project scope. It defines when and how to delete content that does not belong on Wikimedia Commons for various reasons.
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.
Categorizes users by graphic and audio knowledge, abilities or interest on Commons, in order to ease finding help in any area of media expertise.
Content organization
Recommendations and tutorials
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.
Recommended software for each media type in order to create and edit the content you want to share at Wikimedia Commons.
Tools for uploading and further maintenance of Wikimedia Commons. 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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