Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia Commons

Type of site	Media repository
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Wikimedia community
URL	commons.wikimedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional (required for uploading images)
Launched	September 7, 2004

The Wikimedia Commons (also called "Wikicommons", "the Commons", "Wikipedia Commons" or just "Commons") is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. Like Wikipedia, it is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. It provides a common resource repository to all the various Wikimedia sister projects in any language.

The files uploaded to the Commons repository can be used like locally uploaded files on all projects on the Wikimedia servers in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use, as all of the content is either in the public domain or released under licenses such as the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.