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Introduction

This simple guide will take you through the process of using and attributing the images, sound and video clips on Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org) free of charge for any purpose, including commercially.

All images in this guide are available on Wikimedia Commons, all credits, licenses and sources can be found on the last page as well as all the links provided in the guide.





About Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is a media archive that makes over 29 million files of freely licensed and public domain. educational media content available to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a central archive for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation including Wikipedia, but is available for anyone to reuse. The repository contains content from both organisations and individuals and is created and maintained by volunteers.

Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world. Through various projects including Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.





Licensing

Wikimedia Commons only hosts content that is freely licensed, or is in the public domain. All media files on Wikimedia Commons can be used by anyone for any purpose including commercially and each media file has information about which license it uses. The most common licenses used are created by Creative Commons. To find out more about Creative Commons licenses please go to creativecommons.org





Finding content

The simplest way to find images on Wikimedia Commons is to use the search box which is located in the top right of every page. Simply enter the subject you would like to search in the same way as other content libraries e.g Flickr or Youtube. To refine the search to only include images that have been assessed as high quality you can include this phrase after your search term:

incategory:Featured_pictures_on_Wikimedia_Commons|Quality_images

e.g to search for high quality images of World Heritage Sites use this phrase:

World Heritage Sites incategory:Featured_pictures_on_Wikimedia_Commons|Quality_images

Wikimedia also runs a number of photography competitions on different themes where many high quality freely licensed images are created, these include;





Reusing content

Clicking on a file within the search results will provide a page similar to the one above, if you see a different kind of page simply click on Open in Media Viewer below the file.

1. Click on the download icon in the bottom right hand corner of the page.

2. Click on Download original file to download the highest resolution version available.

3. Click on You need to attribute the author show me how and copy the text provided, you can chose between Plain (used for printed materials etc) and HTML (for web).





Web links





Image credits

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