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<div style="color: #006699; font-size: 190%; margin-bottom: 1em;">'''Welcome'''</div>
<div style="color: #006699; font-size: 190%; margin-bottom: 1em;">'''Welcome'''</div>
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The '''Wikimedia Commons''' is a project that provides a central repository for [[Commons:Criteria for inclusion|free]] images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any [[Wikimedia:|Wikimedia]] project. Unlike images uploaded on other projects, images on Commons [[Commons:Embedding media|can be embedded]] on pages of all Wikimedia projects.
The '''Wikimedia Commons''' is a project that provides a central repository for [[Commons:Criteria for inclusion|free]] images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any [[Wikimedia:|Wikimedia]] project. Unlike images uploaded on other projects, images on Commons [[Commons:Embedding media|can be embedded]] on pages of all Wikimedia projects.


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If you would like to participate actively in the project, read on below. To let other people upload photos or other files for you, you can use the '''[[Commons:File upload service]]''' or a [http://tiredbrain.com/wikimedia/commonplace/ special program].
If you would like to participate actively in the project, read on below. To let other people upload photos or other files for you, you can use the '''[[Commons:File upload service]]''' or a [http://tiredbrain.com/wikimedia/commonplace/ special program].
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<div style="color: #990000; font-size: 190%; margin: 1em 0;">'''First steps'''</div>
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Please visit the '''[[Commons:Community Portal|Community portal]]''' for more info!
Please visit the '''[[Commons:Community Portal|Community portal]]''' for more info!

Revision as of 11:42, 8 June 2005

There have been problems with image metadata caching recently. Whilst the root problem has been fixed (see Commons:Village pump for details) affected pages will need to be purged to make them show the images correctly. Please check the image description pages before removing apparently missing images from pages.

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Petra Klingler in the combined finale of the 2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.
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Welcome

The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository for free images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project. Unlike images uploaded on other projects, images on Commons can be embedded on pages of all Wikimedia projects. The Commons was launched on September 7, 2004. Currently it contains 103,934,411 collections. There were Template:NUMBEROFMEDIAFILES media files on Template:NUMBEROFMEDIAFILESTIME, excluding weather and market data. If you would like to participate actively in the project, read on below. To let other people upload photos or other files for you, you can use the Commons:File upload service or a special program.

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Please visit the Community portal for more info!

If you want to quickly learn about uploading files and contributing, see our first steps help file. If you have any questions about the project, please read the FAQ or ask on the Village pump. You can also drop by at #commons.wikimedia on irc.freenode.net.

  • Important vote: Are files added to articles or categories, or a mixed system, etc. Please VOTE HERE.
  • Important discussion: The Language policy is being discussed here, please participate in the discussion to make Commons a truly international project.
  • New vote about language representation on Commons talk:Templates for galleries. Deadline is 2005-06-05 12:00:00 UTC.
  • Poll from May 26 to June 10, 2005 about minimal criterions for admin requests.
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