#MEDIAWIKI COMMONS SOFTWARE#

Files on Wikimedia Commons are categorized using MediaWiki's category system. Many content pages, in particular policy pages and portals, have also been translated into various languages. The default language for Commons is English, but registered users can customize their interface to use any other available user interface translations.

#MEDIAWIKI COMMONS SOFTWARE#

Licenses that are acceptable include the Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution/ShareAlike licenses, other free content and free software licenses, and the public domain. For this reason, Wikimedia Commons always hosts freely licensed media and deletes copyright violations. Wikimedia Commons itself does not allow fair use or uploads under non-free licenses, including licenses which restrict commercial use of materials or disallow derivative works. Most Wikimedia projects still allow local uploads which are not visible to other projects or languages, but this option is meant to be used primarily for material (such as fair use content) which local project policies allow, but which would not be permitted according to the copyright policy of Commons. The aim of Wikimedia Commons is to provide a media file repository 'that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content to all, and that acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.' The expression 'educational' is to be understood according to its broad meaning of 'providing knowledge instructional or informative'. Дuring the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a collaboration with Wikimedia, the World Health Organization (WHO) uploaded its ' Mythbusters' infographics to Commons.

Similarly Europeana, the website aggregating European cultural heritage, shares its digitised images through Commons. As of 2022, DPLA uploaded more than 2 million files. In 2020, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) started uploading its collections to Commons. One of the first models uploaded to Commons was a reconstruction of the Asad Al-Lat statue which was destroyed in Palmyra by the ISIL in 2015. Since 2018 it is possible to upload 3D models to the site. In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000. In 2012, the National Archives and Records Administration uploaded 100,000 digitised images from its collection. The idea for the project came from Erik MГ¶ller in March 2004 and was launched on September 7, 2004. Meta-WikiВ is a project used as a central hub for various coordination and organization tasks, such as discussions affecting multiple wikis or planning upcoming events.Wikimedia logo mosaic created to commemorate the one-millionth file at Wikimedia Commons Project coordination software tool for global collaboration WikinewsВ provides a free content alternative to commercial news sites with articles that are fact-checked and peer reviewed. WikivoyageВ aims to create the worldвЂ™s largest free, complete and up-to-date worldwide travel guide. It is the platform on which Wikimedia projects are built. MediaWikiВ is free and open source wiki software that anyone can use and develop. The software platform that makes Wikipedia possible Structuring data into a machine-readable format makes it easier to view, search, edit, curate, use and re-use files. WikidataВ acts as central storage of structured data for Wikimedia projects. The database of structured information collaboratively edited WikispeciesВ is a species database for taxonomy that covers living and fossil representatives of Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. WikiversityВ is devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education. WikiversityДЄccess learning resources, projects and research at any level of study WikisourceВ is a library of freely-licensed source texts and historical documents, including poetry, government documents, constitutions of many countries, and general literature. Wikimedia CommonsВ is the worldвЂ™s largest free-to-use library of illustrations, photos, drawings, videos, and music. Collections Wikimedia CommonsД¦8 million images, photographs, videos and music files and counting It also includes proverbs, mnemonics and slogans. WikiquoteВ is an online collection of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in over 75 languages. WikiquoteДЇind quotes across your favorite books, movies, authors and more It includes language resources such as a thesaurus, rhyme guide, and language statistics. The project aims to describe all words of all languages. WiktionaryВ is a free multilingual dictionary. WikibooksВ aims to build a collection of free e-book resources including textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. WikipediaВ is a free, collaborative encyclopedia written in 300 languages by volunteers around the world.

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