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Off they go! For the drives, please go to /Drives. Since Wikimedia Commons is now the repository for free images, it is redundant and wasteful to upload an image to every Wikipedia language or sister project that wants to use an image. Using Commons, we can store a picture just once on Wikimedia's servers and use it anywhere. Therefore, uploaded free images should all be transferred to Commons, and those that are currently on Wikipedia must be moved. As all of the subcategories of Category:Free images, including Category:GFDL images, Category:Public domain images and many others, must now be transferred to Commons, this WikiProject has been created to organize efforts and expand awareness of this massive waste of server space. Please apply an extremely critical eye to allegedly "free" images here before uploading them at the Commons. This project is a good chance to catch many of the dodgily sourced and licensed images here. If you have any doubts please don't upload to the Commons (send to FfD or PUF) because it will just create unnecessary duplication for Commons admins. Categories to clear out Category Files Type Comments Category:Agência Brasil images 1 Creative Commons Category:All user-created public domain images 109,785 Public domain Category:Australian public domain photographs 2,029 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Author died more than 100 years ago public domain images 9,964 Public domain Category:Author died more than 70 years ago public domain images 882 Public domain Category:BSD images 22 Other Category:Canadian public domain photographs 786 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Chinese public domain photographs 199 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Conditional use images 1,078 Conditional use Please ensure that the {{Copyrighted free use provided that}} tag on the image has an acceptable requirement before moving Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons 9,799 Varies Category:Copyright holder released public domain images 11,463 Public domain Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 images 1,177 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 images 10,145 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 images 21,428 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution images 83 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 images 410 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.1 images 2 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 images 7,927 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 images 127,148 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike images 711 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons ShareAlike images 1 Creative Commons Category:Executive Office of the President images 203 Public domain Category:FAL images 162 Other Category:Free screenshots 146 Varies Category:GFDL images 77,756 Other Category:GPL images 158 Other Category:German public domain photographs 0 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Gray's Anatomy images 27 Public domain Category:Images in the public domain in the United States 24,362 Public domain Commons does not accept most images which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be extra careful when moving these! Category:Images requiring attribution 2,966 Conditional use Category:LGPL images 37 Other Category:MIT images 3 Other Category:MPL images 7 Mozilla Public License Category:PD-AR-Photo 192 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:PD US DEA 0 Public domain Category:PD Coa Germany 27 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:PDphoto.org images 0 Public domain Category:Pakistani public domain photographs 231 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Polish government symbols 78 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Pre-1994 Poland images 86 Public domain For the file to be accepted on commons the file has to be a photograph published in Poland prior to 1994. Publication citation is needed in the source section. Author has to be Polish or the work has to be first published in Poland. Majority of photographs published in that time in Poland did not have author information, so unknown authors are OK unless there are reasons to believe that author was not Polish (Photos of US actors might have been published in Poland but they were likely taken by non-Polish photographers). All files meeting those requirements were moved to Commons several years ago, so all that is left does not meet them (usually no publication citation). Category:Public domain art 6,622 Public domain Commons does not accept most images which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be careful when moving these if the image wasn't first published in the US! Category:Public domain images 179 Public domain These tags should be updated to use a more specific license before being moved to Commons. Category:Public domain images ineligible for copyright 1,560 Public domain Category:Public domain stamp images 1 Public domain Category:UK Government images 847 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:UN map images 0 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:United States government images 2,607 Public domain Category:World Coin Gallery images 4 Other Moved Category Files Type Comments Category:APL images 0 Other Category:CeCILL images 0 Other Category:Free screenshots of video games 0 Varies Category:Great War Primary Documents Archive images 0 Public domain Templates {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{un-commons}} - User talk page notice for newish users who upload free images here. {{User MFIC}} - a userbox for your user page. Results in This user supports the migration of free images to the Commons. Tools See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Tools Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons - a how-to guide to moving images Commonist, a handy tool for mass uploads Magnus Manske's CommonsHelper CommonsHelper Helper, a user script to expedite moving images with CommonsHelper Filescripts, another user script that makes it easy to move images to Commons commons:Category:Commons resources - many tools and resources.