Wikimedia Commons
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Type of site | Media repository |
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| Founded | September 7, 2004 |
| Created by | Wikimedia movement |
| Parent | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | commons |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional (required for uploading files) |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | Free |
Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a media repository of free-use images, sounds, other media,[1] and JSON[2] files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
History
The project was proposed by Erik Möller in March 2004[3] and launched on September 7, 2004.[4][5]
Relation to sister projects
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Controversial content
The site has been criticized for hosting large amounts of amateur pornography, often uploaded by exhibitionists who exploit the site for personal gratification, and who are enabled by sympathetic administrators.[6] In 2012, BuzzFeed described Wikimedia Commons as "littered with dicks".[7]
In 2010, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to the FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as "lolicon". After this was reported in the media, Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation which hosts Commons, used his administrator status to delete several images without discussion from the Commons community. Wales responded to the backlash from the Commons community by voluntarily relinquishing some site privileges, including the ability to delete files.[8]
Utilities
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Structured Data
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Quality
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Content figures
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See also
- Creative Commons – a project providing a set of content licenses and a directory of works using them
- Internet Archive – an online collection of videos, documents and webpages
- Project Gutenberg – the largest freely accessible collection of documents (including books and sheet music)
- Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons
References
- ^ Endres, Joe, "Wiki websites wealth of information". International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM. Champaign, Illinois: May 2006. Vol. 17, Iss. 5; pg. 312, 1 pgs. Source type: Periodical ISSN 0897-8026 ProQuest document ID: 1044826021 Text Word Count 746 Document URL: Proquest URL ProQuest (subscription) retrieved August 6, 2007
- ^ Yurik (November 2019). "Help:Tabular Data". Commons.wikimedia.org. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
- ^ Möller, Erik (March 19, 2004). "[Wikipedia-l] Proposal: commons.wikimedia.org". Retrieved August 7, 2007.
- ^ "Main Page". Wikimedia Commons. September 7, 2004. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
- ^ "Wikimedia Commons: Über 100.000 freie Bilder, Töne und Filme" (in German). Golem.de. May 25, 2005. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
- ^ "The Daily Dot – How Wikimedia Commons became a massive amateur porn hub". June 25, 2013.
- ^ "The Epic Battle For Wikipedia's Autofellatio Page".
- ^ "Wikimedia's Wales gives up some top-level controls". Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
External links
Media from Commons
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
Data from Wikidata
Discussions from Meta-Wiki
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