Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons

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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 should be moved. As all of the subcategories of Category:All free media, including Category:GFDL files, Category:Public domain files and many others, should 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, and send to FfD or PUF. Otherwise, you are creating a mess which Commons admins will have to mop up later.

Categories to clear out

Category	Files	Type	Comments
Category:User-created public domain files	33,025	Public domain
Category:Australian public domain photographs	553	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 files	3,311	Public domain
Category:Author died more than 70 years ago public domain files	639	Public domain
Category:BSD files	0	Other
Category:Canadian public domain photographs	320	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	15	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 files	0	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	410	Varies
Category:Copyright holder released public domain files	1,552	Public domain
Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 files	754	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 files	3,370	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 files	7,627	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution files	12	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 files	528	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.1 files	0	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 files	2,246	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 files	42,656	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike files	41	Creative Commons
Category:Creative Commons ShareAlike files	0	Creative Commons
Category:FAL files	33	Other
Category:Files requiring attribution	144	Conditional use
Category:Free screenshots	40	Varies
Category:GFDL files	36,506	Other
Category:GPL files	66	Other
Category:Images in the public domain in the United States	13,518	Public domain	Commons does not accept most files 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:LGPL files	23	Other
Category:MPL files	6	Mozilla Public License
Category:PD-AR-Photo	32	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:Pakistani public domain photographs	31	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	14	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	1	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	3,386	Public domain	Commons does not accept most files 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 files	23	Public domain	These tags should be updated to use a more specific license before being moved to Commons.
Category:Public domain files ineligible for copyright	488	Public domain
Category:UK Government images	222	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	865	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 files here.

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This user supports the migration of free images to the Commons.

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Tools for a full list of tools to help you transfer media to Commons. You can also check out commons:Category:Commons resources.