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Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all Wikimedia projects in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikivoyage, Wikispecies, Wikisource, and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use. The repository contains over 30 million media files. In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000.
The project was proposed by Erik Möller in March 2004 and launched on September 7, 2004. A key motivation behind the setup of a central repository was the desire to reduce duplication of effort across the Wikimedia projects and languages, as the same file had to be uploaded to many different wikis separately before Commons was created.
Several sister projects (e.g. Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Basque, Polish, Czech and Slovak Wikipedias) moved all their media content to Commons and stopped allowing local uploading. Some projects, such as the English Wikipedia, have more compliant copyright policy and allow to upload and keep files which are not acceptable at Commons, e.g. fair use images.
Simple instructions on how to upload an image to Wikimedia Commons, using the upload wizard
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How to upload an image to Wikimedia Commons
1. Login To wiki Commons. 2. Wiki commons accept only ogg files. so You have to first convert mp4 to ogg 3. Open http://www.online-convert.com/ 4.Convert your MP 4 to ogg. 5.Click on upload file in wiki commons. 6.Select the file. 7.Click on continue. 8.Select his file is my own work and click on next. 9.Write description, select catagary and location. 10. Click on next. File is ready to share on wikipedia.
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