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Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is the engine that powers the media (images, sound, etc.) that you find on Wikipedia.

It features a gigantic library of creative commons licensed content which, in some cases can even be used commercially.

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Description from the Wikimedia Commons website:

If you are browsing Commons for the first time, you may want to start with Featured pictures , Quality images or Valued images . You can also see some work created by our highly skilled contributors inMeet our photographers and Meet our illustrators . You may also be interested in Picture of the Year .

Wikipedia summary

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 33 million media files. In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000.


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Tagged: images, creative commons, video, sound, public domain,

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