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Can I use Wikimedia Commons images for commercial use?
Free to use All media files on Wikimedia Commons can be used by anyone, including commercially and each media file has information about which license it uses. The most common licenses used are created by Creative Commons which require the author to be credited.
Is Wikimedia Commons safe?
Wikimedia Commons itself does not allow fair use or uploads under non-free licenses, including licenses which restrict commercial use of materials or disallow derivative works. For this reason, Wikimedia Commons always hosts freely licensed media and deletes copyright violations.
Are photos on Wikimedia Commons free to use?
You can use (free) images from Wikipedia on your own site, or anywhere you like. You can use images that are freely-licensed images, provided you comply with the individual image’s license terms.
Do Wikimedia Commons images need to be cited?
Furthermore, if you want to cite the origin of the image as a benefit to your readers, you should cite Chromium or Google as the original source (not Commons), as it’s done in the Wikimedia Commons page for that file.
Is everything in Wikimedia Commons public domain?
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. Unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free.
Which is the best tool to upload files to Wikimedia Commons?
ComeOn! interface. Commonist is a Java program for easy upload of larger numbers of images to Wikimedia Commons and other MediaWiki installations. VicuñaUploader is a free tool written in Java designed to upload files to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikimedia projects.
How to request file renaming in Wikimedia Commons?
Requests to become a filemover are listed at Commons:Requests for rights#Filemover . Users can request a file rename by first activating the gadget RenameLink via Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets subsection “Interface: Files and categories”. Then an additional menu option “rename request” appears in the top menu.
How to upload files from Flickr to Commons?
Flickr2Commons – Tool to easily upload single and multiple files from Flickr to Commons. This tool uses OAuth to upload files to Commons. See Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/74a4d433d0ab9f9fad720e1c4eb8159a for version 1.0, use Special:OAuthManageMyGrants to manage connected apps.
Which is the best Commons upload tool for museums?
An advanced tool that allows GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) to automatically upload large batches of digital versions of their collections. This tool has been deprecated and is no longer actively maintained. The use of Commons:Pattypan is recommended instead.