Commons:Upload

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

Please note that uploads to Commons must comply with

1. Commons:Licensing: the file must be freely licensed, or

public domain in both the source country and the United
States;
2. Commons:Photographs of identifiable people: for
photographs taken in a so-called private place, any
identifiable people in them must consent to publication; for
some countries and situations this is also true for
photographs taken in public (see Commons:Country
specific consent requirements).
Files not meeting these criteria may be deleted. If in doubt,
please ask for help, if possible before uploading.

Upload Wizard
The Upload Wizard is the default method for uploading files to
Wikimedia Commons. You can select one or multiple files and
begin uploading. Information such as date and camera position are
added automatically (if available in the photo's metadata).

Classic upload form

Where does the media work come from? (Choose the appropriate
source)

It is from somewhere else (https://commons.wikimedia.or

g/wiki/Special:Upload)
It is entirely my own work (https://commons.wikimedia.or
g/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork)
It is someone else's work from Flickr (https://commons.wi
kimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=
fromflickr) (more information on uploading Flickr images)
 It is from another Wikimedia project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp
ecial:Upload&uselang=fromwikimedia) (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, etc.)
It is from a US federal government source (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?tit
le=Special:Upload&uselang=fromgov)
It is a free software screenshot (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload/scr
eenshot)
It is a non-free fair use image (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Fair_use)
(Non-free logo, cover, screenshot, artwork etc.)

I don't know who the author is, or I don't know what license applies (https://commons.wiki
media.org/wiki/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license)

For experienced users of the classic upload form:

Already know the license, and its copyright tag? Go directly to the main upload form or
its experienced (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&usela
ng=experienced) variant.
Already have an {{Information}} template ready? (For instance, generated by the
Flinfo (http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php) tool?) Use the basic upload form (http
s://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uploadformstyle=ba
sic).

See also the full list of copyright tags for many nations. The first section of that page also has other
general tags for public domain sources.

Please visit Commons:Help desk if you need to ask questions about uploading files.

Only upload freely licensed or public domain content. Fair use is not allowed on Wikimedia
Commons. (help)

Wikimedia Commons upload tools

v · t · e (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Commons_upload_tools&action=edit)

Integrated tools Upload Wizard · bigChunkedUpload

VicuñaUploader · Pattypan · ComeOn! · Sunflower · Commonist (broken[1]) ·

Desktop applications
Command-line tools · OpenRefine

Mobile applications Android application · Spell4Wiki

dtMediaWiki (for Darktable) · KIPI (for digiKam) · LrMediaWiki (for Adobe

Plugins
Lightroom)

Conversion Commons Video Convert · Video2commons

Site-specific Flickr-to-commons · IAUpload (https://ia-upload.wmcloud.org/)

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This page was last edited on 23 March 2022, at 17:58.

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