Collaborate/Commons

Wikimedia Commons is a repository of freely reusable images, videos, sounds and other digital media. Its files can be embedded in other Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wiktionary.

Advantages of sharing media through Wikimedia Commons

• Potentially reaching an enormous audience via Wikipedia
• Full attribution and metadata, including authorship and copyright ownership, on each file's description page
• Potential reuse in educational materials on Wikibooks, Wikiversity and other Wikimedia sites
• Crowd-sourced image restoration: Commons makes both the raw scan and restored versions freely available.
• Crowd-sourced metadata: once a file is uploaded, the community can add extra categories; expand or translate the description;
• See Cultural partnerships/Content partnerships for more reasons and examples

What you could do

IP ADVICE TO COME

SOMETHING ABOUT RELEASE TO OTHER CC SITES SUCH AS FLICKR, FIGSHARE

Next steps

• If you are in a Jisc-funded project, contact the Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador, Martin Poulter, (martin.poulterwikimedia.org.uk).
• Wikimedia UK is providing in-person training for other partner organisations (glamwikimedia.org.uk).
• The Guide to content partnerships answers some questions from partners.

This page has been created as part of the 2013-14 partnership between Jisc and Wikimedia UK