Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia Commons (wikimedia.org) is a multilingually enabled digital commons for uploading, managing and serving media that runs (a slightly modified) MediaWiki.

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Since it is successfully run by the Wikimedia Foundation on a large scale we can be assured that this is a solution that will scale up.

Including media from the Wikimedia Commons onto this wiki

SYNTAX: [[File:Name on Wikimedia Commons]] will include the media in the article.

Guides into Wikimedia Commons

How to add it to an another wiki

To include media from the Wikimedia Commons to your own wiki you must activate it in LocalSettings.php by setting

See also