Wikimedia Commons

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

Wikimedia Commons logo

Ja ist meta. A picture from Commons showing the Commons showing an Orange in a Consumerium article about the Commons. In Belgium they leave those leaves in 'em ju nou.

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

• Wikimedia Commons on using its content outside of Wikimedia

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

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos if you need to source media from many wikis or
• By setting $wgUseInstantCommons to true to use only the Wikimedia Commons as external image source

See also

• Consumerium Commons