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Upload your work to the commons.

A sister project of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons is a repository of openly licensed images and media that people all over the world use and contribute to. This challenge gets you acquainted with uploading your works to the commons.

Course image: CC BY John Trainor.

P Time it should take to complete:
1 hrs

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Orientation to Wikimedia Commons

Get to the website, and get logged in.

"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. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers." - cc by-sa Wikimedia Commons

image showing the wikimedia commons homepage

Task

Go to: http://commons.wikimedia.org and click on the "Upload file" link on the left side bar. If you're not already a member, quickly create a login.

Image By Mediawiki (Own work) [GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Question:

What is the difference between Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Wikimedia Foundation? How are they related?

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