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Type of site | Media repository |
|---|---|
| Founded | September 7, 2004; 17 years ago |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Wikimedia movement |
| URL | commons |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional (required for uploading files) |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | Free |
Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a media repository of free-use images, sounds, other media,[1] and JSON[2] files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia logo mosaic created to commemorate the one-millionth file at Wikimedia Commons
The project was proposed by Erik Möller in March 2004[3] and launched on September 7, 2004.[4][5]
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The site has been criticized for hosting large amounts of amateur pornography, often uploaded by exhibitionists who exploit the site for personal gratification, and who are enabled by sympathetic administrators.[6] In 2012, BuzzFeed described Wikimedia Commons as "littered with dicks".[7]
In 2010, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to the FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as "lolicon". After this was reported in the media, Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation which hosts Commons, used his administrator status to delete several images without discussion from the Commons community. Wales responded to the backlash from the Commons community by voluntarily relinquishing some site privileges, including the ability to delete files.[8]
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As of January 2015, there are well over 5.2M geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons. Mapping these shows significant variance in image numbers over the globe.
