Thursday, October 22, 2009

Wikimedia Commons


Artist's Rendering of a Mars Exploration Rover
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Day, December 30


"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."

Wikimedia Commons uses the same wiki-technology as Wikipedia and everyone can edit it. It is free and everyone is allowed to copy, use, and modify any files freely as long as the course and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The site is maintained by volunteers and everyone is encouraged to participate by contributing their work, translating help texts into a language other than English, improve images, identify unknown objects, and contribute their legal knowledge on copyright questions and deletion requests.

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