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Introduction

Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files.^[2] It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Educational application and relevance

Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of Free use images, sound, and other media files.It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Overview of Features

Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all Wikimedia projects in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikivoyage, Wikispecies, Wikisource, and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use. The repository contains over 34 million media files.^[4] In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000.

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Development and community help

Wikimedia Foundation
Official Website

Working with the application

Functionalities


Step 1:To open Wikicommons Go to Application >Internet>Browser	Step 2: Type the wikicommons Address in the address bar of the web browser and open

Step 3: Create an ID in the Wkicommons and Log in to Upload	Step 4:Main page which Display on the browser when you loging to the Wikicommons page

Step 5: Upload the file to Wikicommons page	Step 6: Select the file which you need to upload ti the Wikicommons page

Step 7: After Selecting the file the page shows that you can upload the file to the Wikicommons	Step 8: Fill the Details of the Image Screenshot Author And Version of the Application in the page

Step 9: Fill the Details of the Image Screenshot Name ,Date,Screenshot of which Application and click on next	Step 10 : Wikicommons page gives the image link which you have uploaded and you can link this to other page to see the image which u have been uploaded