News and announcements
Experts and Native Speakers
- Grammar
- The grammar pages could always use more detailed or clear explanations. In fact many of the grammar patterns still need to be defined or need examples. If you are a native speaker, please add sentence examples.
- Grammar comparison
- Know the distinction between two grammars? Please explain the difference or add more details to an already written article.
- Graphic Lab School
- A place where you can request wikigraphists to improve, clean up, or color your images.
- IRC channels
- #wikimedia-commons Wikimedia Commons IRC channel
- #commons.wikimedia to follow the recent changes on IRC.
- #cvn-commons shows possible vandalism
- #commons-image-uploads shows new uploads
- International mailing-list
- commons-l
Content organisation
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General Tasks
- Contributing
- There are many ways to contribute, for basics ways on how you can contribute to this wiki, see the contributing page.
- Vocabulary
- The Vocabulary pages always need expanding or editing.
- Stubs
- Stubs are articles that are incomplete and need some work. If there's anything you can do to add more to or even finish the article, then by all means please do so.
- User's Graphics abilities
- Categorizes users by graphic and audio knowledge, abilities or interest on Commons, in order to ease finding help in any area of media expertise. (Part of the Commons 2.0 ! project)
- Administrators
- List of administrators and votes on adminship requests. Requests and votes on bot status for bots get handled there too.
Recommendations and howtos
- Help index
- All help, project, maintenance, discussion, policy pages and further tutorials about how to work in wikis like Wikimedia Commons are listed there. For an overview over the structure of the Wikimedia Commons project itself see Category:Commons.
- Software
- Recommended software for each media type in order to create and edit the content you want to share at Wikimedia Commons.
- Tools
- Tools for uploading and further maintenance of Wikimedia Commons as for example Commonist for uploading large numbers of images. Tool integration helps you add functionality to your Wikimedia Commons web interface.
- How to use Wikimedia Commons' content
- Overview on how to embed Wikimedia Commons content into various Wikimedia wikis and how to reuse Commons' content by third parties. See also the media help for software and hints how to watch images and films and listen to audio files provided by Wikimedia Commons. See Featured pictures, Valued images, Picture of the day and Media of the day for particularly valuable content you can reuse.
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