Wikimedia Commons

Online repository of free-use media

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2022 DPLA uploaded more than two million files to Wikimedia Commons.
2020 Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) began uploading its collections to Commons.
2018 Wikimedia Commons enabled uploading of 3D models in STL format.
2015 A reconstruction of the Lion of Al-lāt statue from Palmyra, Syria was uploaded to Commons after the original was damaged by ISIS.
July 2013 Wikimedia Commons reached 100,000,000 total edits.
2012 National Archives and Records Administration uploaded 100,000 digitised images to Commons.

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