Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Ericsfr!

First steps tutorial

Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content).

You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki.

Getting help

More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

Goodies, tips, and tricks

Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities.
You can find the files you have uploaded in your Uploads.
Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~.
To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:File:Foo.jpg]], which produces: File:Foo.jpg.
You may enable gadgets (custom features) for your account.
There are several tools to upload files.
Have you edited Wikipedia before? This guide might be useful.

Made a mistake?

Do you want to have a file renamed or moved? Use the move link and wait for an authorized user to rename it.
Do you want to have your recently uploaded picture removed? Tag it as {{speedy|reason here}}. For more information read the deletion guidelines.

-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 21:51, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

The image File:Gymnothorax javanicus (by night).webm, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gymnothorax javanicus (by night).webm has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 21:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Featured video UserBox

Hi Ericsfr,

If you wish you can use the new userbox for FV which shows

This user has uploaded featured media to Wikimedia Commons.

. -- Eatcha (talk) 09:41, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Octopus Vulgaris - Poulpe commun.webm was nominated for MOTD

Your file has been nominated for a Media of the Day.

Your contribution to this project has been noticed. A file Octopus Vulgaris - Poulpe commun.webm, which was uploaded by you, has been nominated to be displayed on the Main Page of this project as a Media of the Day. You can view this and other nominations at Commons talk:Media of the day. It is always a good idea to let other contributors know when you think your file would look good as a featured media file, provide descriptions in different languages, and perhaps spread the joy by nominating media of other uploaders, that you believe deserve that. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 12:23, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]