Join one of the largest photo and multimedia communities within the world! Commons isn't only the picture repository for Wikipedia, however an independent venture that seeks to doc the world with photos, movies and recordings.

The Wikimedia Commons app is an open-source app created and maintained by grantees and volunteers of the Wikimedia neighborhood to permit the Wikimedia community to contribute content to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons, along with the opposite Wikimedia initiatives, is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to help neighborhood builders by providing the app here, however the Foundation did not create and does not preserve this app. For extra information about the app, together with its privateness policy, see the data on the bottom of this web page. For information about the Wikimedia Foundation, visit us at wikimediafoundation.org.

Features:

- Upload photographs to Commons immediately out of your smartphone

- Categorize your photographs to make them simpler for other people to find

- Categories are automatically suggested based mostly on photo location knowledge and title

- View close by lacking photographs - this helps Wikipedia to have images for all articles, and you will discover beautiful places close to you

- View all of the contributions you might have made to Commons in one gallery

Using the app is straightforward:

- Install

- Log in to your Wikimedia account (if you don't have an account, create one free of charge at this step)

- Select 'From Gallery' (or the picture icon)

- Select the picture that you just want to addContent to Commons

- Enter a title and description for the picture

- Select the license that you just wish to launch your image under

- Enter as many related categories as possible

- Press Save

The following pointers will help you to know what pictures the group is looking for:

✓ Photos that document the world round you - well-known folks, political occasions, festivals, monuments, landscapes, pure objects and animals, meals, structure, etc

✓ Photos of notable objects that you discover in the Nearby List in the app

✖ Copyrighted pictures

✖ Photos of you or your mates. But in case you are documenting an event it does not matter if they are within the picture

✖ Photos of poor quality. Make sure the issues you are attempting to document are seen on the picture

- Website: https://commons-app.github.io/

- Bug stories: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues

- Discussion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Mobile_app https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/commons-app-android

- Source code: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons