Commons:Project scope/Update 2013/Aim of Wikimedia Commons

Scope Review 2013 links:

Discuss stage 2 of this review

Translation

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Background

• Main review page: Background and process
• FAQ

Links to current rules

• Project Scope
• Photographs of identifiable people

Discussion: Introductory Scope wording

• Aim of Wikimedia Commons
• Excluded educational content

Discussion: Files

• Must be a media file
• Must be an allowable free file format
• Must be freely licensed or public domain

• Licensing terms
• Evidence
• Precautionary principle

• 'Realistically useful for an educational purpose'
• PDF and DjVu formats

Discussion: Pages, galleries and categories

• General pages, galleries and categories
• User pages, galleries and categories

Discussion: Areas of particular concern

• Censorship
• "Neutral point of view"

Discussion: Identifiable people

• Lead
• Legal issues
• Consent
• Moral issues
• Identification
• Examples
• Removal requests
• Other image sources

Other proposals

• Other proposals

Aim of Wikimedia Commons

The aim of Wikimedia Commons is to provide a media file repository:

• that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content to all, and
• that acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.

The expression "educational" is to be understood according to its broad meaning of "providing knowledge; instructional or informative".