Commons:Project scope/Update 2013/Must be a media file
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Discuss stage 2 of this review
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Discussion: Introductory Scope wording
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Must be a media file
[edit]Wikimedia Commons hosts only media files such as photographs, scanned images, diagrams, animations, audio (e.g. music and spoken dialogue) and video clips, along with any associated metadata. Explanatory and other text is permitted on the file page only to the extent to which it advances Commons' aim and is not excluded educational content.
The following are not considered media files, and may not be hosted here:
- Computer programs in any format including binary executable files and raw source code listings. Where relevant, source-code may form part of the file description or metadata, e.g. a graphics file may include as descriptive text the code used to create it.
- Files which are representative merely of raw text, e.g. ASCII files, raw source code listings as mentioned above, etc.