Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files. As the name states, it is a commons that everyone can profit from; it is simply a virtual commons instead of a physical commons (such as a public park).

It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, who uses it for their own projects, but many other wikis also have Commons integration, including this one.

Wikimedia Commons' content policy is less restrictive than this wiki's - they are willing to host files that do not relate to discussion or use of tropes, files that are NSFW, or both.

You can visit Wikimedia Commons here.

• The Library of Babel: Approaches this for freely licenced content online. Most people that know of it know it for freely licenced graphics, but it hosts so much more: Videos, audio clips, music, voice recordings, 3D models, PDFs, Books, Research articles, etc.
  • Librarians and archivists communally dump the portion of their digitized holdings that are in the public domain, with each collection on its own often being a massive set of media. Interesting works and media can surface if one spends enough time scouring the contents.
• Moe Anthropomorphism: Commons-tan.
• Someday This Will Come in Handy: The general attitude while uploading. So long as it could serve an educational purpose, most media is permitted according to the site Scope.
• We All Live in Connected Locales: Areas with more connectivity or fame tend to have better coverage. Contests like Wiki Loves Monuments or Wiki Loves Africa aim to help rectify this.
• The Wiki Rule: A wiki for multimedia content.