Celebrating 21 years of sharing free knowledge through images, sound, and video 🎂 Launched in 2004, Wikimedia Commons has grown into one of the world’s largest repositories of freely usable media. As a sister project of Wikipedia, it hosts millions of files – photographs, illustrations, maps, audio, video, and more – all shared under free licenses so anyone can use, adapt, and distribute them. Commons was created to centralize media for Wikimedia projects, allowing contributors to upload once a