Wikimedia Commons

Upload your pictures to Wikimedia Commons, the reusable media repository

Wikimedia Commons

App stats

Version: 5.0.2 (Last updated: 2024-07-14)
Creation date: 2015-09-08
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device, add or remove accounts
Contacts: find accounts on the device
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • read sync statistics
  • view network connections
  • create accounts and set passwords
  • full network access
  • read sync settings
  • run at startup
  • reorder running apps
  • set wallpaper
  • use accounts on the device
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • toggle sync on and off

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App summary

Join one of the largest photo and multimedia communities in the world! Commons is not only the image repository for Wikipedia, but an independent project that seeks to document the world with photos, videos and recordings.

The Wikimedia Commons app is an open-source app created and maintained by grantees and volunteers of the Wikimedia community to allow the Wikimedia community to contribute content to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons, along with the other Wikimedia projects, is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to support community developers by offering the app here, but the Foundation did not create and does not maintain this app. For more information about the app, including its privacy policy, see the information at the bottom of this page. For information about the Wikimedia Foundation, visit us at wikimediafoundation.org.

Features:
- Upload photos to Commons directly from your smartphone
- Categorize your photos to make them easier for other people to find
- Categories are automatically suggested based on photo location data and title
- View nearby missing images - this helps Wikipedia to have images for all articles, and you will discover beautiful places close to you
- View all the contributions you have made to Commons in one gallery

Using the app is easy:
- Install
- Log in to your Wikimedia account (if you don't have an account, create one for free at this step)
- Select 'From Gallery' (or the picture icon)
- Select the picture that you wish to upload to Commons
- Enter a title and description for the picture
- Select the license that you wish to release your picture under
- Enter as many relevant categories as possible
- Press Save

The following guidelines will help you to understand what photos the community is looking for:
✓ Photos that document the world around you - famous people, political events, festivals, monuments, landscapes, natural objects and animals, food, architecture, etc
✓ Photos of notable objects that you find in the Nearby List in the app
✖ Copyrighted pictures
✖ Photos of you or your friends. But if you are documenting an event it doesn't matter if they are in the picture
✖ Photos of poor quality. Make sure the things you are trying to document are visible on the picture

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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Ability to upload photos directly from mobile devices
  • Helpful for contributing to Wikimedia Commons
  • Improves efficiency by remembering recent choices and creating good titles and categories
Cons
  • Frequent crashes, especially during uploads
  • Poor search functionality compared to the web version
  • User interface is confusing and not intuitive
  • Stability issues and bugs affecting overall usability
Most mentioned
  • Issues with uploading photos and general app stability
  • Confusing user interface and experience
  • Problems with image zooming and viewing functionalities
User reviews
there are newer versions on the app, and as long you reatin ur history its will be simlpe to locatre
by Lynia Uth, 2024-11-10

Wikimedia commons is very iportant apps for all using smart phone or computer with web3 i like takes 5 stars
by Abdu Musa, 2024-11-02

This app's okay, but I uninstalled it because its search function is worse than the web version and I have trouble accessing actual pages that aren't images.
by Blue, 2024-10-03
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