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=== Images and files ===
[[File:Geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons 2017-09-20.png|thumb|All geolocated images in [[Wikimedia Commons]].]]
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[[Wikimedia Commons]] is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2025, the repository contains {{NUMBEROF|files|commons|N}} free-to-use media [[Help:Files|files]]<ref>[[commons:Special:Statistics]]</ref> or around 585 [[Terabyte|TB]].<ref name="commons mediastats">[[:commons:Special:MediaStatistics]]</ref> The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having {{NUMBEROF|files|en.wikipedia|N}} files to date.<ref>[[Special:MediaStatistics]]</ref>

Besides images (100,306,082 files), content in other formats is also available: audio (3,528,861 files), video (337,254), PDFs (5,043,585) and 3D files (9,910).<ref name="commons mediastats" /> The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.<ref>[[Special:MostLinkedFiles]]</ref>

Wikimedia Commons has over 270,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.<ref>[[commons:Category:Large images]]</ref> Almost 10,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the [[silent era]].<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/90030/971662/942636 Quarry: Wikimedia Commons files by size]</ref> The largest image is a [[:File:Vienna-big.tif|20th-century map of Vienna]] (3.94 GB).<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/90031/971672/942646 Quarry: Largest images in Wikimedia Commons]</ref><ref>[[commons:File:Vienna-big.tif]]</ref>

As of 2022, about 50% of articles on the English Wikipedia contain at least one image.{{cn}}

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Uploads by year to Wikimedia Commons}}