Commons:Welcome/pt-br
O que é a Wikimedia Commons?
A Wikimedia Commons é uma midiateca livre que disponibiliza conteúdos educativos — imagens, sons e vídeos — em domínio público e sob licenças livres para todas as pessoas, no seu próprio idioma. Atua como um acervo comum para as diversas iniciativas do Movimento Wikimedia, mas não é preciso fazer parte delas para utilizar os conteúdos aqui alojados. Esta midiateca é construída e mantida por pessoas voluntárias, e não por profissionais pagos. O alcance da Commons está detalhado nas páginas sobre o alcance deste espaço.
A Wikimedia Commons utiliza a mesma tecnologia wiki da Wikipédia e todas as pessoas podem editá-la. Ao contrário de conteúdos enviados para outras iniciativas, as obras carregadas na Wikimedia Commons podem ser incorporados em páginas de todos os espaços da Wikimedia, sem a necessidade de os carregar separadamente em cada um deles.
Lançado no dia 7 de setembro de 2004, a Wikimédia Commons atingiu o objetivo de um milhão de arquivos de multimédia enviados no dia 30 de novembro de 2006 e contém atualmente 145 980 441 ficheiros. Mais informação básica a Wikimedia Commons pode ser encontrada na limitação de responsabilidade geral, e na sua página na Meta-wiki.
Unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as they follow the terms specified by the author; this often means crediting the source and author(s) appropriately and releasing copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description page. The Wikimedia Commons database itself and the texts in it are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. More information on re-use can be found at Commons:Reutilizar conteúdo fora da Wikimedia and Commons:First steps/Reuse.
Participate
You can improve Wikimedia Commons most if you contribute what you can do best:
Contribute your work
If you're a good photographer, don't hesitate to contribute your valuable images. If you're a good designer, look which diagrams and animations are badly needed.
Contribute your skills
However, you do not need to upload your own files. There is plenty of other very important work to do:
- Translate pages into a language other than English
- Improve images
- Identify unknown objects
- Contribute your legal knowledge on copyright questions and deletion requests
- Provide feedback to help resolving categories for discussion
- Import media from free media sources
- Help develop the software behind the site and Commons tools by closing code issues or contributing to projects like the Commons app
Contribute your time
You do not even need to be an artist, or good at writing help texts. If you feel at home with creating order from chaos, then we could use your helping hand!
- Anytime you see a file with incomplete licensing or source information, tag it with
{{subst:nsd}}. - Give files needing categories a category.
- Move files into relevant subcategories.
- Implement categorization tasks.
- Free media resources are waiting for an inclusion into this project.
- Nominate or vote for Featured Pictures (registration required).
- Find and revert vandalism.
Tour
Register
In order to be able to upload files on Wikimedia Commons, you need to be logged in. You can register at the "Log in / create account" link in the upper right corner and enter a user name that will be used at all of your uploads/edits on images and texts. However if you just want to edit pages you don't need to be logged in (although it is encouraged). If you have an account on Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia project, then you are already signed up at Commons.
First steps tutorial
Our first steps help file and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki—it is really easy.
More information is available at the Community Portal. You may ask questions at the Village Pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons webchat.
Files on Wikimedia Commons are organized in categories and galleries. An overview of the categories we use is available on the Main Page.
Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal gallery. Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~. If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the FileImporter.
Additional services and software
If you want to upload large numbers of images, there are many upload tools that can be used, like for example VicuñaUploader. If you need specific information on tools for viewing or editing our content please see the software page and tools page.
We hope that you will enjoy it here and that you will have fun.
