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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Wikimedia Commons</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption">The Wikimedia Commons <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" class="extiw external" title="commons:Main Page">main page</a> in 2024</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Digital_library" title="Digital library">Media repository</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">September 7, 2004<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2004-09-07</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Wikimedia_movement" title="Wikimedia movement">Wikimedia movement</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a class="external text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org">commons<wbr>.wikimedia<wbr>.org</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Optional (required to upload files) <a href="Duracell" title="Duracell">Duracell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Open_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Open license">Open</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Wikimedia Commons</b>, or simply <b>Commons</b>, is a wiki-based <a href="Digital_library" title="Digital library">media repository</a> of <a href="Open_content" class="mw-redirect" title="Open content">free-to-use</a> images, sounds, <a href="Videos" class="mw-redirect" title="Videos">videos</a> and other media.<sup id="cite_ref-Endres_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Endres-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a project of the <a href="Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>.

</p><p>Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all of the Wikimedia projects<sup id="cite_ref-Embedding_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Embedding-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in all languages, including <a href="Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="Wikivoyage" title="Wikivoyage">Wikivoyage</a>, <a href="Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>, <a href="Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a>, <a href="Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>, <a href="Wikinews" title="Wikinews">Wikinews</a>, <a href="Wikibooks" title="Wikibooks">Wikibooks</a> and <a href="Wikispecies" title="Wikispecies">Wikispecies</a>, and can also be downloaded for offsite use. As of July 2025, the repository contains over 123 million free-to-use media files, managed and editable by registered volunteers.<sup id="cite_ref-CommonsStats_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CommonsStats-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

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<p>The concept for the project came from <a href="Erik_M%C3%B6ller" title="Erik Möller">Erik Möller</a> in March 2004<sup id="cite_ref-Moller_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moller-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Wikimedia Commons was started on September 7, 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-LaunchMain_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaunchMain-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LaunchGolem_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaunchGolem-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000.<sup id="cite_ref-100,000,000_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100,000,000-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, it became possible to upload <a href="3D_models" class="mw-redirect" title="3D models">3D models</a> to the site in <a href="STL_(file_format)" title="STL (file format)">STL</a> format. One of the first models uploaded to Commons was a reconstruction of the <a href="Lion_of_Al-l%C4%81t" title="Lion of Al-lāt">Lion of Al-lāt</a> statue in <a href="Palmyra" title="Palmyra">Palmyra</a>, <a href="Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, which was heavily damaged by <a href="Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">ISIS</a> militants in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Various notable organizations have uploaded files to Commons. In 2012, the <a href="National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a> uploaded <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw external" title="commons:Category:Images from the National Archives and Records Administration">100,000 digitised images</a> from its collection.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020, the <a href="Digital_Public_Library_of_America" title="Digital Public Library of America">Digital Public Library of America</a> (DPLA) started uploading its collections to Commons.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2022, DPLA uploaded more than two million files.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly <a href="Europeana" title="Europeana">Europeana</a>, the website aggregating European cultural heritage, shares its digitised images through Commons.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, as part of a collaboration with Wikimedia, the <a href="World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> (WHO) uploaded its "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Health_Organization_COVID-19_disinformation_infographics" class="extiw external" title="commons:Category:World Health Organization COVID-19 disinformation infographics">Mythbusters</a>" infographics to Commons.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relation_to_sister_projects">Relation to sister projects</h2></div>

<p>The stated aim of Wikimedia Commons is to provide a media file repository "that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content to all, and that acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Most Wikimedia projects still allow local uploads which are not visible to other projects or languages, but this option is meant to be used primarily for material (such as <a href="Fair_use" title="Fair use">fair use</a> content) which local project policies allow, but which would not be permitted according to the <a href="Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a> policy of Commons. For this reason, Wikimedia Commons deletes copyright violations and aims to only host freely licensed media, such as media licensed with the <a href="Creative_Commons_license" title="Creative Commons license">Creative Commons</a> Attribution and Attribution/ShareAlike licenses,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> other free content and <a href="Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> licenses, and <a href="Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> media.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversial_content">Controversial content</h2></div>

<p>The site has been criticized for hosting large amounts of amateur pornography, often uploaded by <a href="Exhibitionism" title="Exhibitionism">exhibitionists</a> who exploit the site for personal gratification, and who are enabled by sympathetic administrators.<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_Dot_Pricasso_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_Dot_Pricasso-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, <a href="BuzzFeed" title="BuzzFeed">BuzzFeed</a> described Wikimedia Commons as "littered with <a href="Human_penis" title="Human penis">dicks</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-BuzzFeed_dicks_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BuzzFeed_dicks-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 2010, Wikipedia co-founder <a href="Larry_Sanger" title="Larry Sanger">Larry Sanger</a> <a href="Reporting_of_child_pornography_images_on_Wikimedia_Commons" title="Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons">reported Wikimedia Commons to the FBI</a> for hosting sexualized images of children known as "<a href="Lolicon" title="Lolicon">lolicon</a>". After this was reported in the media, <a href="Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a>, founder of the <a href="Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> which hosts Commons, used his administrator status to delete several images without discussion from the Commons community. Wales responded to the backlash from the Commons community by voluntarily relinquishing some site privileges, including the ability to delete files.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Utilities">Utilities</h2></div>

<p>Over time, additional functionality has been developed to interface Wikimedia Commons with the other Wikimedia projects. For instance, there exists a community-maintained Commons <a href="List_of_Wikipedia_mobile_applications" title="List of Wikipedia mobile applications">mobile app</a> which allows uploading of photos that document the world, especially notable objects findable in the map in the Nearby List in the app (displaying Wikidata items with coordinates). The app launched in 2012 as an official Wikimedia app and since May 2016, it uses the official Wikimedia Commons name and logo.

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<p>Structured Data on Commons (SDC) is a three-year <a href="Software_development_process" title="Software development process">software development project</a> funded by the <a href="Sloan_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Sloan Foundation">Sloan Foundation</a> to provide the infrastructure for Wikimedia Commons volunteers to organize data about media files in a consistent manner. This data is structured more and is made <a href="Machine-readable_data" class="mw-redirect" title="Machine-readable data">machine-readable</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quality">Quality</h2></div>

<p>There are three mechanisms on the site for recognizing high-quality works. One is known as "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures" class="extiw external" title="commons:Commons:Featured pictures">Featured pictures</a>", where works are nominated and other community members vote to accept or reject the nomination. This process began in November 2004. Another process known as "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_Images" class="extiw external" title="commons:Commons:Quality Images">Quality images</a>" began in June 2006, and has a simpler nomination process comparable to "Featured pictures". "Quality images" only accepts works created by Wikimedia users, whereas "Featured pictures" additionally accepts nominations of works by third parties such as <a href="NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>. A third image assessment project, known as "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Valued_images" class="extiw external" title="commons:Commons:Valued images">Valued images</a>", began on June 1, 2008, with the purpose of recognizing "the most valued illustration of its kind", in contrast to the other two processes which assess images mainly on technical quality.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikimedia_Commons_Pictures_of_the_Year">Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year</h3></div>

<p><a class="external text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture%20of%20the%20Year">The Commons Picture of the Year</a> (POTY) is a competition that runs every year since 2006. It aims to identify the best <a href="Free_license" title="Free license">freely licensed</a> <a href="Images" class="mw-redirect" title="Images">images</a> from Commons submissions, including those that during the year have been <a href="Award" title="Award">awarded</a> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Featured_picture" class="extiw external" title="c:Featured picture">Featured picture</a> status.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2></div>

<div class="gallerytext">As of January 2015, there are about 5.2M geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons.</div>

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<div class="gallerytext">A chart showing the growth of Wikimedia Commons between 2005 and 2023</div>

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<ul><li><a href="Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a> – an organization providing a set of content licenses and a directory of works using them</li>

<li><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a> – an online collection of videos, documents and webpages</li>

<li><a href="Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg">Project Gutenberg</a> – the largest freely accessible collection of documents (including books and sheet music)</li>

<li><a href="Reporting_of_child_pornography_images_on_Wikimedia_Commons" title="Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons">Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

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<li id="cite_note-CommonsStats-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CommonsStats_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics" class="extiw external" title="commons:Special:Statistics">Statistics page</a> on Wikimedia Commons</span>

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<ul><li><a href="Wikipedia_community" title="Wikipedia community">Wikipedia community (Wikipedians)</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Maryana_Iskander" title="Maryana Iskander">Maryana Iskander</a></li>

<li><a href="Lisa_Seitz-Gruwell" title="Lisa Seitz-Gruwell">Lisa Seitz-Gruwell</a></li>

<li><a href="Dariusz_Jemielniak" title="Dariusz Jemielniak">Dariusz Jemielniak</a></li>

<li><a href="Rebecca_MacKinnon" title="Rebecca MacKinnon">Rebecca MacKinnon</a></li>

<li><a href="Raju_Narisetti" title="Raju Narisetti">Raju Narisetti</a></li>

<li><a href="Rosie_Stephenson-Goodknight" title="Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight">Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight</a></li>

<li><a href="Esra'a_Al_Shafei" title="Esra'a Al Shafei">Esra'a Al Shafei</a></li>

<li><a href="Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Hampton_Lintorn-Catlin" title="Hampton Lintorn-Catlin">Hampton Lintorn-Catlin</a></li>

<li><a href="Danese_Cooper" title="Danese Cooper">Danese Cooper</a></li>

<li><a href="Bishakha_Datta" title="Bishakha Datta">Bishakha Datta</a></li>

<li><a href="Florence_Devouard" title="Florence Devouard">Florence Devouard</a></li>

<li><a href="Oscar_van_Dillen" title="Oscar van Dillen">Oscar van Dillen</a></li>

<li><a href="Sue_Gardner" title="Sue Gardner">Sue Gardner</a></li>

<li><a href="Arnnon_Geshuri" title="Arnnon Geshuri">Arnnon Geshuri</a></li>

<li><a href="Mike_Godwin" title="Mike Godwin">Mike Godwin</a></li>

<li><a href="Aaron_Halfaker" title="Aaron Halfaker">Aaron Halfaker</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Heilman" title="James Heilman">James Heilman</a></li>

<li><a href="Guy_Kawasaki" title="Guy Kawasaki">Guy Kawasaki</a></li>

<li><a href="Patricio_Lorente" title="Patricio Lorente">Patricio Lorente</a></li>

<li><a href="Katherine_Maher" title="Katherine Maher">Katherine Maher</a></li>

<li><a href="Erik_M%C3%B6ller" title="Erik Möller">Erik Möller</a></li>

<li><a href="Larry_Sanger" title="Larry Sanger">Larry Sanger</a></li>

<li><a href="Mar%C3%ADa_Sefidari" title="María Sefidari">María Sefidari</a></li>

<li><a href="Lila_Tretikov" title="Lila Tretikov">Lila Tretikov</a></li>

<li><a href="Luis_Villa" title="Luis Villa">Luis Villa</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Wikipedia" title="History of Wikipedia">history</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_Wikipedias" title="List of Wikipedias">List of Wikipedias</a></li>

<li><a href="Censorship_of_Wikipedia" title="Censorship of Wikipedia">Censorship of Wikipedia</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikibooks" title="Wikibooks">Wikibooks</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikispecies" title="Wikispecies">Wikispecies</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikinews" title="Wikinews">Wikinews</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikiversity" title="Wikiversity">Wikiversity</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikivoyage" title="Wikivoyage">Wikivoyage</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikifunctions" title="Wikifunctions">Wikifunctions</a>

<ul><li><a href="Abstract_Wikipedia" title="Abstract Wikipedia">Abstract Wikipedia</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Wikimedia_movement" title="Wikimedia movement">Wikimedia movement</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_Wikimedia_chapters" title="List of Wikimedia chapters">List of Wikimedia chapters</a>

<ul><li><a href="Wikimedia_Bangladesh" title="Wikimedia Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikimedia_Deutschland" title="Wikimedia Deutschland">Deutschland</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikimedia_Israel" title="Wikimedia Israel">Israel</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikimedia_Polska" title="Wikimedia Polska">Polska</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikimedia_Ukraine" title="Wikimedia Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Wikimania" title="Wikimania">Wikimania</a></li>

<li><a href="Wiki_Indaba" title="Wiki Indaba">Wiki Indaba</a></li>

<li><a href="WikiConference_India" title="WikiConference India">WikiConference India</a></li>

<li><a href="WikiConference_North_America" title="WikiConference North America">WikiConference North America</a></li>

<li><a href="MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a></li>

<li><a href="Litigation_involving_the_Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Litigation involving the Wikimedia Foundation">Litigation</a>

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<li><i><a href="Wikimedia_Foundation_v._NSA" title="Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA">Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA</a></i></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Knowledge_Engine_(search_engine)" title="Knowledge Engine (search engine)">Knowledge Engine</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="The_Signpost" title="The Signpost">The Signpost</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Wikipedia_Monument" title="Wikipedia Monument">Wikipedia Monument</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Wikimedian_of_the_Year" title="Wikimedian of the Year">Wikimedian of the Year</a></li>

<li><a href="Tides_Foundation" title="Tides Foundation">Tides Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="Artificial_intelligence_in_Wikimedia_projects" title="Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects">Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects</a></li>

<li><a href="Relationship_between_Google_and_Wikipedia" title="Relationship between Google and Wikipedia">Google and Wikipedia</a></li>

<li><a href="Wikipedia_for_World_Heritage" title="Wikipedia for World Heritage">Wikipedia for World Heritage</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="OpenGameArt.org" title="OpenGameArt.org">OpenGameArt.org</a></li>

<li><a href="Openclipart" title="Openclipart">Openclipart</a></li>

<li><a href="Dogmazic" title="Dogmazic">Dogmazic</a></li>

<li><a href="Phlow" title="Phlow">Phlow</a></li>

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