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A vast library of freely licensed photos, maps, diagrams and sound files, each with its licence spelled out. The picture shelf behind Wikipedia.
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Wikimedia Commons sits in Free Libraries under Learn, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Public-domain books, scanned art, academic archives and collections built by people who cared far too much about one subject. Bring time.
Yes. Wikimedia Commons is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Wikimedia Commons without signing up for anything.
Yes. Wikimedia Commons works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
The free library of source texts — treaties, speeches and out-of-copyright novels, transcribed and proofread by hand.
The preprint server where most physics, maths and computer science appears long before a journal touches it.
Centuries of natural history books scanned page by page, including illustrations nobody has looked at in decades.
The French national library's digital collection — manuscripts, maps, newspapers and photographs, millions of items deep.
Wikipedia with a readable layout, a proper contents sidebar and images that stop fighting the text.
A dictionary of every word in every language, including etymologies, declension tables and regional slang.
The forecast as an animated map, with wind, waves, temperature and a dozen models to argue between, free and without an account.
Answers computed rather than retrieved: integrals, unit conversions, orbital mechanics and the nutritional content of a Mars bar.
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