Since Wikimedia Commons is now the repository for free images, it is redundant and wasteful to upload an image to every Wikipedia language or sister project that wants to use an image. Using Commons, we can store a picture just once on Wikimedia's servers and use it anywhere. Therefore, uploaded free images should all be transferred to Commons, and those that are currently on Wikipedia must be moved. As all of the subcategories of Category:Free images, including Category:GFDL images, Category:Public domain images, Category:Free use images and many others, must now be transferred to Commons, this WikiProject has been created to organize efforts and expand awareness of this massive waste of server space.
Please apply an extremely critical eye to allegedly "free" images here before uploading them at the Commons. This project is a good chance to catch many of the dodgily sourced and licensed images here. If you have any doubts please don't upload to the Commons (send to FfD or PUF) because it will just create unnecessary duplication for Commons admins.
| Category | Files | Type | Comments |
| Category:Agência Brasil images | 4 | Creative Commons |
| Category:All user-created public domain images | 167,181 | Public domain |
| Category:APL images | 0 | Other | |
| Category:Australian public domain photographs | 2,169 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:Author died more than 100 years ago public domain images | 12,978 | Public domain |
| Category:Author died more than 50 years ago public domain images | 490 | Public domain | Be very careful with these images; make sure that they have the proper licensing per the text of {{PD-old-50}} |
| Category:Author died more than 70 years ago public domain images | 930 | Public domain |
| Category:BSD images | 109 | Other |
| Category:Canadian public domain photographs | 1,249 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:CeCILL images | 0 | Other | |
| Category:Chinese public domain photographs | 249 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:Conditional use images | 1,921 | Conditional use | Please ensure that the {{Copyrighted free use provided that}} tag on the image has an acceptable requirement before moving |
| Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons | 18,453 | Varies |
| Category:Copyright holder released public domain images | 18,077 | Public domain |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 images | 1,667 | Creative Commons |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 images | 15,162 | Creative Commons |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 images | 22,261 | Creative Commons | |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution images | 588 | Creative Commons |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 images | 1,930 | Creative Commons |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.1 images | 1 | Creative Commons | |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 images | 12,150 | Creative Commons |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 images | 194,430 | Creative Commons | |
| Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike images | 899 | Creative Commons |
| Category:Creative Commons ShareAlike images | 316 | Creative Commons |
| Category:Executive Office of the President images | 375 | Public domain |
| Category:FAL images | 494 | Other |
| Category:Free screenshots | 940 | Varies |
| Category:Free screenshots of video games | 1 | Varies |
| Category:Free use images | 139 | Public domain |
| Category:GFDL images | 124,984 | Other |
| Category:GPL images | 1,141 | Other |
| Category:German public domain photographs | 0 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:Gray's Anatomy images | 56 | Public domain |
| Category:Great War Primary Documents Archive images | 0 | Public domain |
| Category:Images in the public domain in the United States | 26,072 | Public domain | Commons does not accept most images which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be extra careful when moving these! |
| Category:Images requiring attribution | 5,267 | Conditional use |
| Category:LGPL images | 200 | Other |
| Category:MIT images | 5 | Other |
| Category:Meyers Konversations-Lexikon | 0 | Public domain |
| Category:MPL images | 56 | Mozilla Public License | |
| Category:PD-AR-Photo | 146 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:PD US DEA | 79 | Public domain |
| Category:PD Coa Germany | 65 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:PDphoto.org images | 53 | Public domain |
| Category:Pakistani public domain photographs | 189 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:Polish government symbols | 102 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:Pre-1994 Poland images | 102 | Public domain |
| Category:Public domain art | 8,061 | Public domain | Commons does not accept most images which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be careful when moving these if the image wasn't first published in the US! |
| Category:Public domain images | 6,501 | Public domain | These tags should be updated to use a more specific license before being moved to Commons. |
| Category:Public domain images ineligible for copyright | 3,575 | Public domain |
| Category:Public domain stamp images | 2 | Public domain |
| Category:TrainWeb images | 110 | Conditional use |
| Category:UK Government images | 845 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:UN map images | 1 | Public domain | For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. |
| Category:Ubisoft screenshots | 60 | Conditional use |
| Category:United States government images | 3,687 | Public domain |
| Category:World Coin Gallery images | 35 | Other |
