News

Your weekly photo from the world’s free media repository: 6 September

Wikipedia tells us that “the Umeda Sky Building is the nineteenth-tallest building in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center.”

This photo comes to us from Wikimedia Commons, the freely licensed media repository whose holdings are extensively used on Wikimedia’s many projects, including Wikipedia. You can use the photo for just about any purpose as long as you credit the author (Martin Falbisoner), copyright license (CC BY-SA 4.0), and link to the original URL.

Ed Erhart, Senior Editorial Associate, Communications
Wikimedia Foundation

This post is the ninth installment of a weekly series, and you can sign up for our MailChimp mailing list to be notified when the next edition is published.

Related — ذو صلة

Read further in the pursuit of knowledge

Your weekly photo from the world’s free media repository: 13 September

Wikimedia Commons

Boats moored in Zoebigker Harbor on Lake Cospuden, located near Markkleeberg, Saxony, Germany. This photo comes to us from Wikimedia Commons, the freely licensed media repository whose holdings are extensively used on Wikimedia’s many projects, including Wikipedia. You can use the photo for just about any purpose as long as you credit the author (Ansgar….

Read more

Your weekly photo from the world’s free media repository: 30 August

Wikimedia Commons

The ruins of Salamis, the ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, have been the subject of archaeological excavations since the late nineteenth century. Here, the columns of the city’s public baths or gymnasium stand in repose. This photo comes to us from Wikimedia Commons, the freely licensed media repository whose holdings are….

Read more

Help us unlock the world’s knowledge.

As a nonprofit, Wikipedia and our related free knowledge projects are powered primarily through donations.

Donate now

Connect — 連接

Stay up-to-date on our work.

Get email updates

Subscribe to news about ongoing projects and initiatives.

Contact a human

Questions about the Wikimedia Foundation or our projects? Get in touch with our team.

Contact
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/06/your-weekly-photo-from-the-worlds-free-media-repository-6-september/
wikimediafoundation.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-16
38531
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:T5LYGUDU36ZRTUF5UFW22OKVLUAQ2MFO
<urn:uuid:ecc67fd4-259f-4d8e-bfd7-d399e77be283>
2020-04-06T02:51:05Z
192.0.66.2
text/html
sha1:UYDH5BE6VZ6TP7DKNJL43AM2DEDLT7PR
<urn:uuid:16faab75-cbea-4b68-b568-fd131fc23081>
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/06/your-weekly-photo-from-the-worlds-free-media-repository-6-september/
response
<urn:uuid:e07f7267-4c44-43a9-8e22-673528c25451>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-202.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/