London Wiki:Wikimedia Commons

The Wikimedia Commons (also called "Wikicommons") is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. Like Wikipedia, it is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. It provides a common resource repository to all the various Wikimedia sister projects in any language.

The files uploaded to the Commons repository can be used like locally uploaded files on all other projects on the Wikimedia servers in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use, as all of the content is either in the public domain or released under free licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License.

Media on Commons which is tagged with decimal coordinates has a Geo on its page there.

Use of Commons material on this wiki
We may use nearly all of it in the same way as with Wikipedia material; see Project:Wikipedia.

When more than a few phrases are being copied, the following template must be added to the page, with the Commons full page name pasted in between the pipe and the closing brackets:

A relatively new Commons procedure called "InstantCommons" was enabled for Familypedia in 2013 and has proved extremely useful. Other wikia such as this London Wiki may be request that it be enabled.

Commons says this about it:

With InstantCommons enabled, you can choose any image from Wikimedia Commons (e.g. ), click the "Use this file" button and paste the markup in your wiki.

See http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Photos#Copying_from_Wikimedia_Commons for details and an example.

Once the process is enabled for a wikia, it is often enough just to code and it appears just as if it were uploaded to the wikia.

Note that when using files in this way you will still need to respect any licensing and other file use legal requirements - see Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia.