References/Wikimedia Commons/Notes
References: Images from Wikimedia Commons - Notes
Images
Images hosted on the Wikimedia Commons website are generally copyrighted but available for re-use subject to stated terms, conditions, or license such as the GNU Free Documentation License.
For example, images from Wikimedia Commons are used on Wikipedia.
Hotlinking vs Local Server
From the guide: Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia/technical, "Hotlinking is allowed from Wikimedia servers, but is not generally recommended..."
Consequently, each relevant image has been downloaded and cached locally for use on this website.
Links and Attribution
As each image is presented in this website the attribution is visible on mouse-over, and the image is linked to the source page on the Wikimedia Commons website.
Right-click is generally disabled so that the image cannot be downloaded from this website.
Reference ID
The images downloaded from the Wikimedia Commons website have been allocated a Reference ID which has three parts:-
- WMC- as an abbreviation of WikiMedia Commons
- IMG to identify the item as an Image, and
- a unique number.
The Reference ID enables each instance of image re-use and the relevant page(s) to be identified when expanded.