18-528: [REDACTED] Look up WC or wc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. WC or wc may refer to: Water closet or flush toilet Arts and entertainment [ edit ] W.C. (film) , an Irish feature film WC (band) , a Polish punk rock band WC (rapper) , a rapper from Los Angeles, California Westside Connection , former hip-hop supergroup from Los Angeles, California Warcraft ,
36-566: A common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation." Most Wikimedia projects still allow local uploads which are not visible to other projects or languages, but this option is meant to be used primarily for material (such as fair use content) which local project policies allow, but which would not be permitted according to the copyright policy of Commons. For this reason, Wikimedia Commons aims to only host freely licensed media and deletes copyright violations, such as
54-410: A computing performance method of combining multiple memory writes Other uses in science and technology [ edit ] Wall cloud , compounded area of a thunderstorm at the updraft-downdraft interchange where tornadoes may form Water cooler , a device that cools and dispenses water WC, the chemical formula for tungsten carbide , a metallic compound with a high boiling point WC or wc,
72-416: A financial metric Working class World-Check , financial institution risk mitigation database Science and technology [ edit ] Computing [ edit ] wc (Unix) , a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file Web Components , a set of features that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications Write combining ,
90-500: A group of postcode districts in central London, England Wellington College (disambiguation) , one of several academic institutions Wikimedia Commons , an online collaborative project of the Wikimedia Foundation Writing Commons , a peer-reviewed open education textbook for college-level writers Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
108-465: A multimedia franchise created by Blizzard Entertainment Businesses and brands [ edit ] Dodge WC series , a range of light military trucks produced by Dodge during World War II Allis-Chalmers Model WC , a row crop tractor Avianca Honduras (IATA code since 1985), an airline based in La Ceiba, Honduras Wien Air Alaska (IATA code until 1984), a defunct airline Weather Central ,
126-455: A provider of broadcast and interactive web weather solutions Wilson Combat , an American firearms manufacturer Wisconsin Central (disambiguation) , various railroads Wheatland County, Alberta a municipality in south-central Alberta, Canada Economics and finance [ edit ] Workers' compensation , a form of insurance for work-related illness and injury Working capital ,
144-458: A short form for inches water column , a unit of measure of pressure often used in HVAC contexts Weil–Châtelet group , in mathematics Sport [ edit ] Wild card (sports) , a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play World Cup , a type of global sporting competition Other uses [ edit ] WC postcode area ,
162-524: Is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation . Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all of the Wikimedia projects in all languages, including Misplaced Pages , Wikivoyage , Wikisource , Wikiquote , Wiktionary , Wikinews , Wikibooks , and Wikispecies , or downloaded for offsite use. As of August 2024,
180-657: Is known as " Featured pictures ", where works are nominated and other community members vote to accept or reject the nomination. This process began in November 2004. Another process known as " Quality images " began in June 2006, and has a simpler nomination process comparable to "Featured pictures". "Quality images" only accepts works created by Wikimedia users, whereas "Featured pictures" additionally accepts nominations of works by third parties such as NASA . A third image assessment project, known as " Valued images ", began on June 1, 2008, with
198-595: The Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution/ShareAlike licenses, other free content and free software licenses, as well as the public domain . The site has been criticized for hosting large amounts of amateur pornography, often uploaded by exhibitionists who exploit the site for personal gratification, and who are enabled by sympathetic administrators. In 2012, BuzzFeed described Wikimedia Commons as "littered with dicks ". In 2010, Misplaced Pages co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to
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#1732859153419216-502: The FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as " lolicon ". After this was reported in the media, Jimmy Wales , founder of the Wikimedia Foundation which hosts Commons, used his administrator status to delete several images without discussion from the Commons community. Wales responded to the backlash from the Commons community by voluntarily relinquishing some site privileges, including
234-540: The ability to delete files. Over time, additional functionality has been developed to interface Wikimedia Commons with the other Wikimedia projects. For instance, there exists a community-maintained Commons Mobile App which allows uploading of photos that document the world, especially notable objects findable in the map in the Nearby List in the app (displaying Wikidata items with coordinates). The app launched in 2012 as an official Wikimedia app and since May 2016, it uses
252-487: The official Wikimedia Commons name and logo. Structured Data on Commons (SDC) is a three-year software development project funded by the Sloan Foundation to provide the infrastructure for Wikimedia Commons volunteers to organize data about media files in a consistent manner. This data is structured more and is made machine-readable . There are three mechanisms on the site for recognizing high-quality works. One
270-520: The repository contains over 108 million free-to-use media files, managed and editable by registered volunteers. The idea for the project came from Erik Möller in March 2004 and Wikimedia Commons was started on September 7, 2004. In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000. In 2018, it became possible to upload 3D models to the site in STL format. One of the first models uploaded to Commons
288-641: The title WC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WC&oldid=1259354186 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WC">WC The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons , or simply Commons ,
306-565: The website aggregating European cultural heritage, shares its digitised images through Commons. During the COVID-19 pandemic , as part of a collaboration with Wikimedia, the World Health Organization (WHO) uploaded its " Mythbusters " infographics to Commons. The stated aim of Wikimedia Commons is to provide a media file repository "that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content to all, and that acts as
324-699: Was a reconstruction of the Lion of Al-lāt statue in Palmyra , Syria , which was heavily damaged by ISIS in 2015. Various notable organizations have uploaded files to Commons. In 2012, the National Archives and Records Administration uploaded 100,000 digitised images from its collection. In 2020, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) started uploading its collections to Commons. In 2022, DPLA uploaded more than two million files. Similarly Europeana ,
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