Commons:Partnerships
This page lists some informal or formal partnerships between affiliates of the Wikimedia Foundation and other groups/organisations that have resulted in substantial new collections being added to Commons.
If you are the copyright-holder or maintainer of a freely licensed media collection that you believe may be suited to Commons, we would like to hear from you. Please write to info-commons@wikimedia.org with a subject line such as "Wikimedia Commons collection donation".
If you would like to know more about how cultural institutions can work with Commons, see: Commons:GLAM. If you wish to be involved directly with cultural partnerships projects please visit glamwiki.org
A partnership being listed here does not imply official endorsement of the content by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the General disclaimer.
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Institution | Project page | Summary description | Uploaded files (estimate)
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| May 2020 | Archivio Storico Ricordi | w:it:Progetto:GLAM/Archivio Ricordi | Photographs and portraits, artworks and magazines related to the history of music. | 1,286 (usage)
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| January 2020 | Digital Public Library of America | Commons:Digital Public Library of America | Upload of media aggregated from all US cultural institutions | 3,803,372 (usage)
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| December 2019 | Scuola Normale Superiore | Commons:Scuola Normale Superiore | Images from the archives of Scuola Normale Superiore. | 15 (usage)
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| October 2019 | American Center of Oriental Research and Bashar Tabbah | Commons:Open Jordanian Heritage | Images of Jordanian archeological heritage, photographer Bashar Tabbah donated 256 images. | 256 (usage)
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| May 2019 | University of Texas at Arlington Libraries | Commons:University of Texas at Arlington Libraries | Images from the UTA Libraries Special Collections, initially comprised mostly of maps. | 1,416 (usage)
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| January 2018 | Estonian Museum of Natural History | Commons:Estonian Museum of Natural History | Images from the geological collection of the Estonian Museum of Natural History. | 6,274 (usage)
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| November 2017 | Fisfisa Media, Taiwan | Commons:Fisfisa_Media | Images of contemporary Taiwanese writers. | 13 (usage)
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| October 2017 | Maksymovych Scientific Library, Ukraine | Rare Books in Russian and Ukrainian | 11 (usage)
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| September 2017 | Istituto centrale per gli archivi (ICAR), Italy | w:it:Progetto:GLAM/ICAR | Images from Italian archives | 363 (usage)
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| July 2017 | National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kiev", Ukraine | Cultural heritage monuments in Sudak (Crimea). | 67 (usage) | |
| July 2017 | Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie | Commons:Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie | Aerial photographs and other historical images from the image database of the Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie (NIMH, Netherlands Institute of Military History). | 3,195 (usage) |
| June 2017 | fr:Bibliothèque_interuniversitaire_de_santé | Commons:BIU Santé | 3775 multimedia files (portraits, health sciences). | 4,145 (usage) |
| January 2017 | Tartu Art Museum | Commons:Tartu Art Museum | High quality tif-files from museum collection. Ongoing. | 490 (usage) |
| November 2016 | Harold B. Lee Library | Commons:Harold B. Lee Library | over 600 images from our Charles Savage collection, with more public domain photographs to come. | 1,126 (usage) |
| September 2016 | Cervantine Library, Monterrey, Mexico | Commons:Cervantine Library | Uploads of public domain documents and images from the collection of the Library. | 0 (usage) |
| May 2016 | Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | w:pt:Wikipédia:GLAM/Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo | to be defined. | 135 (usage) |
| May 2016 | Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy | Commons:Museoscienza | 5,400 photos from the Museum collections and library | 5,432 (usage) |
| April 2016 | Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura (BEIC), Milan, Italy | Commons:BEIC | 17,000 author photos - the whole digitised archive of the Italian photographer Paolo Monti (1908-1982). Since 2014, 2,000+ historical book scans. | 23,605 (usage) |
| March 2016 | Folger Shakespeare Library | Commons:Folger Shakespeare Library | Initially, 161 scans from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1606) | 165 (usage) |
| January 2016 | Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi History and Ethnography Reserve, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine | 300 images of museums' exteriors and interiors, and information on 60 architecture objects | 301 (usage) | |
| January 2016 | ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich | user:ETH-Bibliothek | About 300,000 images part of many multi-thematic collections | 59,878 (usage) |
| December 2015 | Archives cantonales jurassiennes, Switzerland | user:Archives cantonales jurassiennes | About 3,000 works from photographer Eugène Cattin. | 3,309 (usage) |
| September 2015 | Rijksmuseum | w:Wikipedia:GLAM/Rijksmuseum | 3,400 images with birds on prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics, paintings, textiles etc. | 61 (usage) |
| July 2015 | Basel University Library | User:Basel University Library | Old maps and portraits | 5,779 (usage) |
| June 2015 | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford | w:Wikipedia:GLAM/Bodleian | Scans of books, manuscripts, and ephemera from Bodleian collections, with an emphasis on non-Western geographies and women's history | 8,198 (usage) |
| May 2015 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | User:Guggenheim Museum | 100 images of 2d and 3d artworks from the museum's permanent collection, in context of editathon | 104 (usage) |
| May 2015 | Naturalis Biodiversity Center | w:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/Naturalis | Intended donation of thousands of images of herbarium sheets and other biological specimens from the Museum and research collections | 277,700 (usage) |
| May 2015 | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) | w:nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence/KITLV | 2,445 19th-century photographs in TIFF format of Indonesia and India, now hosted by the Leiden University Library (UBL) | 5,658 (usage)
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| April 2015 | National Gallery of Denmark | Commons:SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst | Donation of images of artwork | 0 (usage)
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| April 2015 | Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library (Ukraine) | 22 Photos from V.Tereshchenko archive show parade held by army, which took place on May 1st 1946, annual workers' day. Columns of army troops, military vehicles, schoolchildren and students made their way trough severely ruined Kyiv city. | 4 (usage)
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| March 2015 | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies | w:nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence/NIOD | Donation of books and images related to the Second World War in The Netherlands | 841 (usage) |
| February 2015 | Museum Catharijneconvent | Commons:Museum Catharijneconvent | Over 2,600 high resolution images, mostly in TIFF format, of religious artworks from this Dutch museum | 3,225 (usage)
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| October 2014 | Calicut Medical College | meta:India Access To Knowledge/Work plan July 2014 - June 2015/Med GLAM Project | About 200 high quality images related to pathology with descriptions, ongoing | 313 (usage)
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| October 2014 | EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Wikipedia:Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence 2013-2014/EYE | About 215 silent movies and some other images in the public domain from the collection of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, ongoing | 224 (usage)
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| October 2014 | Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle | Commons:Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle Archives | Photos document the early days of radio & TV broadcasting in Finland (1920s-1960s), historical persons and places, as well as radio broadcasting technology. | 539 (usage)
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| September 2014 | Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands | Commons:Koninklijke Bibliotheek | Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, complete 1571 atlas of the world from Abraham Ortelius | 0 (usage) |
| September 2014 | Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec | Commons:BAnQ/Conrad Poirier | More than 1,000 pictures of Montreal region in the 1930s and 40s from the photojournalist Conrad Poirier. | 1,808 (usage) |
| July 2014 | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Commons:Open Beelden | About 3,200 Dutch Newsreel videos from Polygoon | 7,308 (usage) |
| June 2014 | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Commons:Stichting Natuurbeelden on Open Images | Videos of birds in the Netherlands. | 982 (usage) |
| June 2014 | Atlas of Mutual Heritage | Commons:Atlas of Mutual Heritage | Old maps, prints and drawings related to the overseas history of the Netherlands, specifically the Dutch East and West India Companies. | 2,492 (usage) |
| June 2014 | Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), The Netherlands | Wikipedia:Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence 2013-2014/IHS | About 500 (estimate) scans of slides on urban developments (2-3 MB each) with licence CC SA 3.0, ongoing | 190 (usage) |
| May 2014 | Peace Palace Library, The Netherlands | Wikipedia:Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence 2013-2014/Peace Palace Library | About 2,000 high resolution photographs (50MB each) of prints from old books with licence PD-Art | 2,077 (usage) |
| May 2014 | Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art | Commons:Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art | Photographs of handcrafts, folk art and makers from the Mexican state of Oaxaca | 357 (usage) |
| April 2014 | EnergieAgenturNRW, Germany | Commons:EnergieAgenturNRW | Nearly 3,000 pictures under CC BY-SA license about subjects like renewable energies or energy engineering | 2,282 (usage) |
| April 2014 | Koninklijke Bibliotheek, national library of the Netherlands | Commons:Koninklijke Bibliotheek | Stedenboek de Wit, an atlas from 1698 of cities in the Netherlands, Belgium and France | 162 (usage) |
| April 2014 | Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH, Augsburg, Germany | Commons:Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH | Photographs of the canals and historical water towers of Augsburg | 27 (usage) |
| March 2014 | Atria, institute on gender equality and women's history (in Dutch), website in English, The Netherlands | Wikipedia:Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence 2013-2014/Atria | Some 100+ (sometimes high resolution) photographs about the history of the women's movement with licence PD-Art | 152 (usage) |
| March 2014 | Reynosa's city hall archive (Reynosa), and Wikimedia México | Commons:Ayuntamiento de Reynosa | Historical documents and old pictures from the city hall archive | 15 (usage) |
| March 2014 | Russian State Archive of Sound Recordings (RGAFD), and wmru:Wikimedia RU | Commons:WikiVoices | Voice samples of wellknown people, from archive media-collection. | 49 (usage) |
| February 2014 | Echo of Moscow, a Russian radio station based in Moscow, and wmru:Wikimedia RU | Commons:WikiVoices | Voice samples of wellknown people, from radio station archive and also will be recorded especially for this project | 312 (usage) |
| February 2014 | Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | Commons:Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | Archival documents: Mostly text, often handwritten by historical figures | 1,517 (usage) |
| February 2014 | Uriarte Talavera, Puebla, Mexico | Commons:Uriarte Talavera | Antique photographs of the enterprise | 11 (usage) |
| January 2014 | The National Library of Israel GLAM Project | User:National Library of Israel | Upload of materials from the Library collection | 113,439 (usage) |
| January 2014 | African Studies Centre, The Netherlands | Wikipedia:Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence 2013-2014/African Studies Centre | Some 900+ photographs about African studies, Coutinho collection Guinea-Bissau 1973-1974 | 6,515 (usage) |
| January 2014 | City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana | Commons:City Museum of Ljubljana | Around 50 CC BY-SA files from Roman era Ljubljana (then Emona) | 46 (usage) |
| January 2014 | Museu Frederic Marès, Barcelona | Commons:Museu Frederic Marès | Around 75 CC BY-SA files from the Museu Frederic Marès | 80 (usage) |
| January 2014 | Swiss National Library, Bern | User:Swiss National Library | Multiple pictures from their archives | 37,138 (usage) |
| November 2013 | Swiss Federal Archives, Switzerland | Commons:Swiss Federal Archives | Around 5,000 CC BY-SA files from the Swiss Federal Archives iconographic collection. Topic: World War I in Switzerland. | 5,460 (usage) |
| October 2013 | Zentralbibliothek Solothurn (ZBS), Switzerland | Commons:Zentralbibliothek Solothurn | Around 1,200 public domain files from the ZBS iconographic collection. Topic: Solothurn and its surroundings. | 3,218 (usage) |
| July 2013 | Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay - Secretaría del Bicentenario | Commons:Bicentenario de Uruguay | 600 photographs | 659 (usage) |
| April 2013 | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Commons:Geluid van Nederland | 2,300 field recordings of The Netherlands | 1,844 (usage) |
| March 2013 | Europeana Fashion | Commons:Fashion Edit-a-thons | 2,900 images and videos of fashion collections | 1,633 (usage) |
| January 2013 | Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed | Commons:Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed | Photos of Rijksmonumenten and other buildings taken by the RCE in the last 100 years | 486,309 (usage) |
| January 2013 | Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City | Commons:Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City | Images from the archives of student and campus communications and 27 broadcasts from campus radio "Shot Informativo" | 1,901 (usage) |
| January 2013 | Zentralbibliothek Zürich | Commons:Zentralbibliothek Zürich | Single-leaf Broadsheets, Landscapes, Portraits and Cultural/ Historical Material | 2,307 (usage)
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| December 2012 | Commons:Musées départementaux de la Haute-Saône | Commons:Musées départementaux de la Haute-Saône | 2,500 files of the Collection (historic and ethnographic artefacts) of the Musées départementaux de la Haute-Saône, Champlitte, France. More than 2,424 files in different categories. | 364 (usage)
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| December 2012 | Various LGBT organizations | Commons:LGBT Free Media Collective | Files from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations participating in the LGBT Free Media Collective coordinated by Wikimedia LGBT, WikiQueer, and w:Equality Michigan. | 3,261 (usage) |
| December 2012 | Museo Casa Rosada | es:Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatón en el Museo del Bicentenario | Files of the Collection of the Museo Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires. Formerly known as the Museo del Bicentenario. | 125 (usage) |
| November 2012 | General State Archives (Greece) - Rodopi (Komotini) Archives | Commons:General State_Archives - Regional Archives of Rodopi | Archival material, historical documents, photos, maps | 61 (usage) |
| November 2012 | Universidad de la Comunicación | Commons:Universidad de la Comunicación | Historical archive photos of the university. | 11 (usage) |
| November 2012 | Corredor Cultural Roma Condesa | Commons:Corredor Cultural Roma Condesa | Photos from activities, museums, galleries and people of Roma-Condesa boroughs of Mexico City. | 10 (usage)
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| September 2012 | Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum | Commons:Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum | public domain artifacts, photos and documents from federal institution | 22 (usage) |
| September 2012 | The newspaper «Pereslavl Week» | Commons:Pereslavl Week | photos from own photo-archive | 1,081 (usage) |
| September 2012 | The Smithsonian Institution Archives | it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Smithsonian Institution Archives | photos from own photo-archive for Commons:WikiAfrica, although the SIA were previously involved in GLAM in 2012. | 91 (usage) |
| July 2012 | The Raccolte extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco museum collection | it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Istituzioni/Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco | photos from own photo-archive of African art pieces; participating in Commons:WikiAfrica | 986 (usage) |
| July 2012 | Garros Galería | Commons:Garros Galería | photos of art exhibitions at the gallery | 31 (usage) |
| June 2012 | University of Neuchâtel and Wikimedia CH | Commons:Neuchâtel Herbarium | digitalize a part of the Swiss herbarium of the Neuchâtel Herbarium. Wikipedian in Residence for a period of three months to actually digitalize the material; pictures will be upload by batch in Wikimedia Commons after being verified. | 38,938 (usage) |
| June 2012 | Central Archives of Historical Records (Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych), Poland | Commons:Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych | Scans of documents from AGAD, XIII - XIX century, mostly handwritten, parchment and paper | 619 (usage) |
| May 2012 | Museum of Memory and Human Rights (Santiago, Chile) | es:Wikiproyecto:Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos | Photographs of the museum, memorials and of people related to violations of human rights during the Chilean military dictatorship (1973-1990) | 113 (usage) |
| May 2012 | Archaeological Museum Hamburg | Commons:Archäologisches Museum Hamburg | Media of the collections of Archaeological Museum Hamburg | 46 (usage) |
| April 2012 | Telenor Group | Commons:Telenor | photos of telecom people, history and equipment | 408 (usage) |
| March 2012 | Llotja Advanced School of Art and Design | Commons:Llotja | illustrations of geological phenomena, art practices, people portraits (politicians, writers, illustrators) and fiction characters, contributed by students. Part of the wiki-ArS initiative to involve schools of art & design. | 146 (usage) |
| March 2012 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Category:Files from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 20 archival "package news" videos | 31 (usage) |
| March 2012 | Bulgarian Archives State Agency (bg) | Commons:Bulgarian Archives State Agency | 14,084 (usage) | |
| February 2012 | Distant Shores Media/Sweet Publishing | Commons:Bible Illustrations | Illustrations of the Old and New Testament | 2,392 (usage) |
| February 2012 | Walters Art Museum | Commons:Walters Art Museum | Photographic images of the Walters Art Museum collection. | 18,664 (usage) |
| January 2012 | Museo del Objeto del Objeto, Mexico City | Commons:Museo_del_Objeto_del_Objeto | Photos donated by the museum as well as photos created in collaboration with Wikimedia México | 47 (usage) |
| December 2011 | Chris's Acorns | Commons:Chris's Acorns | Photographs of Acorn Computer hardware and software. | 1,718 (usage) |
| October 2011 | Pietro Pensa Archive | w:it:Progetto:GLAM/Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus | Hi-res images of manuscripts (parchments) and other ancient documents, photos | 4,520 (usage) |
| October 2011 | Herbert Art Gallery and Museum | Commons:Herbert Art Gallery and Museum | Various images from the museum and onsite archive's collections. | 56 (usage) |
| September 2011 | Fondazione Cariplo | w:it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Fondazione Cariplo | Images of paintings and of other artworks of their collections (from 1st to 19th Century), participating in the Share Your Knowledge GLAM project | 867 (usage) |
| September 2011 | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer | Commons:Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer | Photographs from XIX century paintings and other items of their collection | 456 (usage) |
| September 2011 | Archives of American Art | Commons:Archives of American Art | Photographs from the Federal Art Program | 350 (usage) |
| September 2011 | Numerous partners in Europe and 18 countries, including Europa Nostra, Council of Europe and European Commission | Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 | Monuments photo contest in 18 European countries, in cooperation with local and international partners. | 167,756 (usage) |
| August 2011 | National Archives (UK) | en:Wikipedia:GLAM/The National Archives | Wide GLAM project: most of the pictures though are Africa-related, see this case study | 6,219 (usage) |
| August 2011 | Konrad Adenauer Foundation | Commons:Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung | Archive images | 84 (usage) |
| July 2011 | National Archives and Records Administration | Commons:National Archives and Records Administration | Archive record images | 1,524,932 (usage) |
| July 2011 | Airviewonline.com | Commons:Airviewonline.com | Aerial photographs | 1 (usage) |
| June 2011 | Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte | Commons:Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte | archive record images, restoration process images, restoration reports | 172 (usage) |
| June 2011 | RIA Novosti archive | Commons:RIA Novosti | As of 2011, there have been 800 historical images uploaded as a result of the collaboration between RIA Novosti and Wikimedia RU | 644 (usage) |
| June 2011 | Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City | Commons:Museo_de_Arte_Popular | Photos donated by the museum as well as photos created in collaboration with Wikimedia Méxcio | 64 (usage) |
| April 2011 | The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | Commons:The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | Wikipedian-in-Residence initiated and curator-vetted selection of images of collections objects. | 321 (usage) |
| March 2011 | Generalitat de Catalunya | Commons:Generalitat de Catalunya | OpenData and images project from the Government of Catalonia | 7 (usage) |
| March 2011 | Geographicus Rare Antique Maps | Commons:Geographicus | More than 2,000 old maps | 2,340 (usage) |
| March 2011 | doual'art | w:it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/doual'art | Images of events, people and art exhibitions about African culture - relating to Commons:WikiAfrica | 46 (usage) |
| February 2011 | Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles | Commons:Château de Versailles | Wikimedian in residence, creation of multimedia content | 2,309 (usage) |
| January 2011 | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics | Commons:LabPstryk 2011 | Pictures of infrastructure and equipment of a biology research institute | 688 (usage) |
| December 2010 | State Library of Queensland, Australia | Commons:State Library of Queensland | Collection of copyright-free photographs documenting some of the history of Queensland. Includes about 4,000 images of ships. | 27,813 (usage) |
| November 2010 | Nordic Museum | Commons:Nordiska Museet | Images related to the history of Sweden, Swedish culture and Swedish folklore. | 26,897 (usage) |
| October 2010 | City archives of Toulouse | Commons:Archives municipales de Toulouse | Photographic collection of the XIXe century | 606 (usage) |
| October 2010 | Muséum de Toulouse | Commons:Projet Phoebus | Photographs of paleontology and prehistory collections of the Museum | 9,079 (usage) |
| September 2010 | MEDIACRAT company (Publishing & Advertising Agency ) | 180 views of Armenia from «Wow! Armenia» project — the Internet version of 100 Mysteries of Armenia book published by MEDIACRAT. | 183 (usage) | |
| September 2010 | Erling Mandelmann | Commons:Erling Mandelmann | Portraits of notable people | 628 (usage) |
| September 2010 | Vänsterpartiet (Swedish Left Party) | Commons:Vänsterpartiet | Pictures of candidates for the Swedish government | 115 (usage) |
| September 2010 | Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo | Commons:Nationaal Archief | Photos of Dutch politics | 430,576 (usage) |
| September 2010 | Wikimedia Nederland (the Dutch Wikimedia chapter) | Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 | Photos of heritage sites (rijksmonumenten) | 12,710 (usage) |
| July 2010 | MEDIACRAT company (Publishing & Advertising Agency ) | 383 photos of famous sportspeoples from Russian sports magazine «Bolshoi sport» (“Grand Sport”; http://bolshoisport.ru/) | 403 (usage) | |
| July 2010 | IUCN Red List | Commons:IUCN red list | Creation of distribution maps derived from their spatial data | 5,449 (usage) |
| July 2010 | Bibliothèque nationale de France | Commons:Bibliothèque nationale de France | Upload of scanned books for Wikisource | 1,846 (usage) |
| June 2010 | Stadtarchiv Lüneburg (city archives of Lüneburg, Germany) | Commons:Stadtarchiv Lüneburg | Upload of scanned pictures | 334 (usage) |
| May 2010 | Bonnier | Commons:Bonnier | Upload of photos of authors | 29 (usage) |
| April 2010 | Brooklyn Museum | Commons:Brooklyn Museum | Upload of photos of artworks, half of which participate in Commons:WikiAfrica | 10,228 (usage) |
| April 2010 | Robert Lavinsky | Commons:Robert Lavinsky | Upload of photos of minerals | 52,055 (usage) |
| January 2010 | Mary Rose Trust | Commons:Mary Rose Trust | Uploads of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose | 67 (usage) |
| November 2009 | California Academy of Sciences | Commons:AntWeb | Uploads of images about ants | 33,014 (usage) |
| September 2009 | Library of the Chilean National Congress | Books, scans of historical documents and images of Chilean congresspeople. | 3,836 (usage) | |
| September 2009 | Queensland Museum | Commons:Queensland Museum | Upload of A E "Bert" Roberts plate glass photo collection, made in the early 20th century. | 22 (usage) |
| August 2009 | Region Arkivet | Commons:Regionarkivet | Scan and upload of public domain photos by famous photographers | 75 (usage) |
| June 2009 | Various museums in the Netherlands | Commons:Wiki Loves Art Netherlands | Several museum in the Netherlands welcomed amateurs to take photos of their collection | 4,327 (usage) |
| March 2009 | Deutsche Fotothek | Commons:Deutsche Fotothek | Upload of various photos | 62,411 (usage) |
| March 2009 | Tropenmuseum | Commons:Tropenmuseum | Upload of photos taken in former Dutch colonies; part of them donated in 2012 for Commons:WikiAfrica | 51,401 (usage) |
| December 2008 | German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) | Commons:Bundesarchiv | Upload of various photos | 85,305 (usage) |
| 2008 | École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse (National Veterinary School of Toulouse, France) | Commons:École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse | Scan and upload of public domain books in French | 150 (usage) |
| October 2008 | Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia | Images made available on Flickr and uploaded on Wikipedia | 909 (usage) | |
| May 2007 | Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst (Dutch Government Information Service) | Commons:Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst | Release of official portrait photos of government cabinet members | 27 (usage) |
| May 2007 | Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island | Commons:Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island | Photographs of historic computers | 73 (usage) |
| 2007 | Pearson Scott Foresman | Commons:Pearson Scott Foresman | Scan and upload of educational illustrations | 5,843 (usage) |
| December 2006 | Ladd Observatory | Commons:Ladd Observatory | Archival historic photographs and astronomical images | 27 (usage) |
| 2005 | Picswiss | Commons:Picswiss | Upload of photos of Switzerland | 5,318 (usage) |
| May 2005 | Directmedia | Commons:10,000 paintings from Directmedia | Upload of photos of paintings | 10,259 (usage) |
Others
edit- Wikimedia Israel free image collection project: historical images
- Philip Greenspun illustration project: funded illustration creation
- Contributions from art and design schools following the wikiArS initiative, schools as Commons Partnerships
- Items with OTRS permission: various media with special permission from the copyright-holder
See also
edit- Commons:Guide to content partnerships, a guide to describe how to do a content partnership based on the lessons learned from previous partnerships.
- Commons:Example requests for partnerships contains sample emails to send to potential partners
- Commons:Partnership templates, a list of partnership templates (templates made for a partnership here at Wikimedia Commons) and the requirements for these templates.
- Commons:Batch uploading
- Partnerships FAQ on the Wikimedia meta-wiki.
- Cultural/Content partnerships on the Wikimedia UK wiki