Pictures from member Wikimedia

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 15 most visited websites in the world.

Pictures have been selected for the Gallery from the following websites under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella:

• Wikipedia - Many entries in this free encyclopedia include images.
• Wikiquote -Many quotes include images, often hosted at Wikimedia Commons.
• Wikibooks -Some books include pictures
• Wikimedia Commons - A central repository for free video, images, music, spoken texts, and other free media.  The Yorck Project  includes 10,000 paintings in the public domain, organized by artist name.