Commons Content Party

Commons is running this month’s Photo Challenge. Pick a theme, upload a photo, and add it to the matching Entries section.

Open through: September 2026 UTC

Themes:

• Abandoned — challenge page · submit
• Public transport — challenge page · submit

How to enter

1. Upload a photo you took during September 2026 UTC.
2. Use the matching submit link above.
3. Add the file to the top of the Entries gallery as Filename.jpg|Description.

Basic rules

• Submit your own work.
• The file should be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge month.
• Check the theme page for any extra requirements.

A few examples from Commons

Abandoned: File:Canoe in abandoned channel, River Ljubljanica, Slovenia.jpg — Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Public transport: File:Luftseilbahn zum Säntis.jpg — JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Links

• Challenge overview
• Submission instructions
• Gallery markup help

Commons is running this month’s Photo Challenge. Pick a theme, upload a photo, and add it to the matching Entries section.

Open through: August 2026 UTC

Themes:

• River mouths, Confluences and River deltas — challenge page · submit
• Needles — challenge page · submit

How to enter

1. Upload a photo you took during August 2026 UTC.
2. Use the matching submit link above.
3. Add the file to the top of the Entries gallery as Filename.jpg|Description.

Basic rules

• Submit your own work.
• The file should be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge month.
• Check the theme page for any extra requirements.

A few examples from Commons

River mouth s, Confluence s and River delta s: File:River Deltas, Lake Ayakum, Tibet.JPG — ISS Expedition 27 crew, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Needles: File:Dispensing-needles-02.jpg — Lilly_M, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Links

• Challenge overview
• Submission instructions
• Gallery markup help

Commons is running this month’s Photo Challenge. Pick a theme, upload a photo, and add it to the matching Entries section.

Open through: July 2026 UTC

Themes:

• Disaster Rephotography — challenge page · submit
• Puddle s — challenge page · submit

How to enter

1. Upload a photo you took during July 2026 UTC.
2. Use the matching submit link above.
3. Add the file to the top of the Entries gallery as Filename.jpg|Description.

Basic rules

• Submit your own work.
• The file should be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge month.
• Check the theme page for any extra requirements.

A few examples from Commons

Disaster Rephotography: File:Sad to see dead forests on Rim Fire - Flickr - daveynin.jpg — daveynin from United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Puddle s: File:MotoSport 1.jpg — Gorde.shrikant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Links

• Challenge overview
• Submission instructions
• Gallery markup help

Differences and problems among countries, hardly avoidable, need to be handled through dialogue and cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual respect. One country’s success does not have to mean another country’s failure, and the world is big enough to accommodate common development and progress of all countries.

— Xi Jinping

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/June_15%2C_2026

trillionaire (n)

1. A person whose wealth is at least one trillion (1012) currency units.
2. (archaic) Synonym of gazillionaire (“someone so rich that the exact amount of their wealth is ridiculously unimportant for casual or practical purposes”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/June_15

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorila_de_monta%C3%B1a_(Gorilla_beringei_beringei),_parque_nacional_de_la_Selva_Impenetrable_de_Bwindi,_Uganda,_2024-02-02,_DD_80.jpg

Description:

Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

We’re going to have a UFC fight. We’re going to have a UFC fight — think of this — on the grounds of the White House. We have a lot of land there.

— Donald Trump

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/June_14%2C_2026

quotationist (n)

listen

1. One who makes, or is given to making, quotations; a quoter.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/June_14

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wulfenite_mexique.jpg

Description:

Template:Potd/2026-06-14 (en)

It's time for us to wake up and face the truth, that we are a captive species on a prison planet, but the fact that we are so close to understanding the science of our imprisonment means that we are also just beginning to touch the key that locks the door, and if we are strong, if we defy and defeat the sinister forces that rule us now, we have a chance at last to unlock this place and do what we are able to do, that we are richly capable of doing, that those who love us — and they are out there, too — have hoped and sought that we should do from time immemorial.

— Whitley Strieber

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/June_13%2C_2026

twixt prep

listen

1. (literary, poetic, archaic) Synonym of betwixt (“between”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/June_13

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints_Catholic_Church_(St._Peters,_Missouri)_-_stained_glass,_sacristy,_Immaculate_Heart_detail.jpg

Description:

An image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on a stained-glass window located in a church in St. Peters, Missouri. Today is the feast day of the Immaculate Heart in the Roman Catholic Church.

I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: "Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it." My advice is: "Go outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has to offer. Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."

— Anne Frank

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/June_12%2C_2026

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/archive#English

archive v

1. To place or store (something, such as a document or record) in an archive (noun sense 1.1).
2. (computing) To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.
3. archive n
4. Chiefly in the form archives.
   1. A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
   2. The material so stored, considered as a whole.
      1. (by extension, ecology) A natural deposit of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
5. (figurative) A collection, a repository.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/June_12

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonewall_Inn_with_Orlando_nightclub_shooting_memorial_during_Pride_2016_(50126p).jpg

Description:

A memorial to victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in front the Stonewall Inn in New York City. On June 12, 2016, a terrorist shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz.

— William Styron

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/June_11%2C_2026

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/localism#English

localism n

1. (uncountable) Attachment to or preference for a particular local place, especially the place where one lives; hence, feelings, opinions, or policies which emphasize or focus on local phenomena; (countable) an instance of this.
   1. (politics) The policy or practice of giving more control and decision-making power to local authorities or residents, rather than to the central government; also, support for this.
2. (countable) A thing which is characteristic to a particular local place.
3. (linguistics)
   1. (countable) A linguistic feature such as a word or phrase that is unique to a locality.
   2. (uncountable) An approach to understanding linguistic expressions in terms of movement and position (sometimes abstract, for example, one who is hungry is said to be in a notional "space" of hunger).
   3. (uncountable) The belief that language functions are localized to various parts of the brain.
4. (medicine, historical, uncountable) The belief that fevers or diseases causing them originate from particular organs or parts of the body, or are due to conditions in a particular local place where patients live.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/June_11

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hong_Kong_Harbour_Night_2019-06-11.jpg

Description:

Panorama of Hong Kong's harbour and skyline, as seen from Victoria Peak on a rainy night of June 11, 2019.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adjure#English

adjure v

1. (transitive)
   1. To formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to charge.
   2. To earnestly advise or urge (someone); to exhort.
   3. To earnestly appeal to (someone, or a deity); to entreat, to implore.
   4. (Christianity) To summon (the Devil or an evil spirit); to invoke; also, to exorcize (the Devil or an evil spirit).
2. (intransitive, Christianity) To summon the Devil or an evil spirit; also, to exorcize the Devil or an evil spirit.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/June_10

Commons is running this month’s Photo Challenge. Pick a theme, upload a photo, and add it to the matching Entries section.

Open through: June 2026 UTC

Themes:

• Bokeh — challenge page · submit
• Street food — challenge page · submit

How to enter

1. Upload a photo you took during June 2026 UTC.
2. Use the matching submit link above.
3. Add the file to the top of the Entries gallery as Filename.jpg|Description.

Basic rules

• Submit your own work.
• The file should be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge month.
• Check the theme page for any extra requirements.

A few examples from Commons

Bokeh: File:West European Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)1.jpg — Hrald, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Street food: File:Banhcanhcua.jpg — bánh canh cu, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Links

• Challenge overview
• Submission instructions
• Gallery markup help

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po_de%C5%A1ti_ve_St%C5%99edoho%C5%99%C3%AD.jpg

Description:

Hills of České Středohoří (Central Bohemian Highlands): Malý Křižák, Křižák, Brník, Srdov, Milá

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:003_Ringed_kingfisher_flying_with_a_fish_in_Encontro_das_%C3%81guas_State_Park_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg

Description:

Ringed kingfisher flying with freshly caught fish in Mato Grosso, Brazil

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloemknoppen_van_een_hertshooi_(Hypericum)._13-06-2025_(d.j.b.).jpg

Description:

Flower buds of a shrubby St. John's wort ('Hypericum androsaemum). Focus stack of 25 photos.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baillon%27s_Crake_in_Baruipur_February_2024_by_Tisha_Mukherjee_03.jpg

Description:

Zapornia pusilla (Baillon's Crake) in Baruipur, West Bengal, India.