WikiPortraits: Improving Photos on Wikipedia

WikiPortraits
A project to get more quality Creative Commons-licensed portrait photos taken for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons!

Led by volunteer Wikimedia photographers with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Switzerland, and individual donors. Releases powered by Harbour.

We were recently profiled by 404media and the BBC.
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Gallery
A selection of our photos from WikiPortraits photograhers. Photos by Veronica Bruno, Kaila Colbin, Adam Chitayat, Jay Dixit, Sara Komatsu, Jennifer 8. Lee, Amy Martin, Kevin Payravi, Harald Krichel, Wojciech Pędzich, Arthur Petron, Sol Procter-Tarabanov, Philip Romano, Sriya Sarkar, John Sears, and Frank Sun, and others!
1 billion
That's the number of page views Wikipedia and its sister projects get per month. Getting a quality photo onto Wikipedia is an easy way to raise visibility.
115 million
The Wikimedia Commons is home to over 100 million freely licensed media files. WikiCommons media is used across Wikipedia, news sites, and more.
100+ million
The number of monthly views that WikiPortraits photos on articles across 180 wikis.
11,000+
Number of original photos uploaded from WikiPortraits to Wikimedia Commons since the beginning of 2024
180+
Number of different Wikipedias WikiPortraits have been added to, including Vietnamese, Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Spanish, Thai, and more!
10,000+
Number of different Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items illustrated by WikiPortraits.
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We're supported by the institutions below and people like you!
Contact Us
Questions? Comments? Want to be a sponsor? Want to be a photographer? Contact us at hello@wikiportraits.org or by using the form below (which goes to the same address).
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WikiPortraits

A project to get more quality Creative Commons-licensed portrait photos taken for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons!

Led by volunteer Wikimedia photographers with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Switzerland, and individual donors. Releases powered by Harbour.

We were recently profiled by 404media and the BBC.

Donate!

Gallery

1 billion

115 million

100+ million

11,000+

180+

10,000+

Our Funders

We're supported by the institutions below and people like you!

Contact Us

Questions? Comments? Want to be a sponsor? Want to be a photographer? Contact us at hello@wikiportraits.org or by using the form below (which goes to the same address).