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📽️ Featured media - Wikimedia Commons

Featured media are what we believe to be the best media files on Commons. Prior to being listed here, files are reviewed at Commons:Featured media candidates.

There are currently 287 such media in the Commons repository which is roughly 0.0002% of the available files (125,609,067).

Simply click on the "more buttons" of a gallery on this page to see all the featured media for that subject. There is also a guide to reusing any file from Wikimedia Commons.

For the previous featured media and featured media candidates, see the Logs: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

See Commons:Media help for help accessing a file.

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Media of the day

Three fifths of the Earth's surface is under the ocean, and the ocean floor is as rich in detail as the land surface with which we are familiar. This animation simulates a drop in sea level that gradually reveals this detail. +/− [en] Problems playing the file?