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Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs.
All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on theWikipedia website or the partnerWikimedia Commons website. All free content is stored on "Commons" andimages that have more onerous copyright restrictions are stored on Wikipedia, under afair use rationale. Also, images that are used on theMain Page have a local version to prevent vandalism from appearing. Editors can also choose to have a local version stored on Wikipedia.
Images are classified as files and use the prefix ofFile: or the deprecated prefix ofImage:. TheFile namespace is one of severalnamespaces used on Wikipedia.
Since Wikipedia isnot censored, readers and editors may come acrossoffensive images.
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures is a repository of images that have satisfied theFeatured picture criteria and are used on theMain Page.
Wikipedia:Picture of the day is an image which is automatically updated each day with an image from the list of featured pictures. The{{POTD}} template produces the image shown above.Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.
The current and now iconicWikipedia logo is the third in a series of three.
