Currently, the following formats are allowed:
- Images
:
SVG
(for vector graphics),
PNG
(lossless format),
JPEG
(for photographs),
GIF
("semi"-lossless format, but PNG is preferred),
TIFF
(lossless format, but PNG is preferred),
WebP
(lossy and lossless format, but JPG is preferred),
XCF
(allows layers and text).
- Audio
:
Ogg
-container (using
FLAC
,
Speex
,
Opus
or
Vorbis
codecs with file extension
.oga
),
MIDI
,
WAV
(16-bit PCM format and 32-bit IEEE uncompressed format),
FLAC
(
.flac
),
MP3
(
.mp3
) or
Opus
(
.opus
).
- Video
:
WebM
using the
VP8
/
VP9
video codec with Vorbis for the sound, or Ogg using the
Theora
video codec. New software supports file extension
.ogv
for Theora video without or with Vorbis audio,
RFC 3534
.ogg
is still usable instead of
RFC 5334
.ogx
for Theora video with other Ogg audio codecs -
Help:Converting video
.
- Animation
:
GIF
,
APNG
,
Animated SVG
.
- Multipage documents (books, journals, magazines, etc.)
:
PDF
and
DjVu
.
- 3D structures
:
STL
.
Currently disabled
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While SXW, SWC, SXD, and SXI (
OpenOffice.org
1.x), as well as ODT, ODS, ODG, and ODP (
OpenDocument
) are theoretically permissible under the similar provisions to
Commons:Scope: PDF and DjVu formats
these formats are currently disabled because we are currently unable to prevent people from hiding harmful or otherwise impermissible content inside OpenOffice's
ZIP
-based container format.
For a longer list of unsupported file types, see
Commons:File types (Unsupported file types)
.