One of the first models uploaded to Commons was a reconstruction of the Lion of Al-lāt statue in Palmyra, Syria, which was heavily damaged by ISIS in 2015.

[11] Similarly Europeana, the website aggregating European cultural heritage, shares its digitised images through Commons.

[12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a collaboration with Wikimedia, the World Health Organization (WHO) uploaded its "Mythbusters" infographics to Commons.

[17] In 2010, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to the FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as "lolicon".

Wales responded to the backlash from the Commons community by voluntarily relinquishing some site privileges, including the ability to delete files.

[citation needed] Structured Data on Commons (SDC) is a three-year software development project funded by the Sloan Foundation[citation needed] to provide the infrastructure for Wikimedia Commons volunteers to organize data about media files in a consistent manner.

It aims to identify the best freely licensed images from Commons submissions, including those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status.