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==== Finding pictures in the Commons ====

Because the Commons is a media storage site, you'll find a table of contents right on its Main Page (Figure B-18). With more than 24 million images, you may find something you really like—and it's all free content.

The Commons' Main Page offers a number of ways to view its content—by starting with featured pictures, by drilling down through categories, or by choosing a topic area. If you choose a topic, you'll arrive at a category page similar to Figure B-5 with one interesting difference—the page has a tab labeled CatScan. Yep—that's the category intersection tool mentioned on [[Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Name of Part of the Book/Name of the Chapter#Section heading|the section about xx]], and it works for the Commons as well as Wikipedia.[[File:Wikipedia-The Missing Manual_I_mediaobject_d1e29909.png|frame|right|The Commons' Main Page offers a number of ways to view its content—by starting with featured pictures, by drilling down through categories, or by choosing a topic area. If you choose a topic, you'll arrive at a category page similar to Figure B-5 with one interesting difference—the page has a tab labeled CatScan. Yep—that's the category intersection tool mentioned on [[Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Name of Part of the Book/Name of the Chapter#Section heading|the section about xx]], and it works for the Commons as well as Wikipedia.]]