and are valuable for Wikimedia projects.

Unlike featured pictures, quality images

must be the work of Commons contributors; they need not be extraordinary or
outstanding, but merely well-composed and generally well-executed. 184,743 images
out of 46,860,726 total files have currently been marked as Quality images.

This page highlights recently promoted images that meet the quality image
guidelines. If you think that a particular image meets the criteria, you may
nominate it at Commons:Quality images candidates. All Quality images can be found
in a category called Quality images. You can browse Quality images by country.

Quality images are divided into three subgroups. Any individual image may be placed
in one or more of these groups:

Pictures with special technical merit. These images can be used as reference tools
for teaching and explaining concepts in photography.
Pictures with a particular subject. This group has subgroups such as "birds" and
"man-made structures".
Pictures created in a particular manner. For example, animatio