diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index 82221445f..dc1760624 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -1700,3 +1700,4 @@ from .zingmp3 import (
 )
 from .zoom import ZoomIE
 from .zype import ZypeIE
+from .wikimedia import WikimediaIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb05682ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+import re
+
+from ..utils import (
+    clean_html,
+    determine_ext,
+    get_element_by_class,
+    urljoin,
+    compat_parse_qs,
+    ExtractorError)
+
+
+class WikimediaIE(InfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'wikimedia.org'
+    _NETRC_MACHINE = 'wikimediaorg'
+    _API_BASE_URL = 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/'
+    _VALID_URL = 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(?P<id>[^/]+)'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_(ZDF,_Terra_X)_720p_HD_50FPS.webm',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'description': 'md5:7cd84f76e7081f1be033d0b155b4a460',
+            'ext': 'webm', 'id': 'Die_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_(ZDF,_Terra_X)_720p_HD_50FPS',
+            'title': 'Die Temperaturkurve der Erde (ZDF, Terra X) 720p HD 50FPS.webm - Wikimedia Commons',
+            'license': 'md5:62907cddf705a9f7ae7076c15407a977',
+            'author': None, 'subtitles': {'de': [{'ext': 'srt',
+                                                  'url': 'https?://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php'}],
+                                          'en-gb': [{'ext': 'srt',
+                                                     'url': 'https?://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php'}],
+                                          'nl': [{'ext': 'srt',
+                                                  'url': 'https?://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php'}],
+                                          'en': [{'ext': 'srt',
+                                                  'url': 're:https?://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php'}]}}
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        ext = determine_ext(url, None)
+        if ext is None:
+            raise ExtractorError('invalid video url', expected=True)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        self.report_extraction(video_id)
+        video_url = self._html_search_regex('<source [^>]*src="([^"]+)"', webpage,
+                                            'video URL')
+        license = get_element_by_class('layouttemplate licensetpl mw-content-ltr', webpage)
+        license = clean_html(license)
+
+        description = get_element_by_class('description', webpage)
+        author = self._html_search_regex(r'>\s*Author\s*</td>\s*<td\b[^>]*>\s*([^<]+?)\s*</td>',
+                                         webpage, 'video author', default=None)
+        info = {'url': video_url, 'description': clean_html(description), 'ext': ext,
+                'id': video_id.replace('.' + ext, ''), 'title': self._og_search_title(webpage).replace('File:', ''),
+                'license': license, 'author': author}
+
+        subtitles = {}
+        for sub in re.findall(r'''\bsrc\s*=\s*[\"\'](\/w\/api(.*?)[\s\"])\b''', webpage):
+            sub = sub[0].replace('"', '''''')
+            sub = urljoin('https://commons.wikimedia.org', sub)
+            qs = compat_parse_qs(sub)
+            lang = qs.get('lang', [None])[-1]
+            if not lang:
+                continue
+            subtitles[lang] = [{'ext': 'srt', 'url': sub}]
+        info['subtitles'] = subtitles
+        return info