diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/_extractors.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/_extractors.py
index e4ede6fa3..bc0a90495 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/_extractors.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/_extractors.py
@@ -2088,6 +2088,7 @@ from .weibo import (
     WeiboMobileIE
 )
 from .weiqitv import WeiqiTVIE
+from .wikimedia import WikimediaIE
 from .willow import WillowIE
 from .wimtv import WimTVIE
 from .whowatch import WhoWatchIE
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/wikimedia.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/wikimedia.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..11c801f0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/wikimedia.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    clean_html,
+    get_element_by_class,
+    parse_qs,
+    remove_start,
+    unescapeHTML,
+    urljoin,
+)
+
+
+class WikimediaIE(InfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'wikimedia.org'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://commons\.wikimedia\.org/wiki/File:(?P<id>[^/#?]+)\.\w+'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_(ZDF,_Terra_X)_720p_HD_50FPS.webm',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'url': 're:https?://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia',
+            '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',
+            'description': 'md5:7cd84f76e7081f1be033d0b155b4a460',
+            'license': 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International',
+            'uploader': 'ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/Luise Wagner, Jonas Sichert, Andreas Hougardy',
+            'subtitles': 'count:4'
+        }
+    }]
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        subtitles = {}
+        for sub in set(re.findall(r'\bsrc\s*=\s*["\'](/w/api[^"]+)["\']', webpage)):
+            sub = urljoin('https://commons.wikimedia.org', unescapeHTML(sub))
+            qs = parse_qs(sub)
+            lang = qs.get('lang', [None])[-1]
+            sub_ext = qs.get('trackformat', [None])[-1]
+            if lang and sub_ext:
+                subtitles.setdefault(lang, []).append({'ext': sub_ext, 'url': sub})
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'url': self._html_search_regex(r'<source\s[^>]*\bsrc="([^"]+)"', webpage, 'video URL'),
+            'description': clean_html(get_element_by_class('description', webpage)),
+            'title': remove_start(self._og_search_title(webpage), 'File:'),
+            'license': self._html_search_regex(
+                r'licensed under(?: the)? (.+?) license',
+                get_element_by_class('licensetpl', webpage), 'license', default=None),
+            'uploader': self._html_search_regex(
+                r'>\s*Author\s*</td>\s*<td\b[^>]*>\s*([^<]+)\s*</td>', webpage, 'video author', default=None),
+            'subtitles': subtitles,
+        }