diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index 535080d0a..a6391997e 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -1659,3 +1659,4 @@ 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..fec867a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+import re
+import requests
+import urllib.parse
+
+
+class WikimediaIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _NETRC_MACHINE = 'wikimediaorg'
+    IE_NAME = 'wikimedia.org'
+    _API_BASE_URL = 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(?P<id>[^/]+)'
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        self.report_extraction(video_id)
+        video_url = self._html_search_regex(r'<source [^>]*src="([^"]+)"', webpage,
+                                            u'video URL')
+        resp = {}
+
+        subtitle_url = f'https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?' \
+                       f'action=timedtext&lang=nl&title=File%3A{urllib.parse.quote(video_id)}&trackformat=srt'
+        with open(video_id + '.srt', 'w+', encoding='utf') as f:
+            subtitles = requests.post(subtitle_url).text
+            if 'timedtext-notfound' not in subtitles:
+                f.write(subtitles)
+            else:
+                print("subtitles not found")
+        resp['url'] = video_url
+        resp['ext'] = 'webm'
+        resp['id'] = video_id
+        resp['title'] = video_id
+        return [resp]