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For more information on multimedia on Wikipedia in general (images, sound files, etc.), see Wikipedia:Media.

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A Wikimedia Foundation brochure in PDF form that introduces newcomers to Wikimedia Commons and how they tin can contribute to it.

Uploading images to Wikipedia is a matter of:

• clearly establishing that the copyright condition of each intended upload is appropriate for a free-content encyclopedia; and then
• uploading the image with articulate labeling as to its origin and copyright status.

If you want to upload multiple images using the New wizard, click here.

Unfortunately, big numbers of images are removed from Wikipedia within hours or days of being uploaded due to inappropriate, insufficient or inaccurate copyright information. Past diligently completing the above steps, you can relieve yourself and others a great deal of fourth dimension and ensure that whatever you upload will remain a part of Wikipedia'due south knowledge base.

Here is a brief synopsis of the epitome requirements:

Allowed copyright statuses include (in descending order of desirability):

• Public domain (expired copyright or public from inception) (see here)
• Ane of various licenses listed in this Wikipedia resource folio
• Claimed as fair use under Wikipedia's non-costless content guidelines

If y'all upload a file with a "fair utilise" designation, be sure to rely on competent copyright law authority; if there is any question about its status, you lot are likely to exist required to defend its ongoing inclusion in Wikipedia in a timely manner. Images uploaded that fail to meet the criteria specified by Wikipedia will be promptly removed. Please don't take removal of an epitome that is not properly documented, too big in size, or potentially offensive to others personally. Wikipedia serves the widest of audiences and as such must be exemplary in its handling of sensitive things similar imagery of living persons. In improver to relying upon competent authority regarding copyright status, nosotros recommend relying upon practiced mutual sense when considering whether an paradigm of a living person might exist considered offensive past them or others. Information technology may be advisable to side with caution, rather than with humor or whimsy (e.grand., as a fan or detractor of a famous artist or equally a political opponent of a public figure).

Earlier uploading images at Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard, brand sure you read and follow the prototype use policy. Most images yous might find on the Internet are copyrighted and not advisable for uploading to Wikipedia. If y'all did not create the epitome, or if you are unable or unwilling to verify its copyright condition, exercise non upload the image. Also, in the cases of images where their owners accept stipulated they be used for non-commercial purposes just, under new guidelines such images may no longer be uploaded into Wikipedia except past the limited permission of those owners. (Consider this policy position.) For hints on how to notice images appropriate for uploading, run into the finding images tutorial. It might also be helpful to read Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload.

Steps in uploading a new image

Make up one's mind copyright status

For uploads to the English language Wikipedia, you must first detect out whether the image is legal in the United States (where the Wikipedia servers are located). Because of copyright treaties, this may additionally crave y'all to verify the image'south copyright in its source state. (A comprehensive explanation of this is at Wikipedia:Not-U.S. copyrights, and simple charts of copyright duration tin can be found at Wikipedia:Copyright situations by country and Eatables:Licensing.) For your own protection, you should too consider whether your own country's copyright laws impose whatsoever requirements on you, the uploader.

Next, determine which Paradigm copyright tag is applicable for your image file.

Copyrighted images with no license

If the image has not been released (to your knowledge) under a license and is nonetheless under copyright, you must gain permission to use the image from the copyright holder.

You can try the standard form at Wikipedia:Proclamation of consent for all enquiries to attempt to proceeds that permission (and if successful, tag the epitome with {{Permission pending}} when the upload procedure is completed).

Alternatively, you tin inquire the copyright holder to mail service a find on the website where the image originated^{[Note 1]} stating that it is released under an advisable free license (such as these; CC By-SA 4.0 is simplest, because Wikipedia's text already uses that license).

Free license and public domain images

If, after looking over the Wikipedia:Copyright and Paradigm copyright tags pages, you lot determine that the epitome is public domain or other free license (e.grand. Artistic Commons), then you may upload information technology to Wikimedia Eatables. This is a shared repository for images and other media files. Images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons tin can easily exist used here on English Wikipedia too every bit past other linguistic communication Wikipedias and Sis projects (the [[File:]] tag will detect Wikimedia Commons images as if they were stored on Wikipedia). Some other advantage of Wikimedia Commons is its category system that helps to organize and make images easy to find. An of import caveat to Wikimedia Commons is that they practise not accept fair use images.

Encounter First steps/Upload form for farther instructions on uploading to Commons. More than general help tin can be constitute at Wikimedia Eatables Help.

Fair use images

If the image you wish to upload is not under a gratis license, but meets all of Wikipedia's fair use criteria, then you are permitted to upload it direct into the English Wikipedia with a fair use rationale. Keep in mind that it is non permitted to upload off-white use images into Wikimedia Eatables, but information technology is permitted to exercise so into English Wikipedia. In addition to fair employ images, it is possible to upload any image straight to Wikipedia; though, doing and then lacks some advantages of Commons.

Procedure to upload

Only logged in users with autoconfirmed accounts can upload images (meaning that the business relationship must be at least four days old, and the user must have fabricated at least ten edits). If you exercise not accept an business relationship, or you have non been autoconfirmed nonetheless, delight come across Wikipedia:Files for upload.

You can upload an image by using the Upload file link on the left side of the main page under the heading 'Contribute' (which is a link to Special:Upload). On nigh browsers, y'all will run across a "Browse..." button, which will bring up your operating organization's standard file open dialog. Choosing a file volition fill the name of that file into the text field next to the button. You must also check the box affirming that you are non violating any copyrights by uploading the file. Press the "Upload" push to cease the upload. This may take some time if yous have a slow Net connection.

Note that some licenses, such equally the Artistic Commons Attribution ShareAlike License v. 2.5, require that licensees attribute the work as specified past the copyright holder. After uploading, you may need to manually edit the "Licensing" section. For this example, y'all would add the correct attribution as a parameter to the {{Cc-by-sa-two.five}} template, which would and so appear equally {{Cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution}}.

File formats

Certain file formats are not accepted on Wikimedia Projects, and may need to be converted to a supported free format prior to uploading. Additionally, some file types produce amend results than others. For more than information on preferred file formats accustomed for sound, video and image files at Wikimedia Commons, see Commons:File types.

Filenames

Some filenames (such as highly generic filenames produced automatically by digital cameras) are disallowed, and attempting to use them will generate an error bulletin.^{[Note 2]}

Examples of skillful file names:

"City of London skyline from London Urban center Hall - Oct 2008.jpg"

"KDE Kicker config screenshot.png"

"1863 Meeting of Settlers and Maoris at Hawke'south Bay, New Zealand.jpg"

"Polyhedron with no vertex visible from middle.png"

"The Consecration Of Male monarch Sinhala-Prince Vijaya (Item From The Ajanta Landscape Of Cavern No 17).jpg"

"Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984).jpg"

Examples of bad file names:

"Image01.png"

"Joe.jpg"

"DSC00001.JPG"

"30996951316264l.jpg"

"th.jpg"

"download.jpg"

"images.jpg"

"download.png"

"images.png"

"balls.png"

For more information, please see Wikipedia:Epitome file names.

Detect previously uploaded images

• To view or search images previously uploaded directly to English Wikipedia, go to the listing of uploaded images.
• Uploads and deletions are logged on the upload log.
• Many images tin can be categorized in 1 of the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia images by field of study or its parent category Category:Wikipedia images. You may want to check at that place to see if an image already exists and has been categorized. You lot might need to poke around the category hierarchy a flake.

Please note that as with wiki pages, others may edit or delete your uploads if they recall it serves the encyclopedia, and you may be blocked from uploading if yous corruption the organisation.

Reupload existing image

To reupload an existing image, for example an infographic based on older data, become to that image file clarification page and discover the link that says "upload a new version of this file", which opens a wizard to upload the new version. Describe only the changes that you have made to the file, as the general clarification of the file (including licensing, etc.) will remain from before. The new version will now automatically be accessed past the pages that link to the file, just volition keep the erstwhile version in the "File History" section of the file clarification page.

If you cannot discover the link to "upload a new version of this file" it's possible that you are not looking at the original source page of the file. Information technology is common for files to be hosted at the Wikimedia Commons, even though they have an English Wikipedia info folio in which case you'll have to notice the file there (a notice should be provided that the file is hosted on Wikimedia Commons and volition link to the file's "description page at that place") where y'all can reupload the file. Changes to the Wikimedia Eatables version of the file will be seen in all Wikipedia references as well.

Afterwards reuploading an paradigm to the same image name y'all often need to bypass your browser cache to see the new image. This also fixes the oddity that the new image might evidence on the paradigm page, just with the one-time paradigm size. Sometimes subsequently uploading a new version of an image the thumbnails in articles still show the one-time image even if you lot have bypassed your browser cache (which is especially ugly if the new image is of a dissimilar size). And then you need to purge the epitome page. See Wikipedia:Purge#For images for how to exercise that.

Adding images to articles

The process for adding images to articles is the same, regardless of whether the image was uploaded to Commons or direct to English Wikipedia. To brand your uploaded file announced in an article, yous need to insert it: edit the article and add the syntax

[[File:Image name|thumb|Caption]]

where you want the file to appear.

Important: Prototype names are example-sensitive. For example, if an prototype is called Picture.jpg then neither movie.jpg nor Picture.JPG will notice it.

See Assist:Visual file markup for farther instructions.

Technical aspects

The preferred formats are JPEG for photographic images, SVG for drawings and line-art illustration, PNG for non-vector graphic iconic images, Ogg Vorbis for audio and Ogg Theora for video. Please name your files descriptively to avoid confusion (see below). To include the image in an article, apply a link in the form [[File:filename.jpg]] or [[File:filename.png|alt text]] or [[File:filename.ogg]] for sounds. To include an image equally a thumbnail, utilize [[File:filename.jpg|thumb|Explanation]].

Mini how-to

The Upload File Screen, which y'all volition find at Special:Upload, has three fields:

• The Source Filename field has a browse button that lets you choose a file on your calculator.
• The Destination Filename field volition comprise the filename that links to your image from a Wikipedia article. If JavaScript is enabled, it volition be set automatically to the filename that you entered in the Source Filename field, but it may be changed to whatever valid name you wish; see Wikipedia:Image file names for guidance on choosing a good name. For the convenience of non-JavaScript users, if the destination field is left blank, the Source Filename will exist used.
• The Summary field is where you enter the text that will appear below the paradigm on its paradigm page. Yous can use Wiki markup and Template:Information within it. In this field yous should write a brief clarification of what the image is, its source, and the license under which you are uploading it.

File description page's Summary mark-upwards text

Here is an example Summary (including explanations of the Template:Information parameters) that you tin copy and paste when yous upload the file or refer to when you edit any file Summary that needs correction:

{{Information
|Description = What can yous see/hear?
|Source = cocky-made or URL, if existent name of institution and such things as itemize numbers or similar
|Engagement = engagement prototype was created and/or released; to avert misunderstandings with different date formats, spell out the month (e.g. created 2. October. 1999 ), utilise ISO 8601 notation (e.k. 1999-10-02 ), or for new self-fabricated works, use ~~~~~ (v tildes) to insert the current date
|Writer = first and last proper noun of the author (in case of self-fabricated works additionally ~~~ ) and/or the name of the institution
|Permission = Short quote of the permission of the copyright owner (if too long shortened with link to long version).
|other_versions = Wiki link to other versions if they exist within the Wikimedia Eatables (e.g. a black and white version of a color image)
}}

Equally for the description of the content, if it's an artwork, please provide brief historical background; in example of scientific data, a brief scientific abstruse of the file. If you accept detailed information about the paradigm, for example the proper noun of the species or the size of the object, please add together information technology. Especially with mineral images, including the size is helpful.

Reminder: If you create images to upload that need to show the size of a depicted object, images with a ruler are better than images with a coin or similar item, since not everyone has access to the same type of item. It volition likewise aid you enter the correct size in the description.

Submitting the information

After entering the information, submitting information technology will upload the image and save the summary. There is no preview, as there is for editing articles. Yet, the Sandbox or a user page can be used to view and edit summaries earlier the epitome is uploaded, and afterwards uploading, you tin still click the edit push and make changes to the summary and the license, if you have fabricated a mistake.

If in that location is already a file that was uploaded with the Destination Filename yous chose, and so yous are given the options to salve anyway and overwrite the old file (although it will remain in the image history) or returning to the upload form and entering a unlike filename.

Examples

For examples on how to upload images and use this template wait at the following images:

• Prototype:QalaunMosque1.jpg
• Image:Cloncurrysunset.JPG
• Prototype:Angel1.jpg

Multiproject upload

Although it is possible to utilise 1 image within several Wikipedia manufactures (of the same Wikimedia projection), it is not possible to use an image uploaded to one Wikimedia project (both sister projects similar Wikisource and other linguistic communication Wikipedias) in some other ane without re-uploading it in each of these projects. For this reason, all gratuitous images should exist uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, where they will immediately be accessible from all Wikimedia projects. Note that Commons but accepts free images (public domain or licensed under a complimentary license). If the image is fair use, you can't upload information technology to Eatables, so it will take to be uploaded separately to every project that uses it.^{[Annotation 3]} To upload the prototype existing on Wikipedia to another project yous will need to download the image to your own computer (ofttimes right clicking on it volition give you this option), and and then re-upload that to the place y'all desire the image to be copied to. Interlanguage links can exist added between the 2.

If this is likewise confusing, only tag it with {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}. This adds a notice maxim "This is a candidate to be copied to the Wikimedia Eatables" to the page; then someone will movement information technology for yous and remove the tag. This category has a significant backlog though, so it may be amend just to move information technology yourself.

Come across also

• Wikipedia:Images
• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion
• Wikipedia:Featured pictures
• Wikipedia:Captions
• meta:Sharing images across projects
• Requesting a free photo – "How-To" guide for acquiring free images (5 steps). More useful for novice editors still gaining experience with copyright licenses and uploading complimentary images.

Notes

1. ^ Information technology must exist articulate that the discover was posted past the copyright owner, and so sites that are clearly professional in nature are more likely to be accepted as proof of license. Just hosting content yourself with a fake annunciation is non acceptable, and may issue in Wikipedia community sanctions against you, in addition to personal liability.
2. ^ See Wikipedia:Image file names#Disallowed image names for how to disallow filenames.
3. ^ Some Wikipedias, virtually notably the German language Wikipedia, do not permit fair use content either. You should verify the local policy before uploading to other Wikimedia sites.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images