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Wikipedia is already a great source of photos. Check Wikimedia Commons, where images are sorted by category, a guide on finding images is available here. Check related articles on Wikipedia. Check What links here for articles that may contain images.
There is more to our images than you can see at first look. If you click on any image on Wikipedia, you will go to a page about the image itself. This image page will have information on the image's source, authorship, and copyright licensing, along with a more detailed description of the image.
Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs. All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on the Wikipedia website or the partner Wikimedia Commons website.
- Alignment
- Frame Type
- Size
- Caption
- Parameters
Usable words: left, center, rightIf no alignment is given, the image will be put on the right side of the page.Usable words: frame, thumbIf no Frame type is chosen, no frame is used.If a Frame type is chosen, the caption is shown under the image.The size of an image can be changed in two ways. The first way is by adding a size in pixels to the image tag. The second way is to set the size to a multiple of the normal image size using the uprightkeyword.
Anything that is not a keyword is used as the caption of the image. Captions are only shown on images which have a Frame type used. The caption is also shown when the user's mouse is over the image, with or without a frame type being used. Because keywords are case-sensitive, right is not the same as Right. right is a keyword, Rightis used as a cap...
The gallery tag itself takes several additional parameters: 1. caption={caption}: sets a caption on the gallery. 2. widths={width}px: sets the widths of the images. 3. heights={heights}px: sets the (max) heights of the images. 4. perrow={integer}: sets the number of images per row. 1. {{Gallery}} 2. Manual of Style: Images 3. Wikipedia:Copyright 4....
Steps in uploading a new image. Toggle Steps in uploading a new image subsection. Determine copyright status. Copyrighted images with no license. Free license and public domain images. Fair use images. Procedure to upload. File formats. Filenames. Find previously uploaded images. Toggle Find previously uploaded images subsection.
Jan 13, 2023 · About Wikimedia Commons. This simple guide will take you through the process of using the millions of high resolution photos on Wikimedia Commons which are free of charge to use, including for commercial use. This guide also applies to the other media (e.g. audio and video) found on the website.
Location. Portrait. References from article text. Inline images. Making images available. Toggle Making images available subsection. Obtaining images. Finding images already uploaded. Making images yourself. Finding images on the Internet. Requesting images from others. Editing images. Uploading images. Image description pages.