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File upload wizard. Thank you for offering to contribute an image or other media file for use on Wikipedia. This wizard will guide you through a questionnaire prompting you for the appropriate copyright and sourcing information for each file. Please ensure you understand copyright and the image use policy before proceeding.
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Third is the adding of the image to the article. To do so, you would add the following code to the article: [ [File:IMAGENAMEHERE.jpg|thumb|right|CAPTIONTEXTGOESHERE]] First is the file name. Second is the word "thumb" which indicates that the image is a thumbnail; which allows for appropriate resizing and bordering (without this code, the ...
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Wikipedia:Picture tutorial and Wikipedia:Image markup for how to add the image to articles. Selecting the Stetson image from Fort Hood and downloading it. Converting the image from GIF to JPEG. Renaming the image to "Image:StetsonHatFortHoodArmy.jpg". Uploading it as Image:StetsonHatFortHoodArmy.jpg.
Once a file is uploaded, other pages can include or link to the file. Uploaded files are given the "Image:" prefix by the system, even if they are not images, and each one has an image description page that can be edited to provide additional information about the media file after it is uploaded. Find previously uploaded images [edit source]
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What is this site about?
"Wikimedia Commons" (short form "Commons") is a media repository that is created and maintained by volunteers. It provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts that are useful for any Wikimedia project, the most well-known of which is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The name "Wikimedia Commons" is derived from the umbrella project Wikimedia that manages all Wikimedia projects and the word "common"...
What is the scope of this project?
See Commons:Project scope. The page Commons:What Commons is notmay also be of interest.
Can I put material on this site?
Yes, you definitely can! In fact, that's what we want you to do. Just start with the First stepsin order to join the project.
What licenses do the files I want to upload have to use?
Anything that you upload must be in the public domain, or under a free license such as GNU Free Documentation License or CC BY/BY-SA. For more, see Commons:Licensing and Commons:Copyright tags. Please do not invent licenses out of thin air. Most things on the Internet are copyrighted. Don't assume otherwise unless you have a good reason. When publishing your own work, you can release your work into the public domain ({{PD-self}}), or under specific licenses: {{self|license name}}, {{self|lice...
Can I upload scans and images of others I modified?
Only the producer of an original work, or those who have been granted the right to license that work, can license the work. A scan or a modification does not automatically make a document become (or transform into) your own work. This means that you cannot just grab a file from the Internet and put a GFDL or CC license on it. See also Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter.
Why doesn't Commons include fair use content?
One of Wikimedia Commons core principles is that content stored here should be freely reusable in any context, anywhere in the world, in the same way that the (CC BY-SA licensed) encyclopedia content is. This restricts us to free content only. This principle, like the NPOV policy at Wikipedia, will never change. Also, fair use applies only to usage in an editorial context – it simply doesn't apply to a media repository. Copyright law also varies from country to country. Thus, fair uselaws wil...
Does Commons use a special wiki engine?
No. It is the same MediaWiki as for most other Wikimedia sites, but with galleries instead of articles in the main namespace (see the question above). But this site has many heavily customized gadgets and most templatesare unique to Commons and developed locally.
What resolution should the images I upload be?
The highest resolution available for images is more than welcome. You don't have to worry about server disk space and the load-time of the Wikipedia pages that refer to them, since the software automatically generates and caches smaller (as specified in the articles) versions. However, scaling of images may fail if the image is very large and rendering takes too much time or memory (in that case, either no scaled image is shown, or the full image is served to the browser, often causing it to...
How can I directly use materials on this site in Wikipedias?
Just link to the image's file name as if it were a local image. Note: There may be a slight delay in loading the image on the Wikipedia you link it from. This is due to a delay in cached versions of images and can be fixed by doing a reload on the image itself rather than on the page it is displayed on. See also MediaWiki image help, media help page in Meta-wiki, Wikipedia image markup page and Wikipedia picture tutorial.
What is an administrator and how do I become one?
See Commons:Administrators.
Where can I ask questions?
If you want to raise a question which you think is likely to have been raised before, use the Commons:Help desk. If you want to raise a question which might be new, or gain wider community attention, use the Commons:Village pump. There's also a place to discuss technical issues at Commons:Village pump/Technical and a forum dedicated to anything copyright-related at Commons:Village pump/Copyright
How does Commons work with similar projects?
Commons is very interested in working with projects that have similar aims. See Commons:GLAMfor details.
Here is a list of some websites you can search for images with free and open licenses. These websites also o en share informa on about the date and creator that will allow you to check if the image is under public domain. CC Search. Flickr. Flickr: The Commons (only public domain collections) Internet Archive.
All images used on Simple English Wikipedia should come from "Wikimedia Commons", which is a shared collection of free images. All of the images on the "Commons" web site are free of copyright and can be used anywhere in the world. This supports Simple English's goal of being an easy-to-read, easy-to-translate and free encyclopedia. Search for ...
