images
Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs.
 | This is an information page. It is not one of Wiki's policies or guidelines; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels of consensus and vetting. |
All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on the Wiki website or the partner Wiki Commons website. All free content is stored on "Commons" and images that have more onerous copyright restrictions are stored on Wikipedia, under a fair use rationale. Also, images that are used on the Main Page have a local version to prevent vandalism from appearing. Editors can also choose to have a local version stored on Wiki English.
Images are classified as files and use the prefix of File: or the deprecated prefix of Image:. The File namespace is one of several namespaces used on Wiki English.
Since Wikipedia is not censored, readers and editors may come across offensive images.
Policy and guidelines
- Wiki: Image use policy
- Wiki: Manual of Style/Images
- Wiki: Manual of Style/Accessibility#Images
- Wiki: Image placeholders – former policy about placeholder images, especially for biographical pages, now deprecated
- Wiki: File names – naming convention
- Wiki: Image dos and don'ts – information page summarizing this page
Tutorials and help
Image/picture tutorials
- Wiki: Wiki Commons – how to embed a Wiki Commons picture into an article, and how to move an picture from Wikipedia to Wiki Commons
- Wiki: Uploading images
- Wiki: Extended image syntax
- Wiki: File copyright tags
Graphics tutorials
Help
- Help:File page
- Help:Pictures – detailed instructions for inserting images into articles
- Help:Options to hide an image
- Help:Gallery tag – adding a gallery
- Help:Viewing media – aimed at readers
- Wiki: Media copyright questions
- Wiki: How to upload a photo
Maintenance
- Wiki: Proposed deletion
- Wiki: Files for discussion
- Wiki: Graphics Lab/Maintenance/Images for cleanup
- Wiki: Requested pictures
- Wiki: Template messages/File namespace
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Files by type
Featured pictures
Wiki: Featured pictures is a repository of images that have satisfied the Featured picture criteria and are used on the Main Page.
Picture of the day
Wiki: Picture of the day is an image which is automatically updated each day with an image from the list of featured pictures. The {{POTD}} template produces the image shown above. Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.
Wiki logos
The current and now iconic Wikipedia logo is the third in a series of three.
See also
- Elcobbola (11 August 2008). "Dispatches: Reviewing free images". Wiki Signpost. Wiki Foundation.
- Elcobbola (22 September 2008). "Dispatches: Reviewing non-free images". Wiki Signpost. Wiki Foundation.
- Essays
This article uses material from the Wikipedia English article Wiki:Images, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
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