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How To Upload Photos To Wikipedia
by Steve Meirowsky (
User:Sbmeirow)
Please do not throw rocks at me, since this article is currently located in my user space. I welcome useful edits and constructive input.
This user article provides instructions, guidelines, and tips for uploading photos.
Wikipedia is conceptually split up into "servers" that have different purposes. Each human language has seperate servers, such as all english articles reside on one "server", and all german articles reside on another "server". All of the media (photos, vidoes, ...) are stored on the Wikimedia Commons "server". All language servers refer to media stored on Wikimedia Commons. You aren't uploading photos to Wikipedia, but instead technically uploading to Wikimedia Commons.
All media uploaded to Wikimedia Commons must have the correct copyright license or it will be deleted. It is your responsibility to understand the different types of licenses and how it affect you, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ for more info. The copyright license for all media must be one of the following:
Highly Recommended Tips:
For users that only edit Wikipedia text, they only need to create one account on a specific Wikipedia language "server", such as the Wikipedia English "server".
For users that want to upload photos, they will need an additional Wikimedia Commons account, and possibly a Flickr account if uploading personal photos.
If possible, create ALL accounts with the same name or similar names, for copyright and validation purposes.
How to find existing photos:
You might want to avoid using Photobucket for now. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bad_sources#Photobucket
I use Flickr to host my photos because Wikipedia seems to support the validation of photos and copyright license rights from them better than most other photo hosting sites.
Warning: If you don't own the copyright or rights to use the photo, then DO NOT upload the photo! If someone else created the photo, then likely you don't own the copyright to it, thus you can't use these instructions!
The following instructions describes how to upload a photos that you created, by:
Create accounts on Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Flickr, Yahoo Email. See #Creating accounts section.
Login to accounts:
Change your Flickr Screen Name setting, for copyright purposes, by doing the following:
Change your Flickr default Copyright Licence setting, so future photo uploads will automatically get this setting thus you don't have to change it for each photo, by doing the following:
Change your Flickr EXIF import settings, by doing the following:
The article body for http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Hall_in_Peabody,_Kansas.jpg is the following: (this photo appears in Peabody, Kansas article)
{{Information
|Description=City Hall, 300 N Walnut St, [[:en:Peabody, Kansas|Peabody, Kansas]], 666866 [[:en:United States|USA]].
Built in 1886. Looking towards NNE. Photo by [[:en:User:Sbmeirow|Steve Meirowsky]] on August 4, 2010.
|Source=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemeirowsky/5106973483/ City Hall in Peabody, Kansas]
|Date=2010-10-28
|Author=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemeirowsky/ Steve Meirowsky]
|Permission=
|other_versions=
}}
=={{int:license-header}}==
{{cc-by-3.0}}
[[Category:Peabody, Kansas]]
[[Category:Marion County, Kansas]]
Fields:
To change the Flickr licence for a single photo, do the following:
You can aquire a semi-detailed map of any city in the USA from the 'census.gov' web site. These maps are useful for adding to Wikipedia city articles, such as Peabody, Kansas.
Create accounts on Wikipedia and Wikimedia servers. See #Creating accounts section.
Login to accounts:
The article body for http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detailed_map_of_Peabody,_Kansas.gif is the following:
{{Information
|Description={{en|1=Detailed map of {{w|Peabody, Kansas}}}}
|Source=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US2055100&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on
, from http://factfinder.census.gov
|Author={{w|United States Census Bureau}}
|Date=Unknown; downloaded 8 September 2010
|Permission={{PD-USGov-DOC-Census}}
|other_versions=
}}
[[Category:Peabody, Kansas]]
[[Category:Marion County, Kansas]]
[[Category:Cities in Kansas]]
Every map should have a minimum of 2 categories: one for the city, and another for the county.
Note: This section needs to be expanded and refined.
For cities in USA, add using the following example.
[[Category:Peabody, Kansas]]
[[Category:Marion County, Kansas]]
[[Category:Cities in Kansas]]
At the top of the "External links" section, add using the following examples.
{{Commons category|Locomotives}}
For cities in USA, add using the following example, and add the state portal after it.
{{Commons category|Peabody, Kansas}}
{{Portal box|Kansas}}
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![]() | This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's rough notes page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. |
How To Upload Photos To Wikipedia
by Steve Meirowsky (
User:Sbmeirow)
Please do not throw rocks at me, since this article is currently located in my user space. I welcome useful edits and constructive input.
This user article provides instructions, guidelines, and tips for uploading photos.
Wikipedia is conceptually split up into "servers" that have different purposes. Each human language has seperate servers, such as all english articles reside on one "server", and all german articles reside on another "server". All of the media (photos, vidoes, ...) are stored on the Wikimedia Commons "server". All language servers refer to media stored on Wikimedia Commons. You aren't uploading photos to Wikipedia, but instead technically uploading to Wikimedia Commons.
All media uploaded to Wikimedia Commons must have the correct copyright license or it will be deleted. It is your responsibility to understand the different types of licenses and how it affect you, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ for more info. The copyright license for all media must be one of the following:
Highly Recommended Tips:
For users that only edit Wikipedia text, they only need to create one account on a specific Wikipedia language "server", such as the Wikipedia English "server".
For users that want to upload photos, they will need an additional Wikimedia Commons account, and possibly a Flickr account if uploading personal photos.
If possible, create ALL accounts with the same name or similar names, for copyright and validation purposes.
How to find existing photos:
You might want to avoid using Photobucket for now. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bad_sources#Photobucket
I use Flickr to host my photos because Wikipedia seems to support the validation of photos and copyright license rights from them better than most other photo hosting sites.
Warning: If you don't own the copyright or rights to use the photo, then DO NOT upload the photo! If someone else created the photo, then likely you don't own the copyright to it, thus you can't use these instructions!
The following instructions describes how to upload a photos that you created, by:
Create accounts on Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Flickr, Yahoo Email. See #Creating accounts section.
Login to accounts:
Change your Flickr Screen Name setting, for copyright purposes, by doing the following:
Change your Flickr default Copyright Licence setting, so future photo uploads will automatically get this setting thus you don't have to change it for each photo, by doing the following:
Change your Flickr EXIF import settings, by doing the following:
The article body for http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Hall_in_Peabody,_Kansas.jpg is the following: (this photo appears in Peabody, Kansas article)
{{Information
|Description=City Hall, 300 N Walnut St, [[:en:Peabody, Kansas|Peabody, Kansas]], 666866 [[:en:United States|USA]].
Built in 1886. Looking towards NNE. Photo by [[:en:User:Sbmeirow|Steve Meirowsky]] on August 4, 2010.
|Source=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemeirowsky/5106973483/ City Hall in Peabody, Kansas]
|Date=2010-10-28
|Author=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemeirowsky/ Steve Meirowsky]
|Permission=
|other_versions=
}}
=={{int:license-header}}==
{{cc-by-3.0}}
[[Category:Peabody, Kansas]]
[[Category:Marion County, Kansas]]
Fields:
To change the Flickr licence for a single photo, do the following:
You can aquire a semi-detailed map of any city in the USA from the 'census.gov' web site. These maps are useful for adding to Wikipedia city articles, such as Peabody, Kansas.
Create accounts on Wikipedia and Wikimedia servers. See #Creating accounts section.
Login to accounts:
The article body for http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detailed_map_of_Peabody,_Kansas.gif is the following:
{{Information
|Description={{en|1=Detailed map of {{w|Peabody, Kansas}}}}
|Source=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US2055100&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on
, from http://factfinder.census.gov
|Author={{w|United States Census Bureau}}
|Date=Unknown; downloaded 8 September 2010
|Permission={{PD-USGov-DOC-Census}}
|other_versions=
}}
[[Category:Peabody, Kansas]]
[[Category:Marion County, Kansas]]
[[Category:Cities in Kansas]]
Every map should have a minimum of 2 categories: one for the city, and another for the county.
Note: This section needs to be expanded and refined.
For cities in USA, add using the following example.
[[Category:Peabody, Kansas]]
[[Category:Marion County, Kansas]]
[[Category:Cities in Kansas]]
At the top of the "External links" section, add using the following examples.
{{Commons category|Locomotives}}
For cities in USA, add using the following example, and add the state portal after it.
{{Commons category|Peabody, Kansas}}
{{Portal box|Kansas}}
![]() | This is a Wikipedia
user page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sbmeirow/HowToUploadPhotosToWikipedia. |