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Complete the training for contributing and adding images and multimedia.
Week 3
Course meetings
Friday, 25 March 2016
Assignment - Illustrate an Article
Identify an article that would benefit from illustration, create or find an appropriate photo, illustration, or audio/video, and add it to the article. Your illustration should be done by 11:59 pm.
All media uploaded to Wikipedia must fall under a "free license," which means they can be used or shared by anyone. Examples of media you can use are photos that you take yourself, images and text in the public domain, and works created by someone else who has given permission for their work to be used by others. For more information about which types of media can be uploaded to Wikipedia, see
Commons:Help desk.
To add a media file to an article, you must first upload it to Wikimedia Commons. For instructions on how to upload files to Commons, refer to
Illustrating Wikipedia. This brochure will also provide you with detailed information about which files are acceptable to upload to Wikipedia and the value of contributing media to Wikipedia articles.
This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated.
Complete the training for contributing and adding images and multimedia.
Week 3
Course meetings
Friday, 25 March 2016
Assignment - Illustrate an Article
Identify an article that would benefit from illustration, create or find an appropriate photo, illustration, or audio/video, and add it to the article. Your illustration should be done by 11:59 pm.
All media uploaded to Wikipedia must fall under a "free license," which means they can be used or shared by anyone. Examples of media you can use are photos that you take yourself, images and text in the public domain, and works created by someone else who has given permission for their work to be used by others. For more information about which types of media can be uploaded to Wikipedia, see
Commons:Help desk.
To add a media file to an article, you must first upload it to Wikimedia Commons. For instructions on how to upload files to Commons, refer to
Illustrating Wikipedia. This brochure will also provide you with detailed information about which files are acceptable to upload to Wikipedia and the value of contributing media to Wikipedia articles.