MediaWiki:Uploadtext


 * Note: The talk page is at MediaWiki talk:Uploadtext.

Introduction
Use the upload form below to upload images or other media files. To view or search previously uploaded items go to Category:Images or to the list of uploaded files. Uploads and deletions are also logged in the upload log.

Currently, only 2 sources for images are allowed in this Cannabis Wiki. Those 2 sources are Flickr.com and the Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org

This is because it is easy to check whether the images copied from those 2 sources are free for both commercial and non-commercial use, as is required for most images on Wikia.com. For more info about those 2 image sources see their wikipedia pages: Flickr and Wikimedia Commons.

'After uploading an image please be sure to click the edit button on the image page here, and add the web address URL for the Flickr or Wikimedia Commons source page for that particular image. If no exact source URL is provided, then the image may be deleted.'

Flickr images
Flickr: www.flickr.com and Wikipedia page on Flickr.

When uploading Flickr images you can change the destination filename to something more descriptive and meaningful if you want to. Be sure to upload the 'Original' or 'Large' version of the image, nothing smaller!

Some Flickr photo searches:
 * http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=marijuana+march - "j"
 * http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=marihuana+march - "h"
 * Photos matching 'marijuana' taken May 4-6, 2007.

Flickr advanced search:
 * http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?q=marijuana%20march - "j"
 * http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?q=marihuana%20march - "h"

The Flickr advanced search allows searches by date, Creative Commons (CC) license, etc.. Wikia needs free images that can be used both commercially and noncommercially; and that can be modified, adapted, or built upon. So check both those Creative Commons boxes in the advanced search form. Example; Flickr photos with free CC licenses 'matching' marijuana or marihuana taken May 4-6, 2007:
 * http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=marijuana&l=commderiv&d=taken-20070504-20070506&ct=6
 * http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=marihuana&l=commderiv&d=taken-20070504-20070506&ct=6

The statement on Flickr image pages, "This photo is public", DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT COPYRIGHT. It only says that the photo is publicly viewable. The copyright license logo and link are located under the "Additional Information" heading on Flickr image pages.

Flickr images have seven different Creative Commons (CC) licensing options. Only some are OK here:

"BY" is for attribution, as in a photo is "BY" this person. Licenses with NC (non-commercial use only) or ND (no derivative works allowed to be created) are not OK here. If the image is not OK, consider asking the author to release their work under a free license such as CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution license) or CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike). Keep in mind that Flickr users often don't know about copyright. If it is suspected that they are not the author of the work, it may be deleted here.

For more info see the Wikimedia Commons upload page for Flickr images and its transcluded text introduction:
 * MediaWiki:Uploadtext/fromflickr

Wikimedia Commons images
Please upload images and media files from the Wikimedia Commons:
 * Commons.wikimedia.org

All image and media files there are freely usable by anybody for commercial or noncommercial use. See:
 * Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia

Here are a few Wikimedia Commons categories of interest:
 * commons:Category:Cannabis
 * commons:Category:Cannabis events
 * commons:Category:Global Marijuana March

If you see a relevant image or media file on the Commons you can upload it here. First, keep clicking the image on the commons until it is at its largest size. Then right-click the image, and save it to your desktop, or somewhere else on your computer. Then use the upload form farther down to upload it here.

Feel free to upload image and media files to the commons, too. The commons carefully reviews uploaded items to be sure that they are freely usable anywhere. If the items are accepted on the commons, then they can be used here or anywhere else.

Image use on Wikia pages


Wikia uses the same image wikicode as Wikipedia. For more detailed instructions see:
 * wikipedia:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax

Once uploaded here you can include the image or media file in a page. Use a link in the form of
 * [[Image:File.jpg]]
 * [[Image:File.png|thumb|Example image caption]]
 * [[Image:File.ogg]]

The last item is an audio file. See Ogg.

For an enlargeable thumbnail image with a caption see the photo to the right. Click the photo to enlarge it. Click it again to enlarge it further. It uses wikicode in the form of:
 * [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|Example image caption]]

To post a captioned image in a page, and have no text flowing around the image use wikicode in this form:
 * [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|none|Example image caption]]

For example:



You can put the photo at any width by indicating the width in pixels. See the 250-pixel-wide photo to the near right. It uses wikicode in the form of:
 * [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|250px|Example image caption]]

The image can be placed on the left side with text flowing around it on the right by using wikicode in this form:
 * [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Example image caption]]

For more image how-to see Picture tutorial.

Externally hosted images
For info on using externally hosted images please see:
 * w:c:Forum:Externally hosted images