Image uploading and use

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 * See also: Help:Add Images, Help:Import free images, and Category:Images

Summary
In most cases only free images are allowed on Wikia.

Overview
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You must be logged in to upload files.

The upload form is at the bottom of the upload page. To get to the upload page click the "Upload image" link in the left sidebar of any page.

You must be a registered user to upload images here. Registration is free, and only requires a password. No personal info is required, not even your name or email address. Many people use email addresses created with alias names. This is done in order to receive email notice of changes made to pages and forums they have edited.

This page explains how to upload images, and how to place them on wiki pages. It also explains how to choose between fair-use image licenses and free image licenses. 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.

For image sources see also: Global Marijuana March links


 * Note: Images without source info may be deleted. After uploading an image click the edit button on the image page, and add the URL for the exact source page web address for that specific image. The URL is unnecessary if you took the photo, or created the graphic, but please say whether you created the image with at least a sentence or two on the image page. The more info the better. Be sure to read the overview section below. For questions and comments please go to the talk page: MediaWiki talk:Uploadtext. (See also MediaWiki:Uploadtext).

Images free for commercial and non-commercial use can be used anywhere on the WeedWiki.

For Flickr.com and the Wikimedia Commons 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 (where WeedWiki is hosted). Those 2 sites have many more editors and methods to verify that images really are free images.

Feel free to upload your own images too. Be sure to pick a free license that is OK here. See the table below.

Help, resources, and FAQs
See:
 * wikipedia:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources
 * commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources
 * commons:Commons:Image map resources - clickable image maps.
 * commons:Commons:Map resources - geographic maps and resources of all kinds.
 * commons:Category:Commons resources - overall resource category on the Wikimedia Commons.
 * wikipedia:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop- to ask for help in editing or creating images.

To learn about creating image galleries see Category:Images.

Creative Commons image licenses
For more info see the sections below (such as the Flickr images section farther down). See also these wikipedia pages: Flickr and Wikimedia Commons.

Fair-use images
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"Fair-use" images can only be used on the most relevant page. Template:Fair use will be added to their image file pages by the uploader or by admins. Here is the wikicode:

 

That wikicode template produces this info table:

Cannabis event posters, flyers, and banners are an example of fair-use images. Unless the images can be shown to be free images, then these images can only be shown here on the event or city page for that event. For example; the GMM city pages. These images can be uploaded here, or they can sometimes be externally-hosted images, and can be hotlinked to show up here. See the Externally hosted images section below.

Search for free images
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Search for free images from multiple sources:
 * http://search.creativecommons.org

[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FIST FIST. Magnus Manske's Free Image Search Tool] (Meta-wiki description page). Search tool:
 * http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php

See section below for more free-image search tools.

Image use on Wikia pages
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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
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Flickr images
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Flickr: www.flickr.com and Wikipedia page on Flickr.

Flickr can search for images with free licenses. See:
 * http://search.creativecommons.org
 * http://flickr.com/creativecommons - Click the "see more" links for each license. Then search further within images with that particular license.
 * http://flickr.com/search/advanced - Advanced search. See the Creative Commons search options at the bottom.

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 use one of the different licensing options in the table higher up in the section called  (<<--click). Only some licenses are OK here at the Wikia.com site. See: Creative Commons (CC) licensing options.

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

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

Automatic import of Flickr images
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 * Note: The help page for this is at Help:Import free images.

Go to Special:ImportFreeImages and search for free images. Then click on "import this" for any image. The image will be automatically imported with the description page filled out. It is single-click uploading. For an example of an uploaded image using this tool see
 * Image:Creative Lights-4083.jpg

Here below are some example searches for various image tags, or combinations of image tags. The image tags must be separated with commas. The first 2 searches are for marijuana spelled with a "j", and marihuana spelled with an "h".

marijuana
 * Special:ImportFreeImages?q=marijuana&searchtype=all

marihuana
 * Special:ImportFreeImages?q=marihuana&searchtype=all

marijuana, march
 * Special:ImportFreeImages?q=marijuana%2C+march&searchtype=all

toronto, marijuana, march
 * Special:ImportFreeImages?q=toronto%2C+marijuana%2C+march&searchtype=all

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

Anybody can upload images there by going to this upload page:
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload

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.

Upload form
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