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To get past the stumbling blocks of editing Wikipedia, articles will have to conform to the Wikipedia style guides. The largest barriers are: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images - The basic overview of images (the Wikipedia:Picture tutorial is also useful. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions - Writing a good caption may be harder than you think.
One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture is is important, too. If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can ...
Picture captions should not end in a full stop (a period) unless they are complete sentences. Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home). A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence.
Caption examples. Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs. [1] In some cases captions and cutlines are distinguished, where the caption is a short (usually one-line) title/explanation for the photo, while the cutline is a longer, prose block under the caption, generally describing the photograph, giving context, or ...
This project is inspired by the 2009 Wikipedia AP Biology Project. There are many basic and important diagrams missing from biological articles and we're doing our part to fix this. Students will work alone, there are 72 students so we should have 72 new images with captions and labels. The time frame will be three weeks.
It’s time to upgrade your captions with more creative sayings.
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started." "Allow us to recall: One book, one pen, one youngster, and one instructor can change the world."
Videos that simply show a sequence of still pictures should be replaced with an image gallery. Videos that are just text being read aloud should be replaced with text - or if the sound of words is being demonstrated, audio files (with the text being read in the file caption or in closed captioning).