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There's no automatic way to move an image from Wikipedia to Commons. The standard way is to download the image to your computer (often right-clicking the image gives you this option), and then upload it to Commons. This procedure gives you a chance to give the image a better (longer, more descriptive) name.
The procedure for adding images to articles is the same, regardless of whether the image was uploaded to Commons or directly to English Wikipedia. To make your uploaded file appear in an article, you need to insert it: edit the article and add the syntax [[File:Image name|thumb|Caption]] where you want the file to appear.
Since the MediaWiki software dynamically scales inline images, there is no technical reason to reduce file size via scaling or quality reduction when uploading images, although non-free images may require scaling due to copyright concerns (see the non-free image resolution guidelines for further information). Also, compressing PNGs may be ...
Wikimedia Commons stores images so that they can be used on different language versions of Wikipedia, as well as by sister projects of Wikipedia. To upload a new image, first activate VisualEditor by clicking "edit" at the top of an article. Once the VE toolbar has appeared, click the Insert menu and choose the "Images and media" option. That ...
Scale the image to be no greater than the given width or height, keeping its aspect ratio. Scaling up (i.e. stretching the image to a greater size) is disabled when the image is framed. Link Link the image to a different resource, or to nothing. Alt Specify the alt text for the image. This is intended for visually impaired readers.
Article to be used on/reason for upload: The image will be used on the Wikipedia article for Brian Williams (Missouri politician). It is an official portrait of Senator Williams for use in his public service biography. Note: The image file (IMG_1187.JPG) is available upon request. Since I am unable to upload it directly, I would appreciate ...
After the image is uploaded, click the "Use this file" button at the top of the image page (with the W) and copy the "thumbnail" code. To add the image to your user page you just need to replace {{New user bar}} with {{New user bar|image=PASTE THE IMAGE CODE HERE}} .