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Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project [2] [3] that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from Wikipedia in that it offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning, rather than an encyclopedia.
In short, Wikipedia media (with the exception of "fair use" media—see below) should be as "free" as Wikipedia's content—both to keep Wikipedia's own legal status secure and to allow as much re-use of Wikipedia content as possible. For example, Wikipedia can accept images under CC-BY-SA (Attribution-Share Alike) as a free license, but not CC ...
Don't re-upload the image—just edit the image description page and add the licensing information! Also, the wiki software can change the display size of the images, so you do not need to re-upload a smaller version of the same image to use a smaller version in an article. See Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. There, you can learn how to use ...
Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library - online collection of digital images. Most will be {PD-art}. 90,000 images from rare books and manuscripts, search by keyword. New York Public Library. Over 700,000 images scanned from books.
This is considered excessive use of fair use images.-Close up or detail photos are typically not permitted if the image is Non-Free.-Non-free images should only be uploaded after your article is live as unused non-free images need to be deleted from wikipedia. The proper license for these kinds of images is {{Non-free 3D art}}. The template ...
Content copied from Wikiversity to Wikipedia needs to conform to the context in Wikipedia, as well as criteria including WP:Notability and WP:Reliable sources.Also, as content is by default licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike license, an attribution should be made, at least by mentioning the source article in the edit summary.
Correct misinterpretations of free images. One of the main complaints about free images is lack of quality when compared with a promotional images. That is not true: there are very good free images as shown by Wikipedia:Featured pictures. In the case of replaceable images, it is possible that a promotional image will look better than free versions.
Images in this category have unnecessary borders and/or opaque or translucent space around the subject of the image that need to be removed. Where borders are desired they should usually be added with article markup such as table markup. If cropping a JPEG, consider using a lossless cropping tool such as jpegtran.