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We depend on people like you to create and contribute images for Wikipedia, and the rest of the world, to use, as long as you are willing to release the images under a free content license. You can read about a few of the people who are already contributing their work on the meet our photographers page .
A Wikipedia reader can click on the thumbnail, or on the small double-rectangle icon below it, to see the corresponding file page which will let the user see the image in its original size. Although the above text may appear in multiple lines for formatting purposes, the actual image text is on one line, as it uses spaces without any line breaks.
Because we can't fit all the images on every topic onto the relevant Wikipedia page, we hold extra images at our sister project, Wikimedia Commons. That also makes them available for use not just on this, the English-language Wikipedia, but on (or linked to from) over 300 Wikipedias, in languages from French to Japanese , Urdu to Cornish , and ...
Special:Search – Use the "Multimedia" setting to search for images and other files uploaded to the English Wikipedia by keyword or title. Most fair-use images are located here. commons:Special:Search – Go to Wikimedia Commons to search for images and other media files by description, title, or category.
Wikipedia (like its sister projects) uses images that document the things we write about, that includes people. Biography articles benefit from a photograph of the subject, and images can break up long sections of text in other articles, making them more attractive, and easier to understand for people whose English or reading skills are limited.
Wikipedia does not allow direct display of external images but you can link to them using external link form. For example, see this image on this page. An external host may be a good place to put images while you decide which ones belong on Wikipedia; you can also show collaborators what you have. Be aware of licensing restrictions, of course ...
If you click edit on any existing page or page section and then change the title of the page shown in the URL of your browser's address bar to the name of a non-existent page, and then hit return/enter, the resulting page shown will be the same as if you clicked on a red link, allowing you to create a page by the title entered. For example ...
You can make a request for an image by adding {{Image requested}} to the talk page of the article, to see if other Wikipedians have access to an image. Be aware that this may take some time. Please follow the guidelines explained on Wikipedia:Requested pictures. You can also use the images at Category:Wikipedia image placeholders as ...