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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 ...
Inserting a new image can be done while you're editing the article. You can either insert images that are already stored on Wikimedia Commons , or upload a new image of yours. Images are stored on Wikimedia Commons so that they can be used in multiple articles, across many languages, and are even free for anyone to use outside of Wikipedia ...
To upload an image, use the Wikipedia:File upload wizard. When uploading an image, you have to: make sure the image is published under a free copyright license; clearly label the origin and the copyright license of the image. Before uploading images, read the image use policy. Most images on the Internet are copyrighted.
To upload images to Commons you can use the Commons Upload Wizard tool, which will guide you through the process. There is an important caveat: Commons accepts only freely licensed images . This means that you cannot upload most images found on the internet, as the vast majority of them are not free.
Note: To achieve a plain image with a caption, one can use {{Plain image with caption}}. The caption is automatically added as the image's title and alt text, and any wiki markup used on it will be correctly displayed on the caption, but will be automatically stripped down from the alt and title text. See an example here.
Images, audio and video files must be uploaded into Wikipedia using the "Upload file" link on the left-hand navigation bar. Only logged in users can upload files. Once a file is uploaded, other pages can include or link to the file. Uploaded files are given the "File:" prefix by the system, and each one has an image description page.
If you're thinking about uploading a "fair use" image (one you didn't create, isn't in the public domain, and hasn't been released as free content by the owner), read this guideline first. If after reading the guidelines you have decided to upload the image, go to Wikipedia:Upload (shortcut:WP:UL) and follow the directions there. Before you ...
Preserve the original image size, and do not add a border around the image. Place it inline with the text unless overridden with the location attribute. Do not show a caption. If no alt text is specifically requested, use the requested caption as alt text. This option is almost exclusively used in templates.