Guide on how to do useful stuff on Wikipedia.
Label maps
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Location of major cities in the United States.
Correct title templates
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Involves | Correct name | Actual article name |
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| {{Italic title}} | Title in italics | To Kill a Mockingbird | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| {{Italic title|all=yes}} | Complete title in italics, including parentheses | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) |
| {{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}} | Phrase of |string= in italics
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List of Ally McBeal episodes | List of Ally McBeal episodes |
| {{Italic title|all=yes|string=Fringe}} | Phrase of |string= in italics; also looks in parentheses
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Peter (Fringe episode) | Peter (Fringe episode) |
| {{Italic disambiguation}} | Disambiguation in italics | The End (Lost) | The End (Lost) |
| {{Lowercase title}} | Lowercase first character | eBay | EBay |
| {{Lowercase title|italic=yes}} | Lowercase first character and place title in italics, not including disambiguation | iCarly (soundtrack) | ICarly (soundtrack) |
| {{Lowercase title|italic=yes|force=yes}} | Lowercase first character and place title in italics, including disambiguation | ||
| {{Lowercase title|dab=yes}} | Lowercase first character and place disambiguation in italics | iSpy (Modern Family) | ISpy (Modern Family) |
| {{Italic title prefixed|17}} | Italicize after the number characters at the beginning of the title | German battleship Bismarck | German battleship Bismarck |
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| {{DISPLAYTITLE:_NSAKEY}} | Various | _NSAKEY | NSAKEY |
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| {{Correct title|reason=bracket}} | < > [ ] { } | Benzo[a]pyrene | Benzo(a)pyrene |
| {{Correct title|reason=#}} | # | Pilot #5 | Pilot No. 5 |
| {{Correct title|reason=:}} | : | DK: King of Swing | DK King of Swing |
Upload from Flickr
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There are various tools available for quickly uploading pictures from Flickr at Commons:Flickr_files#Uploading_images. The easiest way is to simply use UploadWizard. |
| The Wikimedia Commons is a collection of freely licensed images shared by all Wikimedia projects. When you upload an image to Commons, it will automatically be available here under the same filename. |
| Uploading a work found on Flickr |
| This guidance only applies to uploading a work found on Flickr created by someone else (not you).
In any image page in Flickr there is "License" section on the right hand side of the page. This section contains the copyright information which is important for you. Flickr images have 7 different license options. There is also a public domain collection, Flickr: The Commons, uploaded by participating organizations. 2 of the 6 Creative Commons (CC) licensing options are OK here: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 BY means the image license requires attribution, as in an image is "BY" a certain person. SA is for "Share Alike". NC is for non-commercial use only and is NOT OK. ND is no derivative works and is NOT OK.
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| If the image is not OK, consider asking the author to release their work under a free license such as CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution license), or CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike). See also Commons:VRT. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flickr can search its images by license. Click the "see more" links for each license. See the advanced search also. The Creative Commons search options are at the bottom.
You may wish to read the Wikimedia Commons' guide to help check if the images you are uploading are permitted. Here is a list and table of old and new versions of Creative Commons licenses that are accepted at the Wikimedia Commons. |
Note: For questions or comments about this upload page please go to its talk page.
Upload to Commons (recommended)
Upload locally (not recommended)