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editHello ChrisHAu, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Hi, I noticed that you've changed the above image, which ofcourse I don't object to. However, you've uploaded it to en.wikipedia instead of the Wikimedia Commons which is a shame because now only the english wikipedia can use this image. More worringly you haven't put the licence details on the image which is a copyright violation. Regards, Joolz 14:20, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) (PS: you can reply on this talk page as it's in my watch list, thanks!)
Hello Jooz;
I must admit that I'm finding the Wikipedia site a bit overwhelming. To say that I'm lost most of the time is an understatement. I'm not even sure how I stumbled on this page. I'm learning more each time I visit though, so there is some hope.
To avoid the first issue that you mentioned, I should upload from the Wikipedia Commons?
Regarding the second issue that you mentioned, I assumed that since I uploaded and replaced the image, all coyrights would have been retained. No? I'd better figure out how to do this properly.
When I started this, I thought that I could contribute a few minutes every few days and garner some measure of satisfaction; now I seem to be stumbling over one protocol or another.
An issue I posted on the Help Desk (#132) for which I have not received a reply is: How do I replace an image with an enhance version that has a different extension in its name (e.g. jpg in lieu of gif)?
Yuor help is much appreciated.
Chris
- Hi, thanks for your response. when you upload an image and replace an existing one you need to manually copy and paste the old information accross. With the image I've mentioned it's actually located on the Wikimedia commons so when you uploaded it to en.wikipedia you didn't replace the original image but created a second copy of it. If you upload the image to the wikimedia commons it will replace the image properly and make it available for all the other-language wikipedias - infact if you upload all the images to wikimedia commons (as long as they're not fair use) then it's much better
- If you upload an image with a different extention you've essentially renamed the image, all the articles using the image will still be looking for the old one so you would need to edit the articles and change .gif to .jpg.
- Hope this helps! -- Joolz 13:03, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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