Infopedia:File upload wizard

Thank you for offering to contribute an image or other media file for use on Wikipedia. This wizard will guide you through a questionnaire prompting you for the appropriate copyright and sourcing information for each file. Please ensure you understand copyright and the image use policy before proceeding.

Uploads to Wikimedia Commons

Uploads locally to Wikipedia; must comply with the non-free content criteria

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Sorry, in order to use this uploading script and to upload files, you need to be logged in with your named account. Please  [ log in]  and then try again. Your account has not become confirmed yet.

Sorry, in order to upload files on the English Wikipedia, you need to have a confirmed account. Normally, your account will become confirmed automatically once you have made 10 edits and four days have passed since you created it.

You may already be able to upload files on the Wikimedia Commons, but you can't do it on the English Wikipedia just yet. If the file you want to upload has a free license, please go to Commons and upload it there.

Important note: if you don't want to wait until you are autoconfirmed, you may ask somebody else to upload a file for you at Files for upload.

In very rare cases an administrator may make your account confirmed manually through a request at Requests for permissions/Confirmed.

Step 2: Describe your file
Sorry, a few special characters and character combinations cannot be used in the filename for technical reasons. This goes especially for # < > [ ] | : { } /  and  . Your filename has been modified to avoid these. Please check if it is okay now. The filename you chose seems to be very short, or overly generic. Please don't use: A file of this name already exists on Commons!
 * Titles that consist only of very generic descriptive words (e.g. "Sunset.jpg", "Townhall.jpg")
 * Titles that consist only of a person's first or last name, when that name is likely to be shared by many others (e.g. "John.jpg", "Miller.jpg")
 * Titles that consist of mere numbers, of the kind often produced by digital cameras ("DSC_001234", "IMGP0345"), or random strings like those sometimes found on the web ("30996951316264l.jpg")

If you upload your file with this name, you will be masking the existing file and make it inaccessible. Your new file will be displayed everywhere the existing file was previously used.

This should not be done, except in very rare exceptional cases.

Please don't upload your file under this name, unless you seriously know what you are doing. Choose a different name for your new file instead.

If you want to replace the existing file with an uncontroversial, improved version of the same work, please go to Commons and upload it there, not here on the English Wikipedia's local wiki. A file of this name already exists.

If you upload your file with this name, you will be overwriting the existing file. Your new file will be displayed everywhere the existing file was previously used. Please don't do this, unless you have a good reason to:

Step 3: Provide source and copyright information
It is very important that you read through the following options and questions, and provide all required information truthfully and carefully.



Preview (test)
This is the data that will be submitted to upload:

Upload in process
Your file is being uploaded.

This might take a minute or two, depending on the size of the file and the speed of your internet connection.

Once uploading is completed, you will find your new file at this link:

File:Example.jpg

File successfully uploaded
Your file has been uploaded successfully and can now be found here:

File:Example.jpg

Please follow the link and check that the image description page has all the information you meant to include.

If you want to change the description, just go to the image page, click the "edit" tab at the top of the page and edit just as you would edit any other page. Do not go through this upload form again, unless you want to replace the actual file with a new version.

To insert this file into an article, you may want to use code similar to the following:

If you wish to make a link to the file in text, without actually showing the image, for instance when discussing the image on a talk page, you can use the following (mark the ":" after the initial brackets!):

See Picture tutorial for more detailed help on how to insert and position images in pages.

Thank you for using the File Upload Wizard. Please leave your feedback, comments, bug reports or suggestions on the |talk page.