Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
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![]() Some Wikipedians have formed a project to maintain Wikipedia's images and other media files, as well as other pages related to them. This page and its subpages can be used to focus the effort of Wikipedians to further improve and maintain this important part of the project. The scope of this project is to improve and maintain all images and media files (essentially, all pages in the "File" namespace), to keep Wikipedia's policies and guidelines related to such files clear and understandable, and to assist users who have questions about images or media and their use. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. You can join the project by adding your name to the participants list. If you'd like, you can also add a userbox to your user page indicating that you are a part of the project, by adding {{User WikiProject Images & Media}} to your userpage. |
Wikipedia policies: Image use policy, Copyrights, OTRS, Non-free content criteria, Criteria for speedy deletion Official guidelines: Manual of Style: Images, Public domain guideline, Non-U.S. copyright guideline, Non-free use rationale guideline How to: ...find images to use, ...request images for articles, ...request copyright permission, ...request free media, ...create graphics and illustrations, ...improve image quality, ...create graphs for articles, ...delete images, ...move images to Wikimedia Commons Related WikiProjects: Media Restoration, Graphic Lab, Maps, Spoken Wikipedia, Copyright Cleanup, Wiki Makes Video, WikiTV External links: Free image resources, Public domain image resources, Cornell University's copyright factsheet, and "Duration of Copyright" and "International Copyright Relations" from the U.S. Copyright Office | ||||||||||||||
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Here are some tasks you can do to improve image and media use on Wikipedia, and some tips on how best to do them. Move free media to Commons Many free images can be moved to Wikimedia Commons. An easy way to find them is by looking through Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons.
Suggest better names for images Many images have cryptic or unsuitable names and have been tagged with {{rename media}}. Each of these should be given a better name. These are found at Category:Incomplete file renaming requests.
Review our best images and media Our very best images and media on Wikipedia, as determined by common consensus, are honored with special significance.
Assist users with copyright questions Copyright law is complicated and frequently misunderstood. Questions are at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Discussion on media copyright is also found at Wikipedia:Files for discussion and Category:Non-free content review requested.
Fix problems with non-free media Non-free images and media must conform to our strict Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria in order to be used. Understanding these criteria is critical for any discussions of their use.
Fulfill image requests In the sub-categories of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs are many requests for images. Pick a subject and reduce the number of requests.
At the Graphic Lab, you can help improve existing images. Nominate unsuitable media for deletion Images which may not be suitable for use on Wikipedia can be listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion for further discussion.
Administrative tasks Some image maintenance can only be performed by administrators, primarily because they involve image and media deletion. Areas where administrators can use their extra tools to help include closing discussions at files for discussion, keeping the backlog in Category:Wikipedia files that may violate copyright and Category:Rescaled fairuse images more than 7 days old to a minimum, and deleting files now available on Commons.
Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons – No backlog currently Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons – 19 items Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old needing human review – 15 items Requested RD1 redactions – 3 items
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Here are some events related to images and media. They may be of interest to members of this project. [2 April 2014] Submissions for Wikimania 2014 are open for attendees to sign up at wm2014:Submissions. Related to media production:
[5 June 2010] Admins: Huge numbers of files have been moved to Commons recently, and more are likely in the near future. Please take a look at the following categories and help by deleting the (now-redundant) images:
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