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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
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and the
image use policy
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before proceeding.
Uploads to
Wikimedia Commons
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Uploads locally to Wikipedia; must comply with the
non-free content criteria
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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
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, 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
Wikipedia:Files for upload.
In very rare cases an administrator may make your account confirmed manually through a request at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed.
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:
Example.jpg.html" ;"title="File:
Example.jpg">insert a caption here
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!):
Example.jpg.html" ;"title=":File:Example.jpg">:File:Example.jpg
See
Wikipedia: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
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