How do I legally upload images to Wikipedia's Commons site and implement them into articles?

Question

I've sought the help of Wikipedia's various style guides and info pages, but it's a lot of info that I don't know how to decipher and only leads to more questions.

What are the plain-English requirements for using images on Wikipedia? Where am I most likely to find images eligible for use (ie. Google images, to me, doesn't seem like it would cut it), besides my own image library?

What info on the image must I provide, and how do I go about making images I find suitable for use if: I can contact the owner? If not?

Any other tips regarding the process that I may have missed would also help!

Answer 1

The image, to be uploaded, must be free. That is, it must be under a free license (the most common are the creative commons licenses, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA are acceptable for Commons), or they must be public domain (mostly these are very old pictures, pre-1920). Information that you need to provide are:



* the author

* the license

* some kind of proof to show that the picture is indeed under that license.



If you are the maker of the picture yourself, that's enough for the third one, otherwise it is usually best to add a link to the page where the picture is shown with the indication of its license.

Answer 2

Images from Google is a no no. Only free images are allowed on commons, those under one of the following licenses:



*GFDL

*CC-BY

*CC-BY-SA

*Public domain

*Some other less common licenses like BSD, MPL are also acceptable



If you are the creator of an image then you can upload it under whatever license you pick from the above. You must provide the source of the image and add a valid license tag.



Other than your image library you can use the "Advanced search" option on flickr to look for free content available for commercial use. There are some other sources here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_image_resources



If you can contact the author of an image and they are willing to release it under one of the free licenses then you can forward permissions to OTRS : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:OTRS

Answer 3

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