How to edit an already uploaded photo on wikipedia?

Question

I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and am still learning the ropes. I found a file on Wikipedia that had a few issues, which I easily fixed after saving the image and photo shopping it. Now I want to upload it on to Wikipedia but I can't figure out how to save it to the already existing image page. I know I could create a new image page for it, but I'd rather just update the page that is already in existence. Can anyone help me out here?

Answer 1

I'm curious why you would go to the trouble of improving a photo, without having already determined what you would do with that photo once you were done. Is this typical behavior of a new Wikipedian?



Fortunately, the Wikimedia Foundation is using some of its $20 million budget to help people like you with step-by-step instructions. Your question is purportedly answered here:



http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors



MediaWiki 1.5 and later allows you to edit any resource using any external tool. This is accomplished using a very simple system:



1. When a resource is requested for being edited externally, MediaWiki sends out a control file that contains information about the resource; most importantly, its network location (URL) and the interface that is to be used for changing it. See Manual:External editors: control files for the specifications.

2. User browser has to be configured to call a special helper application (see below).

3. That helper application processes the control file, retrieves the resource, launches the favored application to edit it, and, if desired, saves the resource back to the server.



Editing an image with Inkscape

Editing a wiki page using KWrite

Contents

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* 1 Starting external editing

* 2 Configure your browser

* 3 Helper application

o 3.1 ee.pl

* 4 Alternatives



Starting external editing



In your personal MediaWiki preferences you can set up external editing as a default edit action: Preferences → Editing → "Use external editor by default".



However a more practical approach is to add this as an extra option, using the special externaledit=true MediaWiki URL parameter.



* You can make the "external edit link" appear on all pages next to the usual edit link by adding External editor script to your .js file.

* Or you can set up a special bookmarklet in your browser: create a new bookmark/favorite and copy this into the URL field:



javascript:location=location+'?action=edit&externaledit=true';





Configure your browser



You have to configure your browser so that the MIME type application/x-external-editor is associated with your helper application.



* Firefox 2: install MIME Edit extension, then go to Tools→Options→Content→Manage

* Firefox 3: If you are planning to edit SVG images click the image to full fullsize, File->Save Page As->Save as type->Web Page, SVG only->Save.



Also, on FreeBSD and Linux you can edit /etc/mailcap (or ~/.mailcap):

application/x-external-editor;/usr/bin/ee.pl %s



* Opera: via Tools→Preferences→Advanced→Downloads

* In Internet Explorer you can try to associate helper application with .php file extension



Helper application



ee.pl



There is a reference implementation for the helper application called ee.pl (available here, see README for usage and INSTALL for setup instructions). It is written in Perl and may be difficult to set up. However, it provides a complete set of features. Developers are welcome to write a more user friendly implementation. You may also need Windows XP or Ubuntu tips.



Note that the ee.pl GUI makes it very easy to save the data back to the server, including an edit summary, or to cancel the edit. You can also make multiple edits on the server by using the "Save and continue" button.



Please make sure you are using the latest version of the script if it is not working as expected.



For each wiki you want to use ee.pl with, add an entry like this to ee.ini:



[MediaWiki]

URL match=http://www.mediawiki.org/w

Username=(MyUsername)

Password=(MyPassword)



This is necessary so people can log in -- it does not know your password otherwise! Note that if you are active on many wikis, such as multiple Wikipedia languages editions, and you use the same username and password, you can simply use something like "wikipedia.org" or "wikimedia.org" with this authentication information as the URL match pattern (or indeed ".org" if you only intend to access these sites). An example generic entry:



[Generic]

URL match=edia.org

Username=(MyUsername)

Password=(MyPassword)



Less is more! Just using URL match= meta or URL match= commons is sufficient, whereas adding the whole URL often causes an error.



If you want to edit files, you need to use something like URL match=upload.wikimedia.org because files are on that host.

Alternatives



Several Mozilla Firefox extensions provide another way to use external text editor, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Particularly, for Linux users, the use of It's All Text is a much simpler procedure to invoke an external editor than what described above (particularly when some helper application such as ee.pl, written in Perl, "may be difficult to set up").

Retrieved from "http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors"

Category: Edit

Answer 2

It's not always about copyrights, it's also about notability and the appropriateness of the photo in regards to the article. The nature of Wikipedia is that everyone has a say in what goes and what stays. In addition, just becuase you found a photo on photobucket doesn't mean that it was legally posted on photobucket, so there's no argument there either. It all comes down to accepting the fact that what is important or appropriate to you may not be to the majority of people on Wikipedia. EDIT: I'm talking appropriate to the subject matter of the wikipedia article, not appropriate as far as age groups or movie ratings or something like that; there are multiple uses for the word. That said, you took a photo of a book cover...if the book is under copyright, your photo may infringe upon that copyright, which would make it inappropriate and therefor subject to deletion.

Answer 3

first need to have an account to edit a page



and you need the right to publish the picture under the GNU Free Documentation License, an acceptable Creative Commons license or another free license. This means that either you created the picture and therefore own the copyright, or it is in the public domain.



If you have a registered account that is four days old with at least ten edits, you can use Special:Upload to upload the image to Wikipedia, including it in wiki pages by including its file name, the thumbnail option, and a caption: [[File:NameOfImage.png|thumb|A descriptive caption]].