User talk:Csideras

Images
=Adding images to Wikipedia=

As of late 2012 the English language Wikipedia has over 4.1 million articles, and Wikimedia's image library Commons has nearly 15 million images.

Much of the time the people who write articles will add appropriate images, but in a volunteer based project where everyone chooses their own tasks we sometimes find things that get forgotten.

So we now are producing lists of articles that don't have images but for which images may be available.

Articles with UK Geocodes but without images is a list produced by computer of articles about things in the UK, these are articles without images, but because they are in the UK we probably have images if anyone looks.

To add an image to an article.


 * 1) Open three different editing tabs on your PC. One for this page, one for Articles with UK Geocodes but without images and one for  searching Wikimedia Commons
 * 2) On the list find an article without an image.
 * 3) Search Wikimedia Commons for that location.
 * 4) If you find an image that you want to use, click on the link to the article in the list and then click edit on the article.
 * 5) Copy [[file:photograph name.jpg|right|thumb|Your caption here|alt=A description for blind people]] to a new first line of the article
 * 6) Copy the name of the file from Wikimedia Commons and past it over the words photograph name
 * 7) Replace Your caption here with a caption, ideally one that explains the relevance of the image to the article.
 * 8) Replace A description for blind people with a few words that would give a blind person more information than the caption.
 * 9) Put Adding picture in the box marked Edit Summary
 * 10) Click preview to see what the photo looks like in the article
 * 11) If you think it improves the article, click save.
 * 12) Edit Articles with UK Geocodes but without images and remove the article that you've added a picture to.

Congratulations! you've just transformed a Wikipedia article.

Advanced options
On the lower left part of the screen you will see a list of other languages that we have that article in, usually we won't have images in that language either. Feel free to add images to other language versions of Wikipedia, but please leave the caption and alt text blank unless you can write them in that language.
 * Other languages

For example you might have a waterfall in spate and in drought and you want to put both images side by side
 * Sometimes one image just isn't enough

You can do this with the following code:

We need to remember people with slow connection speeds, so we only want images that illustrate something in the article. Sometimes we have several more images than we use and in those cases it is worth adding a link to the category on Commons.
 * Sometimes a gallery isn't suitable

You can do this by putting the following near the end of the article, usually in the see also section Just replace the words "category on Commons" with the name of the category on Commons (if the name is the same this parameter is not needed).

FAQs

 * Q What does thumb do?
 * A The thumb parameter makes the image thumbnail size rather than full size. We have other options as well, but thumb works as a good default.


 * Q What do I do if none of the images are suitable for illustrating that article?
 * A Sometimes the only image we have for a village is a roundabout, hedge or rusty tractor, if you don't think that any of the images you've found are worth adding then leave that one and check another article (advanced option - edit the list and add the words "no suitable pictures on Commons" and today's date. That way hopefully we can add it to lists we circulate to our photographers).


 * Q I want to know lots more about adding images, where can I find out about all the possibilities?
 * A Picture tutorial


 * Q How do I add the image into the Infobox rather than above it?
 * A We may not cover this in today's class. But Help:Infobox picture has all the details.


 * Q Why do you keep the images in a separate Wiki, wouldn't it be easier if they were in Wikipedia?
 * A We keep most of our images in a separate image library so that they can be available for use in lots of different projects, including the nearly 300 different language versions of Wikipedia.


 * Q I keep seeing lots of images with Geograph in the name. What does that mean?
 * A Geograph is a photography competition in Britain and Ireland, people compete to be the first to photograph somewhere or something. Because they use a compatible license to us we have been able to copy 1.9 million of their images to Wikimedia Commons, and that's the main reason why we usually have an image for every UK village, waterfall, castle, canal or railway station.


 * Hope you enjoyed the session, please drop me a line if you have any questions or indeed any suggestions as to how we can run this better.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers 23:06, 4 December 2012 (UTC)