Wikipedia:Images

Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs.

All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on the Wikipedia website or the partner Wikimedia Commons website. All free content is stored on "Commons" and images that have more onerous copyright restrictions are stored on Wikipedia, under a fair use rationale. Also, images that are used on the Main Page have a local version to prevent vandalism from appearing. Editors can also choose to have a local version stored on Wikipedia.

Images are classified as files and use the prefix of  or the deprecated prefix of. The File namespace is one of several namespaces used on Wikipedia.

Since Wikipedia is not censored, readers and editors may come across offensive images.

Policy and guidelines

 * Image use policy
 * Manual of Style/Images
 * Manual of Style/Accessibility
 * Image placeholders – former policy about placeholder images, especially for biographical pages, now deprecated
 * File names – naming convention
 * Image dos and don'ts – information page summarizing this page

Image/picture tutorials

 * Wikimedia Commons – how to embed a Wikimedia Commons picture into an article, and how to move an picture from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons
 * Uploading images
 * Preparing images for upload
 * Extended image syntax
 * File copyright tags
 * File copyright tags/Comprehensive

Graphics tutorials

 * Graphics Lab
 * Graphics tutorials
 * Graphs and charts

Help

 * Help:File page
 * Help:Pictures – detailed instructions for inserting images into articles
 * Help:Options to hide an image
 * Help:Gallery tag – adding a gallery
 * Help:Viewing media – aimed at readers
 * Media copyright questions
 * How to upload a photo

Maintenance

 * Proposed deletion
 * Files for discussion
 * Graphics Lab/Maintenance/Images for cleanup
 * Requested pictures
 * Template messages/File namespace

Featured pictures
Featured pictures is a repository of images that have satisfied the Featured picture criteria and are used on the Main Page.

Picture of the day
Picture of the day is an image which is automatically updated each day with an image from the list of featured pictures. The POTD template produces the image shown above. Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.

Wikipedia logos
The current and now iconic Wikipedia logo is the third in a series of three.