RetroWikipedia:Images
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Images are one of the many types of media used on RetroWikipedia 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 RetroWikipedia 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 RetroWikipedia, 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 RetroWikipedia.
Images are classified as files and use the prefix of File: or the deprecated prefix of Image:. The File namespace is one of several namespaces used on RetroWikipedia.
Since RetroWikipedia is not censored, readers and editors may come across offensive images.
Policy and guidelines
- RetroWikipedia:Image use policy
- RetroWikipedia:Manual of Style/Images
- RetroWikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility § Images
- RetroWikipedia:Image placeholders – former policy about placeholder images, especially for biographical pages, now deprecated
- RetroWikipedia:File names – naming convention
- RetroWikipedia:Image dos and don'ts – information page summarizing this page
Tutorials and help
Image/picture tutorials
- RetroWikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – how to embed a Wikimedia Commons picture into an article, and how to move a picture from RetroWikipedia to Wikimedia Commons
- RetroWikipedia:Uploading images
- RetroWikipedia:Extended image syntax
- RetroWikipedia:File copyright tags
- RetroWikipedia:A picture of you
Graphics tutorials
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
- RetroWikipedia:Media copyright questions
- RetroWikipedia:How to upload a photo
Maintenance
- RetroWikipedia:Proposed deletion
- RetroWikipedia:Files for discussion
- RetroWikipedia:Graphics Lab/Maintenance/Images for cleanup
- RetroWikipedia:Requested pictures
- RetroWikipedia:Template messages/File namespace
Page count of image related maintenance categories
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Files by type
Featured pictures
RetroWikipedia: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
RetroWikipedia: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:RetroWikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.
RetroWikipedia logos
The current and now iconic RetroWikipedia logo is the third in a series of three.
See also
- Elcobbola (11 August 2008). "Dispatches: Reviewing free images". RetroWikipedia Signpost. Wikimedia Foundation.
- Elcobbola (22 September 2008). "Dispatches: Reviewing non-free images". RetroWikipedia Signpost. Wikimedia Foundation.
- Essays