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Image uploading and use

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To add a license later to an image page
Find licenses at Category:Image license templates.
For uploading help
Help:Uploading files
For image help
Help:Images, Category:Image-related templates (additional help by topic).
Gallery help
Template:Gallery how-to and Help:Displaying images#Can I display many images together?
All uploaded images
Special:Log/upload, Special:ImageList (chart), Category:Weed Wiki (to find all images).
For video info and help
Help:Videos, Category:Videos, Category:City pages with embedded videos.
For more help and resources see this Wikimedia Commons page
commons:Category:Commons resources
Upload your images to the Wikimedia Commons too
Any image on the Commons can be used on Wikia or Wikipedia.
About CC image licenses
2 of the 6 Creative Commons (CC) licensing options are accepted by Wikia, Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia Commons. See the table below.


Note: Please upload some of your images and media files to the Wikimedia Commons. Any image on the Commons can be used on Wikia or Wikipedia. You, as the creator of the images, must choose the free image license of your choice. Please see: Commons:Upload and the Upload your own work page. The free image license is chosen from the licensing dropdown menu on the upload page.

Alternatively, you can indicate the free image license on your website, gallery, Flickr account, Picasa account, etc.. Something like, I release all my images (or indicate some images) under a particular free image license. There are 2 free Creative Commons (CC) image licenses that Wikia, Wikipedia and the Commons accept: CC-BY, and CC-BY-SA. See the {{Cc-by-sa-3.0}} and {{Cc-by-3.0}} templates. For more info see Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 and Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. See also the CC overview pages: Creative Commons licenses, and About licenses.

2 of the 6 Creative Commons (CC) licensing options are OK here. See the table below. It is adapted from "Upload work from Flickr" at the Wikimedia Commons.

Statement on image page. License OK here?
© All rights reserved Unlicensed NOT OK
Some rights reserved CC-BY-NC-ND NOT OK
Some rights reserved CC-BY-NC-SA NOT OK
Some rights reserved CC-BY-NC NOT OK
Some rights reserved CC-BY-ND NOT OK
Some rights reserved CC-BY OK
Some rights reserved CC-BY-SA OK
The icon "BY" means the image license requires attribution, as in an image is "BY" a certain person. SA is for "Share Alike". Licenses with NC ( - non-commercial use only) or ND ( - no derivative works) are not OK here. If the image is not OK, consider asking the author to release their work under a free license such as CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution license), or CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike). See also Commons:OTRS.