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The upload form is at the bottom of the upload page. You must be a registered user to upload images here. Registration is free, and only requires a password. No personal info is required, not even your name or email address. Many people use email addresses created with alias names. This is done in order to receive email notice of changes made to pages and forums they have edited.

This page explains how to upload images, and how to place them on wiki pages. It also explains how to choose between fair-use image licenses and free image licenses. To view or search previously uploaded items go to Category:Images or to the list of uploaded files. Uploads and deletions are also logged in the upload log.

For image sources see also: Global Marijuana March links#Images

Note: Images without source info may be deleted. After uploading an image click the edit button on the image page, and add the URL for the exact source page web address for that specific image. The URL is unnecessary if you took the photo, or created the graphic, but please say whether you created the image with at least a sentence or two on the image page. The more info the better. Be sure to read the overview section below. For questions and comments please go to the talk page: MediaWiki talk:Uploadtext.

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Galleries

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An easy way to add multiple images to a page is by using the gallery format. It can be used in many ways. It is great for photos or graphics on Global Marijuana March city pages. Here is an example of another way to use the gallery format: 

<gallery>
Image:Incarceration rates worldwide.gif
Image:US incarceration timeline.gif|Timeline. 1920-2006. 
Image:Correctional population USA.gif
Image:World incarceration map.gif|Incarceration rates worldwide. 
</gallery>

Timeline. 1920-2006.

Incarceration rates worldwide.

Overview

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You must be logged in to upload files.

Images free for commercial and non-commercial use can be used anywhere on the WeedWiki.

For Flickr.com and the Wikimedia Commons it is easy to check whether the images copied from those 2 sources are free for both commercial and non-commercial use, as is required for most images on Wikia.com (where WeedWiki is hosted). Those 2 sites have many more editors and methods to verify that images really are free images.

Feel free to upload your own images too. Be sure to pick a free license that is OK here. See the table below. Just say that you created the image and that the image is now free. Pick one of the licenses below with a checkmark. After uploading the image, name the license on the image page, or use its initials. Also please leave a link to the license page. The various license pages are linked below in the table.

Statement on image page. License OK here?
© All rights reserved Copyrighted 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
No rights reserved. Public Domain OK

"BY" is for attribution, as in a photo is "BY" a certain person. That means the image requires attribution, by saying who the image was created BY. SA is for Share Alike. Licenses with NC ( - non-commercial use only) or ND ( - no derivative works allowed to be created) 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) or Public Domain.


For more info see the sections below (such as the Flickr images section farther down). See also these wikipedia pages: Flickr and Wikimedia Commons.

Fair-use images

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"Fair-use" images can only be used on the most relevant page. Template:Fair use will be added to their image file pages by the uploader or by admins. Here is the wikicode:

{{Fair use}}

That wikicode template produces this info table:

This is a fair-use image, and will only be used on the most relevant page. If an appropriate free-image license is chosen for this image by the creator of this image, then the image can be used anywhere on or off this wiki.


Cannabis event posters, flyers, and banners are an example of fair-use images. Unless the images can be shown to be free images, then these images can only be shown here on the event or city page for that event. For example; the GMM city pages. These images can be uploaded here, or they can sometimes be externally-hosted images, and can be hotlinked to show up here. See the Externally hosted images section below.

Search for free images

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Search for free images from multiple sources:

FIST. Magnus Manske's Free Image Search Tool (Meta-wiki description page). Search tool:

See #Flickr images section below for more free-image search tools.

Image use on Wikia pages

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Charlie Drown performs on Share Parker Main Stage, Seattle Hempfest, August 19, 2007. In foreground here, her bassist Lizzie D (Lizzie Daymont).
Charlie Drown performs on Share Parker Main Stage, Seattle Hempfest, August 19, 2007. In foreground here, her bassist Lizzie D (Lizzie Daymont).

Wikia uses the same image wikicode as Wikipedia. For more detailed instructions see:

Once uploaded here you can include the image or media file in a page. Use a link in the form of

[[Image:File.jpg]]
[[Image:File.png|thumb|Example image caption]]
[[Image:File.ogg]]

The last item is an audio file. See Wikipedia:Ogg.

For an enlargeable thumbnail image with a caption see the photo to the right. Click the photo to enlarge it. Click it again to enlarge it further. It uses wikicode in the form of:

[[Image:File.jpg|thumb|Example image caption]]

To post a captioned image in a page, and have no text flowing around the image use wikicode in this form:

[[Image:File.jpg|thumb|none|Example image caption]]

For example:

Example image caption.
Example image caption.
Example image caption.
Example image caption.

You can put the photo at any width by indicating the width in pixels. See the 250-pixel-wide photo to the near right. It uses wikicode in the form of:

[[Image:File.jpg|thumb|250px|Example image caption]]

The image can be placed on the left side with text flowing around it on the right by using wikicode in this form:

[[Image:File.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Example image caption]]

For more image how-to see Wikipedia:Picture tutorial.

Externally hosted images

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For info on using externally hosted images please see:

Here below are the URLs for the full-size and thumbnail versions of the same image:

http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii151/Harmonious420/th_LiberateMarijuanaPoster-1.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii151/Harmonious420/LiberateMarijuanaPoster-1.jpg

Note: For photobucket.com images one only has to add "th_" to the URL to get the thumbnail version. Compare the above 2 URLs. For WeedWiki use try to use the thumbnail version of images when the full-size version is more than 100 kilobytes. You can link to the larger version: [1]. To link to it just add single [brackets] to the URL for the large version of the image.

To get the image to show up here just leave the image URL bare. Also, leave a link to the full-size version of the image. See the example below:

th_LiberateMarijuanaPoster-1.jpg The full-size version of the poster can be found here.

A list of acceptable sources of externally hosted images for use on WeedWiki:

For example; these popular image hosts below allow hotlinking, and are also acceptable for use on WeedWiki:

Externally hosted images that are hosted on sites that allow hotlinking are also good for email, forums, etc..


Flickr images

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Flickr: www.flickr.com and Wikipedia page on Flickr.

Flickr can search for images with free licenses. See:

The statement on Flickr image pages, "This photo is public", DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT COPYRIGHT. It only says that the photo is publicly viewable. The copyright license logo and link are located under the "Additional Information" heading on Flickr image pages.

Flickr images have the first seven different licensing options below. Only some licenses are OK here at the Wikia.com site. See: Creative Commons (CC) licensing options.

Statement on image page. License OK here?
© All rights reserved Copyrighted 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
No rights reserved. Public Domain OK

"BY" is for attribution, as in a photo is "BY" a certain person. That means the image requires attribution, by saying who the image was created BY. SA is for Share Alike. Licenses with NC ( - non-commercial use only) or ND ( - no derivative works allowed to be created) 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) or Public Domain.


Keep in mind that Flickr users often don't know about copyright. If it is suspected that they are not the author of the work, it may be deleted here.

For more info see the Wikimedia Commons upload page for Flickr images and its transcluded text introduction:

When uploading Flickr images you can change the destination filename to something more descriptive and meaningful if you want to. Be sure to upload the 'Original' or 'Large' version of the image, nothing smaller!

Some Flickr photo searches:

Flickr advanced search:

The Flickr advanced search allows searches by date, Creative Commons (CC) license, etc.. Wikia needs free images that can be used both commercially and noncommercially; and that can be modified, adapted, or built upon. So check both those Creative Commons boxes in the advanced search form. Example;
Flickr photos with free CC licenses 'matching' marijuana or marihuana taken May 4-6, 2007:

Automatic import of Flickr images

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Note: The help page for this is at w:c:Help:Import free images.

Go to Special:ImportFreeImages and search for free images. Then click on "import this" for any image. The image will be automatically imported with the description page filled out. It is single-click uploading. For an example of an uploaded image using this tool see

Here below are some example searches for various image tags, or combinations of image tags. The image tags must be separated with commas. The first 2 searches are for marijuana spelled with a "j", and marihuana spelled with an "h".

marijuana

marihuana

marijuana, march

toronto, marijuana, march

Wikimedia Commons images

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Please upload images and media files from the Wikimedia Commons:

Anybody can upload images there by going to this upload page:

All image and media files there are freely usable by anybody for commercial or noncommercial use. See:

Here are a few Wikimedia Commons categories of interest:

If you see a relevant image or media file on the Commons you can upload it here. First, keep clicking the image on the commons until it is at its largest size. Then right-click the image, and save it to your desktop, or somewhere else on your computer. Then use the upload form farther down to upload it here.

Feel free to upload image and media files to the commons, too. The commons carefully reviews uploaded items to be sure that they are freely usable anywhere. If the items are accepted on the commons, then they can be used here or anywhere else.

Upload form

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