Internet: Knowledge and Community

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A quick overview on uploading pictures to our wiki:

1) Get a picture file from a site you can obtain the rights to. Try Creative commons search, or better yet take a picture yourself.

2) Shrink the picture to about 260 × 260 pixels so that it fits the wiki standard size without taking too long to load or too much server room. (most basic picture programs include the ability to shrink an image to optimize it for the web. You can try using this web site to shrink the picture. (I don't endorse the site in any way, but it worked when I tried it.) Download the optimized image file to a folder on your computer to a location you can remember (like "My Pictures.")

3) Click on upload a file in the toolbox menu to the right ====>

4) Click browse to find the file hopefully found in your "my pictures" file.

5) Select your picture and then choose an easy to type/ remember name in the "Destination Filename" field.

6) The description is important (But it can be edited in later)this is where you want to input your citation source and proof of digital rights. Open my V for vendetta page and look at the editing for that if you want an idea of how I do it. [1]

My code is posted below...

==Title here==

originally posted to ______ (website)_______ as :[Http://www.________.com ____(Link title here)____]

This file is licensed under ______________ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en]

You are free<br />

:*to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work<br />

:*to remix – to adapt the work<br />

Under the following conditions:<br />

:*attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner :specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they :endorse you or your use of the work).<br />

:*share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this :work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar :license to this one.<br />

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7) Ok hit upload.

8) On the page you want the picture to show up on enter the following code and edit in the blanks (replace destination filename with the name you uploaded it as.)

[[Image:Destinationfilename.jpg|frame| ____Image Caption_____.]]