Wikipedia talk:Upload
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Note: Use the table below to go to the talk pages for the other upload pages. Commons note: It is always preferable to upload free images at Commons:Upload so that the images can be used in all the projects and languages of the Wikimedia Foundation (see Wikimedia.org). Unified login means you may already be registered at the commons. This allows you to upload there immediately.
| See also the talk pages for the various Wikipedia upload forms: | |
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| Special:Upload (main upload form). Text introduction for it. | Talk |
| Entirely my own work. | Talk |
| The work of someone else, who has given permission to use it on Wikipedia or it is a work released under a free license. | Talk |
| A work from a US federal government source. (NOT state or local government). | Talk |
| A work from Flickr. | Talk |
| A promotional photo from an advertisement, press kit, or other promotional source. | Talk |
| The cover of an album or single. | Talk |
| A cover or other page from a book, DVD, newspaper, magazine, or other such source. | Talk |
| A screenshot taken of a movie, TV program, computer game, web site, computer program, music video, or other such source. | Talk |
| The logo of an organization, brand, product, public facility, or other item. | Talk |
| A picture of a postage stamp, or of currency. | Talk |
| An image from a website. | Talk |
| Other. | Talk |
Notes: Most of the links in the left side of the above table are to the transcluded introductory instruction text for the various upload forms linked from Wikipedia:Upload. For the full range of such transcluded upload text see Special:Prefixindex/Mediawiki:Uploadtext and Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Upload/Uploadtext. Those text pages can be edited by any registered user. There is a sandbox for editing Wikipedia:Upload.
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New Design
We should incorporate the change on wikimedia commons to the wikipedia upload process. It is easyer and is much less overwhelming. Noahk11 (talk) 02:36, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Uploading from iPhone, iPad, and similar devices
Today, seemingly most people have at least one iPhone, iPad, or similar device, and it is not uncommon for all or most of one's internet usage to be on such a device. But the way things are now, it is impossible to upload with such a device. There should be an easy method for those who have these devices to upload the pictures they take with them directly onto Wikipedia. It is possible to upload videos straight onto YouTube, so why can't it be possible to upload them onto Wikipedia? Any support for this? Sebwite (talk) 19:51, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- This discussion might be better held at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical). Rivertorch (talk) 07:01, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
- This is a limitation of the default iPhone browser, Safari, and not a limitation of Wikipedia. I am able to upload files using Opera Mobile on a Samsung Galaxy S II running Android 2.3.4. Safari does not conform to web standards. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs email 02:44, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Add an NFC licencing template
Can {{non-free character}} be included in the licensing choices available when uploading a non-free image? Then one wouldn't have to use a temporary template that later needs to be replaced with this one Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 15:33, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Filling in the basic upload form a la Commons
I've noticed that the basic upload form on en.wiki doesn't have one of the very nice additions that the basic upload form on Commons has, that it that it automatically fills this out when you load the page:
{{Information
|Description=
|Source=
|Date=
|Author=
|Permission=
|other_versions=
}}
Is there any way we can have this show up when you load the basic upload form? - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 16:14, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
"Upload a new version of this file"
Not sure if this is the right place to bring this up or if it has already been discussed, but I have a suggestion. When a signed-in user wishes to upload a new version of a file, he simply clicks on Upload a new version of this file. However, if he is a non-user or is not signed in, he sees nothing. That link simply vanishes. On at least one occasion this has caused some confusion. My suggestion is to leave that link in place, and if it is clicked on by a non-user, he is taken to a page that tells him to either sign in or sign up. This is a very common (and useful) way to handle such a situation. (It would also be desirable to extend this change to commons and all wikis.) JBarta (talk) 21:43, 28 November 2011 (UTC)