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Wikipedia:Images

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For the Manual of Style relating to the use of images on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images.

Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia, 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 Wikipedia.

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 Wikipedia.

Since Wikipedia is not censored, readers and editors may come across offensive images.

Policy and guidelines

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Tutorials and help

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Image/picture tutorials

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Graphics tutorials

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Help

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Maintenance

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Page count of image related maintenance categories
Category Number
September
2012 		November
2024
Category:Articles with missing files 7,265 3
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons 7,872 405
Category:Wikipedia files lacking a description 4,911 141
Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression 1,842 2,382
Category:Images which should be in PNG format 445 224
Category:Images with watermarks 238 113
Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests 1,027 12
Category:Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free media rationale template with no Purpose specified 432 0
Category:Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free use rationale template with no Purpose specified n/a 19
Category:Publicity photographs with missing fair-use rationale 197 19
Category:Wikipedia files with disputed copyright information 1,199 475

Files by type

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Pyromorphite
Photograph credit: David Ifar
The first Wikipedia logo
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Wikipedia: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

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Wikipedia: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:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.

Wikipedia logos

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The current and now iconic Wikipedia logo is the third in a series of three.

See also

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Essays
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