Wikipedia:Upload
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- Note: This page is for uploading images and multimedia to the English Wikipedia. Please go here to ask image and media questions, or here to upload an image if you don't have an account. To add a new article, please see the Article Wizard. You can also find where to ask any question or experiment with editing.
Are you uploading a free image or media file? Please consider creating an account or logging in at the Wikimedia Commons and uploading it there.
Items uploaded to the Commons can be used on Wikipedia and elsewhere, helping to create a central repository of free images and multimedia. If you have a unified login, you can use it at Commons.
If you are familiar with our image policies and already know which license applies, go directly to the upload form.
What kind of image or multimedia (audio or video) file is it?
- Entirely my own work - I created it, own all the rights to it, and have not used anyone else's work in making it
- The work of someone else, who has given permission to release it under a free license or it is already under a free license
- A work from a U.S. federal government source (NOT state or local government)
- A work from Flickr
- A promotional photo from an advertisement, press kit, or other promotional source or a historically significant fair use image
- The cover of an album or single
- A cover or other page from a book, DVD, newspaper, magazine, or other such source
- A screenshot taken of a movie, TV program, computer game, web site, computer program, music video, or other such source
- The logo of an organization, brand, product, public facility, or other item
- A picture of a postage stamp, or of currency
- An image from a website
- Other
- I don't know who the author is, or I am unsure which license applies
- I need help figuring out what the license is or I need help in understanding image copyright and Fair Use policies
