- Note: Upload at Special:Upload, and upload multiple files at Special:MultipleUpload. The text of the upload form is at MediaWiki:Uploadtext. The license selector text is at MediaWiki:Licenses. Images can be found at: Category:Image-related categories.
Images without image licenses are usually deleted.
- To add a license later to an image page
- Find licenses at Category:Image license templates. Copy to image page.
- Info on image licenses
- Image license templates
- All uploaded images
- Special:Log/upload, Special:ImageList (chart), Category:Cannabis Wiki (to find all images).
- Fair use
- See fair use, Category:Cannabis-related graphics, and this Wikipedia page: Fair use
- For uploading help
- Help:Uploading files
- For image help
- Help:Images, Category:Image-related templates (additional help by topic).
- For video info and help
- Help:Videos, Category:Videos, Category:City pages with embedded videos.
- For more help and resources see this Wikimedia Commons page
- commons:Category:Commons resources
- Upload your images to the Wikimedia Commons too
- Any image on the Commons can be used on Wikia or Wikipedia.
Some of the info below may be out of date.
- About Creative Commons (CC) image and media licenses
- 2 of the CC licensing options are accepted by Wikia, Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia Commons. See the table below. Any version number of those 2 free CC licenses is OK.
Please upload some of your images and media files to the Cannabis Wiki. Pick one of the 2 accepted Creative Commons (CC) licenses from the upload form. See {{Cc-by-3.0}} and {{Cc-by-sa-3.0}}. See the table below. It is adapted from "Upload work from Flickr" at the Wikimedia Commons. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The icon "BY" means the image license requires attribution, as in an image is "BY" a certain person. SA is for "Share Alike". Licenses with NC ( - non-commercial use only) or ND ( - no derivative works) 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). See also Commons:OTRS. |
Release some or all of the images and media files on your site. It is also good to put one of the 2 accepted CC licenses on the home page and other pages of your website, gallery, Flickr account, Picasa account, etc.. Something like:
- This is the site of [real name or alias]. Concerning the images and media files on this site that I have authored, I release them all (or indicate which ones) under this free Creative Commons license: [Link to one of these:]
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
- Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
For more info see this CC license overview page: Licenses - Creative Commons. By the way; Flickr can search its images by CC license. You can also hover your mouse cursor over "Some rights reserved" on Flickr image pages to see the license in effect for that particular image.