Help:Managing files

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The Ninety-Nine wiki is operated on a donated server, and does not have adequate storage to support storing a vast amount of video, sound, or image files. However, there are many ways you can store you multi-media on the web and make it available to others for remixing/reusing.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is the central multi-media file repository for Wikipedia and all the other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects. Files uploaded to the Commons can be directly used on this wiki, so this is our preferred option. However, Wikimedia Commons is very restrictive of what may be stored on their server, and have a history of deleting content out-of-hand for obscure reasons which do not seem to make any sense. You need to create an account on the Commons if you do not already have a Wikimedia account (if you have an account on Wikipedia or any other WMF project it will also work on the Commons. You can create a new account through the login screen.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR VIDEO: Commons will not accept any video format which is not in a freely-licensed format. At the moment this means all video to be stored on Commons must be in the Ogg Theora format. The largest a video file may be is 100MB, although it is possible to have a sysadmin help for larger files.

Any content you wish to upload to Commons must be freely licensed, or in the public domain. You must be the creator of the content, or be able to link to verifiable documentation that the content is freely licensed.

When you upload your content to the Commons, make sure you add the category Occupy Wall Street and the city category such as Occupy Seattle(by adding the text [[Category:Occupy Wall Street]] and the text [[Category:Occupy Seattle]]to the file description) so it will be easy to find. There are already thousands of media files on Commons about the protests.

To upload a file to Wikimedia Commons, follow this link.

Using images and file description pages

After you've uploaded a file to Wikimedia Commons, you can use it in an article, with some special wiki syntax to create the link. See Help:Images.

Your file gets its very own “file description page” within the File namespace of the wiki. You should edit this page to provide more information about the file. For example, many public wiki projects are quite sensitive to copyright issues, and so you should explain where you got the file from, and what its copyright status is, on the description page. Any other useful descriptive notes could also be added there.

List of files in the wiki

There are a number of special pages to help you view and manage files which have been uploaded. Go to “Special pages” (in the toolbox on the left) and then see...

• Gallery of new files - If you just uploaded one, you will see it here.
• File list - Shows all of the files.
• Unused files - Helps you track down files which might not be needed.

See Help:Special pages for details of the other information available here.

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