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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.

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[edit] Finding a place to put your content on the web

There are dozens of websites which allow you to upload media content to the internet. Some of these sites make it very easy to share your content with the world, while others provide you the opportunity to post files as part of their main service. The important issues for you, as the person wanting to share your photographs and videos, are:

  1. Permanent url. Can you share a link to your content that does not change?
  2. Copyright and license. Do you retain copyright and control of your content? Certain websites, such as Facebook, claim unlimited rights to your content as soon as you upload it. What this means is they can use your content for any purpose, and even if you delete the image they are not required to delete any copies or other uses of your image.

[edit] The best place for the Ninety-Nine wiki

For multimedia to be used on the Ninety-Nine wiki, the best place to place your content is the Wikimedia Commons. 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.

[edit] Other possibilities

Below are a few possibilities you may want to think about; if you know of one which should be listed but isn't please add it with the edit button above.

Media websites Social media File storage


  • Diasp.org: This is only one of many Diaspora nodes.

[edit] Remember to link your content

Remember to add links to your images on the cities page it is relevant to so people can find it!