Bharatpedia:Uploading images: Difference between revisions

{{Main|Wikipedia:Moving images to Commons}}

[[Image:Wikipedia to Commons.png|frameless|upright=1.11|right|alt=The Wikipedia logo, with a big blue arrow leading to the Wikimedia Commons logo]]

Although it is possible to use one image within several Wikipedia articles (of the same Wikimedia project), it is not possible to use an image uploaded to one Wikimedia project (both [[WP:SIS|sister projects]] like [[Wikisource]] and other language Wikipedias) in another one without re-uploading it in each of these projects. For this reason, all free images should be uploaded to [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]], where they will immediately be accessible from all Wikimedia projects. Note that Commons only accepts free images (public domain or licensed under a [[free license]]). If the image is [[fair use]], you can't upload it to Commons, so it will have to be uploaded separately to every project that uses it.{{#tag:ref|Some Wikipedias, most notably the German Wikipedia, do not permit fair use content either. You should verify the local policy before uploading to other Wikimedia sites.|group="Note"}} To upload the image existing on Wikipedia to another project you will need to download the image to your own computer (often right clicking on it will give you this option), and then re-upload that to the place you want the image to be copied to. [[Help:Interlanguage links|Interlanguage links]] can be added between the two.

If this is too confusing, just tag it with {{tl|Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}. This adds a notice saying "This is a candidate to be copied to the Wikimedia Commons" to the page; then someone will move it for you and remove the tag. This category has a significant backlog though, so it may be better just to move it yourself.