Lesson 11. Incorporating Pictures and Other Media in Your Article

In this lesson, you learn how to upload and add media files to your Wikipedia articles.

Uploading Pictures and Other Media Files

You can enhance your articles by incorporating pictures, audio clips, and even videos into the text. Before you add a media file to an article, however, you first need to upload the file to Wikimedia Commons—Wikipedia’s shared repository for media files of all types.

Note: Wikimedia Commons

Learn more about using Wikimedia Commons in Lesson 12, “Finding Pictures in the Wikimedia Commons.”

To upload a media file, you first need to be logged on to Wikipedia as a registered user. You also need to be an autoconfirmed user, which happens automatically ...

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