Help:Image description page

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1 Useful things to include on an image description page
2 Nonexisting image
3 See also
4 Wikinews-specific content and links to other help pages

Each uploaded file has one or two associated image description page. This term is also applied in the case of other file types, notably sound files, e.g. Image:V1sound.ogg.

If a family of projects has a Commons project, typically the file is uploaded on Commons. The image description page there gives copyright info. Other info is put on the image description page of the appropriate project. For example, if the projects are distinguished by language, info in German is put on the image description page in the German project.

The image is linked to the local image description page, which, due to the contents of MediaWiki:Sharedupload, is linked to the one on Commons, where the image was uploaded.

To make a link to the image description page of a sound file, or of an image without including the actual image, use a link like: [[:Image:a_sound.ogg]] or [[:Image:an_image.jpg]]. In the case of an image, the leading colon prevents the image being embedded in the article, and instead makes an ordinary link. In the case of a sound, automatically playing the sound is not possible anyway.

The description page consists of four parts:

The description part has also an history; it is labelled, somewhat confusingly, Image:xxx Revision history. It should not be confused with the Image history.

What follows refers to the description part, and is in particular about images. For sound, see also Wikipedia:Sound help.

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Useful things to include on an image description page

In the description part of the page you can put text. Initially the description part automatically contains the upload summary supplied by the user when uploading the first version .

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Description of the image

Eg: "Image of a goldfish in a small tank". This should not be alternate text , but rather a description. This is useful for users who do not have direct access to the image, and is a temporary substitute for a proper longdesc tag.

You could also include the proportions of the image, in pixels.

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Other versions

If other versions of the same image exists, link to them.

Textfree versions are useful for using across language versions.

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Relevant links

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You can also include other images on image description pages.

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Caption

Alternatively, the whole text is just a suitable caption, while other information is put on the Talk page. When using the image, the caption can be inserted using {{Image:Imagename}} .

Example:

[[Image:So.gif]]

which produces:

Image:So.gif

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Nonexisting image

Nonexisting images show no image history section, see e.g. Image:Stop sign us.JPG.

The image description section may have content anyway, e.g. a redirect, text regarding a deleted image, or an enlarged image in the form of a line of code such as [[image:tst.png|thumb|left|980px|]] in Image:Tst.png .

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