Help:Contributing/richMediaContent

Files on this wiki are classic wiki pages in the File: namespace, not Wikibase entities. The media workflow has two steps: upload the file, then embed it in a page.

Uploading a file

You must be logged in — anonymous visitors are read-only. Open Special:Upload, or use the "Upload file" link in the toolbox on the left.

The form asks for three things:

• Source file — the file on your computer. This wiki accepts png, gif, jpg, jpeg and webp for images, and ogg, ogv, oga and webm for audio and video.
• Destination filename — the name the file will have here, for example Example.png. Choose a descriptive, unique name.
• Summary — the file description: what the file contains or shows, and where it comes from. This text is what visitors see in Special:ListFiles, so describe the file itself — not where it is used or how it was processed.

Avoid — where the file is used or what was done to it	Write this — what the file shows
"Sample video for Help:Contributing/richMediaContent"	NASA Apollo 11 television footage of Buzz Aldrin descending the lunar module ladder. Public domain (NASA).
"Resized to 600 × 600 to fit the help page"	Photograph of Earth, the "Blue Marble", taken by the Apollo 17 crew. Public domain (NASA).

The summary cannot be edited in place. To correct it, upload a new version of the file (it may be the same file) with the corrected summary. The text on the file page — what visitors see under the media — is separate and can be edited like any page; keep it consistent with the summary.

The size limit is 1 GiB. The form warns for files larger than 50 MB — the warning does not block the upload.

After uploading, the file lives at a page called File:Name.ext. The page shows the media and its description. To replace a file, use "Upload a new version of this file" on the file page — the history keeps every version.

Files larger than roughly 100 MB are slow to upload in one request. Use chunked uploads through the API instead: see the MediaWiki official API:Upload documentation.