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Wikipedia:Images#Images for the lead

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Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs.

All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on the Wikipedia website or the partner Wikimedia Commons website. All free content is stored on "Commons" and images that have more onerous copyright restrictions are stored on Wikipedia, under a fair use rationale. Also, images that are used on the Main Page have a local version to prevent vandalism from appearing. Editors can also choose to have a local version stored on Wikipedia.

Images are classified as files and use the prefix of File: or the deprecated prefix of Image:. The File namespace is one of several namespaces used on Wikipedia.

Since Wikipedia is not censored, readers and editors may come across offensive images.

Policy and guidelines

Tutorials and help

= Image/picture tutorials =

= Graphics tutorials =

= Help =

Maintenance

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| September
2012

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:Category:Articles with missing files

| 7,265

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Articles with missing files}}

:Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons

| 7,872

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}

:Category:Wikipedia files lacking a description

| 4,911

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedia files lacking a description}}

:Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression

| 1,842

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression}}

:Category:Images which should be in PNG format

| 445

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Images which should be in PNG format}}

:Category:Images with watermarks

| 238

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Images with watermarks}}

:Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests

| 1,027

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests}}

:Category:Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free media rationale template with no Purpose specified

| 432

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free media rationale template with no Purpose specified}}

:Category:Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free use rationale template with no Purpose specified

| n/a

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free use rationale template with no Purpose specified}}

:Category:Promotional images with no non-free use rationale

| 197

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Promotional images with no non-free use rationale}}

:Category:Wikipedia files with disputed copyright information

| 1,199

|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedia files with disputed copyright information}}

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Files by type

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=Featured pictures=

Wikipedia:Featured pictures is a repository of images that have satisfied the Featured picture criteria and are used on the Main Page.

=Picture of the day=

Wikipedia:Picture of the day is an image which is automatically updated each day with an image from the list of featured pictures. The {{tl|POTD}} template produces the image shown above. :Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.

=Wikipedia logos=

The current and now iconic Wikipedia logo is the third in a series of three.

See also

;Essays

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