

Since then, the MP3 patents have expired and Wikimedia legal has given permission to allow uploading as needed by Wikimedia or its communities. Wikipedia uses the Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WAV format for audio, as they are not encumbered by patents (an issue that prompted the decision in 2004 that MP3 files would not be hosted at Wikipedia ). Source documents should be uploaded to Wikisource instead.įor a discussion on uploading spreadsheets, see the talk page.

However, most PDFs should be converted into wikitext. In rare cases an HTML file is uploaded, for example as a test or demonstration. Please do not dump text into Wikipedia unless you wrote it yourself, or you know that it meets the project's stringent copyright licensing requirements. Instead, please start a new page and input the text using standard wiki formatting. txt), Microsoft Word (.doc), or text files in other formats. For help and instructions, see m:Help:Formula. (You can also use SGML entities for certain characters, such as & for & or é for é.)įor mathematical formulae, we use TeX markup. See m:Help:Special characters for details and help. Wikipedia uses a UTF-8 encoding scheme, which means that any Unicode character can and should be entered directly. It is not necessary to upload images to use special characters or even complex mathematical expressions. 5.1 Limitations and implementation issues.The page name will contain the file type such as pagename.jpg. If you want to give a link to the file description page in an article, use an extra colon at the front, e.g., " ]", a download link to the media file is created.
#Attach photo to movie files pdf#
note: pdf and djvu are intended primarily for projects like Wikisource. The following file types may be uploaded: png, gif, jpg/ jpeg, xcf, pdf, mid, ogg/ ogv/ oga, svg, djvu and webm.

The maximum size of an uploaded file is 100 megabytes. Files from Wikimedia Commons use the same syntax described below, there is no extra step needed. This allows the files to be used in articles instantly by all Wikimedia projects. Please consider uploading freely licensed content to the Wikimedia Commons instead of here. Uploaded files are given the "File:" prefix by the system, and each one has an image description page. Once a file is uploaded, other pages can include or link to the file. Images, audio and video files must be uploaded into Wikipedia using the "Upload file" link on the left-hand navigation bar.
#Attach photo to movie files how to#
A screencast that walks through how to upload files to Wikimedia Commons and add them to Wikipedia articles.
