| Q. | Can I download a song from Wikimedia Commons? | Related Search:
Other - Music | | | I heard a song in Wikimedia Commons, but I don't know how to download it to my PC. Any ideas?
| | A. | Yep. When you go to the page, check and see if you're in the "Image:" namespace. If you are, you should see "image" in a tab, and the page should have "Image:" in it's name. Then, look below until you see a file name in a hyperlink. Click it, and it'll be downloaded. You probably need a program like Audacity to listen to .ogg files, though. | | | |
| Q. | How to fill in the wikimedia commons upload page? | Related Search:
Wikipedia | | | I found a image on someone website, and I asked the author permission to upload the image into wikimedia commons, releasing it in public domain, so that I can use it in some wikipedia pages editing. He gave the permission.
Now, I am confused with upload form, how should I fill in the form in such case?
[Link] 
| | A. | Put {{OTRS pending|month=February|day=12|year=2010}} in the "permissions" field and ask the original author to send a permission email to [Link] | | | |
| Q. | How to add a soundfile from Wikimedia Commons to a Wikipedia Page? | Related Search:
Wikipedia | | | How to add this soundfile:
[Link]
to this page:
[Link]
Thanks! =]
| | A. | You will want to add the following text in the "External links" section:
{{Spoken Wikipedia|Wakefieldmass.ogg|2010-08-20}}
This is a template specific to readings of Wikipedia articles, as I see that's what your recording is. Add it right under the section title, thus something like the following should be in the wikitext:
==External links==
{{Spoken Wikipedia|Wakefieldmass.ogg|2010-08-20}}
{{Commons category}}
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| Q. | Is there a good site other than Wikimedia Commons for public domain photographs? | Related Search:
Photography | | | If I were to take pictures of streets and buildings and such, and I wanted to release them to the public domain or under some free-to-use license, are there any good sites to upload said pictures to so others can use them?
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| Q. | Proper way to use Wikimedia Commons? | Related Search:
Other - Internet | | | If I had a website, and I found an image in Wikimedia Commons that I wanted to use, what do I do?
Do I copy the LINK from Wikimedia Commons and use it in my website, or do I save the picture and upload it on my own host?
Do I need to do anything else? What is GNU? Please explain the process in a clear way. Thanks.
Where am I supposed to put the credit on? What am I supposed to write?
| | A. | You should probably save it on your own host so it will remain the same even if somebody changes it on Commons. Images on Commons can be used however you want provided that you give credit. | | | |
| Q. | How do I post a picture from Wikimedia Commons to an article on Wikipedia? | Related Search:
Wikipedia | | | I have successfully loaded a picture to Commons, but cannot find how to get it on my article.
Suppose I've done the
[[File:Foopah.. syntax thing,
it still appears in red on my article. when I click on it, it will allow to upload an image, which it tells you that if you continue your upload you will duplicate it.
It is very frustrating..!
| | A. | If the name of the file page on Commons were "File:Foobar.png" and an appropriate caption for the image "Look, a foobar!", the easiest way to write the article would be to add the text "[[File:Foobar.png|thumb|Look, a foobar!]]" wherever you wanted the image.
The double brackets make a link, the "File:" prefix says that it's a file (and will be treated as such, the pipe symbols ( "|", get one by pressing shift-\ ) separate bits, the "thumb" says to format it automatically as a thumbnail, and the text at the end is used as a caption.
It doesn't matter that the file is on Commons: the image will act as though it were uploaded locally to Wikipedia, unless there's a local file with the same name. | | | |
| Q. | Which is the most disgraceful Wikimedia Commons page? | Related Search:
Wikipedia | | | Please provide a link with your answer, as answers without a link will be unlikely to be chosen as "Best Answer". Just the link is sufficient, you need not go into an explanation of why the page is disgraceful, unless that is your wish.
| | A. | The pathetic effort to recognize substance is bogged down in an idiotically complicated process. | | | |
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