WikiPedia:Multimedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Users who are logged in can upload files.

Apart from text, Wikipedia supports the following media inline:

• images — preferred formats: PNG, JPEG. see Wikipedia:Image use policy for more
• TeX — see Wikipedia:TeX markup

Also other files can be uploaded, and pages can then link to them. These files are also called "image" by the system, as in "image description page". They can have a size of up to 2 megabytes (but please be reasonable).

The most common is:

• sound — preferred formats: Ogg Vorbis or WAV. See Wikipedia:Sound
• video — nothing at Wikipedia:Video yet. See m:Video policy instead.

Remarks:

• for reasons of security executable programs are not allowed
• do not supply an article by uploading a .txt or .doc file, see Wikipedia:How to start a page
• for a discussion on uploading spreadsheets, see the Talk page.
• in rare cases a html file is uploaded, for example as test or demonstration, such as Image:Temp-stylesheet-demo.html
• occasionally a pdf file is uploaded, such as Image:Davis recall petition.pdf; also there is a WikiReader Image:WikiReader Free Software and Free Contents.pdf (preview version), and more are being prepared.

Suggestions for future formats include:

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

For using multimedia, see also Wikipedia:How to edit a page, Wikipedia:Extended image syntax.

For general help with uploading multimedia files see m:Help:Images and other uploaded files.

• Last 50 uploaded files (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Imagelist&sort=bydate&limit=50)
• m:MediaWiki file usage — technical notes