Editing Help:Uploading images (section)

==Image upload==
The image upload page is listed under ''Toolbox'' on the wiki sidebar:

[[File:Help--upload file--toolbar link.png|centre]]

To upload a batch of images, it's often easiest to simply middle-click this once for each image, producing one image upload tab for every image to be added to the wiki.

For each image, click the ''Browse…'' button (or the equivalent in your browser) to select the file to upload.

===Descriptions===
Each image needs a description. There is a generic template specifically designed for this —[[Template:filedesc]], borrowed from Wikipedia— which provides a consistent visual layout for the description, and helps uploaders to remember what information to provide. This template is automatically used whenever you try to upload a new file to the wiki. This is how it looks by default:

 <nowiki>{{filedesc
 | description = 
 | source      = 
 | date        = 
 | author      = 
 | licence     = 
 }}</nowiki>

You just need to fill in the fields as appropriate. The following example shows how the fields are used:

 <nowiki>{{filedesc
 | description = [[Cherry MX]] — side view of the [[gold crosspoint]] contacts
 | source      = Own work
 | date        = 2013-10-31
 | author      = [[User:Daniel beardsmore|]]
 | licence     = Public domain or nearest equivalent
 }}</nowiki>

This results in:

{{filedesc
| description = [[Cherry MX]] — side view of the [[gold crosspoint]] contacts
| source      = Own work
| date        = 2013-10-31
| author      = [[User:Daniel beardsmore|Daniel beardsmore]]
| licence     = Public domain or nearest equivalent
}}

If case you're the author, when citing your name you may wish to simply write "<code><nowiki>[[User:</nowiki></code>" followed by your wiki username (derived from, but sometimes different from your forum username), and finally "<code><nowiki>|]]</nowiki></code>". This creates a link to your personal page on the wiki; the "<kbd>|</kbd>" simply prevents "User:" from appearing as part of the link.

Try to make the description as descriptive as you can; for pictures of keyboards for example, cite the keyboard shown in the picture, if the picture is not of the whole keyboard. For one thing, this makes the image re-usable for other editors for other pages.

Date should be in YYYY-MM-DD format. Please note that this should be the date the picture was taken, '''NOT''' the date the picture is uploaded! Upload time is automatically logged and doesn't need to be specified here. If do you don't know the date the picture was taken, leave it blank.

Additional information about the template can be found on its [http://deskthority.net/wiki/Template:Filedesc own page].

Once the basics of the template are filled in for the first image, it's very straightforward to amend the code for the remainder of the images. To frequently recall this template text —with your personalised information such as username and preferred licence pre-filled— one handy way to have easy access to it is a clipboard manager:

[[File:Help--upload file--stash wiki code.png|centre]]

====Preview====
Note that '''there is no preview''' for image descriptions! You may wish to click Edit on another page, paste in your description, and preview the result there, and copy back the corrected code to the image upload page once done.