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'''Images ''' uploaded should be [[print screens screen]]s from the [[current IMSMA version]]. Upload [[high resolution ]] print screens.
== General rules ==
* Use the image description page to describe an image and possibly its copyright status.
* Use a clear, detailed title. Note that if any image with the same title has already been uploaded, it will be replaced with your new one.
== Copyright and licensing ==
Before you upload an image, make sure that the image falls in one of the four three categories:* # '''Own work''': You own all rights to the image, usually meaning that you created it entirely yourself.* # '''Freely licensed''': You can prove that the copyright holder has released the image under an acceptable free license. Note that images that are licensed for use only on Wikipediathe [[GICHD]] [[IMSMA wiki]], or only for non-commercial or educational use, or under a license that doesn't allow for the creation of modified/derived works, are unsuitable. * # '''Public domain''': You can prove that the image is in the [[public domain]], i.e. free of all copyrights.
== Image titles and file names ==
== Placement ==
* '''Image galleries''': Images are typically interspersed individually throughout a page near the relevant text. However, the use of a gallery may be appropriate in some pages if a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject that cannot be easily or adequately described by text or individual images. Images in a gallery should be suitably captioned to explain their relevance both to the article subject and to the theme of the gallery, and the gallery should be appropriately titled (unless the theme of the gallery is clear from the context of the article). Collages and montagesNote that galleries will be small if the wiki is printed. See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Gallery_tag Wikipedia help file for galleries].<gallery>File:User Items.png|Example image gallery from the IMSMA [[Core Design Concepts]]File:User Browse.pngFile:Field Report Template Designer (QRG).png</gallery>* '''Image queuing''': Articles may get ugly and difficult to read if there are too many images onto a page with relatively little text. They may even overlap. Avoid adding images after each other. Use a gallery, if this is required.
== Format ==
* '''Drawings, icons, maps, flags and other such images ''': are preferably uploaded in [[SVG ]] format as vector images. Images with large, simple, and continuous blocks of color colour which are not available as SVG should be in PNG format.* '''Software screenshots ''': should be in [[PNG ]] format.* '''Photos and scanned images ''': should be in [[JPEG ]] format.* '''Inline animations ''': should be in animated [[GIF ]] format.* '''Video ''': should be in [[Ogg]]/[[Theora ]] format.
== Size ==
* '''Uploaded image size''': Uploaded files must be smaller than 100 megabytes. The MediaWiki software can resize images automatically, so it is rarely necessary to resize images yourself.* '''Displayed image size''': Images beside the text should generally use a caption and the "thumb" (thumbnail) option; the default results in a display ''220 pixels wide'', except for those logged-in users who have set a different default in their user preferences. Where size forcing is appropriate, larger images should generally be a maximum of ''500 pixels tall '' and ''400 pixels wide'', so that they can comfortably be displayed on the smallest displays in common use. Since MediaWiki dynamically scales inline images there is no need to reduce file size via scaling or quality reduction when uploading images, although compressing PNGs may be useful. Lead images should usually be no wider than ''"upright=1.35" (or "300px")''.
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