A Simple Guide to Adding WikiMedia Commons Images to Your Steemit Posts to Spice Them UP
Good Morning, All!
After some good advice by @getonthetrain on adding images to my posts, I have found that adding images to my posts has added some success.
While I have suggested some ways to FIND pics in this post,
The suggestion for blog posts is to use pictures...so where do you get pics? Read on!,
It is time to give a step-by-step process for using one of these resources, as well as giving credit where credit is due to the owners of those pics.
- You are going to go to
Wkimedia Commons
There is a "search" box in the upper right corner of the page
You'll enter whatever subject you want to illustrate your post. I'll go with Halloween for an example The site will return a lot of selections and categories. Take your time and look around for the best pics to go with your post. I explored a bit and found Category:Halloween in the United States
I now right click on the pic and "Open in a new tab" (This avoids some linking issues)
Then I copy the address of the file, and paste into my post, giving me
I check to make sure that the pic loaded correctly into the page. a JPG should work with no problems. There are other formats such as SVG which will not. You'll need to use a pic that works.
- I copy the information from the Attribution: box (in red, last pic), and paste it under the filename of the pic.
By Jere Keys from San Francisco, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
I now change that attribution to italics (see below)
Here is what the posting AND crediting line commands should look like with the information for this pic
And here is what your pic should look like with full credit/attribution to the creator
By Jere Keys from San Francisco, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsThanks for reading, and let me know if you have any questions about doing this
Hmmm maybe i should start using this soon. Right now am into uploading images there and it sure is not that easy, maybe because i used my phone to upload it. 😵
it's better to use your own art/photos to illustrate your posts, but not always possible ;>
Yeah, if i don't have any appropriate image it's better to find a suitable one that's free to share.
exactly, but to be honest with you, I haven't been as pure as I ought to have been since posting this ;>
I do usually include the image source as a link, at least
Does the same method apply to videos too?
I think so, but I have been lazy about accrediting videos I have used from Youtube so far. I haven't even used video from Wikimedia yet.
The formatting will work.
We really do need to acknowledge the work of others on this site.