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First, we've had some problem with wiki vandals overwriting images in drive-by vandalism, so you have to be a Autoconfirmed or Confirmed Troper in order to upload images now. If you make enough edits (that aren't reverted!) to existing pages, getting into that group is just a matter of time. If a member of the mod team notices that you consistently make high-quality edits, getting into that group can happen faster. So the first step to be able to upload images is to work on other parts of All The Tropes and show that you can be trusted with this right.
(And even then, if you haven't yet been granted Autopatrolled rights, your upload will still go to the Moderation queue for review by the mod staff.)
== Select an Image ==
Now presumably you have an image in mind already. But if you don't that's okay. We have a page here called [[All The Tropes:How to Pick A Good Image|How to Pick A Good Image]] which will help you choose something that works. Just make sure that when you add your image to the page it'll be more than [[All The Tropes:Just a Face and a Caption|Just a Face and a Caption]].
Also, <!--as per [[Special:WikiForum/Policy_request:_use_Public_Domain_or_Creative_Commons_licensed_images_wherever_we_have_the_option|this forum discussion]], -->All The Tropes prefers using Public Domain and Creative Commons licensed images when they exist. ''Please use copyrighted images only where there is no other alternative.''
Once you've picked something, download it to your computer.
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=== Resizing Images ===
It's often a good idea to resize images before uploading them; making an image anywhere between 350 to 450 pixels wide is usually ideal. Image height is far less critical unless it is ''much'' wider than it is tall, in which case you might want to consider a different image or crop the one you have. This isn't essential - you can set a maximum width later by using the thumbnail markup on the wiki page where the file will be displayed - but shrinking a huge image will leave more disk space for other images later. ''(Moderator tip: If you're running Windows, you can use the freeware program [https://www.irfanview.com/ IrfanView] to resize images cleanly, and to convert them to JPG or PNG format so that they can be used on the wiki. That software has literally been around for decades and as of 2020 is still being supported. Windows PowerToys also includes an image resizer among its features. And there are also any number of websites that offer image-resizing services.)''
In general, though, please don't upload images larger than about 1 MB, or measuring larger than 1500 pixels on their longest axis. Large images start running into practical and software issues, in addition to taking up far more disk space than they need to. The wiki software cannot do anything with images larger than 12.5 megapixels other than just display them -- thumbnailing simply won't work. Plus, there's no rational reason for having an image that large on the wiki -- it would be so large that it would effectively blank out a page. Over-sized images may be deleted or resized at the discretion of the admin staff.
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== Uploading the Image to the Wiki ==
Uploading an image is a simple process. Over in the menu along the left edge of every page in most skins, there is a link reading "Upload file". (It's actually there twice, once at the top, the sixth item, and once more down under the "Tools" submenu at the bottom.) Click it and it will take you to a page where you can pick the file you want to upload on your computer, add a description, pick a license type, and add categories.
Let's go over these in a little more detail.
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=== If the page has an infobox ===
As of mid-
You'll see a line "image = " in the infobox. Put the name of the image on that line, after the equals sign, but do not include the "File:" part of the name. The infobox will do all the hard work of resizing and positioning the image for you.
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=== Finishing Up ===
At this point, all you have left to do is save the page -- after [[All The Tropes:Edit Reasons and Why You Should Use Them|noting in the edit reason]] that you've added a page image -- and you're done.
=== My New Image Replaced One That Was Already There ===
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[[Category:Wiki Policy]]
[[Category:Image Administrivia]]
[[Category:Wiki FAQs]]
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