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As with all images, but particularly the lead, the image used should be relevant and technically well-produced. It is also common for the lead image to be representative because it provides a visual association for the topic, and allow readers to quickly assess if they have arrived at the right page. Image captions are part of the article text.
One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture is is important, too. If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can ...
Seek opportunities for commonality to avoid disputes over style. If you believe an alternative style would be more appropriate for a particular article, seek consensus by discussing this at the article's talk page or – if it raises an issue of more general application or with the MoS itself – at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. If a ...
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There are two types of links to a video: File – To create a link to the video's File Description Page, use [[:File:Time Lapse of New York City.ogv]]. To make the text of a link to the video's File Description Page appear as some text other than the video's filename, use [[:File:Time Lapse of New York City.ogv|some text you prefer]].
The caption is visible to all readers, and can contain HTML markup, wikilinks and inline citations. An infobox often contains a plain image with the caption as a separate row. A good caption should succinctly identify the subject of the image and establish the image's relevance to the article, without detailing the obvious.
YouTube is releasing a caption service so that those who cannot hear the audio on the site's videos will be able to read along instead. YouTube, a division of Google (GOOG), posted a message on ...
There are over 100 million media files on all Wikimedia projects as of January 2024—predominantly images but also sound files, animations, videos, etc. You can see some of our best work at our featured pictures page, the featured pictures page on Commons, or in the results of the annual Picture of the Year contest.