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It's the first link in the "participate" set of links. You'll see the initial screen in the upload process (Figure 15-2). Figure 15-2. The two critical components, for copyright purposes, are the source of an image, and the license for that image. When you start the upload process to Commons, the first page is concerned with the source.
Zero or more of these options may be specified to control the alt text, link title, and caption for the image. Captions may contain embedded wiki markup, such as links or formatting. See Wikipedia:Captions for discussion of appropriate caption text.
[a] Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the text. A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article, so they should be succinct and informative.
A template for adding a caption to a frameless image. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Image image 1 The image to use. The ''File:'' prefix is optional. Default — String required Image caption and alt text caption 2 The caption to display under or above the image. Also sets the alt text. Default — String required Image width scaling factor upright ...
If sections have the same title, add a number to link to any but the first. #Example section 3 goes to the third section named "Example section". You can use the pipe and retype the section title to display the text without the # symbol.
The caption tag is used inside the HTML element "table". This can also be done indirectly using the code "|+" as part of the wikicode for a table. Captions are placed above the table by default. Captions can also be placed below, to the left, or to the right of the table, based on the value of the "align" parameter.
Often the caption or article will describe the image adequately, and where this is the case you can write alt=caption or alt=see adjacent text. If additional alt text is added, it should be a succinct description that complies with the content policies; see WP:ALT for more information.
For lengthy captions under narrow images, it's probably best to add a heights= parameter to make the images somewhat larger, as the default small size can lead to overly long stacks of caption text. See below.