Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki

Step by Step Procedure

1. There must be a copy of the file on your local computer, in the form you want to upload. The file must be in one of the supported file formats: (GIF, JPEG, PNG, or SVG).
2. Please be sure that the image is no larger than required, and in any case is less than 600 pixels along its largest dimension.
3. You must be logged in to upload images
4. Click on the "Upload file" link, found on the left of most wiki pages, or go to Special:Upload.
5. Fill in the path and name of, or browse to, the file on your local computer.
6. Specify the file name to be used on the wiki. It should be distinctive. The wiki software will force it to be unique. If the image is the cover of a publication, the publication tag may be appropriate. If you use something other than the publication tag, remember that other editions of the book are likely to have different art, so don't use just the book title, disambiguate with the year, printing number, publisher, imprint, artist, or some other info likely to distinguish this from other art for the same work. (this is less of a problem for magazines)
7. Enter a brief description of the image in the "Summary:" box, unless this is going to be done during the licensing step, below.
8. Click "Upload file".
9. When the image description page appears, click "Edit" at the top.
10. Apply one of the license tags from Category:Image License Tags, filling in all required parameters as specified by the tag's documentation. If no tag is applicable, explain fully the copyright and licensing status of the image, and why the ISFDB can display it. (this can also be done as part of the upload summery, saving the 2nd edit)
11. If the tag has not handled the matter, include a brief description of the image.
12. Click "Save".

Licensing

Every image page ought to include a license tag or statement, to indicate by what right the ISFDB displays it. Use the best fit of the available tags from Category:Image License Tags, but do not use a tag if the image does not fit its conditions. If no tag fits, then consider whether the iamge belongs on the ISFDB.

Book or Magazine Cover Tags

• Use Cover Image Data if the image is of a book or magazine cover, used under "Fair Use". This is the most common case.
• A simpler form of this is Cover Image Data2. This requires less work by the uploader, but does not put the image in categories by artist and publisher.
• Use Cover Image Data-PD Old if the image is of a book or magazine cover, published before 1923.
• Use Cover Image Data-PD Renew if the image is of a book or magazine cover, published in the US during the years 1923-1963, and you have carefully checked the copyright records and are sure the copyright was not renewed. If you don't know how to check the copyright records, don't use this tag.

Sections of Book Covers

• Use Sig Image Data if the image is a cropped (and possibly enlarged) artist's signature from a cover (or similar source).
• Use Logo Image Data if the image is a cropped (and possibly enlarged) publisher's logo from a cover (or similar source).

Author Photos

• Use Template:Author Image Data for author images used under fair use -- that is taken and published since 1923 (particualrly since 1964) and for which we do not have the copyright owner's permission.
• Use one of the CC or PD tags described below if the iamge fits the conditions of the tag.
• Use By Permission if you wrote or emailed the author (or photographer, or copyright owner) asking for permission to use a photo, and got an explicit "yes" response.

Other images

There is not much reason to host images that are neither book covers (or parts of covers), nor author photos on the ISFDB. But if there is a good reason to upload such photos:

• Use one of the CC templates below if the owner has released the image under a C license.
• Use one of the PD templates below if the image is in the public domain under US copyright law.
• Use By Permission if you wrote or emailed the photographer (or copyright owner) asking for permission to use a photo, and got an explicit "yes" response.

Other Public-domain images

• Use PD-self when the author/creator posted the image here on the ISFDB wiki personally, releasing it into the public domain. Should not be used for book or magazine covers.
• Use PD-author when the author/creator is known to have released the image into the public domain, in a statement that can be linked to or cited. Should not be used for book or magazine covers.
• Use PD-US when the image is in the Public Domain under US law, but none of the tags above apply. A valid reason why the image is PD must be listed.

Creative Commons Attribution tags

Use one of these if the image has been (or is being) released under a Creative Commons license, requiring only that re-users provide proper attribution:

• CC-by-2.0 -- Version 2.0
• CC-by-2.5 -- Version 2.5
• CC-by-3.0 -- Version 3.0

Creative Commons Sharealike tags

Use one of these if the image has been (or is being) released under a Creative Commons license, requiring that re-users provide proper attribution, and that they license modified versions under the same terms

• CC-by-sa-2.0 -- Version 2.0
• CC-by-sa-2.5 -- Version 2.5
• CC-by-sa-3.0 -- Version 3.0