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Screencast on inserting a photo into a Wikipedia article: transcript

A short screencast by the user Ichdunich shows how to add a picture to a Wikipedia article using the visual edit window. The example article is about a German chef, and the steps run from opening the editor to publishing the change with a caption and alternative text.

Key points

The speaker is logged in and opens an article about a German chef, then presses the edit button.
After clicking where the picture should go, the Insert menu in the toolbar offers images and media.
The editor suggests images that match the article text, including a restaurant photo, which is chosen with the use this image button.
A caption is added, and the same text is recommended for the alternative text so the content is clear if the picture cannot be displayed.
After checking the preview, the changes are published.

Chapters

0:00Opening the editor and the insert menu
0:52Choosing a suggested image
1:25Caption, alternative text and publishing

Full transcript

0:00Hello, I'm Ich Du Nicht and in this screencast I will show you how to insert a picture into a Wikipedia article. I'm already logged in and I chose the article about Deuce Steiner who is a German chef. I press the edit button and the edit window will open. I click into the edit window somewhere in the text where I want to insert the picture and I choose insert in the edit toolbar. There's a drop down menu where I choose images and media.

0:52Automatically there will be some suggestions with images or pictures that match the article text and in this case there is a picture of the Sulzburg-Hirschen-Restaurant where Dussteiner is working. So I think this is quite appropriate and I will choose that picture to insert it into the article. I click on use this image. Now I'm asked to add a caption.

1:25So I write fashion restaurant in Wolfsburg. And it is always recommendable to put the same text in the alternative text box. So in case the picture can't be displayed, the user will still know what is on the picture. I can see what the picture would look like in the article that seems okay and I press publish changes to description and picture again publish changes and there we are

Source and licence

Recording: File:Insertimage.webm by Ichdunich (2020-05-25), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.