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On the top right of any page, click 'Request Account'. On the form, say a bit about yourself and what your interest is in Cowley Road in the 'Notes' field (to help us filter out spammers).

'''Warning# Go to the [[Special: you MUST hold the copyright for any images you Upload | File Upload page]] to upload''' (ie, have created the one image yourself). The only exception is for open licensed images where you understand the copyright. If in doubt, do not upload them!</strong></p> Please ensure your images are no more than 600px wide in their largest dimension before uploading them. Then, or go to the page where [[Special:UploadWizard| Upload Wizard]] if you want have several images to upload.# You will be invited to add name the image . Please include the street number, and click the Edit tabdate if possible, in the image filename. When you are in If it's an external image of the Edit view click building to be featured on the small main 'streetview'image, then it' icon (s important that images are named in this is illustrated in the format: streetNumber-year-month-day.fileformat. For example, an image to of the rightExcelsior cafe in 1972 (address: 250 Cowley Road)should be named: 250-1972. A pop up box will appear. png# In the 'Image filename' fielddescription, type give the name you want your of the copyright holder (the person who took the image ), and specify what license it is to havebe published under. This should preferably include See the address number, and [[Copyright | Copyright page]] to understand the date when it was madeoptions. In # Finally, insert the bottom left of image into the pop up box there is a 'Special Type' field - click here and select 'Frame' from the dropdown listrelevant page. (This will ensure For example, to put the Excelsior cafe image is aligned neatly into the page for 250 Cowley Road, go to https://www.cowleyroad.org/wiki/index.php?title=250 Once you are on the right of the page.) You should also , click Edit tab, switch to Wikitext editor, then add a caption in the 'file using this format: <nowiki>[[File:mypicture.png|frame| Caption' fieldtext]]</nowiki> For the Excelsior image, again including this would mean you type: <nowiki>[[File:250-1972.png|frame| This image shows the date Excelsior cafe in its heyday in 1972]]</nowiki> Save your changes, and a brief description. Then click 'OK'. In the normal page view you will then see your image name should now appear in red. Click on this and it will take you a frame to the right of the page, with a form where you can upload your imagecaption. Once Lovely! ==Assigning images to pages== There are usually some images on the wiki which have been uploaded, when you navigate back but not yet used on a page, so they are unlikely to be seen by people browsing the website.A good job for wiki volunteers is to regularly check the [[Special:UnusedFiles|list of unused files]] and either insert them into a page you should see your image(instructions above), or if they are a duplicate, to delete them.

CowleyRoad.org is an open access archive, and our vision is to create an a [https://opensourceen.wikipedia.org/ open sourcewiki/Free-culture_movement 'free culture'] collection of material which is freely available for community use and re-use. Therefore, we encourage you to add material for which you are the copyright holder, so that the community can freely access your images and recollections in futrefuture. When you take a photo or write some text, you are automatically the copyright holder. You do not need to register the work or otherwise indicate copyright; you get it automatically. Copyright means that nobody else can make copies of that work (including sharing it online, or showing it in a presentation, or re-using it in a project), unless you give explicit permission. Copyright in most cases lasts for your whole life and then 70 years after your death. This poses a problem if you want your work to be shared and viewed by others. If you want your work to be shareable, you need to state explicitly that you are happy with this, by applying a special ''copyright license''. This project uses Creative Commons licenses. When you upload images , you have a choice as will be invited to what choose which Creative Commons license you want to release your image work under.  Be sure to see the [[Copyright|Copyright]] page to understand what these licenses mean. You are ''not'' permitted to upload anything to this website for which you are not the copyright holder. The only exception is for open licensed work where you understand and how are in compliance with the copyright license, OR for old images where the copyright has definitely expired. In this case, you are sharingshould use the 'CC0 public domain' license when uploading, because you will not be the copyright holder.

To add an image to a page in the Wikitext editor, type See this:<nowiki>[[Filehttps:myImage//www.png|frame| Caption textmediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting guide to wiki markup]]</nowiki>for more detail.

Please include the street number, and the date if possible, in the image filename. For example, to upload an image of the Excelsior cafe in 1972 you would type: <nowiki>[[FileCategory:250-1972.png|frame| 1972: The Excelsior cafe in its heyday]Pages with broken file links]</nowiki> See this [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting guide to wiki markup] for more detail.