Help:Files
It is possible to upload files at Pikipedia. These include, at the moment, images and audio files. This help page is a set of guidelines for contributing images to the Wiki. For help on how to include images on articles, see Help:Editing#Media.
Uploading images
Images can include screenshots from the Pikmin games (or from other games that have content relevant to a Pikmin article), box-shots, concept art, or maps and diagrams. Follow these steps when uploading an image:
Filetypes
Your image must be saved properly. The filetypes used on Pikipedia are:
- PNG: for maps and diagrams, and for images with a transparent background.
- JPG/JPEG: for screenshots and photos.
- GIF: for animations and low-color diagrams.
Preferably, images should be less than 150KB, and a warning is issued automatically when uploading larger files. There is generally no need to upload images with a resolution larger than 800x600; resize if necessary. If you are ever unsure, always save an image as a PNG file, as this is a lossless file format, which means that you will not lose image quality, and someone else can alter the image for you.
File name
Although there is no real constraint about what you should name your file, do not name it something random like "kjhsdfs.jpg". Instead, name it something that quickly identifies what the image is about, and if you think that somebody could upload a similar image in the future, disambiguate your name some more, like adding the name of the game to it. Think about it this way: if you wanted to search about images with certain content, your image should appear on the search results. It won't show up if its name is just garbage.
Description
Quickly describe what's in the image. You don't need to go into a lot of detail if you don't want to. Try to link to relevant articles, though.
Categorization
All files should be under the proper categories. Whenever possible, it should be under the deepest category available. Use the following checklist to decide what categories to use.
- Game: Pikmin, Pikmin 2, Pikmin 3, Non-Pikmin images (things not belonging to the Pikmin series), or none.
- Type: boxart, concept art, icons, logos, maps, merchandise, real world things (specially objects meant for comparing with treasures and fruits), or none.
- Subject: The most relevant thing(s) in the image; you can pick more than one category. Fruits, hazards, obstacles, Onions, plants, ship parts, treasures, menus, or none.
- Character: Categorize any main characters that appear in the image, if they are visible enough to be of interest. e.g. Category:Captain Olimar images.
- Pikmin: Categorize any Pikmin types that appear in the image, if they are visible enough to be of interest. e.g. Category:Yellow Pikmin images.
- Enemy: Categorize any enemies that appear in the image, if they are visible enough to be of interest. e.g. Category:Red Bulborb images.
- Area: Use the category for the area it is at (e.g. Category:The Impact Site images), if it's an area in the main story mode. Otherwise, skip this step.
- Game mode: 2-Player Battle, Bingo Battle, Pikmin 2 Challenge Mode, or none.
- Context: Pikipedia images (images used outside of the context of an article), or none.
- Special content: glitches, prerelease content, or none.
License
Each type of image requires a different image licensing template. You can choose from those in the drop-down box at the upload screen. The options are:
- "Video game screenshot" for when it's an in-game screenshot.
- "Concept art" for official concept art or artwork made by the developers of a game.
- "Audio" for audio files.
- "User image" for an image that is irrelevant to the series, and is to be used by users only (read more here).
- "Texture" for an image that comes directly from the game's files.
- "Public domain" for when the image doesn't have any licensing. Only pick this if you know what you're doing.
- "Copyrighted" for images that belong to somebody else, but are meant to be used fairly on the wiki.
- "Free licenses" for specific licenses, when you know what they are.
User images
You can upload images that are not related to the wiki or the series, specially if you only plan on using them for yourself, but remember to not overdo it. We're not an image hosting platform. You may only have five user images.
Videos
All embedded videos are Flash-based; they can be embedded on pages as follows:
- {{#ev:service|id}}
- {{#ev:service|id|width}}
- {{#ev:service|id|width|align}}
- {{#ev:service|id|width|align|desc}}
where:
- service is the name of a video sharing service (supported services)
- id is the id of the video to include
- width (optional) is the width in pixels of the viewing area (height will be determined automatically)
- align (optional) is an alignment (float) attribute, "left" or "right"
- desc (optional) is a short description to display beneath the video when it is aligned
The number of videos used in articles should be kept to a minimum, and used only where necessary and useful. Examples of this are videos of glitches, which are easier to understand through a video, or pre-release material (though the text should not rely on videos for understanding, to cater for those who cannot watch them).
Audio
At the moment, only short clips of soundtracks from the Pikmin games are required, a list of which can be found at Category:Audio. For these, there must be no sound effects, just a clip of music up to 30 seconds in length. Add {{Audio}} to the image description page to properly license and categorize it. When adding the audio file to an article, use Template:Listen.
Only Ogg Vorbis files are accepted. This is because of the format's completely free licensing and superior encoding.