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Add a third party image to the wiki

To add a third party image to the wiki, first you need to find it, and make sure that you have proper rights to be able to use it, legally and ethically.

Flickr is great place to look for amateur and enthusiast photographs, many of which are good and some of which are really excellent.

The photographs that are posted on sharing sites like Flickr come with a variety of permissions for use.

Keep in mind that under U.S. copyright law, every photograph is copyrighted (either to the creator, or if the creator is a regular employee at work, then possibly to the creator's employer).

So you can only collect an image from a site like Flickr and upload it to Archiplanet 1) if you are the copyright holder yourself, or 2) if the copyright holder gives explicit permission for that kind of use.

Read the licensing information carefully.

And please, only collect and add to the wiki images that you clearly do have permission to collect and add!

Even if an image at Flickr isn't free for collecting, it can always be connected to the building wiki page as an external reference, using the simple external linking process described earlier.

One an image has been properly identified as fair to use at Archiplanet, upload it using the same process described in Wiki Case Study - Part One.

And be sure to choose the correct licensing category within Archiplanet, during the image upload process. For authorized third-party images, this will usually be:

I authorize Artifice to publish this image:
B - in any Artifice publications, but please decline third-party licensing inquiries.

As in the example below:

Once uploaded to the wiki, the image can be placed on the building case study page using the same process described in Wiki Case Study - Part One.

That page is looking better and better, and it's showing us more and more about this building.

So we'll stop here for this session. Congratulations, again!

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