User:JnpoJuwan/Images

	This is a draft policy.
	This is a draft policy for images set to reviewed and possibly replace Wiktionary:Images. This is not currently accepted or inforced.

Images are one of the many types of media used on Wiktionary and may be photos, drawings, diagrams, among others. These should be uploaded to our sister project Wikimedia Commons under a free license.

The purpose of images is to provide context to a given entry. Images should be significant and relevant, not primarily decorative.

• Images should serve as an illustrative aid on top of the definition. Use images with the best quality possible.
• While Wiktionary is not censored, it is recommended to avoid primarily offensive images, such as those involving sexual and pornographic matters, unless its inclusion would make the entry more informative, relevant, or accurate.

Entries related to noises, onomatopoeia, music terms, may be illustrated with an audio file. This is not necessary for any entry for an entity that produces sound.

Images and other files are inserted using the image markup. A basic example is shown below, with the filename, alt text, and a caption:

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Image thumbnails are by default placed on the right, ideally after the header, before other inline templates (such as headwords), and after box templates (such as {{etymon}} and sister-project links). The forced-resizing is strongly discouraged on Wiktionary, as it overrides user preferences, instead prefer using the upright parameter.

Preferably, place the image after the language header, the etymology header, or the part of speech header, depending on the scope of its meaning. For example, bank has two different images under each etymology (for the type of institution and the land body).

Multiple images under the same header may be added using the {{multiple images}} template.

A fruit bat (etymology 1)

A player swinging a baseball bat (etymology 2)

Captions are recommended to be written in the entry language and should be kept short in length, mentioning the lemma word and providing additional context.

• The lemma word should be in boldface for scripts that have boldface or unmarked otherwise. Captions containing only the lemma word (optionally plus parenthetical text) should generally start with lowercase (or follow the lemma's capitalization).
• Most captions are not complete sentences, but merely sentence fragments, which should not end with a period or full stop. If any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then all sentences, and any sentence fragments, in that caption should end with a period or full stop.
• Captions in non-English languages should be wrapped in the template {{lang}} for accessibility with screen readers. Translations between the entry language English may be given with {{uxi}} and {{coi}}.
• Multiple captions may be differentiated with the {{senseid}} and {{senseno}} templates.

Alternative text may be supplied to images in order to convey the essential information as the image in situations where it may not be available to the reader.

Non-free media is allowed in special cases where it would significantly increases readers' understanding of the topic whereas there exists no free equivalent.

• Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2013/June#do you support Wiktionary:Non-free content criteria
• Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2024/October#Request for review of image policy

• Wiktionary:Picture dictionary