First, you need the right to publish the picture under a free licence that's accepted by Wikipedia (see commons:Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses); for instance, the GNU Free Documentation License (as is used for Wikipedia's text), or a Creative Commons licence that doesn't restrict commercial use or creation of derivatives (such as CC-by-sa), or the public domain. This means that either you created the picture and therefore own the copyright, the person who created it explicitly stated that it was under an acceptable licence, or it is in the public domain. (Note this does not apply to images used under the limited Wikipedia:Fair use doctrine). To upload an image to Wikipedia, you can use Wikipedia:Upload (the 'Upload file' link, which is at the left of the screen if you haven't customised your skin) as a logged-in user and once it is uploaded, you can refer to it in your wiki pages by including its file name: [[Image:NameOfImage.png|Alternate Text]]. See also Wikipedia:Image use policy, Wikipedia:Picture tutorial, and Wikipedia:Extended image syntax.

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