Commons:WikiProject:United Nations/UNEP instructions

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UNEP content on Wikimedia Commons

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Metrics

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  • Metrics for UNEP images: shows Wikipedia articles where media files (images,audio,video) from UNEP appears and the page views for those pages.
  • Metrics for UNEP text: shows Wikipedia articles where text from UNEP appears and the page views for those pages. (coming soon)
  • Pageviews tool: View the number of time Wikipedia artices are read in a time period.

Uploading publications to Wikimedia Commons

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For text from publications and images to be used on Wikipedia they first need to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Upload

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  1. Click here to go to the main page
  2. Click Upload
  3. Select Media Files to Share
  4. Chose the file
  5. When the file has uploaded click Continue

Release rights

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  1. Click This file is not my own work
  2. Source: [URL Name of publication]
  3. Author: [http://www.unep.org United Nations Environment Programme]
  4. Click Another reason not mentioned above and paste {{Cc-by-sa-3.0-igo}} {{subst:OP}} into the box
  5. Click Next

Describe

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This is the part of the ?? where you describe the images

  1. Image title: user the full name of the publication
  2. Caption: a publication on SUBJECT, published by the United Nations Environment Programme
  3. Description: DESCRIPTION_OF_THE_PUBLICATION
  4. Date work was created or first published: DATE_OF_PUBLICATION
  5. Categories: Publications produced by United Nations Environment Programme
  6. Click Publish files

Add metadata

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  1. Click Skip this

Uploading graphics to Wikimedia Commons

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For text from publications and images to be used on Wikipedia , first they need to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Tips

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  • Upload graphics in one language at a time e.g all graphics from an English language publication
  • Upload files from one publication per upload
  • Upload 50 files at a time, if you would like to upload 100s of files John Cummings can help you do this another way.

Uploading the file

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  1. Click here to go to the main page
  2. Click Upload
  3. Select Media Files to Share
  4. Chose the file/s (up to 50 images and from the same publication at a time)
  5. When the file has uploaded click Continue

Release rights

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  1. Click This file is not my own work
  2. Source: [URL_HERE NAME_OF_PUBLICATION_HERE '''NAME OF PUBLICATION''']
  3. Author: [http://www.unep.org United Nations Environment Programme]
  4. Click Another reason not mentioned above and paste {{Cc-by-sa-3.0-igo}} {{subst:OP}} into the box
  5. Click Next

Describe

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  1. Image title: the title of the image
  2. Caption: A graphic from the United Nations Environment Programme publication NAME_OF_PUBLICATION
  3. Description: THE_TITLE_OF_THE_GRAPHIC
  4. Date work was created or first published:
  5. Categories: Graphics produced by the United Nations Environment Programme
  6. If you are uploading multiple files you can click Copy information to all uploads following' and chose Caption, Date work was created or first published and Categories
  7. If uploading multiple files fill in the information
  8. Click Publish files

Add metadata

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  1. Click Skip this

Permission email

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Please send to permissions-commonswikimedia.org with the subject heading Permissions for content from United Nations Environment Programme


Dear Wikimedia, I hereby affirm that I represent the United Nations Environment Programme, the creator of the exclusive copyright of the media work as shown here:

  • LIST OF FILES UPLOADED TO WIKIMEDIA COMMONS GOES HERE

and have legal authority in my capacity to release the copyright of that work. I agree to publish the above-mentioned content under the following free license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share 3.0 IGO.

I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work, even in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.

I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that the copyright holder always retains ownership of the copyright as well as the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by the copyright holder.

I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

NAME

POSITION

DATE

Using UNEP text on Wikipedia

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Please use these instructions to add text to Wikipedia articles, ensuring you use the template, otherwise the text you add may get deleted and it cannot be tracked using the metrics tool.

Attribution
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This page describes the process of adding open license text to Wikipedia. Since the publication is published by UNEP but the license is on Wikimedia, please fill in the fields like this:

  • DocumentURL = The URL for the publication on the UNEP website
  • License statement URL = The URL of the document uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

Currently you can only add open license text to English and Spanish Wikipedia.

Referencing
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When you use text from a publication please also reference it, use the URL of the publication on the UNEP website as the reference.

Writing tips
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  • Recommendations: if publication makes a recommendation e.g "We recommend..." please rewrite it to say "UNEP recommends...". It would be helpful if the reason behind the recommendation was given if possible e.g "UNEP recommends ... because it is a more sustainable fishing method".

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