Help:Viewing media

Wikipedia uses a variety of multimedia files to enliven pages and explain concepts that are difficult to convey via text alone. The multimedia files may be images (photographs or diagrams), audio or video. Many files are stored on the sister project Wikimedia Commons, though files being used under fair use provisions must be stored on Wikipedia.

All files are paired with a file description page. Clicking on the image will go to its file page.

The description page consists of five parts:

The file itself
Description of the file
"File history", see page history
"File links" - a list of pages that embed the file. If the file is part of a template it lists only the template, not the pages in which the template is used (for that see "What links here" of the template).
"Metadata" - technical information about the file and the equipment used to create it (camera model etc.)

See also