Help:Submitting images for approvalEdit This Page

Step 2:
Click Upload File in the "Toolbox" section of the navigation bar.

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If you are logged in to the Wiki, your email address and name automatically appear in the appropriate fields. Verify the information is correct. If the information is not correct, please update your profile in the Personal Tools section of the sidebar.

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At the bottom of the page are two buttons. One of these buttons must be clicked or the image file will not be sent. If the image is a Family History Library acquisition, please click the bottom button. If the image or file is not a Family History Library acquisition, and the image is not copyrighted by anyone other than you, click the top button. The top button verifies that you take responsibility for  submitting the image or file. Click Send File.

You should see the Email File for Authorization page with the message “Your image/document has been sent for authorization. Upon authorization you will receive a reply and be able to link/embed the image/document into the desired page.”

After Submitting Your Images

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Your image file will be sent to the Family Search wiki support staff. Upon receipt, an email will be automatically generated and sent acknowledging the receipt. It will also give a Case ID number, but the name of the image is not given. If you sent more than one image file, you will not know which the Case ID number applies to which image file. But keep the Case ID numbers handy in case you later need to contact the support staff.

If you do not receive an email acknowledging the receipt of your image file, then it has probably been lost and the wiki support staff will have no record. Also, its a good idea to only send a few images at a time to the Family Search Research Wiki. It may take longer, but you will feel better about the process. Anything over a few image files and somehow they may possibly be dropped from the system.

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In about a day's time after the acknowledgment email, another email will be sent from the Family Search wiki support staff. This email will state that the image has been approved or request additional information in order that it might be approved or give the reason for it not being approved. If approved, a link will be given to the image file. And the name of the image should be given (sometimes incorrectly in the email), along with the Case ID number. Keep the Case ID number handy if you later need to contact the support staff about this image file.

Once your image file has been approved, it will be uploaded to the Family Search Research Wiki. Do not be surprised if there are changes to the "official" name of the file. It is common to see plus signs, negative signs, and underlines instead of the original spaces. Also it is possible that the type of format for the image file has been changed. But none of these changes matter much if it results in an image file that can still be used. Try it out first. But if it doesn't work, contact the support staff and use the "official" name and Case ID number.

What do I do Next?

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An image file may be searched by name like any article in the Family Search Research Wiki. Type the keyword(s) into the search box and hit the Enter or Search button. A list of articles show, but look to the left and hit the Multimedia link. Now a list of image files show. Scroll down to the one you want.

Open your image file. The sections after the actual image and before the "File History" section can be edited by any contributor, other parts cannot. Add a "Summary" section explaining what your image shows. Then change the "License" section to include all the Categories where you feel your image may be useful. After you save the file, your changes will be part of the image file.

The category names will show up at the very bottom of the image file. Click on every category you placed your image in. For each category, scroll down toward the bottom where the images are located. Make sure that your image file is located there.

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You can now insert this image file into a wiki page.

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