Adding Pictures to your Wikinut Page: How and Why
By Mark Gordon Brown, 25th Jul 2010 | Follow this author
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It might surprise many writers to know that adding pictures to their Wikinut Article will have their article rate better by the Moderation team, as well as get more views.
Your Profile
When you join Wikinut you get a pretty blue W as a profile image, but that is of no interest to people who come to the Wikinut site to browse. As such the first thing any writer should do is upload a small picture of themselves. Do this under “Edit Your Author Photo”. If you do not have a picture of yourself, Wikinut offers some sample photos that you can select from.
Your profile photo will appear as the thumbnail (preview image) for any articles you write.
In Your Article
Nearly every article can, and should, have a photo. Ideally you should use a related photo that you took yourself, but if not you can find copyright free photos on the web (be sure they are free to use for commercial purposes). If you are using your own pictures, that is great, otherwise give credit to the photographer or source. Wikimedia is a good place for copyright free photos, as is photos8.com, and flickr (use advanced search option to find those that are legal to use in commercial works). To Upload an image from one of these sources, save it to your computer first.
If you need help finding copyright free photos, click here.
Wikinut gives you the option of having your image appear small beside your words, or large and above them. I prefer the neater look of the smaller image, but have shown you both.
Why Images
People like to look at pretty pictures, it's a fact. If people adopted as many kittens as they looked at pictures of kittens on the Internet, there would be no homeless pets. Pictures “sell” articles, and one saying is “Pics or it didn't happen”. People want information, yes, but its the pictures that are the icing on the cake.
People are more likely to share articles with pictures than without. Imagine two identical articles, the one with even one picture will typically do better than the one without.
Also you may note that the Wikinut moderation team rates articles slightly better if they have pictures, than if not, as it is well known that pictures add a more finished touch to an article.
If you are writing a How To Guide, for example, pictures are always almost a must have feature.
Links
Google Images, Bing Images, etc, are NOT always Legal to Use
Learn More about Tagging your Articles
A Note to Wikinut Writers from a Wikinut Moderator
Join Me on Wikinut - get Paid to Write
Comments
25th Jul 2010 (#)
Thank you so much for this information Mark. I just bought a few photos to use from istock. I bought them for twenty-five dollars and only got a four pics. and they were the smallest (you pay for size). My last article was one from i-stock, it's a beautiful pic., but eventually I would be paying quite a lot to keep future articles with images. I want high quality images and I think you've given me the answer. Can't thank you enough
hugs:)
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25th Jul 2010 (#)
Thank you for the link to photo8! Been looking for something like that and the site is fast! Soon I will have more battery power to be online and then I'll add photos and videos again. Thanks again!
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26th Jul 2010 (#)
Thanks for the information. I have added photos to a couple of my pages here, but it always takes me a little bit of time to learn the formatting rules. I think the text editor on this site is great!
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26th Jul 2010 (#)
I agree that photos are important; however, I have recently had to delete a couple of mine because I cannot edit the photo caption and I can't find that info on the site. Please help!
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26th Jul 2010 (#)
What I have done is removed a picture then added it back and was able to recaption. Otherwise I too am not sure how one does it.
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26th Jul 2010 (#)
I'm glad to see you also suggest removing and re-adding the photo, that was all I could think of to tell her when I moderated the page. Thanks for some great info!
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26th Jul 2010 (#)
Hi-Thanks,I love to add photographs in all of my pages, in fact some of them have more than 5 and as I love photography and writing a book on tourism,I use them for showing places.I also use some self drawn ones too.
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26th Jul 2010 (#)
Thanks Mark for the information. I can't get a picture on as yet but I haven't spent a lot of time with it. I like pictures, too.
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28th Jul 2010 (#)
Good and helpful write indeed!
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28th Jul 2010 (#)
Quick question: When you add photos and the site asks for a linkback, is it best to do the linkback as the photo caption or should you add a "credits" line at the end of your article?
I'd prefer not to have a caption on some of my pics at all, but Wikinut requires it so I just put the linkback there.
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28th Jul 2010 (#)
do either, as long as you have something you wont get suspected of stolen a picture.
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28th Jul 2010 (#)
Thanks!
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5th Aug 2010 (#)
Thank you Mark.
I will start adding pictures to my articles.
I am new and I want to learn all.
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19th Aug 2010 (#)
Thank you,Very useful information
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16th Oct 2010 (#)
Thanks for the great advise :-) I'd also like to learn how to put a Youtube clip in my article--it looks a little tricky. Hopefully there's a way.
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21st Nov 2010 (#)
Thanks for this wonderful information...I have been looking for free photos...but there lots of steps...but this one is good.:)
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25th Mar 2011 (#)
I didn't know pictures helped with increasing views, but I did notice that all the star pages had pictures so I started using them because of that. Once again thanks for the great info
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10th Jul 2011 (#)
Thanks a lot, Mark, especially the link for free photos. I really need it.
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17th Apr 2012 (#)
Thanks for the great information, Mark! Now I will be using photos on mine. Have a great night!
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