Sparticusmaximus

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First steps tutorial Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content). You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki. Getting help More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

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Image search parameters

I asked the following question in the help pages and received a very useful reply from @Bjh21: . I am recording the thread here on my talk page for future reference.

Question: "How can I filter or sort image search results by resolution and licence type?"

Answer: "For resolution, you can use filewidth:, fileheight:, and/or fileres:. For instance, to search for images at least 1000 pixels wide, add filewidth:>1000 to your search string. Similarly, if you want to look for images of at least six megapixels, you'd use fileres:>2449 (2449 is the square root of 6,000,000). To search for a particular licence, you can use incategory: with the name of the category for that licence. So for CC BY-SA 2.0, you might use incategory:CC-BY-SA-2.0. Putting this together, I can search for pictures mentioning "tower" of at least 6 Mpx and licenced CC BY-SA 2.0: tower incategory:CC-BY-SA-2.0 fileres:>2449. For more information, see mw:Help:CirrusSearch.

Many copyright tags are listed on the pages linked from Commons:Copyright tags. Each tag's template page should show the category it adds files to. You might be able to use deepcat: to search across a whole category tree, but I think the tree under Category:Free Creative Commons licenses may be too large for that: when I tried repeating the above search with deepcat:"Free Creative Commons licenses" I only got one hit. --bjh21 (talk) 11:42, 16 October 2019 (UTC)