For more information see the Image Maintenance Project.
The images and media policy describes preferred image source, content, and usage in articles and other pages. It applies to all images equally, regardless of uploader, format, and subject.
Nearly all images uploaded to the wiki should be taken by the uploader themselves in the RuneScape Classic. A screenshot is taken by pressing Shift + Prnt Scrn or Prnt Scrn, then pasting it into an image editor, usually by pressing Ctrl + V or opening the Edit menu and selecting Paste. Once in the editor an image can be cropped, edited, and saved (preferably as a .png, details below). Other possible sources, and our related policies, are:
RuneScape Classic manual[edit source]
RuneScape Classic manual images can be used outside the relevant manual pages, but only if editors cannot take a superior screenshot on their own.
This section covers preferred standards which are set or applied after the screenshot is taken in RuneScape Classic. This is usually in an image editor.
The preferred image format is .png (in lowercase letters) because it has no compression artefacts and it supports transparency. Images can be saved in .png by changing "Save as type"(or similar) option at the bottom of the save window in most image editors. Images not in .png format should be tagged with {{jpeg}} or {{gif}}.
All images showing items, objects, scenery or NPCs should have transparency. This means that the image's background should be deleted and replaced with transparent pixels. If the image editor cannot do this, editors are free to upload images without transparency to which other editors can apply transparency, or they can paint over the background with another colour (preferably white) to make adding transparency much easier and faster for other editors. Existing images without transparency should be tagged with the {{trans}} tag.
There are several templates designed for use on file pages. These can mostly be split into two categories; licenses and maintenance.
| Name
|
Appearance
|
{{Fair use}}
|
|
This image, obtained outside of the Classic RuneScape client, is classified as a non-free image.
The image depicted here is subject to Jagex's copyright and is displayed here under the conditions of Fair use. |
|
{{Historical image}}
|
|
This image or animation is historical.
Please note that it can no longer be recreated.
|
|
Audio files should be directly related to Classic and should be uploaded in the ogg vorbis file format.
