Commons:Picture of the day/Instructions
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Anyone can select a Picture of the day from the Featured pictures that have not already been Picture of the day. Featured pictures are selected by vote here.
The following steps can be used to add a picture:
- Find a suitable Featured Picture which has not already been used as Picture of the day. A list of images that may be usable for Picture of the Day is here. Try to vary the type of image so that there are not only animal images one week, followed by only landscapes the next.
- Find a day that does not already have a POTD. This can be done by looking at the POTD gallery of the next month or maybe the month after that (the current month usually has pictures for all days, and we don't need images for much more than one or two months ahead).
- Click on the red link named "change image". Add the image name of your selected image without the File: prefix to that template (if the image is "File:abc.jpg", the template should contain only "abc.jpg"). Save the template.
- Add a description of the image in the language you know. It is good if the description includes links to image galleries at Commons, so that visitors can find more interesting images.
- Then add this template : {{picture of the day}} on the page of the selected image, change "year=0000", "month=00" and "day=00" with the real year/month/day of the calendar.
