Help expand Wikipedia from July 1 to August 31, 2025.

15 July 2025, Ali Smith.

From July 1 to August 31, 2025, the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign is running, and we want Australia to get involved! This campaign invites you to contribute by adding photos to Wikipedia articles that currently don’t have any images.

Why should you participate? Wikipedia is a vast source of information, but many articles lack pictures that can help tell the story. Your photos could make these articles more engaging and help readers connect with the content. Imagine your photograph being the one that adds life to a Wikipedia page!

How You Can Help

1. Take Photos: Capture images related to topics on Wikipedia. This could be local landmarks, plants and animals, cultural events, or anything else that fits.
2. Upload Your Images: After taking your photos, upload them to Wikimedia Commons, the image repository that supports Wikipedia.
3. Enrich Wikipedia: Once your images are uploaded, you can add them to the relevant Wikipedia articles.
4. Match up existing images: Wikimedia Commons has lots of images that could be matched to a Wikipedia article.
5. In the edit summary: Describe what you added to the article, and include the hashtag #WPWP. Then click on "Publish changes".

This is a great way to improve the content and share your work!

Where and how to find pages without images?

The following tools can help you locate existing images and articles to expand:

• Wikipedia requested photographs
• Generate your own list using Petscan (instructions)
• Category listing no local image but an image available on Wikidata
• WDFIST tool allows to assign images to Wikidata items. Any Wikidata item that is used in an Infobox can possibly automatically show the image, depending on the language infobox logic.
• File Candidates - These files, from both Commons and Flickr, could be used for the respective Wikidata item. Transfer suitable files from Flickr to Commons, and add files from Commons to Wikidata.

For more information, visit the WPWP Campaign page.

Image: by Aboubakrhadnine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons