First, it was Pixabay kicking me in the butt, and now it's Wikimedia Commons that's giving me a headache. Where does this all end? Well, I had some idea of what I needed to do in this event, but let me explain this situation if this is your first time encountering it and reading my article here.
So it happened! You tried to right-click on a picture on Wikimedia Commons that you wanted to use in one of your articles here on this writing platform to copy its image link address, and all you ultimately got was an annoying message in your article that the picture was "Not Found." I know what you're going through, and I bet you anything that the people who own Pixabay told the people who own Wikimedia Commons how to make everyone's life miserable.
There is a variety of ways to solve this problem, but I like Occam's razor's way of doing things best. Therefore, I'll provide you with the fastest and easiest method to do so. As proof in the pudding that it will work, you only need to see the picture above herein in that I used this same method to retrieve it and paste it into the contents of this article.
The best way to nip this same annoyance in the bud is to drag the picture or image from its place on Wikimedia Commons by left-clicking it and holding down your left mouse button and then bringing the picture over to a spot to the right of the tab for your last open window. Then release the left mouse button, and you'll notice that a new tab opens up in your Google Chrome browser with the specific picture you want.
Now here comes the fun part. Go to the address bar at the top of your computer screen and right-click it to pull down a shortcut menu. Then copy that address.
Go to your toolbar at the top of your article in your PEAKD channel and click the icon of a landscape. Then click "Image Link" as you used to do so before the day you discovered that Wikimedia Commons was being difficult the way it is now.
Paste the image link address in the bottom field of the icon that pops up on your screen where it reads "Image Link." Then, on the top field of it where it reads "Image Text," type in your information about the author of the picture or image and name "Wikimedia Commons" as your source as you normally would do. Depending on the copyright license for the particular picture you're using, you may have to add additional information in that same field. Lastly, left-click the "Add" icon.
If you need any clarification of the instructions I have provided to you herein, feel free to direct your questions to me in the comments section below. I want everyone to have a good experience in utilizing these new methods to retrieve pictures and images from the Wikimedia Commons website for your articles here on the Hive writing platform.
I realize that some of you probably felt like throwing your laptop across the room into the wall before you stumbled upon my article here. Don't do that. Those things are not cheap. If I have similar problems with other websites that offer free pictures, I'll figure out what to do about it and I'll educate my readers with additional articles about it here on this writing platform.
As a community of Hivers, we have to help one another out. It can get particularly confusing when you're dealing with HTML codes. If you're having the same problem with the Pixabay website, you can click into my article titled "My Respectable Hivers? Has Pixabay Been Giving You Problems?" to get all the information you need.
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