See also our information about images.
Preliminary note: You can upload various images, sounds, etc. to Nupedia's database. Multimedia files of all sorts can be uploaded by following the link just above the "article body" text box in the article information form.
Also note: To indicate where an image, or a link to another file (e.g., sound or video) should be placed within the text, please simply make use of comments markup to communicate your intentions to the markup crew.
Nupedia articles are visible to and editable by authors and editors in the form of a series of "plain text" boxes. So complicated formatting, mathematics, odd characters, images, sounds, and other important information can be lost in the process of pasting the basic text of an article into these text boxes. Therefore, we permit and ask authors to upload various file types to the Nupedia server, which can then be downloaded by editors and reviewers. See above for instructions. We prefer that authors simply paste the text of "plain text" articles directly into the text boxes. Moreover, it can help others, who might not be able to read the files that authors have uploaded, to see some text-only version of the article; so we ask that authors copy and paste the text of the article into the system's text boxes for the article.
We strongly encourage everyone working on Nupedia to seek out or create high-quality (noncopyrighted, or copyright-with-permission) multimedia of all sorts to enhance articles. So submission of images, graphs, diagrams, maps, photographs, sounds, video clips, etc., is strongly encouraged. Please create the highest-quality multimedia resources you can! If necessary, other members of the project will adapt these resources in formats, size, etc., that can be displayed on the website and that are appropriate to keep in the Nupedia database.
Multimedia specialists are strongly encouraged to offer their services to article authors. For example, a photographer who saw an article (or article-in-progress) about a certain kind of tree might offer to take a picture of the tree, scan the photo, and send it to the author to post to the system. The relationship might indeed be the reverse; we might find a willing author to write an article to accompany a really excellent piece of multimedia (e.g., the periodic table; the circle of fifths; illustrated diagrams of various column types; etc.).