Help:Images

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1 Uploaded files
- 1.1 Advanced options
- 1.2 Gallery of images
2 Other files
3 Administration of images/files
4 External Links

Description	You type	You get
Embed image (with alt text)	`[[Image:Example.jpg\|Sunflowers]]`
Link to description page	`[[:Image:Example.jpg]]` `[[:Image:Example.jpg\|Sunflowers]]`	Image:Example.jpg Sunflowers
Link directly to file	`[[Media:Example.jpg]]` `[[Media:Example.jpg\|Sunflowers]]`	Media:Example.jpg Sunflowers
Thumbnail (centered, 100 pixels wide, with caption)	`[[Image:Example.jpg\|center\|thumb\|100px\|Sunflowers]]`	Sunflowers

[edit] Uploaded files

To use an image or other file which has been uploaded to the wiki, use:

[[Image:Example.jpg]]

If you add a pipe (|) and some text after the filename, the text will be used as alternative text for text-only browsers:

[[Image:Example.jpg|alternative text]]

If you don't want to display the image, you can link to the file's description page, by adding a colon:

[[:Image:Example.jpg]]

To bypass the description page and link directly to a file , use the "Media" pseudo-namespace:

[[Media:Example.jpg]]

You can also make piped links if you want some other text to be used:

[[:Image:Example.jpg|link text]]
[[Media:Example.jpg|link text]]

[edit] Advanced options

The full syntax for displaying an image is:

[[Image:{name}|{options}]]

Where options can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes:

thumb, thumbnail, or frame: Controls how the image is formatted
left, right, center, none: Controls the alignment of the image on the page
{width}px: Resizes the image to the given width in pixels
{caption text}

The options can be given in any order. If a given option does not match any of the other possibilities, it is assumed to be the caption text. Caption text can contain wiki links or other formatting.

[edit] Gallery of images

It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails with the tag. The syntax is:

<gallery>
Image:{filename}|{caption}
Image:{filename}|{caption}
{...}
</gallery>

Captions are optional, and may contain wiki links or other formatting.

for example:

<gallery>
Image:Example.jpg|Item 1
Image:Example.jpg|a link to [[Help:Contents]]
Image:Example.jpg
Image:Example.jpg
Image:Example.jpg|''italic caption''
</gallery>

is formatted as:

Item 1	a link to Help:Contents
italic caption

[edit] Other files

You can link to an external file using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page. This feature has to be enabled by the admin; in the new releases of MediaWiki it's disabled due to security reasons.