Help:Images

These instructions were obtained from MediaWiki's Help:Images. - C-Chan

Please note that as of this time, the image br /thumbnail feature is not working properly.

Description	You type	You get
Embed image br / (with alt text)	codenowiki/nowiki/code
Link to description page	codenowikiImage:Example2.jpg/nowiki/codebr / codenowikiLinux-tan/nowiki/code	Image:Example2.jpgbr / Linux-tan
Link directly to file	codenowikiMedia:Example2.jpg/nowiki/codebr / codenowikiLinux-tan/nowiki/code	Media:Example2.jpgbr / Sunflowers
Thumbnailbr / (centered, 100 pixelsbr / wide, with caption)	codenowiki Linux-tan /nowiki/code	Linux-tan

Uploaded files

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

• codenowiki/nowiki/code

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

• codenowiki/nowiki/code

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

• codenowikiImage:Example2.jpg/nowiki/code

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

• codenowikiMedia:Example2.jpg/nowiki/code

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

• codenowikilink text/nowiki/code
• codenowikilink text/nowiki/code

Advanced options

The full syntax for displaying an image is:

codenowiki[[Image:{name}|{options}]]/nowiki/code

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

• codethumb/code, codethumbnail/code, or codeframe/code: Controls how the image is formatted
• codeleft/code, coderight/code, codecenter/code, codenone/code: Controls the alignment of the image on the page
• code{width}px/code: Resizes the image to the given width in pixels
• code{caption text}/code

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.

Gallery of images

It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails with the codenowikigallery/nowiki/code tag. The syntax is: pre gallery Image:{filename}|{caption} Image:{filename}|{caption} {...} /gallery /pre Captions are optional, and may contain wiki links or other formatting.

for example: pre gallery Image:Example2.jpg|Item 1 Image:Example2.jpg|a link to Help:Contents Image:Example2.jpg Image:Example2.jpg Image:Example2.jpg|italic caption /gallery /pre is formatted as: 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

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 its disabled due to security reasons.

• codenowiki[1]/nowiki/code

Or with different text:

• codenowikilink text here/nowiki/code

If it is enabled on your wiki, you can also embed external images. To do that, simply insert the url:

• codenowikihttp://url.for/some/image.png/nowiki/code

External Links

MediaWiki Help:Images