Help:Images & Media

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All images added to this wiki must be "free-use". That is, they must be either:

• public domain or
• licensed by the copyright holder under a licence that allows anyone to reuse the images.

It's important that we do not add images taken from other websites as these are usually not free-use and would be copyright violations.

[edit] Uploading

Make sure images are clear when they are uploaded! Do not upload fuzzy images or images with tags on them.

• To upload images you must be logged in.
• Click on "Upload file" in the toolbox on the left (under the search boxes)
• The "Browse" button lets you find the image on your hard drive. Click "open" to select the file.
• If you want to change the file name, you can do so in the "Destination filename" box.
• Use the "Summary" box to enter the source of the file and the image copyright tag.
• Click "Upload".

You will be warned if the name will be changed or if there is already a file with that name. You can then decide whether to go ahead or to abandon the upload.

[edit] Using images

To use an image in an article, you simply surround the full name (including the "Image" part) in double square brackets:

[[Image:Example.jpg]] will give you:

You can resize by adding the size in pixels between two pipes:

[[Image:Example.jpg|50px|]] will give you:

You can make an image a thumbnail an image by adding "thumb" in the same way. If a pipe is there from a previous variable, you don't need to add another:

[[Image:Example.jpg|50px|thumb|]] will give you:

This is automatically formatted to the right of the page. You can change this by adding "left" or "center":

[[Image:Example.jpg|50px|thumb|left|]] will give you:

Anything after the last pipe becomes the alt text or the caption:

[[Image:Example.jpg|50px|thumb|left|Alt]] will give you:

Alt

Finally, to create a gallery of images you can use the <gallery> tag:

<gallery>
Image:Example.jpg|1
Image:Example.jpg|Captioned
Image:Example.jpg|Links can be put in captions
</gallery>

will give you:

1

Captioned

Links can be put in captions