Help:Images
From Chicago, our kind of town — December 5, 2008 04:58
- This page is a help page on the Chicago wikia.
All images added to this wiki must be "free-use". That is, they must either by 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. See Help:Image copyright tags for more detail on licences and how to tag your images.
[edit] Uploading
- 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:Wiki.png]] will give you:
You can resize by adding the size in pixels between two pipes.
- [[Image:Wiki.png|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:Wiki.png|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:Wiki.png|50px|thumb|left|]] will give you:
Anything after the last pipe becomes the alt text or the caption.
- [[Image:Wiki.png|50px|thumb|left|Alt]] will give you: Alt
To link to a file without showing it on the page, you can use "Media" instead of "Image".
- [[Media:Wiki.png]] will give you: Media:Wiki.png
To link to the image page instead, use a colon before the word "Image".
- [[:Image:Wiki.png]] will give you: Image:Wiki.png
Finally, to create a gallery of images you can use the <gallery> tag.
<gallery>
Image:Wiki.png|1
Image:Wiki.png|2
Image:Wiki.png|3
</gallery>
Will give you:
 1 |
2 |
3 |