Help:Images

To place single picture(s) into a page:


 * 1) First in the left column, under the Toolbox menu, open 'Upload File'.
 * 2) After you have uploaded the picture file - go back to the page where you want to insert the picture (keep the page open where you uploaded the picture). Above the text block you will notice a toolbar. The sixth button from the left is called 'embedded file' - select that (after you have clicked where on the page you will want the picture.
 * 3) You will now see this:
 * 4) Now go back to the page where you uploaded the picture and copy the file name of the picture e.g: Alex_Grey_Chakras.jpg‎
 * 5) Copy the file name and place it into the code above (replacing the word 'Example.jpg' with the file name.
 * 6) Now save page.

This page explains the image syntax when editing the wiki. You or another user must usually upload an image before you can use it on a page.

Images that are stored on a MediaWiki server are usually rendered by using the  namespace prefix (but the legacy   namespace prefix is still supported as a synonym) as the target of a MediaWiki link. The alternate  namespace prefix is also usable to reference the original media file content (for rendering or downloading it separately, out of any MediaWiki page).

Supported media types for images
The following file formats are supported by Mediawiki by default:
 * .jpg or .jpeg : bitmap image compressed in the standard JPEG format (this lossy format is most suitable for photographs).
 * .png : bitmap image in the Portable Network Graphics format (specified by the W3 Consortium).
 * .gif : bitmap image in the legacy Graphics Interchange Format.

Other formats used on Wikimedia, and commonly enabled elsewhere (these may require extra set-up beyond what is enabled by default):
 * .svg : scalable image in the Scalable Vector Graphics format (specified by the W3 Consortium). See.
 * .tiff : Tagged image format. Often used for high-resolution archival photographs. Often used with.
 * .ogg, .oga, .ogv : Ogg multimedia (audio or video) Not an image format, but treated similarly. Often used with
 * .pdf : multipaged documents in the Portable Document Format (initially specified by Adobe). Often used in conjunction with
 * .djvu : multipaged bitmap documents in the DejaVu format (most often, scans of books). See
 * Only a single page of a .pdf or .djvu file is shown at one time.

Other media types may be supported depending on how Mediawiki is set up. Typically they can be uploaded but not displayed inline unless a helper extension is installed.

Syntax
The full syntax for displaying an image is:

where options can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes (|):
 * Format option: one of border and/or frameless, frame, thumb (or thumbnail);
 * Controls how the rendered image is formatted and embedded in the rest of the page.
 * Resizing option: one of
 * {width}px — Resizes the image to fit within the given maximum width in pixels, without restricting its height;
 * x{height}px — Resizes the image to fit within the given maximum height in pixels, without restricting its width;
 * {width}x{height}px — Resizes the image to fit within the given width and height in pixels;
 * upright — Resizes an image to fit within reasonable dimensions, according to user preferences (suitable for images whose height is larger than width).
 * Note that the image will always retain its aspect ratio, and can only be reduced (not increased) in size unless it's in a scalable media type (bitmap images cannot be scaled up).
 * The default maximum size depends on the format and the internal image dimensions (according to its media type).
 * Horizontal alignment option: one of left, right, center, none;
 * Controls the horizontal alignment (and inline/block or floating styles) of the image within a text (no default value).
 * Vertical alignment option: one of baseline, sub, super, top, text-top, middle, bottom, text-bottom;
 * Controls the vertical alignment of a non-floating inline image with the text before or after the image, and in the same block (the default vertical alignment is middle).
 * Link option: one of
 * link={target} — Allows to change the target (to an arbitrary page title, or URL) of the generated link, activable on the rendered image surface; e.g.  renders as Example.jpg (external link), or   renders as Example.jpg (internal link).
 * link= (with an empty value) —  Displays an image without any activable link; e.g.   renders as Example.jpg.
 * ! Link does not work with thumb, thumbnail or frame.


 * Other specific options:
 * alt={alternative text} — Defines the alternative text (maps to the HTML attribute   of the generated   element) of an image that will be rendered if either the referenced image cannot be downloaded and embedded, or if the support media must use the alternative description text (e.g. when using a Braille reader or with accessibility options set by the user in its browser).
 * page={number} — Renders the specified page number (currently only applicable when showing a .djvu or .pdf file).

The options can be given in any order. If the given options conflict each other, the latter is applied, except for the format options, where the options take the priority in the order of: frame; thumb (or thumbnail); frameless and/or border.

If a parameter does not match any of the other possibilities, it is assumed to be the caption text. Caption text shows below the image in thumb and frame formats, or as mouseover text in border, frameless formats or when the format is omitted. Caption text displayed in the thumb and frame formats may contain wiki links and other formatting. In the other options, wiki-formatting will not work though transclusion will.

If no caption text is supplied, a caption is automatically created showing the file name. To completely remove the caption, set it to. For example,  renders as.

Format
The following table shows the effect of all available formats.

When the height of an image in thumbnail is bigger than its width (i.e. in portrait orientation rather than landscape) and you find it too large, you may try the option, which will try to adjust its size to a more desirable size by reducing the height instead of the width. The alternative is to specify the desired maximum height (in pixels) explicitly.

Note that by writing, you can use a different image for the thumbnail.

Size and Frame
Among different formats, the effect of the size parameter may be different, as shown below.
 * For how it appears when its size is not specified, see Format section above.
 * When the format is not specified, or only ed, the size can be both reduced and enlarged to any specified size.
 * In the examples below, the original size of the image is 400 × 267 pixels.
 * An image with  always ignores the size specification, the original image will be reduced if it exceeds the maximum size defined in user preferences.
 * The size of an image with  can be reduced, but can not be enlarged beyond the original size of the image.

Horizontal alignment
Note that when using the  or   formats, the default horizontal alignment will be.

Stopping the text flow
On occasion it is desirable to stop text (or other inline non-floating images) from flowing around a floating image. Depending on the web browser's screen resolution and such, text flow on the right side of an image may cause a section header (for instance, == My Header == ) to appear to the right of the image, instead of below it, as a user may expect. The text flow can be stopped by placing    before the text that should start below the floating image.

All images rendered as blocks (including non-floating centered images, left- or right-floating images, as well as framed or thumbnailed floating images) are implicitly breaking the surrounding lines of text (terminating the current block of text before the image, and creating a new paragraph for the text after them). They will then stack vertically along their left or right alignment margin (or along the center line between these margins for centered images).

Altering the default link target
The following table shows how to alter the link target (whose default is the image description page) or how to remove it. Changing the link does not alter the format described in the previous sections.

Warning :
 * The licencing requirements on your wiki may not allow you to remove all links to the description page that displays the required authors attributions, the copyrights statements, the applicable licencing terms, or a more complete description of the rendered image (including its history of modifications).
 * If you change or remove the target link of an image, you will then have to provide somewhere else on your page an explicit link to this description page, or to display the copyright and author statement and a link to the applicable licence, if they are different from the elements applicable to the embedding page itself.
 * Your wiki policy may restrict the use of the alternate link parameter, or may even enforce a prohibition of alternate link parameters for embedded media files (in which case, the link parameter will be ignored), or may only accept them after validation by authorized users or administrators.

Gallery syntax
It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails only, not other images, with the  tag. The syntax is:

Optional gallery attributes
The gallery tag itself takes several additional parameters, specified as attribute name-value pairs:

Link to description page
If you put a colon before , the image will not be embedded and the link will lead to the description page of the file.



results in



Link to another page
This will make a 50px width picture with a link to the page MediaWiki:





Link directly to the media file
You can use the pseudo-namespace “   ” to link directly to a file without rendering it, bypassing the description page.



results in



The same result can be achieved by adding a colon before the namespace (works with categories too):



You can also use:

/

which can be used to link to a potential file, even if it doesn't exist. You can also use:

which generates an external URL to the file inline:

Requisites
Before using images in your page, the system administrator of your wiki must have and a user has to upload the file. System administrators may also set the wiki to accept files from, such as the Wikimedia Commons. For server side image resizing it is necessary to have a scaler configured (such as GD2, ImageMagick, etc.).

Files at other websites
You can link to an external file available online using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page. With these syntaxes, the image will not be rendered, but only the text of the link to this image will be displayed. 

Or with a different displayed text: link text here

Additional MediaWiki markup or HTML/CSS formatting (for inline elements) is permitted in this displayed text (with the exception of embedded links that would break the surrounding link): Example  rich   link text  here. which renders as: Example  rich   link text  here.

If it is enabled on your wiki (see ), you can also embed external images. To do that, simply insert the image's url: http://url.for/some/image.png Currently, embedded images cannot be resized, but they may be formatted by surrounding MediaWiki markup or HTML/CSS code.

If this wiki option is not enabled, the image will not be embedded but rendered as a textual link to the external site, just like above.