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Contents 1 Syntax 2 Other files 3 Gallery of images 4 Administration of images/files 5 External Links

Typically you would upload an image file to the wiki (See Help:Managing files) ...before you use the following wiki text to place the image on an article:

Description	You type	You get
Embed image (with alt text)	[[Image:Example.jpg|Sunflowers]]	Image:Example.jpg
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]]	Image:Example.jpg Sunflowers
Border (100 pixels) Results in a very small gray border	[[Image:Wiki.png|border|100px]]	Image:Wiki.png
Frameless Like thumbnail, respect user preferences for image width but without border and no right float.	[[Image:Example.jpg|frameless]]	Image:Example.jpg

[edit] Syntax

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] Other files

You can link to an external file using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page.

• [http://url.for/some/image.png]

Or with different text:

• [http://url.for/some/image.png link text here]

If it is enabled on your wiki (see Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages), you can also embed external images. To do that, simply insert the image's url:

• http://url.for/some/image.png

[edit] Gallery of images

It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails with the <gallery> 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:

Example.jpg Item 1	Example.jpg a link to Help:Contents	Example.jpg	Example.jpg
Example.jpg italic caption

[edit] Administration of images/files

See: Manual:Image Administration

[edit] External Links

• Also on Mediawiki Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax