Help:Images

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Description	You type	You get
Embed image (with alt text)	[[Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|WikiKnowledge]]
Link to description page	[[:Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png]] [[:Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|WikiKnowledge logo]]	Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png WikiKnowledge logo
Link directly to file	[[Media:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png]] [[Media:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|WikiKnowledge logo]]	Media:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png WikiKnowledge logo
Thumbnail (centered, 100 pixels wide, with caption)	[[Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|center|thumb|100px|The WikiKnowledge logo]]	The WikiKnowledge logo

Contents 1 Uploaded files 1.1 Advanced options 1.2 Gallery of images 2 Other files

[edit] Uploaded files

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

• [[Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png]]

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

• [[Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|alternative text]]

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

• [[:Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png]]

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

• [[Media:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png]]

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

• [[:Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|link text]]
• [[Media:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|link text]]

[edit] Advanced options

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] 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:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|Item 1
Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|a link to [[Help:Contents]]
Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png
Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png
Image:WikiKnowledgeLogo.png|''italic caption''
</gallery>

is formatted as:

Item 1	a link to Help:Contents
italic caption

[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]