Help:Images

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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: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|2
Image:Example.jpg|3
</gallery>

Will give you:

1

2

3

[edit] Copying from Wikimedia Commons

A Central Wikia forum has this:

...All images on wikimedia commons should be free (public domain, GFDL, Creative Commons), so all you have to do is download it, upload it, and link back to the image on commons -> [[Commons:Image:Foo.jpg]] (as well as tag it with the appropriate license, which remains the same). ...

--Splarka