Help:Images

Problems with images

As you may or may have not noticed by now, there have been a few troubles with images. How this happened is still an enigma, but it's believed that it was caused by the server switch that happened months ago. So far, the issues include (Note: These don't affect every image, but for the most part they do):

• Problems uploading images
• Image doesn't show up when placed in a thumbnail with captions

Alternatively, pasting the raw image URL in the wiki should display the image, but the URL won't work with Wiki formatting, so you can only post the image, and can't adjust it or place it in a thumbnail.

If you have any questions or other problems to report, please discuss in the talk page of this section.

Image codes

Description	You type	You get
Embed image (with alt text)	[[Image:Onion.png|Onion]]
Link to description page	[[:Image:Onion.png]] [[:Image:Onion.png|Onion]]	Image:Onion.png Onion
Link directly to file	[[Media:Onion.png]] [[Media:Onion.png|Sunflowers]]	Media:Onion.png Onion
Thumbnail (centered, 100 pixels wide, with caption)	[[Image:Onion.png|center|thumb|100px|Onion]]	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Onion
Border (100 pixels) Results in a very small gray border	[[Image:Onion.png|border|100px]]	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Frameless Like thumbnail, respect user preferences for image width but without border and no right float.	[[Image:Onion.png|frameless]]

Uploaded files

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

• [[Image:Onion.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:Onion.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:Onion.png]]

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

• [[Media:Onion.png]]

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

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

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.

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

is formatted as:

• Error creating thumbnail: File missing

  Item 1

• Error creating thumbnail: File missing

  a link to Help:Contents

• Error creating thumbnail: File missing
• Error creating thumbnail: File missing
• Error creating thumbnail: File missing

  italic caption