HELP:IMAGES

Introduction

This is a short introduction how to use images in this wiki. It quickly highlights the principles when using images in the wiki.

Before you upload anything to this wiki, you must

1. be absolutely sure to either be the copyright owner of the file, have a written approval that you can upload the file, or the file is under a license which allows you to use it.
2. choose which licence you want to put your image under if you are the copyright holder or obey and mention the license the image is under if you can use it.

Read more about where to find images you may use under Sources/Images.

1. First thing you do is to edit the page where you want to use a picture. Do the uploading later.
2. Type [[File:Your descriptive filename here.jpg]] or use the insert file button in the tool bar
   
   If you use the tool bar, you must change the default file name to a name that briefly describes your Image.
3. Add the layout options. The table below gives you an overview on which options you have when including images.
4. Once you edited and saved your page you have a greyed out image link like this one File:Not yet existant image.png. If you click on it it will direct you to the upload page. Where you can Upload the yet missing File. The filename of the uploaded image will be renamed to the one you have written in the article, it is not necessary that they match. (Example: you write in the wiki [[File:Michael Mustermann Projekt XY.png]] and later you can upload a file called DSC894732.png. Your File will be renamed automatically, just the filetype needs to match) Make sure you upload in a resolution so it can also be used for printing at a later point. A reasonable file size is from 1 to 5 MB for a jpeg file depending on the pixel size. Important: choose the license you want to put your image under.

Image Galleries

To render a thumbnail gallery of multiple images use the gallery tag:

      <gallery>
      File:Pelly.jpg|the caption
      File:verfremdeterkreis.jpg|another caption
      File:patchrotation2.jpg|yet another
      </gallery>
      

Above wikicode renders as:

Panorama

Use the panorama class to scroll through panoramas:

      <div class="panorama">
      [[File:Marktplatz.jpg|1500px]]
      </div>
      

Above wikicode renders as:

Link Images

[[File:Farbkreis Itten 1961.png|100px|link=Farbe]]
      [[File:Farbkreis Itten 1961.png|100px|link=http://www.color.org]]
      

For a detailed help see the Mediawiki Help on Images or read the wikipedia:Wikipedia:Picture tutorial.