Help:Uploading a photo or picture
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You can upload a photo, image, or picture to this wiki site for appropriate use on the site.
Image size
To display an efficient small image in this wiki, you do not have to upload a small image; the wiki software downsizes it for viewing automatically if you tell it to. Unless you really want the image to be only a small one (such as for an icon), it's better to upload a larger one that people can choose to view.
See "Using an image," below, for more info.
Uploading the image
To upload:
- Log in.
- Click Upload file in the left-side toolbox.
- In the Upload file page, use the Browse button to browse to your image on your system.
- Type a destination filename:
- PLEASE note the instructions on choosing a destination filename!
- Type a brief summary description of what the image is or represents.
- Click Upload file.
Choosing a destination filename
Choose a unique filename (something that no one else is likely to want to use); e.g., "ColladaDOMarchitecture" or "BezierMatrixEquation".
- Good examples: Physics-elements-relationship.jpg, DOMobjectModel.png, Category_example.png
- Bad examples: screenshot.jpg, image27.png, diagram.jpg.
Using the image
To include the image in a page, use a link of one of the basic forms:
- [[Image:yourFileName.jpg]] (this displays it at its original uploaded size)
- [[Image:yourFileName.jpg | thumb | yourcaption ]]. (this displays it at a predetermined "thumbnail" size, with a border and an optional caption; clicking on the image displays the image in its larger/original size.) You can also specify an optional pixel width; see example.
- [[Image:yourFileName.jpg|widthinpixels]] (this displays without the border, no caption, but again, clicking the image displays a larger size)
For example:
[[Image:COLLADAarchitecture.jpg | thumb | High-level COLLADA architecture ]] [[Image:COLLADAarchitecture.jpg | thumb | 100px | COLLADA architecture ]] [[Image:COLLADAarchitecture.jpg | 250px]]
Additional information
You can also specify the image size and other attributes. For more information, refer to the Wikipedia article on WikiMedia extended image syntax.
Finding existing images
- To view or search previously uploaded images, see list of uploaded files.
- To view categorized lists of previously uploaded images, see Category:Images.
- To review a log of uploads and deletions, see upload log.