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

Description	You type	You get
Embed image (with alt text)	`[[Image:Astrological Chart.jpg\|Astrological Chart]]`
Link to description page	`[[:Image:Astrological Chart.jpg]]` `[[:Image:Astrological Chart.jpg\|Astrological Chart]]`	Image:Astrological Chart.jpg Astrological Chart
Link directly to file	`[[Media:Astrological Chart.jpg]]` `[[Media:Astrological Chart.jpg\|Astrological Chart]]`	Media:Astrological Chart.jpg Astrological Chart
Thumbnail (centered, 100 pixels wide, with caption)	`[[Image:Astrological Chart.jpg\|center\|thumb\|100px\|Chart]]`	Chart

Uploaded files

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

[[Image:Astrological Chart.jpg]]

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

[[Image:Astrological Chart.jpg|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:Astrological Chart.jpg]]

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

[[Media:Astrological Chart.jpg]]

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

[[:Image:Astrological Chart.jpg|link text]]
[[Media:Astrological Chart.jpg|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:Astrological Chart.jpg|Item 1
Image:Astrological Chart.jpg|a link to [[Help:Contents]]
Image:Astrological Chart.jpg
Image:Astrological Chart.jpg
Image:Astrological Chart.jpg|''italic caption''
</gallery>

is formatted as:

Item 1	a link to Help:Contents
italic caption

Other files

You can link to an external file using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page. This feature has to be enabled by the admin; in the new releases of MediaWiki its disabled due to security reasons.