Linking Images to Pages
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Link Image
- Upload image to the wiki
- On your article page, click Edit
- Click at the point in your article where you want the image to be placed.
- Type in the name of your image file.
- Highlight the text of the image file name, and click on the Embed Image icon in the toolbar at the top.
- This places the double brackets around the image name
- Enter your summary comment, and click Save
- You'll see the image in line with the part of the article where you added its link.
Add Formatting to the Image
- On your article page, click Edit
- Enter the formatting commands inside the brackets of the image link, with "pipe characters" between them.
- The example shown in the screencast used this syntax to formatting the image aligned to the right, adding a frame and a caption was this: [[File:Blog_growth_sized.jpg|right|frame|175 px|Growth in blogs through July 2006]]
Add an image to a Wiki Page:
To place the graphic or media file in the appropriate location on the Wiki page where it applies use the following markup language:
[[File:file_name.jpg|left|thumb|300px|none|Title]]
To add another type of media file use the following markup language:
[[media:filename.extension|Title]]