Thread:Project:Support desk/uploading images (2)/reply

Generally you should use the web interface to upload files (go to the page Special:upload on your wiki). Putting the image in skins/common/images won't help, because that's not where uploaded images are stored, and there's more to uploading then just putting the image on the server. (It also has to add a db entry).

If you've managed to successfully upload an image via special:upload, it should have its own page - File:SomeImage.jpg where SomeImage.jpg is the name of the file (for example, on this wiki the image example.png has the page File:Example.png)

To include an image in a wiki page, just types its page name surrounded by [[

For example to include Example.png, you would type

Which makes:



See help:Images for more details.