Help talk:Images

Use Template:Unc in Link attribute?
Is it possible to use the Template:Unc inside an image's Link behavior?

Align an external image
How can I do to align a external image ? If I put the URL the pics display where the text is. I can't align the image to the right for example :( Somebody can help me ?

No link to the upload page?
If the image referenced does not exist, the gallery displays the filename as text rather than a link to the upload page (as it did in previous versions). I have tried the File, Image and Media prefixes. Is this a bug?

FIX: Most likely cause is upload permissions have not been set. In LocalSettings.php set $wgEnableUploads = true;

Syntax section lacking. "Link" option not operational.
I was just trying to determine how to wrap an image in a link to another article. After reading the (limited) syntax section, I attempted to use the "link=" option to gain this functionality. After many test efforts, on this page, and using the Preview function (so as not to flood the history), I am still yet to achieve this goal. Is this article still current? Are the instructions clear and accurate? Or it is a problem at my end causing this issue? --203.13.128.101 06:48, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * See Help:Linked images. Note that the  parameter is very new. Check Special:Version, if the revision is not at least r41727 then this syntax is not yet available. Splarka 11:29, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I am also having the same issue that was mentioned, regarding the link functionality not working. I have a fully updated install, version 1.13.3. I'm using the provided syntax, as far as I can tell, but the image will only link to the standard image details page. Caseyparsons 17:45, 9 February 2009 (UTC).


 * r41727 means 1.14. —Emufarmers(T 01:05, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Text wrap?
How do one make tex wrap arround an image? --Asset 11:27, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * That's what I came here to read about too. I can scarcely believe that two years later this still isn't addressed in the article. Magnoliasouth 03:52, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know if it is possible to do so. Do you have an example of what you want to do? Bud0011 04:08, 26 October 2010 (UTC).
 * It's possible. Embed your image the usual way and add an alignment value. Example: [[Image:example_image.jpg|left]] The text following the image will now flow around it . Echolalian (talk) 16:45, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

new File: NS
Should be noted that if you're using SVN, or editing on the wikimedia projects, that the namespace for "images" is File: now, not Image:. TBH, this makes more sense to me for what's now available on the projects ;).

Kjikaqawej 06:41, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It also looks like the File NS is case sensitive for the "F". On my MW 1.15.1 lower case f doesn't link correctly, but the depreciated Image NS used to work with "image". DdDave 20:15, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Large Images
I can upload small images but when I upload images, files over 2mb; it just goes blank. When I resize it won't resize. Can someone help me. 86.136.108.50 17:39, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Is it possible that your PHP configuration is limiting uploads of this size? I have this vague memory of getting "blank" pages when PHP didn't allow large enough uploads. That's all I can think of without more specific information about your problem. --Vjg 00:15, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's why I can't upload large files because the PHP configuration is limiting it. What do I have to do? 86.136.108.50 09:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That would depend upon how your PHP is configured and the requirements might change depending upon who is hosting your PHP-enabled site. See http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-max-filesize --Vjg 13:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the info. I have another query, basically on my main page i have a picture as a title. I don't want it to link anywhere, can I stop that? is it possible. 86.136.108.50 16:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Use Media instead of Image or File; otherwise see the new 'link=' syntax for "File". Also, these types of questions should be asked on the helpdesk as indicated at the top of this page. --Vjg 03:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Help:Images/frame and Help:Images/size
When importing this help page on my wiki, the {{/frame|frame [...] were interpreted as Template:/frame. I had to add change them to {{Help:Images/frame|frame [...] to make it work. Any idea why ?--Alagache 15:06, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Subpaging is enabled on the Help: namespace here. This can change the behavior of relative transclusions. See Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages. Splarka 16:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Page breaking
I'm just setting up a wiki, I turned on subpages for the help namespace as said above, is there anything else I need to turn on to stop it looking like this? http://www.suitableforvegetarians.info/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Images
 * Just glancing at your site, it appears you are missing the Extension:ParserFunctions extension and the Template:! template on your installation. --Vjg 21:27, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Problem with: Gallery of images
I am trying to use the gallery function.

I've upload the pretty flower pic to my mediawiki and I've kept it named Example.jpg, but I can't get image to appear when I copy the code from: Help:Images

This code:

Gives me text in all of the right places, but no images.

When I change the text from “File:Example.jpg” to “Image:Example.jpg” images appear.

am I not supposed to use “File” or is there a parameter that I need to set? --TheMightyHercules 02:10, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Image: was only recently changed to File:, if it doesn't work for you, you just have to use Image:. Splarka 07:30, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Faking a "thumb" with alt "link"
Fake "thumb" syntax.

This often gets asked for a lot. A way to use the link= parameter with thumb. permalink



Fake "thumb" syntax.

Splarka 03:24, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Also good for aligning objects, like videos.
nGeXdv-uPaw
 * This example assumes you have the VideoFlash extension installed:

[http://youtu.be/nGeXdv-uPaw She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for.] - Davydog 19:55, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Wording question
Can we add the word "scale" somewhere in addition to "resize?" That would help more searches find the resize examples. Thanks.

129.93.159.31 21:23, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

External Image Size
Is it possible to resize an external image? E.g. [|20px] --Robinson Weijman 07:58, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * yes with the extension:EmbedImg Bigbull 01:52, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

links and images ?
can i ask here if ther is a way of showing a small image as the alternate way of rolling over text links

w:en:User_talk:Teapotgeorge

Image Strangeness
The stable page shows red links to "File:MediaWiki:Image sample" (deleted) instead of the inlined "File:Example.jpg" for me, and I don't really know why. Draft works for me again. --130.83.160.141 14:41, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Frame transparancy
How do I make the frame transparent to a background image. For instance, on this page the preformatted text and the TOC (yes, I know they are not images, but the problem is the same) are not transparent to the background, yet the MediaWiki logo image is. The Template on Help:Images likewise is not transparent to the background image. Any advice on how I can make the background image bleed through? RedJ 17 18:07, 22 August 2009 (UTC)


 * TOCs, tables, and image frames are intentionally given background colors to prevent header lines bleeding through. You can remove them with site/skin CSS, or just give images your own frame with whitelisted html (&lt;div&gt;s), or just don't use a frame (per example). Splarka 07:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem with not using a frame is that it also won't show the caption. My wiki has a gradient background in the text space, so it's not like putting the same color as as the image frame backgound (at least I don't think so).  The text space background gradient has to show.  RedJ 17 17:17, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * In your MediaWiki:Common.css:

div.thumbinner {background-color:transparent;} div.thumb {border-color: transparent;}
 * But it will look bad in some browsers, probably. Splarka 07:23, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll try it. I also found a work around using templates which essentially rewrites the Image functionality.  But CSS would be more elegant.

Link + magic word
Hi, without magic is ok and you can use un magic word in the caption but not in the link.
 * Example : truc.png -> the link is truc.png :(


 * Works for me:
 * Wiki.png
 * But you have a U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK in your pasted example between the URL and the magic word. Also, are you sure you're using a new enough version of mediawiki? Splarka 07:33, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok without space link is working.

Link + parameter
With link doesnt work(parameter is not empty and there are no spaces)...How I can debug that ? thanks


 * Wiki.png -> Wiki.png
 * Template parameters take 3 braces, and the syntax you use there means null fallback, and all a null link= does is prevent the image linking anywhere at all. And you are still inserting a U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK in just before the first brace. Splarka 06:57, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * yes my paste is bad it was Wiki.png . But I cannot see the U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK and the version of my mediawiki is 1.15.1. Can I remove myself this invisible mark and how ? Thanks.
 * Ok I saw with notepad++ but again it doesnt work the link=http is now tn the caption of the picture.


 * Ok I found; it's my fault ;) Thanks!

Problems with image+link+caption
Hi there, i have a big problem with the imagelink and captions for image link on version 1.15.1. in your help it means for an Imagelink with caption, i look in to the html source and see no title parameter in the a href of the image link. The expample on this page has in the html source an title paramter but i dont know how it makes. Its a little bit tricky here to come to the orginal source of the example. mean it is framed and framed. Why ? Anyone can help thats i become a title tag in an imagelink? Look here it works on this version of mediawiki but on my version it gives no title paarameter on a href.

I've the same problem; I guess it's a bug in MW 1.15.1. Hajo


 * I also have the problem in 1.15.3 that no "title" is in HTML code when use "link=http://..." . I'm trying to work it out but with no confidence. I also want the link to be "target=_blank" when the url does not belong to my domain name. --Zayoo 12:05, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I've made it!

in file include/MediaTransformOutput.php line 160 of function toHtml 159		if ( !empty( $options['custom-url-link'] ) ) { 160			$linkAttribs = array( 'href' => $options['custom-url-link'] ); change line 160 to			$linkAttribs = array( 'href' => $options['custom-url-link'], 'title' => $title ); then title appear. To make "target=_blank" for url that not belongs to site's domain name, change to this if (!strpos($options['custom-url-link'], $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])) { $linkAttribs = array( 'href' => $options['custom-url-link'], 'title' => $title, 'target' => '_blank' ); } else { $linkAttribs = array( 'href' => $options['custom-url-link'], 'title' => $title ); } Warning: I don't know whether title should be encoded or not for security. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. --Zayoo 14:15, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

This bug seems to be fixed in 1.16.0. To make external link open in new window in 1.16.0, the code above is also valid by removing 'title' => $title. -Zayoo 08:46, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Black Images after Update
Hey - I have recently updated to 1.15.x. Now I have black images on all pages, see here: http://freecoffee.de/Eduroam_mit_Windows_Mobile I found out, that I have to user ?action=purge to clear the cache. I also truncated the objectcache table. The first solution works for a single page. But I have a lot of images uploaded to the wiki. So, is there a faster way to clear the image cache? Thanks in advance, kind regards --Nickaat 17:43, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Adding alt text to gallery images
Can it be done? I've got my gallery set up like the example: but in addition to the text underneath each image, I would like to have a second set of text when each image is moused over. (null).exe 14:21, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Thumbnail link bypass the description page
[[Media:image.jpg]]

creates a text link directly to the image bypassing the file description page but I would like to create a thumbnail link that bypasses the description page and goes directly to the image. I've tried every conceivable combination of options but nothing seems to work.
 * Use:  [[Image:Wiki.png|link=]] 
 * [[Image:Wiki.png|link=]]
 * Hamilton Abreu 23:19, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Is it possible to make this as a default link type for all images? Or at least is there a way to avoid entering same filename in filepath?


 * I strongly agree, we need the option of changing the default behaviour of image thumbnails so they conform to more general internet behaviour. Normally on a webpage, if you click a thumbnail preview, you expect to go to the full-size version of an image, not a description page. I understand the need to be able to access the description page somehow, but users can do this by clicking the little special icon that appears under the thumbnail that sends them to the special page.


 * Wikimedia's "rogue" behaviour screws up external search engine search results - since MediaWiki's description page for a .jpg file also ends in .jpg, Google et al tend to see the thumbnail, see that it points to an address that seems to be a .jpg file, and don't bother loading or analysing the "fake" jpg file on the offchance that it's actually another webpage ... so they don't realise that it's not actually a .jpg.


 * Worst-case scenario, the description page doesn't get indexed by standard search engines (because it's named like an image file), the image-indexing databases that get passed the URL of the description page realise as soon as they load it that it's not an image, so they don't analyse it either, the mid-sized preview on the description page also doesn't get indexed (because the page that contains it isn't being read, by anyone), the full-size image doesn't get indexed either (because there's no direct link to it from any "proper" page), and although the thumbnail does get indexed, it gets flagged as pointing to a broken image link. So you spend time loading lovely big high-res images onto your wiki, stuffed with lovely search-engine-friendly metadata, and the search engines simply don't get to see the files to list them (or they only see the tiny low-res thumbnails, which don't inherit the metadata). Sigh.


 * For individual thumbnails you can override this on a thumb-by-thumb basis by manually putting in a link= property, or you can create your own template that replaces the "File:" syntax with your own, and make the resulting thumbnail link point directly to the original file (and suddenly see your big images appearing on Google :) ), but this doesn't help with the Gallery (unless you write your own replacement from scratch), and it's no use at all for MediaWiki's auto-generated thumnbnail galleries for media assigned to particular categories, which there seems to be no way to override. If I have a wiki on Medieval Art, I want the option of allowing Google to read all the images at high res (along with their metadata), and registering all those images for each category page that they appear in.


 * Currently, in order to guarantee that Google can see all our files in their original resolution, with all their embedded metadata, it seems that we have to write a special additional html page with a special bit of code to automatically index the files, and link to that external page from our wiki, and hope that Google then associates the thumbnails on the wiki pages with the full files in the separate index, by visual similarity. This is hardly ideal. Yes, MediaWiki does generate special thumbnail index pages that do link directly to the original files, but MW also helpfully generates a NOINDEX tag in those pages' headers that tells Google specifically NOT to index the contents, so the "Recent files" and "All files" paes can't be read by search engines as a global site image list, either. Aaargh!


 * The three main methods by which a search engine would index the image contents of a wiki all seem to have been "broken" by MediaWiki - if they'd only broken two out of the three, we'd be okay, but they broke all three of them! Being able to globally override the default thumbnail behaviour (to provide a "clean" path that Google can follow to find the original images, and associate them with the appropriate article and category pages) would go a long way to fixing the problem. ErkDemon (talk) 22:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)


 * If you're really concerned about this, you should report a bug in bugzilla (if none already exists) --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:28, 6 August 2013 (UTC)


 * That's a useful suggestion - thanks. I've just added it as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52647 ErkDemon (talk) 12:29, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Captions not displaying
The Help page says that adding text in an image link that's not in any of the other formats will be interpreted as a caption. It implies but does not explicitly say that the caption will show on the page. And, in fact, the caption does display in the "thumb" and "frame" options. However, in "frameless", "border" or omitted, the caption is apparently not presented. It doesn't even show up in the HTML pagesource.

I've submitted a Support desk request in case it's a technical issue but given that I am seeing this problem even on the example images here, I suspect that it's something more. If I am misunderstanding the intent of the comments about captions, could someone please correct them?

Or if it's a known bug based on something like browser versions, could someone please add a compatibility comment? Anything to clear up the confusion would be appreciated. Rossami 23:52, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


 * This might be simply a terminology issue. With "thumb" and "frame", you do get an actual image caption on the page, just below the image. With omitted, "frameless" and "border" there is no actual image caption on the page, below the image, but it shows up when you place the pointer over the image:
 *  [[Image:Wiki.png|caption text here]]  &rarr; [[Image:Wiki.png|caption text here]]
 *  [[Image:Wiki.png|frameless|caption text here]]  &rarr; [[Image:Wiki.png|frameless|caption text here]]
 *  [[Image:Wiki.png|border|caption text here]]  &rarr; [[Image:Wiki.png|border|caption text here]]
 * You might know this form of caption as "alt" or "title" or something else. Would this be the case? Hamilton Abreu 00:28, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hmmm. If that's how it's actually supposed to behave then I would agree that it's a terminology problem that the text on the Help page doesn't help.  I've seen the HTML title attribute used in several ways but never automatically tied to the mouseover.  "Alt" is, I believe, different in that alt text is supposed to display when the image is not available (such as when the image is suppressed or still loading).  Either way, calling those "captions" is counter-intuitive.  The only ones that are behaving here the way that we think of captions in other media are the ones with thumb and frame.
 * My confusion was made worse by the section of the Help page which 1) describes alt and caption differently, 2) never uses the word "title" but if it had, my natural assumption would have been that title referred to "page title", that is, "filename" and 3) explicitly says that caption can accommodate wiki-markup (which it can with thumb and frame but not in the mouseover of border, frameless or omitted).
 * Then just to increase my confusion, the mouseover does not display on my work computer (IE 7.0), though it does at home (Firefox 3.6 and IE 8.0). And even in Firefox, the mouseover never displays in the last example ( example.jpg.
 * Assuming the last is a glitch rather than another Microsoft "feature", I recommend expanding the paragraph on captions to explicitly describe their behavior in the different contexts - visible beneath for thumb and frames and thus able to accommodate links and formatting but functioning as a mouseover (and thus text-only) on the others. And maybe even a footnote about IE compatibility if that can be verified as a global issue rather than just me?  Thanks.  Rossami 06:09, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Regarding terminology, distinguishing the two as "visible caption" and "mouseover caption" would be much clearer, yes. I am using IE7 (7.0.5730.13) and the mouseover caption works fine, so it must be a glitch on your machine. Regarding wiki-markup on mouseover captions, some is possible: for example, you can transclude other pages:
 *  [[Image:Wiki.png|border|]]  &rarr; [[Image:Wiki.png|border|]]
 * but it's necessarily limited by the format, so no linking, text formatting, etc. Finally, it would be great if you could update the page as you see fit, to perform these and any other corrections and improvements you see fit: coming from your stand-point, I'm sure the end result will be much clearer. Hamilton Abreu 14:04, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Problem trying to use images in a template
Hi. I'm using MW 1.15.3. I have the following in a template:



If I call the template using this results in a redlink of the filename wrapped in the  text. For example:



The image definitely exists and show up in the list of uploaded files. Can template parameters not handle this?

Thanks User:mitchelln 14:34, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Template parameters can handle that. It's odd that only the filename is red linked. To be redlinked, it must end up in the form of a link, i.e. . It also seems that somehow the text   is not being interpreted as a link at all, which might result from a syntax error before that text, in the template. Hamilton Abreu 23:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

This is happening to me too, and there's nothing at all in the template before the image. 108.7.193.11 00:50, 2 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Chances are that you're passing in the parameter a filename enclosed in square brackets, ie Filename.ext . That results in [[Filename.ext]] which is wrong, and results in: [[Filename.ext]]. Remove the square brackets. -- Hamilton Abreu 13:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Change in the gallery coding?
Umm yeah, I'm an admin at the One Piece Wiki and I was wondering if there was a change in the code used throughout the various wikis. The change anyway is more messier and is a bit of a bother to some of us here in our wikia. You can see the problem here and in other galleries of the wikia. I was wondering if somebody could possibly revert the gallery coding back to the way it was as before the change as presented here in this Help Page.

Problem with link= in a template
Hi. I'm using MW 1.15.3. I have in my template: The template parameter contains a valid page link. When I hover over the image the correct link is displayed, but when I click on the image it takes me to the Open.png page instead. Any ideas? Thanks User:mitchelln 17:04, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * What is the exact value being sent in the parameter, and the exact correct link displayed when hovering the image? For example, when you say that the parameter is a "valid page link", if that means you're enclosing it in square brackets that could be a problem:
 *  Wiki.png  &rarr; Wiki.png (Ok)
 *  Wiki.png]]  &rarr; Wiki.png]] (Not Ok)
 * Hamilton Abreu 21:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * By the way, this problem looks similar to the one you placed above a couple of weeks ago, where probably a link was being passed instead of a pagename:
 *  [[Image1.png]]  &rarr; [[Image1.png]]
 * Hamilton Abreu 21:17, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

link+Header Tabs [solved]
Using Extension:Header Tabs I have the tab "Vídeo" in a page. I want to target an image link to this tab but don't works. I wrote: But when the user click the image the URL in the browser is: http://mysite/index.php/page-name#tab.3DV.C3.ADdeo and goes to the page, not the tab.

Solutions? Any idea to solve? Thanks

See the case in (nuvola video icon): http://enlloc.net/hkp/w/index.php?title=Hacks --Dvdgmz 18:35, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know the extension, but there seem to be a couple of issues: 1) the  sign after  ; 2) tab names that contain accented characters (the extension might not be handling those properly). Try this: instead of letting   build the URL, give the correct URL to  . In other words, go to the target page and click the tab you want. This places the correct URL for that tab in the browser navigation field. Give this URL to , replacing the pagename by  . For example, to link to the Vídeo tab, you'd use:

<pre style="margin-left:25px">
 * Hamilton Abreu 02:48, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Hamilton Abreu, thanks for the answer. But with 'urlencode' don't works the "link=" parameter. It does not work either here:
 * wiki.png
 * I think that the problem it's with the '=' sign, as you said. I don't need to encode it, it is encoded automatically and this is the problem. The sign should not be encoded. But I do not know how to avoid it.
 * I've done lots of testing without success. :-(
 * --Dvdgmz 16:54, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure it works:

<pre style="margin-left:75px; word-wrap:break-word;">
 * gives wiki.png. Hamilton Abreu 02:19, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * OH! Great! Thanks a lot!! Now it works fine!
 * Then... works with like in wiki.png, but not with  like in wiki.png. That's the solution, finally.
 * --Dvdgmz 09:46, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Style options for galleries
Hey, is there a way to add style options (through style or class attribute) to a gallery? Bud0011 16:09, 24 September 2010 (UTC).

PDF rendering doesn't work
This page says MediaWiki supports rendering PDF pages, but I have a fresh install of MediaWiki 1.16.0 and it doesn't work. Any ideas?
 * I don't know about native support, but there are a few extensions that help provide that support. Bud0011 22:00, 20 October 2010 (UTC).
 * Thanks but I tried them and couldn't get any of them to work. It would be useful to know if MediaWiki is meant to support this by default or not, if anybody knows.
 * no, mediawiki doesn't support that out of the box (Well you can upload them, but they won't be rendered). Wikimedia (wikipedia, et al) uses extension:PdfHandler to deal with pdfs. Bawolff 22:39, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

SVG
When SVGs is used with "thumb" or "frameless" and the SVG is smaller than the width default, the width of the SVG is used: This goes against what SVG is designed to do, which is to scale, the image size checks should not be done on SVGs. -- <b style='color:#948700;'>d'oh!</b> <sub style='color:#888;'>[talk] 07:14, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Images and templates?
Hello. I have a form that users fill out. One is an up loadable file. What I want to be able to do is display several of the images in a gallery. It would look like this:

It does not seem to be working. Why?


 * Check Help talk:Templates. -- Hamilton Abreu 23:36, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Tooltip/Caption does not work with link
It seems that when you use link in conjunction with caption, the caption will not be shown. But reading the doc around link does not say that (though it does say other things wont work)
 * Image with caption (no link)
 * Image with link and caption (not being shown)

--Boy.pockets 05:56, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * That only seems to happen if the link parameter is supplied but empty. When supplying an actual link the caption is shown:

<pre style="margin-left:25px">
 * [[Image:tst.png|25px|link=Help:Edit|alt=tiny globe|This is a globe.]]
 * Hamilton Abreu 21:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

gallery need page parameter
needs a page parameter (either "|page=X" or "/X") to accommodate DjVu and Pdf multi-page files.--Doug 20:37, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Uploading images with filename from URL
Okay, today i primitive edited SpecialUpload.php file for this:

I have template where it's two images (TOP and BOTTOM of product). I am not happy with "red-link" system about uploading files, and i am wanted to replace non-existent image with alternative (error) image. Aaaaand, whoala, down of the thumb it's writed: "No top(or bottom) image. You can [link:now upload the file]."

What i edited?

From my template, top image engine:

'''

'''

NO.JPG it's my error (alt) image. If it's not defined FileNameTop variable, say: "You cannot upload file for top image because filename of this it's not defined."

SpecialUpload.php, changes:

Line 0072, added: if($request -> getText('FileName') === "NO.JPG"){unset($_GET['FileName']);}           #ADDED FOR UPLOAD FROM LINKS

Line 0073, added: if(isset($_GET['FileName'])){$this->mDesiredDestName = $request->getText('FileName');} #ADDED FOR UPLOAD FROM LINKS

Line 1015, added: if(isset($_GET['FileName'])){$scriptVars['wgUploadAutoFill'] = 0;} #ADDED FOR UPLOAD FROM LINKS, DISABLING AUTOFILL FILENAME

And that's all... . So, i know this may have some potencial security risks or other, but i am novice... . And, work's me fine ;) The upload link must have be an external, internal link having problem with "?" and "=", or i not know how to set it right. The link is calling "Special:Upload?FileName=<MISSING_FILE>", <MISSING_FILE> it's automatically prefilled on upload form, on select file to upload it's not changed with filename of local/remote uploaded file.

To end: this edit help everybody who building database of products, etc. Allow fast upload files without manual writing filename for writted page/category page. If it's not uploaded right file, send to client alternative image (in my case "NO.JPG", it's similiar to this: No sign).

Tom

PS: Sorry for bad english

File feature request - Defaulting to image description in Commons
It would be very cool and helpful if the File syntax could default the caption (using some parameters/flags) to the image descriptions as defined in commons:Template:Information description field (optionally selecting English description automatically or allowing the user to chose the language). Without this feature, I find adding image descriptions/captions via pipes tedious and in some cases very redundant. Of course, this is for the case where the images are in Commons and use that template, which in the case of Wikipedia are a lot --Codrinb 22:13, 23 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I second you on this request, one may perfectly give a sane description to its images then wanting this description to be the default caption.
 * Drzraf2 13:33, 1 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Found a workaround here: [[Image:img.jpg|]]
 * Drzraf2 13:41, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * This will be very helpful. The above workaround only gives the link to the file name and is not very helpful, as file names tend to be short. --Arjunaraoc (talk) 05:55, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

what happened to lorem ipsum etc etc?
and the weird duck looking thing? oh how i miss it. Decora 14:38, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Alt not generating in thumbs
This is very strange.

The next code generates the first image, which generates an "alt attribute automatically with the file name:



However, if I add a caption, no "alt" is generated, not with the caption nor with the file name, as could be expected (second image):



Do you have an explanation or a fix? Thank you very much!

--Wikypedista 00:11, 23 February 2011 (UTC)


 * If you set the caption, you need to set the alt text explicitly if you want it:
 * Crystal_Clear_app_display.png
 * —Emufarmers(T 15:26, 23 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Really? I had deducted that... my question is how to fix that automatically, not having to write the "alt" attributes for the thousans of pictures in the wiki. --Wikypedista 23:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Whenever I use the "thumb" attribute, the "alt text" doesn't show up whether I set it explicitly or not; only the description of the actual full-size file is used as the alt text. Of course, if I don't use the "thumb" attribute, the caption doesn't display below the image as a true caption anyway (it only shows up as the "alt text"). Perspectoff 00:35, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

link= in the Image:
Is it any way to link to the article using the syntax: where =Boston, or how to skip square brackets.--WlaKom 18:30, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Wiki.png|30px|link=Boston]]
 * No brackets there; try it. --Rogerhc (talk) 06:15, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Linking to an article or external website by clicking a gallery image
Can it be done? I would like to use the gallery format to display a variety of projects on my site, with each image leading directly to the project page (or an external website), however the best I can manage is having a link in the caption, and even I mistakenly click the image to be disappointed it doesn't take me to the page I expect it. I know images leading to a hyperlink are possible outside the gallery format, but it's a pain getting images to line up (or maybe it's not even possible) like they do in the gallery format. Website in question: http://rev0proto.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Blank pages
In my wiki. i got blank pages in file wiewing pages and also in wikitext and lists that contain theese broken files. like the filelist!

The following files are broken: The blank filelist

How do i delete the pages correctly?

Image ratio
Is it possible to ignore the image's aspect ratio when changing its size?
 * I would like to know this as well. Although the page says there is a {width}x{height}px option, it doesn't seem to work, even for SVG files. 47.145.148.47 22:29, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The width, height, and width x height specifiers all preserve aspect ratio. If you want to distort an image you need to do it through CSS (which you cannot set directly in images, so needs to be done by setting a class for the image and having a class rule in (eg) common.css).  --Clump (talk) 22:55, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Sorry
Deleted some stuff by accident. I hope I restored the content.--Frode Inge Helland (talk) 18:24, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

How do I use an external image and have it click-able with an internal link?
I have a dynamic image... http://ddosigs.level3.turbine.com/0621900000009035d/010040200003000/condensed.png It is a signature for the forums for an MMO that I play, and I want to use it on my wiki as well. Only I want people to be able to click on it and have it dump them on my User page. "If it is enabled on your wiki (see Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages), you can also embed external images." is enabled on my wiki. How can I do this? Thanks -- Technical 13 (talk) 05:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Bug 35909 created -- Technical 13 (talk) 12:38, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * And the winner is " http://ddosigs.level3.turbine.com/0621900000009035d/010040200003000/condensed.png " -- Technical 13 (talk) 23:51, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

How to change the default size of thumb?
I see Wikipedia has much larger images comapred to default Mediawiki when there is no size specified but just "thumb" argument. Where I can enlarge the default size to avoid setting fixed size to all images?
 * A user can set his own default image and thumb size preferences in (at the top of any page while logged in) Preferences > Appearance. On the server side, a server admin can change the defaults used when the user has not specified any, by setting $wgDefaultUserOptions in LocalSettings.php. The $wgImageLimits page shows an example of what that looks like for image size. $wgThumbLimits is for thumbs. The idea is that $wgImageLimits and $wgThumbLimits define available user preferences choices and $wgDefaultUserOptions is where an admin can set which of those choices is the default used if a user does not specify a choice. --Rogerhc (talk) 06:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Linked images in gallery
How do I go about assigning a link to an image in a gallery? Is there a CSS snippet I can use to fake galleryness, and put that in a variadic template so I can do something like ? Thanks! Crazytales (talk) 18:43, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Look at Extension:Gallery, I'm sure there is an extension there that can help you. -- ShoeMaker  ( Contributions &bull; Message )   19:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * It has been almost a week, with no response. Did that solve your issue? If not, I could come up with a basic template for you to "fake" a gallery; however, it would be extremely complicated and require Extension:Loops in order to properly define the rows and columns of the table you would have to create... -- ShoeMaker   ( Contributions &bull; Message )   02:04, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I would also like to be able to control links for images being displayed in a gallery. If I insert a single image, I can direct the link wherever I want using link=custom
 * However, if I input an image using


 * Feel free to open a bug request if none already exist about this, --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:31, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

File: -- Image: -- Media:
Hello, I know that File: and Image: were consolidated into ns:6, was Media: also wrapped up into that, or does that have a separate use? -- ShoeMaker  ( Contributions &bull; Message )   01:59, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Image Gallery Using Template?
When i use a template to try and display an image gallery i can't get the images to display, but only in the gallery. So my template is as follows...

and my page using the template...

The parameter is being passed correctly (if i add to the template it correctly outputs "Image1.jpg") however, when inserted into the &lt;gallery> tag as a parameter  i don't see anything. If i add the images in raw format (e.g. &lt;gallery>Image:Image1.jpg&lt;/gallery> it works.

So is there a problem with the gallery taking parameters? I was thinking the gallery was getting parsed before the parameters are passed.

Thanks! -- 20:22, May 8, 2012‎ 166.122.75.57


 * Why are you trying to pass this through a template?  I mean, unless you are using Extension:Loops and using some specific formatting, this is more work than just manually setting up the &lt;gallery> directly on the page and doesn't add extra transclusion. -- ShoeMaker   ( Contributions &bull; Message )   01:02, 9 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm using Semantic Forms so every page is only publicly editable by using the appropriate form. I am trying to eliminate all wikicode on the user side.  So by filling out a form where they can upload images i can then pass the filenames to the page template and display them correctly.


 * Semantic Forms is out of my scope of knowledge at the moment... If I had to guess, I would say that you would have to create your own extension that would allow for bulk uploads, count the number of files in the upload and build the gallery based of it's own information... I, unfortunately, do not yet know much about php or creating extensions. -- ShoeMaker  ( Contributions &bull; Message )   23:31, 9 May 2012 (UTC)


 * To add a gallery with Semantic Forms use the tag function and use the arraymap function. Example:

Don't hard code into the template the number of photos. Why limit the user? The arraymap is designed for multi-values into the same field. The only problem is if the name of a photo includes a comma in it. The delimiter, the comma,between the two pipes |,| can be changed if that's a problem. I normally change it to a slash and have it automatically put back in after photo upload by listing it as the delimiter inside the semantic form.

For Gallery help: smw wiki For Arraymap info: Extension:Semantic Forms/Semantic Forms and templates Adding automatic Delimiter in the Semantic Form:Extension:Semantic Forms/Defining forms Christharp (talk) 17:40, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

DELETED sub-section from "Link behavior" section of article, placed here in case someone cares
I deleted the below "Advanced special link" sub-suction of the "Link behavior" section of the article, after organizing said "Link behavior" section, because I feel this advanced material is not useful. If you feel this deleted section is useful, please explain how before replacing it into the article. --Rogerhc (talk) 06:04, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Advanced special link
Use Special:FilePath to link to a potential file, even if it doesn't exist:

Use   Magic Word for a long form URL to the file:

Dynamic resizing as the browser is resized
To have large images automatically resized to your window size, add the following code in your common.css-file, or, if you are sysop of your own wiki, your Mediawiki:common.css-file:

Then all you need to do to have a image resize to the size of your browser window, is to encompass your image in a div-tag. --Koppa Dasao ƒłелањі каселањін на 14:55, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Mouseover text
I've removed the phrase [caption text shows...] as mouseover text in border, frameless formats or when the format is omitted. after testing it in four major browsers. But it is possible that this may depend on HTML5 being enabled or even other factors (older browsers). Some expert insight is welcome. — Edokter  ( talk ) — 11:29, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Add anchor to a gallery?
Is it possible to have anchors within a gallery? If so, how can I add them? If not, how can I simulate it? Here is what I tried, but it didn't work.

Mode parameter for galleries not working.
The mode parameter doesn't seem to be working for the galleries on my wiki. 24.37.64.174 15:24, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Accidental upload of images
I don't know where to place this, but a bot I used accidentally uploaded a number of images here that were meant for the commons. If someone could help me fix this I would be more than glad. CFCF (talk) 10:05, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I deleted them. In future, all stuff related to mediawiki.org you can post on Project:Current issues --wargo (talk) 17:01, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Problem with colours in pages vs in logo at top left
I'm using a .jpg file. When I have the file as the image as the logo at the top left the colours are correct.

When I have the same file in a wiki page, the colours are wrong.

What happens, particularly, is that, when it is set as an icon, main letters are dark green. You can see how it should be here:

logo the correct colour

When it is in a wiki page, the image becomes light- green - as it is here:

logo the wrong colour

Why the difference and how can I adjust it?

Fustbariclation (talk) 10:46, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The image inserted in the page is a thumbnail, so basically, MediaWiki is using ImageMagick, GD libraries of PHP or any other software (that depends on how you or your wiki administrator have configured it) to create a resized image from the original one. If the original image uploaded at File:TSF_Logo_medium_size.jpg on your wiki has the correct colours, then the problem is the thumbnailer program that generates such images. Maybe you need to use a different one. Also, JPG files are "lossy", they lose quality in favor of a reduced size, so maybe depending on your thumbnailer program, there's any option to increase the quality of resulting images. Anyway, since that image is very simple and has few different colors, I'd convert it to PNG and use it in that format instead, since it produces files with smaller size and without any quality loss. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:44, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * PS: Also, as noted at the top of this page, this is not the place to ask such questions. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:46, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Problem with Template not appearing in Gallery
Our wiki has a few galleries that don't quite yet have all the pictures. My thinking was to create a template, call it for "Image Coming Soon", create a placeholder image and refer within the template and include a catagory link in there that places it in a 'page to be updated with missing images' category, so that follow up later is easy.

So my template is created as follows Put this template in a gallery or where an image will appear in the future to fill the space and provide a visual reference.

It will show up as follows and be added to the Category:Missing Image:

When I type anywhere on a wiki page, even in other template areas, it works a treat, as soon as it is within a, it does not display anymore.

What am I doing wrong, and if this is the wrong way to go about it, is there another way that achieves my aim to add the page to a category by simply inserting an image placeholder? Captainreiss (talk) 01:48, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

EDIT: Fixed! replace  with File:IMG-Soon.jpg and all works. --217.155.36.226 23:20, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

How to use version other of an image (file)?
AlexandreMBM (talk) 19:04, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Vertical Align when using a no lines gallery
Hey Folks, i've been trying to get this to work so that all images in a no line gallery are in the middle but instead they seem to be top aligned by default. On a traditional gallery they seem to middle automatically. I just don't know where to change the syntax. - Jknight1603

Two Helpful CSS Image Gallery Snippets - Expand Image on Hover & Pinterest Like Gallery
To whomever maybe interested. I just added three CSS snippet pages that enhance galleries.

Expand Image on Hover
The first snippet expands an image to twice it's normal size whenever a mouse, or finger on touch, hovers over the image. All you need do is add the CSS to the Mediawiki:Common.css. Here's a visual example of what it does:

Normal Gallery (packed mode):

Expanded Image same gallery:

See:Snippets/Image Expand on Hover

Pinterest Like Gallery
The second snippet is actual a new gallery format. It layouts a gallery in a "Pinterest" Like Format. See:Snippets/Pinterest Like Gallery

Photo Example:

Make a Circular or Oval Gallery
The third CSS snippet rounds images into a circle or Oval shape. See: Snippets/Circle or Oval Gallery

Photo Example:

Christharp (talk) 01:01, 15 May 2014 (UTC) & Christharp (talk) 18:34, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Crazy things you can post inside the hover and hover packed modes
Just discovered by that using the hover and/or hover-packed modes one can use almost any normal wiki syntax inside the text area of the hover statements. Here's some examples:

Photo inside a Photo
Roll over the first image and you'll see a photo inside the photo

Video inside a photo
Video from Wikimedia Commons:

YouTube syntax from the WidgetFramework Extension. However I'm sure it also would work with the Widgets Extension also. Additionally one could embed a document inside a photo. Christharp (talk) 00:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Adding a shadow behind a photo, gallery, etc
See DropShadow to create a shadow behind a photo, gallery to create depth:

Without a Shadow:



With a Shadow:



This css is not active on Mediawiki. The examples above are photos of photos with the technique applied. It actually may be a little more clear when directly applied.

Christharp (talk) 22:14, 27 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Or you could just do this:
 * [[File:Taj without dropshadow.png]]
 * 138.217.82.231 02:06, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 138.217.82.231 02:06, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Mark for translation
Can someone experienced in image markup re-read this page and mark it for translation? --Nemo 09:03, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Shirayuki. This page currently used two subpages (as transcluded with params), needed to migration - Help:Images/frame and Help:Images/size. --Kaganer (talk) 23:42, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Shirayuki (talk) 01:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Scale and place image (slideshow) on main page
We have an image on the main page of our ReplicationWiki. Actually not just an image, a slideshow. We want it to cover the left half of the screen. However, if I look at it on my mobile phone it covers much more than half of the screen and the column on the right stretches out far to the bottom. If I look at it on a large screen, the slideshow covers very little of the left half and there is a big empty ugly hole. If I look at it with Internet Explorer, which I don't usually do and would not recommend to anyone, the slideshow just jumps to the center and covers text that it should not cover. Could anyone tell me what is wrong with our code? ReplicationWiki-fan (talk) 17:41, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

gallery does not work?
on my wiki if I use the Gallery syntax, when I click on an image in the gallery it just takes me to the File: page instead of showing the gallery like where you can click on a right arrow to see next image etc

anyone know what could cause this?


 * I think you are looking for Media Viewer. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:47, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I was also very confused by this behaviour. I think Media Viewer should be at least mentioned in the Help page, because people expect the same behaviour given the same code. Thanks for asking and answering this question! You saved me from a big headache. 146.198.223.71 21:53, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Gallery widths parameter
The article states: widths={width}px: sets the widths of the images, default 120px. Note the plural, widths. This parameter doesn't seem to control the width of the image past 180px, at which point it only controls the width of the thumbnail frame.


 * -abbedabb (talk) 13:22, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Image as a background
How do I make the text on a right/left top background image? Also, how do I make that



for a text frame?

gallery inside a Template
Is there a way to do this:

I know I have to escape the pipe, but trying it various ways just produces nothing:

== Photos ==

Any thoughts? Allenhuffman (talk) 20:35, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * You need to use #tag: --Zebulon84 (talk) 22:04, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

== Photos ==
 * Fantastic! Thank you. Could we edit this to include a reference to that in the gallery section? Allenhuffman (talk) 14:37, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

External photo in gallery
Why this code doesn't work?


 * Because you can only load images uploaded to the project, not images from external websites. --Dvorapa (talk) 15:21, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Setting width of slideshow image has no effect
It seems that using a gallery with the new slideshow attribute one cannot control the dimensions of the images. I tried setting widths=350px as an attribute of the gallery tag, but the images were still displayed in their original (larger) sizes. Is this limitation by design or is the widths parameter for slideshows supposed to work? If "widths" cannot be set for slideshows, I think you should say so on the help page.
 * I am also facing the same problem. A response would help.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 10:51, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Galleries: packed-hover replaced with packed-overlay on Desktop
When using Chrome 58, whether I am logged in or not, packed-hover galleries will always across all wikis be displayed as packed-overlay galleries for me. I understand that this is the fallback for mobile displays, but this is the case for my regular Chrome installation on Windows 10, whereas Firefox will correctly show the -hover variant. I notice that I explicitly get served <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed-overlay"> tags rather than <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed-hover">, and when I manually change the css class in html, the gallery works fine. Does someone know what could be causing this? Which attribute is used to determine whether to serve the -hover or the -overlay css class? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Julian Herzog (talk) 10:32, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Also interested (but using Firefox). Please ping me if there are news. --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 19:24, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Images within a bulleted list
I have found that when I embed an image in a bulleted list the list starts over again instead of continuing with higher numbers. Ex: This is what I want to create...

- How to clean the floor 1. Find a broom [image of broom] 2. Sweep the floor 3. Deposit waste into the trash 4. Find a mop [image of mop] 5. Find a bucket

What I am rendering currently...

- How to clean the floor 1. Find a broom [image of broom] 1. Sweep the floor 2. Deposit waste into the trash 3. Find a mop [image of mop] 1. Find a bucket

Has anyone found a way to resolve this? Many thanks in advance!
 * It's nothing to do with images specifically, the reset in numbering comes from breaking continuity in the ordered list marker at the beginning of each line. If you want a newline without disrupting the numbering use a   ; e.g.,
 * 1) Find a broom Example.jpg
 * 2) Sweep the floor.
 * --Clump (talk) 22:41, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Picture in snippet when searching on google
Often when you search for an article, google will display a snippet of that article with a picture on the right. Often these articles will have a number of pictures, yet only one is chosen to be displayed before you click it. Does anyone know how if there is a way to chose which picture is displayed? It is not always the first one. Thank you Nate Hooper (talk) 09:08, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

How to change the default Horizontal alignment of the frame or thumb[nail] formats
"Note that when using the frame or thumb[nail] formats, the default horizontal alignment will be right"

How can I change right to "center"?

Picture-in-picture
Is there a way to use image syntax, or divs, to display one picture over another, in a "picture-in-picture" format? For example, without modifying the image itself, to display the main image and a magnified detail of a portion of it in the corner?199.247.46.139 17:57, 5 March 2019 (UTC) Yes, create an outer div with position:relative, and insider wrap your image in a div that has position:absolute. Specify z-index's to ensure one is on top of the other. For example, one image on top of another: To have a zoomed inset scale the inner image and wrap it in another div that uses a relative position and overflow:hidden to shift the viewport. For example, <div style="position:absolute;left:5px;z-index:10;bottom:5px;padding:5px;width:80px;height:30px;overflow:hidden;border:2px solid white"> --Clump (talk) 18:42, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Advice regarding gallery: “The File: prefix can be omitted. However, it is helpful to include it”
“The File: prefix can be omitted. However, it is helpful to include it” – well, as long it is English and spelled  this is not directly breaking the workflow. Greetings --PerfektesChaos (talk) 14:20, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * However, if it is not an English wiki there would be inserted  or   or   or   – and this is causing a problem.
 * If you transfer a gallery line into another wiki project, you can c&p the entire line. If you are lucky, even the legend of that image may be kept untranslated.
 * If you insert a superfluous namespace name as suggested now, this requires additional work and breaks translation business.
 * It is also not a solution to always insert  – that is unreadable and unpolite against people in non-latin projects, who cannot read that , and it is unnecessarily confusing for source code editors in any non-English project.
 * VisualEditor is currently tempting to insert always  – that is blocking transfer among wikis.
 * From my point of view best recommendation is to omit the redundant and entirely superfluous and confusing namespace identifier.
 * German Wikipedia has removed the namespace prefix from more than three quarters of all gallery lines.

support for 2x DPI? (HiDPI, Retina, High Resolution)
it seems to me that we should be able to specify a PNG file as having a DPI of 144, and have MediaWiki "just know" to serve it up at HiDPI when displayed on a screen that supports it, or resized to fit in the same place (effectively 72dpi) on screens that do not support it. no need to resample, just resize it when displayed as if it's scaled in a bounding box.

or something. some way to serve HiDPI images that doesn't require an (unsupported) extension. am i off my rocker?

Davecotter (talk) 03:20, 16 April 2020 (UTC)