How To Upload Image To Wikipedia Page

Adding images helps ameliorate the quality of any given commodity, providing additional details and illustrating the subject - after all, a motion picture speaks a k words! Information technology can also improve a wiki's search engine ranking.

The process of adding images to an article is very similar to adding videos. Y'all can castor up on our video embed tool to complete your mastery of the tools of a wiki illustrator.

Requirements for adding images

Both anonymous and registered users can add images to an commodity in source text editing mode. In visual editors, but registered users tin can.

Images must be on the wiki. If they are not bachelor, then they demand to exist uploaded first. Trying to add a not-existent image will only create a red link to a file page.

Only registered, logged-in users can upload files. See this folio for details on uploading files.

How to add an image in VisualEditor

When y'all're editing with the VisualEditor, the process of adding an prototype to a page is through the top bar of the editor. Encounter this help folio.

Recollect: Just logged-in users can upload and edit images through the wiki'southward Visual Editor.

After logging in, click the Edit or VisualEditor button on the page you desire to add together images to.
Once you're in Visual Editing mode, click on the Media button located on the top bar. This will open up the Media Settings dialogue, where you tin search for existing files co-ordinate to their filenames or upload your own.
Once you have the image you lot desire to add, click on it. The dialogue will aggrandize the image and give you a little more data on information technology. Click utilize this prototype to go along.
The next dialogue allows you to customize how the image will announced on the page by adding a caption or alternative text (General tab) and deciding on its size, alignment, and appearance (Advanced tab).
Once finished, click Insert and then Save the folio to commit your changes.

You can also edit images already present on the page by clicking on them and selecting the Edit button, which will open the same customization dialogue.

How to add together an image in source editing way

Source editing maintains the option of adding and customizing images through the top bar, similar in Visual Editor. Just as its interface is fundamentally different from visual editors, you lot can skip the above process and directly add and edit with the underlying wikitext. The image follows a specific format, enclosed in foursquare brackets similar a regular link.

Every prototype on the page starts with File: or Paradigm:, followed by the exact name of the uploaded file. It is instance-sensitive: Wiki.png and WIKI.png are considered different files.
If only the link is specified, the image will be added every bit is: At the base resolution and inline. To customize its appearance, you lot tin add arguments, separated past the vertical bar or pipe symbol, |. These are:
- Size, specified in pixels. For case, 220px will display the image at 220 pixels of width, while x120px will display the epitome at 120 pixels of meridian.
- Alignment on the page. left and right will align the image to the left and correct respectively, with text flowing effectually the image. heart volition marshal it to the middle of the folio with no text flow around it.
- Advent. Adding thumb will cause the image to display as a thumbnail at a default width if information technology's not specified otherwise, with the description displayed beneath. Y'all can also cull edge to display the image with a border effectually it.
- Link will cause the image to open up a specific page, rather than its file description. It is always preceded past link=. The option tin also be used to featherbed the image lightbox and display an paradigm with no link to the description page. This tin be washed by calculation the pick to the syntax and filling information technology with an empty value (non even a space).
- Alternative text, specified with alt=, which will display if an image does not load. This text is also used by search engines and screen readers, so it's best to specify a descriptive alt text for every image.
- HTML class, specified by class=, defines classes of the generated <img/> element. For instance, class=foo__bar baz will add together class="foo__bar baz" to the generated paradigm chemical element. These classes can be useful when customizing the appearance of the image(s) through the CSS pages.
- Clarification, which volition brandish below the image if it's specified to appear as a thumbnail or on mouseover. Any text that is non recognized by the wiki every bit an argument will be interpreted as a description.

The wiki software does not require the arguments to be added in whatever specific order, although information technology's considered good exercise to utilize a consequent pattern. For more details on adding images via wikitext, see the image formatting section hither. For linking to image description pages, see this folio.

How to view images at a college resolution

When placed on the page, images are typically presented at a much smaller resolution. You can inspect them by going to the file page or by opening them in the lightbox.

The lightbox opens past default when clicking on the image, with the link to the file clarification page displayed at the superlative of the lightbox.

If you want to bypass the lightbox entirely, just hold "Ctrl" (for Windows users) or "Command" (for Mac users), then click on the photo. Information technology volition open up a new tab, just yous'll be on the file page in the new tab.

Run into also

Using wikitext with your images
Uploading files in detail
Using images from linked communities

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