Help:About your wiki/How to display images on a page

Rendering a single image

Inserting images in visual editor is quite simple: select Insert > Images and media and follow the onscreen instructions.

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  Insert menu link

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  Select a file

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  Preview and confirm

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  Adjust parameters

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  Advanced settings

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  Image is inserted

There is a special syntax for inserting images if you prefer to work with wiki markup rather than in VisualEditor. It allows to set look and feel, size, alignment, position, caption of your image, link it to an arbitrary page or URL.

Code

[[File:Insert image. VisualEditor. Set properties.png|Example of the centered image thumb with a caption. Image is linked to the help page about images on MediaWiki site.|thumb|center|link=https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images]]

Result

Example of the centered image thumb with a caption. Image is linked to the help page about images on MediaWiki site.

See details and more examples here.

Rendering a gallery of images

Sometimes you may want to display a series of image previews. We call it Gallery. To create a gallery in visual editor, choose Insert > Gallery and follow the onscreen instructions.

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  Insert menu link

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  Select files

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  Configure the gallery

Markup explanation can be found here.

Slideshow

You can create a slideshow simply by selecting the Slideshow display mode in gallery settings. Example (use arrows to slide):

• Slideshow example
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  Insert gallery

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  Select files

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  Make it sliding