Wikipedia talk:Gallery tag

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1 Brilliant
2 Markup in captions
3 Width problem
4 centering text
5 More control of Gallery layout?
6 Help
7 Caption from Image Description?
8 verticalness
9 Center
10 Linking images to articles

[edit] Brilliant

This is brilliant: why haven't I heard about this before? What syntax is available? Is it possible to have the gallery re-flow when the browser window is re-sized? --Phil | Talk 08:42, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)

Because the developers are really bad about developing what people make bug reports about, really good about developing what piques their interest, and moderately bad about documenting any of it. (This is an endemic problem with any open-source project, I suppose.) Though... bah, I suppose that's not entirely true; I'm just annoyed that none of WikiTeX has made it in---chemistry and music would be incredibly useful (check the music bits---you can click on the display to play the music); chess and go would allow for a lot of currently manually-made images to be autogenerated. It's modular; not all of it has to be implemented. I was agitating for its inclusion last April, and what do we get? A timeline module that nobody uses. Grumble. Vote for BUG 189 if you think it'll help.

That sort of spiraled off-topic, didn't it. The release notes refer to the gallery syntax; I saw someone using it, maybe on the Village Pump, and declared it spiffy and useful. If you'd like more flexible gallery output, drop a comment on BUG 1340, which i just filed. grendel|khan 01:45, 2005 Jan 16 (UTC)

Gallery reflow is being hacked out by Gwicke. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:58, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I would argue that bug 1340 is at least partially a "bug", not just an "enhancement". When combined with a right-side info box (like on FS De Grasse), on my config (Win2k, 1024x768), at least, using Opera or IE, the gallery gets shoved down below the bottom of the info box, and using Firefox, Mozilla, or Netscape 7 the gallery overlaps the infobox. I put a Netscape screenshot of the problem here. Niteowlneils 00:53, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

PS I stopped adding or commenting on bugs when the software was changed to one that displays email addresses to be scraped off the screen. Niteowlneils 00:58, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Looks like documentation would be in Wikimedia:Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files#Gallery_tag.2C_category.2C_table_of_images. (SEWilco 20:12, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC))

That page is actually on meta [1] Thryduulf 19:57, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Markup in captions

Can Wiki markup not be used in captions? I know you can link text, but when I tried to italicize something I just got double apostrophes in the caption. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:01, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have the same problem. ~~Shiri — Talk~~ 21:52, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

Looks like it's been upgraded! — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:28, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Width problem

Currently, in lower resolutions, such as 800x600, the gallery is wider than the page and thus forces horizontal scroll bars and makes the page look bad. —Lowellian (talk) 04:39, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] centering text

i want the text centered, not aligned left. how can i do this? Kingturtle 22:24, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

image.jpg | <center> caption </center>

Hope that helps. Rossami (talk) 21:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More control of Gallery layout?

I like the idea of the Gallery tag, but it seems extending the markup for some more control over how it lays things out would be useful.
Two suggested additions: Control of max # of columns, control of sizes of the thumbnails shown.
--The Rizz 00:52, June 23, 2005 (UTC).

I agree. Most of my user's monitors here is big screen 17" with high res. Current setting of <gallery> only take place of 1/4 of the maximized window screen. Borgx 02:54, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Why does the images gallery only show some images and not all of them, see my main usrpage Mollsmolyneux 19:17, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caption from Image Description?

Is there a way to have the caption use the Image's description automatically?

[edit] verticalness

Is it possible to have the gallery vertically-oriented? I have several instances where having a 1-column wide, right- or left- oriented gallery would be awesome. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\= | 20:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)}