Wikipedia talk:Picture tutorial

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[edit] Placing images behind text

I was wondering if it would be possible to place an image behind text, as a background. I'm pretty new to the wiki format, and perhaps I just haven't read the right article on it yet, but in case I don't find it, any assistance would be wonderful. 65.24.170.5 21:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Resizing and Captioning

I need help. I'm finding it impossible to resize and caption an image. My friend and I have spent the last hour atleast trying to work this out.

[edit] Aligned image throwing off page

I am using wikimedia on my own website. Trying to put an image in with a frame at left and the page is suddenly thrown off. The "white space" where the text appears extends past the edges where it should, cutting across the logo, etc. This doesn't occur if the image is just by itself without any alignment.

Any idea why this is happening? More importantly, how do I fix it? 72.83.162.52 00:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] wikimedia commons

how can i use an image i find on the commons on wikipedia?

[edit] Help!

I seriously don't have enough time to put in a pic for Chappell Hill, Texas. It is from an outside site-other than wikipedia-and I would like a volunteer to put it there if possible (the link is there) and would like a pic of the Chappell Hill Watertower. Thanx, if you do. Just reply if you can't put it there. Jim Bart

[edit] Can a outside image link to the page and show it?

Like this: Image:Http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/Mediawiki.png

No. -- Infrogmation June 28, 2005 16:26 (UTC)

[edit] Pages

Should this article be split into a multi-page tutorial as the Wikipedia:Tutorial is now? --Rj 07:17, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

(As the one who wrote the majority of this) No! It's not nearly long enough to merit a breakup, and that would only serve to create (yet more) documentation pages. There's already far, far too many of those as it is. Keep it as it is. If it gets *significantly* larger, than we can reconsider this. Furthermore, most of the later examples depend on earlier ones, in which case, I want them kept as closely together as possible. →Raul654 07:20, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Styles

I've added a section on avoiding stackup problems. I use a slightly different style to Raul's, one I think makes the article clearer. I'm using html PRE tags for example wikitext, and specifying an explicit (different) font for the example text (as I think it's hard to differentiate between the article's own didactic text and the that of the examples). Naturally the article should feature only one of the two ways of doing things, and I'm not especially attached to mine. I'll change one section or other to match its counterpart - which do y'all prefer? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 13:48, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I like the co-align the best. --d8uv (t) 08:37, 2004 Mar 27 (UTC)
The first line of the PRE-text in the latter examples runs into the images! -- till we *) 13:43, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
(Sorry, forgot to say: on Netscape 7.x, 1024 pixels screenwidth, Win32 system) -- till we *)
I'm not seeing it. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 (d8uv.com edition) -- d8uv (t) 21:14, 2004 Mar 27 (UTC)

"All work and no play makes jack a dull boy." We've got to stop working or what :) -- Taku 05:46, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

If you weren't already aware, it's a reference to the greatest horror movie of all time. →Raul654 05:49, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
No TV and no beer make Homer something, something... Dori | Talk 05:51, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
Go crazy? Don't mind if I do. →Raul654 05:52, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I was aware of that movie. I really didn't know this hidden agenda. How scary really. -- Taku 06:02, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
[Um, it's a centuries-old proverb you know.] I've not seen that film, so that reference passed me by completely.  :) fabiform | talk 08:36, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

So it someone going to remove the "jack" graffiti or what? I'm new so I'm not sure how to do it.

is ist possible to include references in image captions?

If by 'refernces', you mean links to other articles - No. →Raul654 22:12, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)
If by 'references', you mean links to other articles - Yes. As of Mediawiki 1.3 :-) - Omegatron 19:24, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, *now* it is (notice, that question is 3 months old) ;) →Raul654 19:30, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
This is the Palace of Westminster in London
This is the Palace of Westminster in London

[edit] Archived from the village pump

I just had the opportunity to refer someone to the lovely Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial. Couple of questions, though--

  • In my browser, at least, the example using div to put two images directly underneath each other has the text running underneath the uppermost image. Is it just me or is there something amiss with the markup?
  • Tutorial doesn't address having images without the thumb box around them but with having captions (as can be seen in Dog). Is the markup at Dog the approved markup for that sort of thing? And would it be nice to have such markup added to the tutorial?

Thanks! Elf | Talk 20:56, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Those thumbbox-less syntax are remnants of the old syntax, before this new one was in place. It's the same. I personally think we should change all old ones to the new syntax to avoid confusion. --Menchi 08:59, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I agree about changing the markup around images to conform to the new standards. It's just another case of Wikifying things.
Is it a good idea not to specify a width for images (unless there's a good reason for doing so in a particular case, of course). If no width is given the thumbnails default to 250 pixels wide which is the recommended size anyway. If that recommendation changes in future, the default could be altered and all unspecified images would change to the new standard without the need to edit each one. What do others think? - Chris Jefferies 17:33, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
If this is the case, I was not aware of it, and I'll go back to the images I've created and remove the width specifications. This is, as you say, a good idea, for the reason you mentioned. - RealGrouchy 13:00, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Picture tutorial torture

Here is the Deal:

I am struggling with posting pictures, which I realize is my problem, and not yours. HOWEVER, I just printed off the 11 page Tutorial and it went fine until I tried to use it. That’s when I discovered that ALL the codes, tucked neatly into little boxes, did not print. All I got was the outline of the box.

This does not seem right.

Carptrash 19:15, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC) carptrash

[edit] Pictures or images?

It might be better to be consistent and call them "images". This makes it easier for new users looking for other tips on images, which are in articles with names containing "image" not "picture". ··gracefool |☺ 00:36, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Image maps

Is it possible to add image maps (ie where you can add linked areas of an image?)

No. →Raul654 18:14, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
I could really use this feature for the bridge article taxonomy. Leonard G. 02:23, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Misleading tags

Not being a very experienced Wikipedia user, I believe some tags are different than stated in the surrounding text. For example, in the paragraph where [[Image:Wikipedesketch1.png|frame|Here is a boring caption]] tag is stated, in fact [[Image:Wikipedesketch1.png|frame|none|This picture was Stevertigo's entry in the Wikipedia mascot contest]] is used. Am I right? Matevzk 22:37, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Commons

How should this page be updated to reflect Wikimedia Commons ([1])? Hyacinth 04:07, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(If needed at all, this single sentence should suffice:) Images on commons are automatically available to all projects, and can be treated exactly the same as images on this wikipedia →Raul654 04:21, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

What about Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons? Should we encourage users to upload to the commons in the first place? Hyacinth 08:36, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Odd picture flowing

In editing CADPAT, I spent some time trying to align two pictures next to each other. In the end, I used a table. Originally, the images were just included with plain [[Image:foo.jpg]]; having two such tags in a row meant you had two picturs next to one another. I tried to convert to frames, but couldn't find a setting that led to similar behaviour - with [[Image:foo.jpg|frame|none]] they were not displayed next to each other. Why is this?

In the end I used tables, so I'll be bold and just go ahead and put that in. --Andrew 03:31, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

I made this too. :D -SV|t 23:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) Ps Needs something on his shirt though. Maybe "Pickyweedia"

[edit] Pablo's edits and me reverting Yath

Recently, Pablo converted this page from the all-work-and-no-play-makes-jack-a-dull-boy text that I used when writing this page over to Loren Ipsum, which (after doing a quick google search on the phrase) I found out is basically the industry standard for typsetting. I would have used it myself if I knew what it was when I wrote this page. Also, Pablo added different captions for each of the galleried pics, which was a definite improvement. Yath reverted these edits as unhelpful, but I disagree and I reverted back. →Raul654 09:19, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Sticking to the lorem ipsum text because of a perceived industry standard is pointless. The question is whether the page is made more usable and helpful to its readers by the use of it. You may argue that using text from a dead language is less likely to be distracting, but in my opinion it just makes the page as dull as dirt. --Yath 10:05, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Well, umm, I don't really think "All work and no play makes jack a dull boy" repeated 10,000 times is going to make this article one iota more exciting. →Raul654 06:49, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Inacuracies in tutorial?

I recently used this tutorial to add my first wikipedia image to the article renewal theory. However the suggested form [[Image:Wikipedesketch1.png|500px|Proposed Wikipedia mascotte]] made no difference to the size of the image. I was only able to successfully specify the size of images with help from another wikipedian who suggested combining the size attribute with the thumb attribute as follows: [[Image:Wikipedesketch1.png|thumb|500px|Proposed Wikipedia mascotte]].]

Is the tutorial inaccurate, or were my problems a special case? Thanks, reetep 14:43, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Resizing a picture to larger-than-it-actually-is no longer works as of mediawiki 1.4 (at the very least, it no longer works as I documented here). I just haven't had time to update. →Raul654 15:04, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
I was trying to reduce the size of the image. Any ideas why it didn't work? Thanks, reetep 16:17, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
The tutorial does it, and it works fine. No offense, but I think you were doing something wrong. →Raul654 06:53, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
No offense taken - I very likely was doing something wrong; I'm just interested to know what it was. I'd like to understand what was wrong and from there to determine whether
  1. I was stupid in my interpretation of the tutorial
  2. the tutorial was inaccurate
  3. the tutorial was accurate but lacking in info/ misleading etc
If the tutorial can be improved for the benefit of future newbies like me, then that can only be good. Would you mind looking at how the problem was fixed by the user RI to see what it was that I was doing wrong? The only potential problem that I can see is that I was using 'frame' in combination with the size attribute. Would that necessarily cause trouble? reetep 12:24, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh, that's easy! (It took me about 3 seconds to notice the problem). The frame tag *forces* the picture to stay at its original size. In other words, it overrides the size indicator. Let's say you have a picture called blah.jpg and it is 1000px x 1000px.

blah.jpg|frame|300px|caption <-- the picture would show up at 1000x, because the frame tag forces it to be its original size, even if you tell it what size to make it.

If you want to resize a picture and have a caption, you *must* use the thumb (or thumbnail) switch, and you *must not* use frame. →Raul654 12:48, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your help, that's great.
This sounds like something that should be improved - I have also encountered this - Leonard G. 02:26, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hasn't this page been vandalised? It's covered in latin and large paragraphs why rhyming words. I mean, I'd fix it, but I'm just surprised no one else has spotted this. Maybe it's meant to be like that? But why... I have no idea. So, has it been vandalised? --Gonnas 23:37, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

I suggest you read Lorem ipsum →Raul654 23:40, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. This is why I asked before erroneously fixing it. --Gonnas 23:53, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
I've linked to Lorem ipsum at its first instance in the tutorial. - dcljr (talk) 06:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture Tutorial Torture 2

As mentioned before by Carptrash, there are about 11 different tutorials on how to add pictures. While I can cope with the technical wiki-syntax, I can't get my head around all this copyright and fair use stuff. Couldn't someone who understands this make an easier tutorial... ONE tutorial. Like a step-by-step guide for the dummies?!? --Allycat

There are only 3 that really matter - this one, the copyright faq, and the how-to-upload-a-file FAQ. →Raul654 20:56, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rotation

Is there any way to rotate an image? I need it. --Yoosef 17:29, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

In Wiki-markup? No. →Raul654 17:47, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
do you mean, there is another way to do it or is it impossible? --Yoosef 06:51, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
The only way to do it is to rotate it in photoshop (or some other graphics program) and upload it as a seperate image. It's horribly ineffecient, and you really, really shouldn't be doing it. →Raul654 06:54, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
SVG images might become rotatable when parametrized SVG is implemented.--Joris Gillis 20:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Distinguishing dummy text

I've taken the liberty of coloring (with <span> tags) all the "Lorem ipsum" dummy text to help make it stand out better. In two places a different font was used for the examples, but I've removed this since it wasn't being done consistently through the tutorial. Someone else can add font-changing styles to my span tags (and/or change them to <p>) if they want. Oh, and I'm not sure the color was the best choice, but someone else can decide that, too. - dcljr (talk) 07:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] linking to images in other languages

I want to make a link to an image in the German Wikipedia ([2]), but I can't figure out how to do that. DirkvdM 11:35, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, it can't be done. You can only use images uploaded to the english wikipedia or to commons (which are "common" to all the various wikimedia projects). →Raul654 16:55, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
Well, of course it can be done (why didn't I think of this before?). The photo has a GNU license, so I downloaded it and then uploaded it to commons. Easier than pie :) . DirkvdM 11:15, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Erm, yes, but I thought you were asking if there was a technical way to use the image (without reuploading it, which I thought was a rather trivial answer so I didn't mention it), which there is not. →Raul654 06:56, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
This means wasting space on the servers. For e.g. there is a picture on hte German site, there must be a way of just linking to it. user:saharadesertfox 0:18, 6/9/2005

[edit] Putting pictures next to a content listing

I'm working on Girl, which is the collaboration of the week, and I'd like to be able to put the first two pictures in the article next to the contents listing (on the right of it, to use that white space) but because the content listing is automatically generated, I'm not sure how to go about it. Do I need to learn to make a template, or something? Any pointers? Mamawrites 07:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

With two pictures, it's unfeasable. However, with one picture, it's pretty easily do-able. I have modified the article accordingly. →Raul654 22:32, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
Can you say a bit more about why you consider it "unfeasable"? I thought I had figured out how to do it, with the table commands and the __TOC__. Did it not look right in your browser? Mamawrites 22:50, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ...help....me....

I'm going fucking crazy trying to align three small images in the centre of a page. I have tried everything I can think of. I can get them three in a row on the same line aligned left or right:

X X X

I can get them staggered:

X

 X
   X

I can get them stacked (left, right, or centre):

X X X

But I cannot for the life of me get them centered, in a row, between two lines of text:

blah blah blah blah blah

      X X X

blah blah blah blah blah

Somebody. Please. I don't want them thumbed or framed, I don't want them captioned... just three little images all in a row.... Anyone?

Exploding Boy 17:32, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] renaming uploaded images

I recently uploaded several photographs, not always knowing what animal or such was in them. Now that I've found out the name of one butterfly (it's a glasswing) I want to rename it (it's now called simply 'What butterfly is this.jpg'). But there is no 'move' tab and I can't find the answer in the many articles on images. I don't even know if this is the right place to ask this question :) . DirkvdM 11:27, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Download it, rename it, re-upload it, change all pages that use the old name to use the new name, and have an admin delete the old version. →Raul654 15:30, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
In other words, make a new page with the right title and then remove the old one. I already thought of that but thought there should be a more elegant way to do this, ie without troubling an admin. Why doesn't this work the same way as with other pages? And is there a tutorial page or such where this is explained? DirkvdM 07:43, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How does one include external images?

The Software Freedom Day wiki uses MediaWiki but does not allow uploading of images. It also includes no help pages but refers users to Wikipedia's help pages. Apparently Image:http://... will not work, according to the first comment above. What is the proper wiki way to include an external image, with float, resize, frame and caption? --KevinCole 19:19, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

"What is the proper wiki way to include an external image" - you don't -- mediawiki doesn't support it. You can try doing it with the html img tag, if it's not prohibited (which it almost certainly is). →Raul654 19:24, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Broken syntax

Um, is it just my computer, or is the right-aligned Example 1 actually aligning to the left? I am on a pretty old machine, admittedly, but the framed pictures are working fine. Ziggurat 00:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

It's probably just your computer. →Raul654 01:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Bah! Thanks, and curse thee, old work Mac! Ziggurat 01:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Wrong image

Hello you all, yesterday I uploaded an image of the band Alphaville into Wikimedia Commons and inserted it into the German Wikipedia. Now I thought it would be a good idea to put it into the english article as well. But nor there is a wrong image displayed. Maybe you can help? The image-tag is still in the article, with a <! -- and --> arround it. If you want to contact me, please write on my German Discussions. Thank you! 82.83.59.115 13:46, 5 November 2005 (UTC) (Silberchen)

[edit] Images in other language sections of Wikipedia

Is it possible to directly use images from the German Wikipedia in an English page? I thought it would be kind of silly to reupload them, but I know that you can't link to images outside of Wikipedia. Specifically, I wanted to use several images from the German article for Swan Lake (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwanensee) in our English page. Any help would be very much appreciated! Also, I'm not the same person as the above user, just FYI. Guermantes 22:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Because the images in question are licensed under the GFDL, the best thing to do in this case is to re-upload them to common (make sure you preserve the source information, copyright license, description, 'etc), and notify the germans that you have copied them to commons (so they can delete the images from the german wikipedia). Files on commons are "common" to all projects (however, in order to eligible to be put on the commons a file must be available under a free license). →Raul654 02:07, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I've uploaded dozens of images to the English Wikipedia and would like to use them in the Ukrainian project too. Re-uploading them all to "Commons" is not only tedious, it is also wasteful and thus foolish. The servers hosting them are the same, there is no need for copies. If the current Image: syntax does not support something like Image:en:My-image.jpg, this should be a high-priority feature request.пан Бостон-Київський 23:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cross link an image

Is it possible to link to an image on another language of wiki, for example write: image:it:image.png ? For some reason that's not working for me.

I second this question. Emphatically. At the moment, I am forced to either give up on using images or upload a new variant of an already existing image. This is truly silly. Aid and assist please. Crocodilicus 05:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Borders?

Is it possible to add borders around images? And I don't mean the standard gray ones, but HTML-like borders.

I suppose yes, you could. However, we want people using the mediawiki standard image borders. Raul654 21:16, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I was just going to ask the same question ...Is it possible to add borders to images, using wiki syntax? (similar to style="border:solid 1px #000000;") I know about "thumb" and how that places a border, but don't want the caption and second border. The reason for asking, is in response to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft#Regarding_pictures, asking about a thin black border around the images on the Main Page. I kindof agree, with images such as Image:Charles Kennedy.jpg that is currently on ITN. Any suggestions? Thanks. -Aude (talk | contribs) 00:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Same here. I don't want thumb, I just want a thin border around an image which has a white background (Image:TheManual.jpg for use in KLF discography#KLF Publications). --kingboyk 18:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a similar question. Is it possible to have a border around pictures when using the "gallery" syntax? I put the pictures in a gallery to keep things tidy, but I'm still stick with the problem of poorly visible pictures because they are partially white. Check my user page to see what I mean; especially the flag of Thüringen and Japan. (RagingR2 12:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Image:Peggy Sue vocal melody.PNG

Can anyone explain how, when, and why Image:Peggy Sue vocal melody.PNG was deleted? Hyacinth 09:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allowing images to be offsite links?

I run a site using mediawiki where I'd like certain images to link to an external address instead of to the image page. Is there anyway to modify mediawiki to allow this? --Tccmod 00:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Making backgrounds

How do you make an image the background?!? AAAHHH! IT'S SO FREAKIN' HARD! Excuse me as I rip my keyboard apart. Ripping in progress... Darth Katana X 22:59, 2 March 2006 (UTC)qryy hfg af d hl xc n m ;[\klk[\]\-op[-

[edit] Fair Use

The tutorials go on about fair usage (and how a fair use image shouldn't even be moved to the article's talk page) and yet here a tutorial itself is using images of Kylie Minogue album covers! Those covers are copyright and using them in this tutorial is not fair use. --kingboyk 00:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes

Maybe I haven't looked hard enough for a discussion of this, but... I think some prominent warnings should be put in the images tutorials about images and the use of infoboxes. If you put an image into an article and it is on the right, it ends up under the infobox, and text following it below and to the left. I think if people put in an image at the very beginning, they catch this, but I have corrected several articles where people started subsequent sections with images and created nasty gaps. This is a particularly insidious problem because if you edit the article section by section everything looks fine, because the infobox isn't in that section.--Brianyoumans 09:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)</gallery>

  • And how do you resize images in an infobox? --TheTruthiness 06:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image from different-language Wikipedia?

Does anyone know how to link to pictures on Wikipedias that are in a different language? I want to use the picture from the Swedish page for Lingonberry on the English-language version. Ianthegecko 02:30, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Obsolete

IMHO, most of this article is obsolete. There are only two formats most people will ever need:

[[Image:test.png|left|thumb|200px|Here's the caption]] - normal article image on left side
[[Image:test.png|right|thumb|200px|Here's the caption]] - normal article image on right side

And very occasionally:

[[Image:test.png|20px]] - for some small image squished inline into text.

All the other forms are just making things complicated. The vast majority of images used in articles are far too big to be used without resizing, and you almost always want a caption and to link to the actual image file. Stevage 14:57, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

You know one thing I really hate? People putting "200px" and such like into the image format. I don't want to see 200, 250 or 300px thumbnails - I want to see them the size I've chosen in my preferences. I'd like to add something, somewhere that basically says if you use "thumb" and specify a pixel size then you should be shot.
Rant over/wangi 15:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Can you explain further? I don't get your complaint. I use pixel sizes to layout the article nicely. An important image with lots of detail should be shown bigger than a small image less relevant to the article. If I should be using |frame| or something rather than |thumb|, then *that* is the information that ought to be in this tutorial. I can tell you with some certainty, however, that in my 3000 or so edits around here, I have never seen any image on any page *ever* that wasn't one of the above formats. I don't think anyone uses |frame| in articles. This may be "bad", but it's very widespread. Stevage 07:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Turning

Okay, how do you turn an image in WIkipedia. For example, lets say a character is looking left, how do you turn it to make him look right? --Bentendo24 00:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't know who you are since you didn't sign your comment. If you do so, it's easier for people to contact you if they want to help you. You can sign any comment on any discussion page by placing four ~ signs at the end. You can still do so now by editing this section and adding those 4 characters. RagingR2 20:01, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Text overlapping style guidance box

Text slightly overlaps box at top right. Was going to try and fix it but note in edit box slightly put me off. Perhaps someone else could tidy it. qp10qp 18:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Using image as a link

Is there any way that I can make a small image or a logo as a link to another Wiki page instead of linking to the image itself? →Crashintome4196 00:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Left-aligned pictures in a list article

I've noticed a problem with left-aligned pictures in list articles, such as List of Telecaster players and List of atheists. The list bullets disappear. Is there any way to fix this? Nick Graves 06:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yikes! CSS method broken as of December 5, 2006

I logged on today and noticed that the method described in the tutorial here, which worked fine last time I checked, apparently works no longer. Previously, the pictures would line up in a row horizontally, wrapping nicely, just as the tutorial says. Now, they line up in an ugly column, ruining lots of feng shui hard-earned with numerous formatting edits. What broke between yesterday and today? Robert K S 06:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I fixed this by changing the Main.CSS under /* Image */ remove both "Clear : Left;" lines--User:Brice Lenfant 17:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Note 2"

The link in Note 2 at the top seems to be out of date. --frothT C 21:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forcing image size by height

I know it's easy to set an image size by width. At the article Palm Island there are some good images in a section "Environmental Clean Up", but they are in different proportions. Is there an easy way to leave the width to be "whatever it needs to be to stay in proportion" yet force the height so they look better side-by-side?

Thanks.Garrie 02:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures as backgrounds

Is it possible in a wikitable to place an image as the background instead of a colour? Or, rather, might it be possible to place an image within a cell and then place text on it? JamesyWamesy 19:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images and ad-blocking software

Namely with galleries, could ad-blocking software be taken into consideration when image sizes are automatically determined (and can not be overruled)? When web developing I have learnt that setting an image width to an 'unusual' number – say, 121px wide instead of 120px – gets around Norton Internet Security's ad-blocking (it blocks images of varying, typical ad sizes, including 120x90px). Seo75 22:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image resize in mediawiki install

i realize this might not be the right place to ask this because it's a mediawiki question and not a direct wikipedia question... but: i have mediawiki installed, everything is going great but when i try to use [[Image:image-name.jpg|100px]] it does not resize the image. i'm new so forgive me, i really did try to find the answer myself. is there something simular to templates where i need to have another page assist with the resizing? (Kevlar 03:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Horizontally align

With regards to horizontally aligning pictures, the article uses 'table markup'. Would it be easier to use a combination of left floating and non floating as shown below? This method also 'stacks' rather than allowing the pictures to protrude off the page. And it also stops the 'subsequent text from being placed along side the images'. Using right align allows pictures on the left and right extremes of the page.

It is also often useful to horizontally align two images:

Wikipede
Wikipede
Wikipede
Wikipede
[[image:Wikipedesketch1.png|left|thumb|300px|Wikipede]]
[[image:Wikipedesketch1.png|none|thumb|300px|Wikipede]]

If there is no objections, I will replace the 'table markup' method with this one. - Ctbolt 07:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I have placed the previous version here:
It is also often useful to horizontally align two images:
Wikipede
Wikipede
Wikipede
Wikipede
However, this should be used sparingly, as it can cause the images to protrude off the right of the page for people with narrow browser windows.
This is done using table markup:
{|
|-
| [[image:Wikipedesketch1.png|none|thumb|300px|Wikipede]]
| [[image:Wikipedesketch1.png|none|thumb|300px|Wikipede]] 
|}
- Ctbolt 23:47, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Space Between Two Horizontally Stacked picures that have captions

What if I have to pictures with captions (ergo I need to use frame or thumb) and I want them to stack horizontally as close to each other as possible. I realize the fram itself may take up a little space but as is, everything I've tried has put a few centimeters of white space between them. Surely I can do something about thie?--Dr who1975 20:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Best I can think of is not to use either frame or thumb, but instead use a table for both images and captions, like so:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
| [[image:Wikipedesketch1.png|120px]]
| [[image:Wikipedesketch1.png|120px]]
|-
| Caption 1
| Caption 2
|}
Which looks like:
Caption 1 Caption 2
How's that? See Help:Table for more on using tables, and Wikipedia:Gallery for more on image galleries. —GrimRevenant 11:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Opinion needed

Can I get a third-party opinion on the appropriateness of using a particular "collage" image on an actor's biography page? See Jason Gerhardt. Thanks, Elonka 23:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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