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Hello there (totd announcements and task list)...
- The tip set needs to be updated for 2008. New tips are needed, and existing tips need to be updated.
- The tip archive for 2007 has been completed.
- Help sort. The tip library has a section at the end with tips that need to be placed in the appropriate section on the page.
Tomorrow's tip of the day...
Inserting a picture in an article
The syntax used for displaying an image is:
- [[Image:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{caption}]]
Only [[Image:{name}]] is required. The other details are optional and can be placed in any order. They are:
- Type
- 'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.
- Location
- 'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.
- Size
- {width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 and height to 40). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to.
- Caption
- Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader wouldn't have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image.
If you have a picture that isn't already in Wikipedia's image collection that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first.
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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}.
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