Help:Images

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See the video tutorial regarding this help section: Uploading and Adding Images

Images help detail the subject and provide extra understanding of it, not to mention that they're more aesthetically pleasing than a plain text page.

Finding Images

The following resources aid in finding files:

• Special:FileList - Images can be found by searching one or two keywords
• What Links Here - A list of images linking to an article can be found by looking up the article's title (eg. Ganon)
• Special:UnusedFiles - Unused images will eventually be deleted. That's why its nice to add them to appropriate page.
• Special:Random/image - Got nothing specific in mind? Find a random image!

Uploading Images

Main article: Help:Upload

Sometimes the image you want isn't on the wiki. If that is the case, you must upload it by following the instructions detailed at Help:Upload. A link to the upload form can be found under the name "Upload file" in the "toolbox" section in the sidebar to the left or under the "Media reports and uploads" section on the Special Pages.

Before uploading a file, please make sure it meets our quality standards.

File Support

Zelda Wiki supports the following file types:

Zelda Wiki supports files up to 20 megabytes (MB) and/or 15 megapixels (MP) in size.

Images as Links

It is possible to add a link to an image without displaying it. This is usually done on talk pages to avoid cluttering them.

[[:File:Example.jpg]]

[[:File:Example.jpg|This]] is an image.

Displaying Single Images

See also: Extended image syntax

The simplest way to display an image is by using the following code:

Example	Result
[[File:Example.jpg]]

To improve the way the image is displayed, we use the extended image syntax. It sounds complicated at first, but it's really easy to use. The syntax is as follows, with the full range of usable options below it:

[[File:FILENAME.EXT | Type | Border | Location | Alignment | Size| link=Link | alt=Alt | Caption]]

There are several things you can add to an image's coding to manipulate it. Here is an example of an image using several of these:

[[File:Example.jpg|right|thumb|200px|This is an example image.]]

This is an example image.

• File:Example.jpg is our image name, which you would replace with whatever your image name is.
• right moves the image to the right side of the page. "left" could also be used.
• thumb adds the box around the image you see quite often. Note that this could be replaced with frameless to acheive the same auto-resize effect without the frame being displayed.
• 200px resizes the image to 200 pixels - you may choose whatever number you deem necessary (within reason) for your placement of the image.
• This is an image example is an example of words that might be displayed below an image, but this only works if "thumb" is added; otherwise, the text is displayed as alt-text when one lays their mouse on the image.

Any or all of these can be used, and they need not be in this order exactly.

How images should be displayed

Images with transparent backgrounds should never be placed inside a frame. If a caption is required, the ImageCaption template should be used. Images with non-transparent backgrounds (generally JPEGs) should always have a frame.

Do	Don't	Explanation
Caption	Caption	Transparent images with captions must use the Image template
		Transparent images with no caption cannot have a frame
Caption		Images with non-transparent background require a frame

Displaying a Gallery of Images

Galleries contain many images of the same width and height. To make a gallery, we use the <gallery> tag. For example:

<gallery>
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg|
File:Example.jpg|Text
File:Example.jpg|[[Link]]
File:Example.jpg| '''bolded text'''
File:Example.jpg|You are now on "{{FULLPAGENAME}}"
</gallery>

produces:

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  A caption

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  Link

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  Bolded caption

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  You are now on "Help:Images"

Please note the following:

1. Every image written on its own line.
2. Captions are optional.
3. File names do not have to be surrounded by square brackets.

Optional Gallery Parameters

Sometimes the gallery doesn't look the way we want it. That's why we use the extended gallery syntax.

<gallery caption="" widths=120px heights=120px perrow=4>
File:FILENAME1.EXT
File:FILENAME2.EXT
File:FILENAME3.EXT
[...]
</gallery>

For example:

<gallery widths=60px heights=60px perrow=6 caption="Tiny thumbnails">
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg
</gallery>

produces:

• Tiny thumbnails
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External Links

• Image Help on Wikipedia