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With an operand, e.g. thumb=Example.png, the operand names an image that is used as the thumbnail, ignoring any size specification. frame Preserve the original image size, and put a box around the image. Show any caption below the image. Float the image on the right unless overridden with the location attribute.
Examples include movie posters, corporate logos, and screenshots of web pages. To upload a non-free image, use the File Upload Wizard, which will help you add all of the required information. A link to the wizard can be found under "Tools" at the left of the screen.
The user's Web browser will display the embedded upload component as a part of the web page. Upload components can be built with various technologies: Flash, Silverlight, Java, ActiveX, and HTML5. The W3C community is in the process of developing a HTML5 standard, the full specification of which is expected by 2014. [3]
If you have detailed information about the image, for example the name of the species or the size of the object, please add it. If you create images to upload that need to show the size of a depicted object, images with a ruler are better than images with a coin or similar item, since not everyone has access to the same type of item.
Wikipedia:User page design guide/Style; Wikipedia:Extended image syntax: advanced visual file markup. Help:A quick guide to templates: an introduction to templates. Help:Substitution: substitution is an alternative way of including templates than transclusion. Help:Score: how to render musical scores.
In the examples above, the size of the image is scaled based on each user's default image size, which can be changed at Special:Preferences. Setting image size in pixels, such as "250px", would override the user's preference and display the image as 250px wide for all users who view that image on that page.
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See the 2003 version of Floppy disk for an example. Markup for images is quite complicated. This may be improved in the future: see meta:image pages. Here are some examples of typical markup ("image" for an image in the page, "media" for just a link):