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For lengthy captions under narrow images, it's probably best to add a heights= parameter to make the images somewhat larger, as the default small size can lead to overly long stacks of caption text. See below. Packed-overlay: This uses <gallery mode=packed-overlay> to produce captions overlaying the bottom of the image. The captions are ...
At Commons, you can add categories to an image page to help other editors find the page (for example, for a different language Wikipedia). These steps continue with the same image from the previous tutorial: 1. Click the "find categories" tab at the top of the image page. You arrive at a page labeled CommonSense, which is a search tool.
The procedure for adding images to articles is the same, regardless of whether the image was uploaded to Commons or directly to English Wikipedia. To make your uploaded file appear in an article, you need to insert it: edit the article and add the syntax [[File:Image name|thumb|Caption]] where you want the file to appear.
image is the name of the image, abc.jpg, xpz.png, 123.gif, etc. Do not include the File: or Image: prefix, do not enclose the name in [[brackets]], but do remember to include the filename extension. image_upright should normally be left blank, so that the size defaults to the size set in a user's preferences.
Adding a topical category to an article is easy. To add the category Toddler sports to an article, for example, open that article for editing, and type, near the bottom (more on that in a moment), the text [[Category:Toddler sports]]. Then do the standard stuff: Add an edit summary, preview your edit, and hit 'Publish changes'.
There's no edit toolbar, because there's no need for buttons for inserting a signature, or a table, or other text. There's also a message about using the "Show preview" button to test the added JavaScript before saving the page. 4. Add an edit summary (Adding JavaScript for user tabs, for example) and then click the "Show preview" button.
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The basic code for adding an image to a Wikipedia article is like this: [[File:Example.jpg | thumb | This is the caption. ]] This video walks through the process of uploading a photo and adding it to an article. For more advanced image syntax, check out the picture tutorial