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To make changes that affect all Wikimedia projects, you can log in to Meta and change your global.css. Enter some CSS into that page. Preview of CSS works in a special way: it allows viewing of the margins of the page (not the contents) on the basis of the style info in the page, provided that the skin used is the skin for which the page applies.
Be careful not to overstretch images for which the original file is quite small (except with SVG images, see below). If the original file is 120 pixels wide, and it's stretched beyond that, the pixels making it up will start to be visible. SVG images are an exception: Being vector images, they have no pixels, just instructions on how to draw ...
Of the parameters shown, only Name is essential. Most images should use [[File:Name|thumb|alt=Alt|Caption]] and not specify a size. The other details: are optional and; can be placed in any order, except for Caption that has to be the last parameter. Type thumb (or thumbnail; either can be followed by =filename), frame (or framed), or frameless ...
See also Template:Easy CSS image crop, which simplifies the interface for this template a bit. {{CSS image crop}} creates a crop of an image inline for previewing the look and feel of a page, or for linking to full images when a slight crop is preferred in an article, but the full image is more encyclopaedic in general. Where only a small ...
Your username is displayed in the edit histories of all the articles you contribute to and is linked to your user and talk pages. You choose your name when you first register on Wikipedia and it is usual to stay with the same name throughout your time on the project, though it is possible to request a change of username.
The image acts as a hypertext link to the specified page. Do not enclose the page name in square brackets. If Page is a URL, the image acts as an external link; otherwise it links to the named Wikipedia page. Image maps offer more possibilities. [[File:Example.png| link=Name of page |alt=Example alt text]]
MediaWiki:Common.css: image Interface class used for links to images. ? includes/Linker.php: imbox, imbox-* Image pages message box template styles. See also mbox-text etc. below. MediaWiki:Common.css {} meta-template that is used to create most image message boxes. interwiki-xx
Wikipedia file names should be clear and descriptive, without being excessively long. While the image name doesn't matter much to the reader (they can reach the description page by simply clicking on the image), it matters for editors. It is helpful to other contributors and for maintenance of the encyclopedia if images have descriptive or at ...