Help:Images

One significant feature of StrategyWiki guides is that you can add images, and place them anywhere you like. This page deals with the specifics of placing images on pages.

Please use restraint when uploading images or other media to a game guide. While you are encouraged to use as many images as you feel necessary for describing elements of the game, each should be relevant, important, and include informative captions (where appropriate). An image should add to the informative value of a guide. Do not upload images for the sole purpose of making a guide "look cool".

General
Each image should have a specific purpose, such as demonstrating a particular task (such as finding the correct book to open a secret passage), illustrating a boss's various evolutions or movement patterns, or listing enemies so the player can learn to recognise and differentiate between them, etc.

Maps and other explanatory images are a priority. Featuring an overworld or screenshot map without any annotations is probably of little value. They should instead serve to either show all the major locations in the game world or else to highlight hidden goodies, enemies, etc. If the thing in question is not clearly visible, it may be useful to draw a circle or arrow indicating it. For the sake of simplicity do not write on the screenshot; the explanation should instead go in the picture caption or in the walkthrough body. For more involved steps, it may be necessary to label different parts "A" and "B" or similar.

Also, take care that images are high quality, clear, and easy to understand. Do not upload grainy pictures taken with video cameras. Either take a direct screenshot with a computer, or use a capture device of some sort.

Do not, under any circumstances, use images with watermarks on them. Additionally, images copyrighted by others cannot be used here. All images must be original or compatibly licensed with the CC-BY-SA license to avoid conflicts of intellectual property.

Uploading
You can upload images from the upload page. The first part to uploading an image is to choose the file that you are about to upload. To do this click on "Browse" and select the wanted file. The default name provided will match the name of the file on your local computer, so it will need to be renamed if it doesn't conform to the image naming policy. If you are uploading from a source on the web, enter the full URL into the provided box. When copying an image from another website, you will have to enter the filename yourself. Remember to place the URL you copied from in the summary section so that others know where it was copied from (this helps others verify that the image complies with StrategyWiki's licensing). Alternatively, you can click on a red image link to be taken to the upload page with the named filled in from the link.

Follow these steps when uploading an image:
 * 1) Naming: properly name your image with the name of the guide to which it belongs or its abbreviation, followed by a one or two word description of the image, such as a character's name or a level's name. The extension, ".jpg", ".png", ".gif", etc., is case-sensitive and all lowercase is preferred.
 * 2) Summary: here you put a description of the image with a link to the guide on which it will be used. For example, "Box art from Super Mario Bros. ." If the image is from someone else, attribute them here, preferably with a URL.
 * 3) Categories: below the summary, put any applicable image categories and the guide-specific category. For example, " ". Note that the word "images" in the guide-specific category is lowercase.

Using uploaded files
To use an image or other file which has been uploaded to the wiki, use: If you add a pipe (|) and some text after the filename, the text will be used as alternative text for text-only browsers and for the tooltip when you hover the mouse of it:

If you don't want to display the image, you can link to the file's description page, by adding a colon: To bypass the description page and link directly to a file, use the "Media" pseudo-namespace: You can also make piped links if you want some other text to be used:

Advanced options
The full syntax for displaying an image is: Where options can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes: The options can be given in any order. If a given option does not match any of the other possibilities, it is assumed to be the caption text. Caption text can contain wiki links or other formatting.
 * ,, or  : Controls how the image is formatted. Thumbnailed images are typically smaller, and what should normally be used for in-guide images. Framed images are similar to thumbnailed images, but are not scaled down, while if this option is left out entirely, the image is displayed at full size without any border or embellishment.
 * ,,  : Controls the alignment of the image or thumbnail on the page. Thumbnail images default to floating to the right.
 * : Resizes the image to the given width in pixels. Note that use of this option is discouraged for thumbnailed images, as it means people can't specify the thumbnail size they want to view in their preferences.
 * : A short description of the image and what it shows. This will be displayed under the image for thumb and frame images.

Gallery of images
It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails with the  tag. The syntax is:

Other files
You can link to an external file using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page, however, it is highly recommended that you upload the images to StrategyWiki instead of hotlinking to other sites. Or with different text:

You can also embed images via their direct URLs. To do that, simply insert the URL: You can also use an external image as a link: Note that if you want an image to link to an internal page you will need to use the external form of the link (e.g. http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Main_Page) rather than the internal one (e.g. Main Page).