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RixWiki:Tutorial (Uploading and using images)
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RixWiki makes extensive use of images to illustrate articles.
There are two steps to using images in an article. First the image must be uploaded, unless you are using an image which has already been uploaded. Then a link to the image needs to be put in the article.
Images are contained in articles within the Image namespace. These articles, called description pages contain descriptive information about the image.
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Finding Images
There are several ways to find an image which has already been uploaded. First, you might find it in an already existing article. In most articles on RixWiki, images are displayed as thumbnails. Clicking on a thumbnail image will take you to the image's description page.
Another way is to use the search box which appears to the left. Enter one or more keywords and then the search button. This will show a list of articles which contain the keywords. Depending on your preferences, this search might or might not search the image namespace. If no images show up look at the section towards the bottom of the search results page titled Search in namespaces and see if the Images namespace is checked, if not then check it and hit the button to search again.
Another way to find images is through the category pages. You can find all of the categories by following the Special pages link in the toolbox which appears below the search box. Then select either the Image list link which will show you a list of all images by name, or the New images gallery which will show an array of thumbnails of the most recently uploaded images. You can scroll through either of these lists to find more images.
Once you've found an image you want to include an article and are looking at its description page, you can select the image title at the top of the page and copy it, so that you can paste it into a link in the article you are editting. Make sure that you select the entire image title which starts with "Image:".
Uploading an Image
If you can't find the image you need, you can upload one. First make sure that you are not violating anyones copyright. This means that either it's a picture you've taken and you are willing to license it's use under the terms of our Licensing Terms, or you know that it's in the public domain, or you know that the owner agrees to the terms. Most US Government photos and diagrams such as those from NASA are okay to upload since the Government allows them to be used.
The software only allows one image to be saved under a given file name. If you are uploading your own image, it's good practice to start its name it with your initials and a dot. If it's a NASA image precede it with NASA., and if you know the NASA negative number name it with that number e.g. NASA.S61-02882.jpg In fact, if it's a NASA image and it relates to Project Mercury, there's a good chance that it's already uploaded. Finally, it's preferable if you avoid spaces in the name of the image, so "RJD.MA-5_In_Durham.jpg" is preferable to "RJD.MA-5 In Durham.jpg"
Unfortunately, as of now, the upload file doesn't allow a file to be uploaded under a name other than the name it has on your computer, so you'll need to rename the file before you upload it.
To upload an image, click on the Upload file link in the toolbox. This will take you to an upload page. You can enter the path to the file name on your computer directly into the Filename: field if you know it, or use the Browse: button to bring up a file browser on your computer to find it.
Once you've entered the file name, you can enter an optional short description which will go on the image's description page, and you must check the checkbox affirming that the file is licensable.
Then click the Upload file button.
If the file is bigger than 100K, you might get a page asking you to confirm the upload.
Once the upload is successful you will get a confirmation page, with information about how to link to the image. Before you do that, please consider going to the image description page first and editing it with as much of a description as you can, the better the description, the easier the image will be to find via the Search button.
Other good things to include on the description page if you know them are:
- Who took the image
- When was picture taken
- If it's somewhere on the web, a link. Links to the images description pages in the NASA NIX, GRIN or NASA center web sites are particularly valuable.
Including the image on a page
To include an image on the page, enter a link of the form:
[[Image:image-name|thumb|image-caption]]
This is the normal way that images should be inserted on RixWiki. The result is that a thumbnail of the image will be placed to the right of the text, text will flow to the left of the image. A series of images can be stacked on top of each other in this manner.
To insert a break which will cause subsequent text to be placed after the end of the last image link before the break, put the following html tag in the text:
<br style="clear:both;"/>
Getting Fancier
There is more to image formatting that could be covered here. One good source of information is Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Picture tutorial on Wikipedia. Note that that tutorial applies to Wikipedia rather than RixWiki, so there might be some things which work differently here, or not at all, but the Wikipedia tutorial should be useful.
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Frontpage, 1: Editing, 2: Formatting, 3: RixWiki links, 4: Related site links, 5: External links, 6: Uploading and using images, 7: Talk pages, 8: Keep in mind, 9: Registration, 10: Namespaces, 11: Wrap-up
