Help:Images and Files

When writing good articles is is recommented and nearly indispensable to use images as one tool to make your article more interesting for other readers.On this page the use of images and other files will be explained to you.

For a short version see: Help:Text formattingFor a list of uploaded files see: Special:ListFilesFor uploading a file visit: Special:Upload

Uploading Files
Before you can use internal images or other kinds of files on this site, you need to upload them before. This features the internal upload feature via special page. There, you can upload any file which has got a supported file-format (see table on the right for a list of supported formats).

Before uploading
Before you upload a file to this public server, make sure that you are allowed to. If given, reat through the file license and check wether you are allowed to publish the file or not. If you are, what conditions or Terms Of Use are expected to agree with before publishing them? Make sure you read the file license before upload. Do not upload any illegal stuff to this site!

Please only use standerdised images in articles (see: Men of War - Wiki:Standardisation of Files, or especially for images: Men of War - Wiki:Standardisation of Images).

Uploading
To upload a file, you have to acces an upload-page (by default: Special:Upload).

Alternatively, you can use the multi-upload feature instead. That is useful if you want to upload more than one file at the time.

For selecting a file from your hard drive to upload, hit the Browse -button. Use the "Upload window" to browse for the file you want to upload. Select and double-click on you file, the upload dialog should close and the file path should be given in the input-box field left to the Browse -button. Check if this file path is correct.

As you can see, there is an input-box for giving a new name of your file after it was uploaded. If you want, use this feature to "rename" your file before uploading. You can use every letter from  to   (upper- and lower-case) and nombers from   to   (incl.  ).Supported special characters:. Wiki-syntax is also disabled. Note that the file name must not include un-supported characters (like ie.: ). By defaut, this field is set to the same file name as the one you've uploaded. If you leave this field blanc, the default name will be taken.

The last field is for you to give us some information about the file. This is important, esspecially if you are not the owner of it. In this case you must give a source, and if there is one, you have to give us the license under which this file is published. You also must give us some basic information about the file, in at least one sentence you have to descripe (in English language) at least what this picture/document is about. If you want, you can use wiki-syntax code (ie. links, bold/italic text, templates, ...). Note that it should not be an article, only a short description of the file's content.

There are still 2 more check-boxes for special features:
 * : Use this feature to add the file-page to your watchlist after succesful upload
 * : Use this setting to ignore any warning while upload. Warnings can be advise for multiple files for example.

Finally, hit the  -button to upload the file.

After Uploading
Once you've uploaded a file to the server of this site, you are contributor of this file. That means you have to make sure that the file license is held by all wikians. does not responsibile for any illegal use or re-publishing of this file.If somebodey has violates against a copyright or any license you are able to give notice of this.

After uploading a file, everyone can edit it (like a normal page) or upload newer versions of it. Administrators and Bureaucrats are able to delete or to protect files against editing.

Images
Before you use images in articles, please make sure that you read the rules of using internal/external files on this site. If an image you uploaded is not conform with these terms of conditions, your file becomes deleted automaticly (by a bot) or manually (by an administrator).

Display of internal images
Before you can use internal files, in this case images, you need to upload the file from the hard drive of your computer. If the upload was successful, you are able to use the image in articles using the following sytax.

This is only a selection of the most basic image syntax of MediaWiki software. For a complete documentation see the picture tutorial on Wikipedia

Display of external images
The diplay of external images is much less difficult than it is of internal ones. The insertion of the image file's URL adress is enough for placing the image in an article. It can be formatted like boxes (eg. via ). Below are some examples for a formatting of an external file.

Video/Audio
In this wiki, it is not possible to involve files like videos directly in articles (like pictures) via video- or audio player (like in Wikipedia).

You can only link to them after you uploaded them, using the same syntax as for links to images : [[Media:Example.ogg]]. Videos are not supported on this site anyway.

PDF-Files
You cannot display a .pdf -file in an article page, but you can upload one, of course. Linking to uploaded PDF-files (internal linking) goes in the same way like with images or all other file types: You type in:, and get out: [[Media:Example.pdf]].

If you link to an external PDF document, the wiki software aotomaticly changes the external-link icon: Link (instead of default: Link).