Images are uploaded to the wiki and shown in articles by name:

![Rampart holding her minigun](media:rampart-with-sheila)

The text in brackets is the alt text: what the picture shows, for people who can't see it. Clicking an image opens its file page, with its licence, where it's used and its history.

Uploading#

  • One file: Files → Upload a file. Give it a title, a licence and a source.
  • Many files: Files → Upload several. Set the folder and licence once, then drop in as many images as you like. Each gets a name from its file name, checked as you type; files go up a few at a time, and one failing doesn't stop the others. Afterwards, copy them all as Markdown or as one gallery.
  • From the editor: the image button in the article editor (one of the wiki's files, or a new upload), or drop or paste images into the text. One image goes in at the cursor; several go in as a gallery.

PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (animations kept) and SVG work, up to 20 MB. Images are resized for different screens and re-encoded, and location data in photos is removed. Very large photos are shrunk in your browser before they're sent.

Names and folders#

A file's name is how articles use it (media:rampart-with-sheila), so it can't change later. Files can go in one level of folders (weapons/r-301) to keep big wikis tidy.

Licences#

Every upload says where it came from:

  • Own work: you made it; it's shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 like the wiki's text.
  • Freely licensed: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 or public domain; give the licence and the source.
  • Fair use: official screenshots, promotional art and covers, used to illustrate an article; give the source.

New editors#

New editors' uploads wait for a trusted editor to check them before they appear, and new editors upload one file at a time. Owners and admins have no hourly limit, so a crew can load a new wiki quickly.

Galleries#

Several images side by side:

:::gallery[Through and half-blind dovetails]
![Through dovetail](media:through-dovetail "Through")
![Half-blind dovetail](media:half-blind-dovetail "Half-blind")
:::

The text in quotes becomes each image's caption.

Albums#

To show every image in a folder, name the folder instead of listing the images:

::album[Every weapon]{folder=weapons}

Each file's title is its caption. Upload a new file to the folder and it appears in the album on its own; nobody has to edit the page. Albums go by name; sort=newest puts the latest uploads first. They show 60 images unless you set limit (up to 200), with a link to the rest of the folder under them. In the editor, type folder= to pick from the wiki's folders.