Help:Add an image

Articles in WikiHealth can be greatly enhanced with the strategic addition of illustrative images. Before adding images, it is good to know with the following:

• Our image policy
• How to upload files
• the name of the image you want to include

Thumbnails

Please use thumbnails unless you have a good reason not to. This allows the image to be smaller as less memory intensive than a full size image. The wiki markup for a thumbnail is as follows:

Thumbnail 

[[Image:filename of image|thumb|description of image]]

This will produce a right-aligned thumbnail with a description below; the image will expand to full size if clicked on.

Alignment

Some other formatting possibilities are:

Simple interpolation of images into text 

[[Image:filename of image|description of image]]

Centered image 

[[Image:filename of image|center|description of image]]

Left-aligned image 

[[Image:filename of image|left|description of image]]

Right-aligned image 

[[Image:filename of image|right|description of image]]

Providing a description of the image is useful for low-resolution computers, where the image may not be rendered, as well as far clarity.

Frame and Caption

You can also give a frame and a caption text to an image by

Simple frame and caption text 

[[Image:filename of image|frame|description of image]]

Left-aligned frame 

[[Image:filename of image|frame|left|description of image]]

Image without a frame 

[[Image:filename of image|noframe]]

Framing a picture in this manner will default the picture to its original size.

Sizing

If you want to specify an exact size which is not the same as the original, please select a factor of the original. For example, if the original is 800 pixels wide, 400 (1:2), 267 (1:3) or 200 (1:4) will scale nicely; for 640, try 320 (1:2) or 160 (1:4). This is particularly important for images containing small text, such as maps. You do not need to specify the height of the image, as the size will automatically scale to match the width you have entered.

Exact image size in pixels 

[[Image:filename of image|sizepx|description of image]]

Exact thumbnail size in pixels 

[[Image:filename of image|thumb|sizepx|description of image]]

Note that you must add the letters "px" after the image size. Recommended maximum sizes are:

• 250px for normal image thumbnails
• 400px for the article's lead picture
• 500px for maps containing small detail