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Markdown [9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. [9] Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.
If you type [[File:imagename.jpg]], you insert the image itself onto that talk page, not a link to the image page, as you wanted. Displayed images don't belong on talk pages. To create a link to the image page instead, type a colon just after the first two square brackets, so the link looks like this: [[:File:imagename.jpg]]. Then those ...
If the image is in the public domain, not requiring attribution to the uploader, you can create a plain picture that links to some other location by using the link option. To link to some other page, specify its name in the link option along with an appropriate caption that hints to readers what will happen if they click on the link.
Free images that can be reused commercially and modified are preferred. Non-free images may sometimes be used, but only in certain circumstances. Wikimedia Commons accepts only free images, which can then be used by any of the other Wikimedia projects. To use an image in an article, insert: [[File:Image name.jpg|thumb|Caption for the image]].
Find and select the file or image you'd like to attach. Click Open. The file or image will be attached below the body of the email. If you'd like to insert an image directly into the body of an email, check out the steps in the "Insert images into an email" section of this article.
Ordinarily, clicking on an image takes the reader to the image description page. The link option allows the reader to be taken instead to a different page, such as a fuller image from which the thumbnail was cropped, or to a full document of which the thumbnail was a single page (or crop of a single page). Do not enclose the page name in square ...
in the Image namespace (Image description pages): the image itself, the image history and the list of pages linking to the image; in the Category namespace: the lists of subcategories and pages in the category. Information in the wikitext but not in the webpage: comments (even though HTML also allows comments) See also XML export.
To link to a corresponding page in another language, use the form: [[language code: Foreign title]]. It is recommended interlanguage links be placed at the very end of the article. Interlanguage links are NOT visible within the formatted article, but instead appear as language links on the sidebar (to the left) under the menu section "languages".