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A file in thumbnail mode uses the codes thumb or thumbnail. This will display a thumbnail with a caption. The default size is 220 pixels wide unless the full size file is smaller. Registered users can specify their own default size if they wish. In normal circumstances, images are scaled down automatically by Wikipedia's server.
Original file (SVG file, nominally 1,000 × 300 pixels, file size: 2 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Articles carry reduced-size thumbnails instead of full images (which the user can view by "clicking through" the thumbnail) but in some file types a thumbnail's reduced dimensions doesn't translate into a concomitant reduction in file size. (In most browsers you can see a thumbnail's size by right-clicking for its "Properties".)
Scale a thumbnail's size to scaling factor times the default thumbnail size, rounding the result to the nearest multiple of 10. For instance, upright=1.5 makes the image larger, which is useful for maps or schematics that need to be larger to be readable.
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(as above) When using video files, sets the time within the video that is used for the initial display. This is either a number of seconds or hours:minutes:seconds; see commons:Commons:Video#Setting a video thumbnail image. caption[n] (as above) Caption for the [n]th image. caption_align: left (default), center, right footer_background: footer ...
A video file format is a type of file format for storing digital video data on a computer system. Video is almost always stored using lossy compression to reduce the file size. A video file normally consists of a container (e.g. in the Matroska format) containing visual (video without audio) data in a video coding format (e.g. VP9 ) alongside ...
Most images in Wikipedia articles are scaled down thumbnails. A reader of an article can click on the thumbnail, or on the small double-rectangle icon (if present) next to the caption, to see the corresponding file page and the image at a larger size. From the file description page, click the image again to see it at maximum size.