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- Your computer's file manager will open. 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.
The capitalization in the wikicode must be followed; thus if an image file is Image:Photo of Wikipede.JPG, you will need to use the capital letters for "JPG". The image is blacklisted on MediaWiki:Bad image list. Consider requesting its removal at MediaWiki talk:Bad image list.
Scale the image to be no greater than the given width or height, keeping its aspect ratio. Scaling up (i.e. stretching the image to a greater size) is disabled when the image is framed. Link Link the image to a different resource, or to nothing. Alt Specify the alt text for the image. This is intended for visually impaired readers.
Open your document in Word, and "save as" an HTML file. Open the HTML file in a text editor and copy the HTML source code to the clipboard. Paste the HTML source into the large text box labeled "HTML markup:" on the html to wiki page. Click the blue Convert button at the bottom of the page.
If a link is to a PDF file but doesn't end with .pdf, you can put a #.pdf at the end to flag it as a PDF. If the link is to a very large page (considering all its elements, including images), a note about that is useful since someone with a slow or expensive connection may decide not to visit it.
Care should be taken that this is done in compliance with the licensing terms of the file in question, particularly if they require proper attribution. Most image links are created using the [[File:...]] syntax, and clicking on such an image follows a link to a page with information about the image itself, including the licensing terms. However ...
After the image is uploaded, click the "Use this file" button at the top of the image page (with the W) and copy the "thumbnail" code. To add the image to your user page you just need to replace {{New user bar}} with {{New user bar|image=PASTE THE IMAGE CODE HERE}}.
To add a new image (or another type of media file) to the page, click the "Images and media" icon (a picture of mountains) in the "Insert" menu. The image will be added wherever your cursor is. Clicking the "Images and media" icon opens a dialog that automatically searches Wikimedia Commons and your local wiki for media files related to the ...