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Pictures and logos are a great way to spice up AboutUs pages. Here's a quick primer on working with pictures in wiki.
If you are looking to add a portrait of yourself go here or click the up arrow in your current portrait/question mark.
edit Uploading a picture or logo
To add a picture, you must first upload the picture in any standard file format to the site.
To upload an image or other file:
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Keep in mind:
- Folks that are logged in can upload images.
- Upload the picture before making or editing the wiki page, that way you have the image name in mind and can use it in your page.
- Name the image as specifically as possible so it doesn't conflict with other images (e.g. not Logo.jpg, Sample.png, etc.).
edit How to add a picture or logo to your page
Once you have uploaded it, you can add the picture/logo to any article by using the command: [[Image:Example.jpg]], replacing "Example" with your filename. In this case the filetype was .jpg, but the system supports quite a few other filetypes as well. You can also select the button in the edit area that corresponds to a picture (it's the sixth button from the left).
Specifying placement - You can also specify that an image go to the "right", "left" or "center" of the text block, forcing the text to "wrap-around" it. To do this, you add a command to the image when you place it as follows: [[Image:Example.jpg|right]]. In this case, the picture will appear in the right hand side and text will wrap around it.
Putting your image in a frame - In addition to specifying placement, you can put a frame around your image, using the "frame command" as follows: [[Image:Example.jpg|frame]].
Image Thumbnails - Puts your image in a frame, but it also shrinks it to a smaller, more manageable size. Viewers can then click the "enlarge" icon inside the frame and see the picture in its full size. Use the "thumbnail" command like this: [[Image:Example.jpg|thumb]]. Note, website thumbnails are handled differently.
Captions - Captions can also be added to images that are either inside a frame, or a thumbnail. To do this, you just add the caption at the end of the image command: [[Image:Example.jpg|frame|This is a caption]].
Changing picture size - You can specify the size of the photo that shows up on the screen, independent of the "thumb" command. Here's an example of how to limit the size of a picture in your article to 200 pixels: [[Image:Example.jpg|right|200px]]. To choose a different size, simply replace the 200px with a different number.
Creating your own combination - You can also combine the options. For example, you can take an image, make a thumbnail of it, set the thumbnail at 150px, left justify it, and add a caption: [[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|150px|left|This is a caption]]. The order of the commands doesn't matter, except that the picture/file name must come first and the caption last.
Gallery option for multiple photos - To make a slew of photos more organized and professional, simply list images in between <gallery> and </gallery> tags and the system will automatically size the photos and create a mini-gallery of the images. See the Gallery page for more details.
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| AboutUs is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other related data. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day. |
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| AboutUs is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other related data. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day. |
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| AboutUs is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other related data. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day. |
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