Requesting help with uploading pictures to the wiki

[halfer777]

Hey everyone. Recently a friend and I had fun spawning the legendary Terrorantula, and I had the good fortune of a sand giant in south ro around the same time; this lent itself to some epic fighting pictures of the terrorantula with a giant for size comparison (I had the terrorantula charmed). I also have a good one of the terrorantula sitting on top of the wizard port-in.

Here's what I need help with: I want to upload these pictures, not replace what's there on the wiki, but to add to it. The terrorantula deserves better representation. I don't know any coding, though, so when I would try to copy the coding from a good looking page and simply replace the linked images, the formatting would be totally screwed up because of how large the image was and I'd end up with vomit. I played around with it to the best I could, but it never turned out well.

Knowing how to do this, or being able to reference a guide / share with others, would make "legendary creature hunting" a more fun activity. I'd love to get some fresh pictures of rare monsters up on the wiki, and I'm not the only one!

My goal is to have a nice little thumbnail style picture that can be clicked on to display the larger full sized image. Thanks for any help / advice you can give.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by halfer777 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's what I need help with: I want to upload these pictures, not replace what's there on the wiki, but to add to it. The terrorantula deserves better representation. I don't know any coding, though, so when I would try to copy the coding from a good looking page and simply replace the linked images, the formatting would be totally screwed up because of how large the image was and I'd end up with vomit. I played around with it to the best I could, but it never turned out well.

To add a new image to the wiki you first add the code:

[[File: ImageFileName.png]]

When you save that you won't see your image, but you will see a red link that takes you to a page where you can upload your image.

Once you do that, you can extra options separated with this character:

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to further control the image. For instance, to make it so the image appears no bigger than 200 pixels wide you could write:

[[File: ImageFileName.png|200px]]

For a full list of all of the options you can use see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pictures.

Originally Posted by halfer777 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Knowing how to do this, or being able to reference a guide / share with others, would make "legendary creature hunting" a more fun activity. I'd love to get some fresh pictures of rare monsters up on the wiki, and I'm not the only one!

To start a new guide simply go to the wiki's guide page (http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure), edit it, and add a link to your guide under the appropriate section (your's sounds like a "Misc Guide" to me). Just like with the image code, this will create a red link to your guide's page ... which doesn't exist yet. Click on that link and then go edit the page it takes you to to create your guide.

Originally Posted by halfer777 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My goal is to have a nice little thumbnail style picture that can be clicked on to display the larger full sized image.

See the "thumb" option on the page I linked above.

Hope that helps.

[halfer777]

Thank you so much! I didn't think to use wikipedia's picture uploading site to learn from. This should be just what I need [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]