Upload an image file while viewing a page

Find the Upload files button in the sidebar. Click Upload files and a dialog will appear. Browse to the image. Select Open or OK. The image will upload and appear at the top of the page.

Upload an image file while editing a page

Find the Upload files button in the Editor toolbar. Click Upload files and a dialog will appear. Browse to the image. Select Open or OK. The image will upload and appear at the cursor.

Move the image somewhere else in the page.

When you open the page for editing in Simple mode, the image will appear. Drag it to a different place in the page.

When you open the page for editing in Advanced mode, you will see the text that causes the image display. You can move that text to anywhere in the page and the image will move accordingly. If you uploaded myimage.jpg, the text will be: {image: myimage.jpg size=scaled} . The curly brackets are important, and must be surrounded by whitespace.

Image scaling

Digital photographs are usually taken at "high resolution." That means there is fine detail in the picture but the file size of the picture is large. When such a picture is displayed on a computer screen, which is relatively "low" resolution, a high resolution image will appear huge.

The wiki scales images to a reasonable size, Scale to fit, and if you click on an image in Simple mode, a dialog will appear to let you scale the image to small, medium, large, or custom sizes. The image is still saved on the system in full size for downloading.

Link to an uploaded image instead of displaying it in the page.

If you provide link text for an image, it will not appear in the page. Instead, a link to the image will be in the page. In Simple mode, click on the image, choose More Options from the dialog box, and fill in the link text you want.

Another way to see an image in a wiki page.

Put a URL to an image stored somewhere else on the web, like http://yourplace.org/images/myimage.jpg, into the page. The image will appear at the place in the page where the URL occurs. Do this only if you feel sure the image will stay at that "somewhere else" and be reachable all the time. This is not recommended, particularly since it may cause Internet Explorer to raise spurious warnings each time the page is viewed.