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# [[wp:Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_images_on_Wikipedia|Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia]]
==Howto Information==If you solve a problem, why not contribute your solution to this website as an article that others can easily find? Adding or editing articles is very easy. There is a large volume of "help" information available at the main wikipedia site, so that effort is not reproduced here. # See the [[wp:Help:Content|Help Table of Contents]]# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing # [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Editor_handbook See the Editor's Handbook]# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet The Cheatsheet] (which includes links to the print cheatsheets)# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext What HTML is allowed]?
=== Images ===<nowiki>[[Image:foo.jpg]]</nowiki> produces an image You must first upload the image. You can not embed external images, with the notable exception that you CAN use 1.5 million images available in the commons project.<nowiki>[[Media:foo.pdf]]</nowiki> would produce a link to a pdf document, so<nowiki>[[Media:Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf]]</nowiki> produces a link to http://freephile.com/wiki/images/6/6d/Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf* [[mw:Help:Images]] == Using External Editors ==You can even use tools like OpenOffice or Eclipse to edit this wiki.=== Editing from OpenOffice ===
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher Sun has a new extension to [[OpenOffice]] that allows you to write wiki articles from right in your word processor.
== Help using this website: See the main wikipedia Advanced Editing and Customization ==There is a volume of 'help' information available at the main wikipedia site, so that effort is not reproduced here.See the [[wikipedia:help:Content|Help Table of Contents]]
Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.
To get your image to float left or right, wrap the
<nowiki>{{#icon}}</nowiki> in a div with the appropriate class like so:
<nowiki><div class="floatright">{{#icon}}</div></nowiki> Although I modified the Icon extension to be able to specify a class in the icon tag itself, the extension now reveals some weaknesses that make me want to change to the LinkedImage extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedImage
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