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Help:Introduction to images with VisualEditor

Introduction
Adding images to Wikipedia

Uploading images
Wikimedia Commons

Inserting images
Worth a thousand words

Editing the details
What am I looking at?

Galleries
For large picture sets

Summary
Review of what you've learned



When you insert a new image, or double-click on an existing image in an article, a dialog box will open, where you can add details about the image and change its settings.

A good

wikilinks
and formatting, just like the main text of a page.

Alternative text
is used to describe the contents of an image for users who have visual impairments, and use a text reader for web pages.

The "Advanced settings" window contains various additional parameters. These include the alignment, the display type, and size of the image. It is usually best to leave the defaults as is, but sometimes a larger image may be more useful.


Full user guide
Markup images