MediaWiki Images

[jonesypeter]

Hi,


This is slightly off subject, but I'm learning MediaWiki and looking at adding images to pages.


All the documentation on the MediaWiki site seems to use the File: command, but I notice CPCWiki is using Image: 


Can anyone explain the difference and where this is documented?


Many thanks

[TFM]

As I understood 'Image:' will display the picture whereas 'File:' will provide a link to a file.

[jonesypeter]

Many thanks for the reply, but I don't think that is the case.


Reading the documentation


http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/mediawiki/adding-content-mediawiki/insert-images-wiki

[TFM]

Well, there you got the answer. 

[jonesypeter]

Sorry, I don't understand.

[Bryce]

I think it originally worked as TFM describes, but File now also displays the image if it is the correct format.

Bryce.

[TFM]

Well, oh, I'm glad if I make it to edit text. Else I take other pages as example. 

[AMSDOS]

I'm curious to know which page has an image on it and is using File to Display it.


The pages I've looked at use image for Displaying the images, though perhaps a Test Page just to see if that Site is in error, otherwise maybe the Image option gives the user a better list of Options for Managing the Image like Size, Presentation perhaps?

[Morn]

Image: is the old MediaWiki namespace for images. File: is the new namespace for images and other uploads, used on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons too.

So basically you should use File: for brevity now. Image: is probably just an internal redirect to the File namespace in MediaWiki.

Use "File:" to include an image and ":File:" to link to an image/media description page.

For direct downloads (e.g. for linking to DSK images), use "Media:" instead.

[AMSDOS]

Image: is the old MediaWiki namespace for images. File: is the new namespace for images and other uploads, used on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons too.

So basically you should use File: for brevity now. Image: is probably just an internal redirect to the File namespace in MediaWiki.

Use "File:" to include an image and ":File:" to link to an image/media description page.

For direct downloads (e.g. for linking to DSK images), use "Media:" instead.

Well that's confusing. 

[Morn]

Well that's confusing. 

Basically all uploads go into the File namespace. So it makes sense to use "File:" to link to images. "Images:" isn't wrong, it just refers to a namespace that no longer exists in current versions of MediaWiki.

See Help:Namespaces - MediaWiki for an explanation of MediaWiki namespaces.

[Gryzor]

Morn really said it all; I don't think it's that confusing... "File:" has evolved over time, simply enough.

[AMSDOS]

Morn really said it all; I don't think it's that confusing... "File:" has evolved over time, simply enough.

I just meant it could become confusing if terms of what dealing with. Like Image clearly states you want to display an image & File is such a Broad term it could mean anything really, I'd almost forgotten what you use for Video's, I think it's media. But I guess if those other terms were scrapped and you just used File for everything that would become easier, but would involve an awful lot of rewriting of the Wiki. 

[Morn]

I just meant it could become confusing if terms of what dealing with. Like Image clearly states you want to display an image & File is such a Broad term it could mean anything really, I'd almost forgotten what you use for Video's, I think it's media.

For YouTube videos you can also use the YT template. e.g. {{YT|hYHPRbcfCWs}}

But I guess if those other terms were scrapped and you just used File for everything that would become easier, but would involve an awful lot of rewriting of the Wiki. 

As long as Wikipedia has articles that still use "Image:", MediaWiki will have to support it. So far nobody at WP seems to have bothered to bot-edit Image: out of existence. Therefore the CPCWiki legacy syntax can stay too.

[AMSDOS]

As long as Wikipedia has articles that still use "Image:", MediaWiki will have to support it. So far nobody at WP seems to have bothered to bot-edit Image: out of existence. Therefore the CPCWiki legacy syntax can stay too.

Fingers Crossed.

[Gryzor]

We'll cross the bridge when we come to it