Help:Creating image galleries

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To create a gallery of photos (or other images) in an article:

• Insert the following tags:

<gallery>
 </gallery>

• Between the tags, add the complete names of the photos, each on its own line. For example:

<gallery>
 Image:BarbaraSnarrJanuary2007_IMG_0812elf.jpg
 Image:WendyBruceJanuary2007_IMG_0800elf.jpg
 </gallery>

• You can add captions to any or all of the images like this:

<gallery>
 Image:BarbaraSnarrJanuary2007_IMG_0812elf.jpg|Captions can have ''italic'' and ''bold''.
 Image:WendyBruceJanuary2007_IMG_0800elf.jpg|Captions can [[link]] to other pages.
 </gallery>

• Galleries themselves can have a title (caption) by modifying the gallery command like this:

<gallery caption="Board members">

When you save the page, it looks something like this:

Board members

Captions can have italic and bold.

Captions can link to other pages.

You can also have just plain text on one line in place of an image. (But no linking within it.) This would be useful for subdivisions in a very large gallery.

Comparison to automated category media listing

Galleries are assembled more by hand than what's available with category automation. For example, the content on this page is the same as in Category:member photos but is a little more viewable-friendly. For example, we can place these images in any order and add captions, which you can't do in the category media section.