Instructions for Uploading and Displaying Graphics

If you have some photos you would like to share do the following:

• register - Contact John Elberfeld at [email protected]
• sign in
• go to edit tab
• towards the bottom of the page is the Edit panel
• scroll down the Edit panel and until you come to the following:

<gallery>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

{...}

</gallery>

• above the line for <gallery> add your name between double equal signs and on the line below it add a sentence or two about yourself. Example:

==Harold Miller==

Harold Miller lives in Oaxaca, Mexico and returns to Berne every summer to visit family.

<gallery>

• click on "Upload file" in left column
• enter the location of the file for your image
• change the name of the file of image to be uploaded so as to be briefly descriptive
• enter a description of the image, your name, date of photo and any details about the picture you would like
• every page must have one or more Categories. For these images there are two that should be added in the panel on the last line:

[[Category:All Images]] [[Category:Natural History]]

• click on Upload
• copy the name of the image

Image:New name of image.jpg

• go back to edit page
• paste name of image in the first line replacing Image:{filename}
• add a caption relpacing the words {caption} with a description of your picture and the year taken.
• your entry should look like this:

==Harold Miller==

Harold Miller lives in Oaxaca, Mexico and returns to Berne every summer to visit family.

<gallery>

Image:New name of image.jpg|<center>Description of image, 2009</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>

{...}

</gallery>

• click on Preview on bottom of page to preview what the page will look like.
• if it looks correct then Upload another image File.
• when you are done, Preview and Save.
• If you need more information you can go to Hell...I mean "Help".