Tardis:Galleries

Galleries are a quick — but limited — way to display a number of photographs on a single page. In general, they should be avoided on this wiki, unless you have a clear idea of what you're doing.

For details on how to create galleries, you can read the potted Wikia help file below. Even better is the more detailed help file.

Things you might not have thought about

The potted text, below, will give you an overview of the gallery process. But it won't tell you much about how the function behaves in live examples. Here are some things to think about.

Enough is enough

Theoretically, you can use galleries to display a very large number of pictures. There might be an actual limit, but it's well over 100 images. That's a lot of images, especially for some of our readers. Don't assume that everyone has a computer, or internet connection, as good as yours. You can easily make pages which load very slowly for some people.

Rules of use

There are a few absolute rules which should be observed when using galleries. Failure to observe these rules could end in blocking:

• Never use a gallery for a single picture. Single pictures should be placed on pages using the syntax:

  [[file:PicName.extension]]

  as described at Help:Files. There is simply no advantage to using the gallery structure for a single picture; the wikitext for file display is invariably superior for the task.
• Always hide the galleryadd button. All galleries must begin with a command that looks like this:

  <gallery hideaddbutton="true">