User blog comment:Kotoritachi/Adding pictures?/@comment-14908162-20151201162955

First of all, hello ^^. Welcome to the wiki =).

Secondly, it kind of depends where you want to add it. Do you want to make a song page and add the image in the infobox or do you want to add it on your userpage? Also, please do remember that we have an Image Guideline, so please make sure that you are either adding an image on your page that is already on the wiki, or do it via Photobucket, ImageShark etc.

Now for the question. I'm not exactly sure how to add things on mobile devices because my mobile phone doesn't like the wikia at all, and because of this I mostly use my computer. Also, I'm explaining how to do it in source mode, because the Visual Editor tends to screw up pages A LOT :/. It's kind of hard to work with at first, but after you've tried a bit it's really easy. Anyway, if you want to add an image to a page, you should first add the image itself to the wiki. You can do so by either clicking on the "contribute" button in the upper right corner on the screen (after which it will kind of explain itself how to do it, I think. If you still have problems with it feel free to ask me ^^) or clicking on "Photos" on the green beam-thingy (with "Wiki Activity", "Random page" etc.), after which you have to click on "Add a Photo".

After you have added the image to the wiki, you'll get transported to this page. Here you can click on your image, and copy the file name (for example Flower of Mímir.png). If you want to add it to your user page, you should add this code in source mode: and put the image name in to middle. So for example:. Now the image will be displayed on your user page. I'm not sure how to add images from an external source (like PhotoShark) anymore, so if you want to add an image for personal use (as in, not used for a song article), please ask me and I will look it up again.

If you want to add it in a song page, you should copy the Infobox Song template (the box on the beginning of every songpage) from the Song Article Guideline (I also recommend you to skim through it, because it explains a lot about the song pages itself. For example how to put lyrics in a table.) You basically just have to paste the file name after the "|image =" part of the template and it'll appear.

I hope this clarifies things a bit. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me or Rachinaf, the other active admin on this wikia.

Also, please keep in mind to check if a song already has a page or not. We've had a lot of cases where someone made a song page for a song that already was on here. And also please at least try to follow the standard layout for songpages. We've had a lot of new pages added by people who only add the information of the song and the lyrics (not in a table), and then we have to put all the lyrics in a table, which can take a really long time if you have to do about 10 per day orz (please at least the japanese/chinese/korean etc ones, it doesn't really matter if you don't have the romanization. If you don't know how to make it, someone else can). It doesn't matter if you do it the wrong way. It's already appreciated if you at least try. Also, I want to remind you that making unnecessary edits (as in: removing a letter and adding it again) just to get badges is seen as spam and might get you blocked :/.

Sorry for the book. I just wanted to make sure that I've explained everything.

Have fun on the wiki =).