User blog:Kirkburn/Photo gallery launch

Good morning!

We're introducing an overhaul to how photo galleries work, as part of our commitment to making wikis easier to use.

In view mode, galleries are now dynamically resized depending on the page layout by default (rather than the previous default of always having four columns). You can still override this, if needed. Galleries also show a button to "add to existing gallery".

In edit mode, you will see a new toolbar button allowing to add new galleries in both the new and old editors. The rich text mode placeholder for a gallery has been updated (though we plan to iterate on this further). You can edit existing galleries by rolling over the placeholder, click "modify", similar to images and video.

Looking to the future, we are planning on introducing slideshow functionality and videos. Your feedback is most welcome, and will help us decide how to further develop photo galleries.

Today's launch is for all English wikis - other languages will arrive when translation is completed.