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<h3>[[Tooltips:File Formats|File Formats]]</h3>

<h5>Image File Formats</h5>

;.gif
:Image file format which allows simple animation. Generally limited to 256 colours. Supported by MediaWiki.
:Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

;.jpg
;.jpeg
:Image file format common on webpages. Supported by MediaWiki.
:Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

;.tiff
:Image file format using lossless compression and not common on webpages due to their large size. Not supported by MediaWiki.
:Tagged Image File (TIFF)

;.png
:Lossless image file format which supports 16 million colours. Supported by MediaWiki.
:Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

;.webp
:An image file format created by Google to replace jpeg. Supported by MediaWiki.

<h5>Other File Formats</h5>

;.css
:Styles used to format webpages. MediaWiki users can store custom css in the page MediaWiki:Common.css.
:Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 
 
;.less
:A style sheet which extends the features of CSS. Used by MediaWiki.
:Leaner Style Sheets (LESS)

;.json
:a text format for storing and transporting data. Used by MediaWiki.
:JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

;.pdf
:A common file format for documents. Requires an Adobe reader or equivalent. Not supported by MediaWiki.
:Portable Document Format (PDF)

;.php
:Default extension for PHP files, commonly used for server-side scripts. Used extensively by MediaWiki. For example LocalSettings.php
:PHP is a recursive acronym meaning PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor



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