+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=origin/gallery author="[[arpitjain]]"]]
+
+New Version of gallery is available now. Few more features have been added like support for multiple pages, sorting and resizing of images etc.
+
+Gallery repo is now available at <http://github.com/joeyh/ikiwiki/tree/gallery>
+
+--[[arpitjain]]
+
+----
+
creating a gallery of a bunch of images:
* Display Exif informations
--[[Joey]]
-[[tag soc]]
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+[[!tag soc]]
+
+[[!tag wishlist]]
+
+----
+
+I have implemented the first version of the Gallery Plugin for Ikiwiki as part of [[soc]]. This plugin would create a nice looking gallery of the images once the directory containing images is specified with some additional parameters. It has been build over the img plugin.
+
+Plugin can be downloaded from [here](http://myweb.unomaha.edu/~ajain/gallery.tar).
+
+It can be used as : <br>
+\[[!gallery imagedir="images" thumbnailsize="200x200" cols="3" alt="Can not be displayed" title="My Pictures"]]
+
+where-<br>
+* imagedir => Directory containing images. It will scan all the files with jpg|png|gif extension from the directory and will put it in the gallery.<br>
+* thumbnailsize(optional) => Size of the thumbnail that you want to generate for the gallery.<br>
+* alt(optional) => If image can not be displayed, it will display the text contained in alt argument.<br>
+* cols(optional) => Number of columns of thumbnails that you want to generate.<br>
+* title(optional) => Title of the gallery.<br>
+
+Features of the Gallery Plugin:<br>
+* You can go the next image by clicking on the right side of the image or by pressing 'n'.<br>
+* Similary, you can go the previous image by clicking on the left side of the image or by pressing 'p'.<br>
+* Press esc to close the gallery.<br>
+* While on image, nearby images are preloaded in the background, so as to make the browsing fast.<br>
+
+Right now, it features only one template namely [Lightbox](http://www.hudddletogether.com). Later on, I will add few more templates.<br>
+For any feedback or query, feel free to mail me at arpitjain11 [AT] gmail.com
+
+Additional details are available [here](http://myweb.unomaha.edu/~ajain/ikiwikigallery.html).
+
+[[!tag patch]]
+
+> I'd love to merge this into ikiwiki.
+>
+> However, lightbox.js is licensed under a non-free (Creative Commons) license. :-(
+>
+> Since I don't much like the lightbox effects anyway (too much resizing
+> motion, too slow), I wonder if another template could be added, perhaps
+> a free one?
+>
+> Now that ikiwiki is in git, I've downloaded the most recenty version of
+> the gallery and put it in a "gallery" branch of my git repository.
+>
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+See also [[/users/smcv/gallery]] for another implementation of the same sort of
+thing. Unfortunately, none of the implementation ideas
+I have there seem quite right either... --[[smcv]]