Embedding images inside a GitHub wiki (gollum) repository?

Question

The Github wikis are backed by a separate git repository then the main project repository.

This post by the Github team makes it sound like you should be able to link to

Answer 1

I put both images and PDFs in my wikis. I clone the wiki and add an images and a files directory, then use the following markdown to embed image links and add file links:

Images:

[[/images/path/to/image.ext|ALT TEXT]]

The leading slash isn't necessary if your wiki pages are all at the root level, but I use subdirectories and an absolute path resolves correctly and keeps things simple.

Files:

[link text](files/path/to/file.ext "ALT TEXT")

Note, no leading slash for the wiki files path to resolve correctly as a link in this format.

I documented this with more detail in a GitHub gist