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Nov 21, 2009, 10:53 AM
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Re: External Image displays only link with $wgAllowExternalImages = true;
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Mike said "I activated the $wgForeignFileRepos[] to wikimedia commons and
was able to use a [[File:<file.xxx>|<xx>px]] to bring in the image in the
correct size."
Have you tried this?
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2009/11/21 Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj [at] melroch>
> On 2009-11-21 Mike wrote:
> > This brought me to the next problem, controlling the size of
> > the image, which can't be done with just the external image
> > URL.
>
> I don't want to be rude, but there is a quite extensive manual.
> Two in fact:
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> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial>
>
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images>
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> But see:
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> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages>
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> where it says you can't get thumbnails of external images
> since MW can't know their dimensions.
>
> Also read the section why allowing external images is a
> bad idea, and read
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_theft>
>
> I've been the victim of that. No fun!
>
> /BP
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