Yongho Kim wrote:
How does commons.wikipedia work? Can this be imitated in other people's own installation of MediaWiki? Is there a technical document under meta explaining this, I can't find any.
All configurable settings are in DefaultSettings.php; please always refer to this file first.
# If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload # path here. Uploads to this wiki will NOT be put there - they # will be put into $wgUploadDirectory. # # If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the # shared repository if no file of the given name is found in # the local repository (for [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links). # Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this # directory. # $wgUseSharedUploads = false; # Full path on the web server where shared uploads can be found $wgSharedUploadPath = "http://commons.wikimedia.org/shared/images"; # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found $wgSharedUploadDirectory = "/var/www/wiki3/images"; # Set this to false especially if you have a set of files that need to be # accessible by all wikis, and you do not want to use the hash (path/a/aa/) # directory layout. $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true;
# Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found $wgSharedUploadDBname = "commons";
# set true if the repository uses latin1 filenames $wgSharedLatin1=false;
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)