Re: [Mediawiki-l] Separate databases for text and images

Hi, I would like to implement Wikipedia's image feature where it can automatically link to Wikimedia Commons without downloading another copy of the image. However, I do not want to link to Wikimedia Commons but to my own separate database. The reason why I intend to do this is because my webhost has suggested that I do not exceed 200MB for my database. At present, I have already exceeded this proposed limit because of all the images that I have downloaded. I was thinking of breaking up Dummipedia.org <http://dummipedia.org> into a few subdomains, but then realized that since text files do not occupy much space, I might as well transfer all the images into a separate database. This will avoid both linking and category problems. Any advice will be helpful. PM Poon