Thanks Rowan (and Hans).
Re the utility of the feature I proposed, I saw it in twiki, and found it to be a nice feature, for some kinds of wiki pages. I agree that its use is probably higher priority for corporate uses of Mediawiki than for Wikipedia, but it does seem useful nonetheless.
cheers, -Nick
Rowan Collins wrote:
On 25/11/05, Nick Triantos nick-gmane@triantos.com wrote:
I've tried nesting an [[Image:myicon.png]] as the caption for a Media file, but that doesn't work. I've also tried using [[Media:mywordfile.doc]] as the caption for the image, and that also didn't work.
There's currently no (nice) way of making an image link anywhere other than its description page; see http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539 for the possibility of such a feature in future.
Also, it might be nice to have another link type (maybe [[Attachment:myfile.txt]] which creates a reference to a list of attachments, and then elsewhere in the doc, use something like [[Inline:Attachments]] or whatever to create a table of files with icon, filename, maybe file size, mod date, author, etc.
I'm not quite sure what the advantage would be of referencing the attachments in a different place to where they appear - or did you mean that they would appear twice, once inline and once at the end (or at a specified location)? Either way, the idea of being able to automatically include metadata about the files is an interesting one - it could almost be thought of as an extension of the current {{transclusion}} systems...
Also note that this is unlikely to be a priority for inclusion and maintenance within the main release, since it's not really the kind of file-handling that's used in the Wikimedia projects. Whether the current extension systems are powerful enough to allow it to be developed that way for people using MediaWiki in a more CMS-like context, I'm not sure.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]