Mike said "I activated the $wgForeignFileRepos[] to wikimedia commons and was able to use a [[File:<file.xxx>|<xx>px]] to bring in the image in the correct size." Have you tried this? Att
2009/11/21 Benct Philip Jonsson bpj@melroch.se
On 2009-11-21 Mike wrote:
This brought me to the next problem, controlling the size of the image, which can't be done with just the external image URL.
I don't want to be rude, but there is a quite extensive manual. Two in fact:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images
But see:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages
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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