Andrew Barnett:
Hi Everyone,
I'm curious as to whether there is a way to create a banner for a
particular page on my wiki and then have that link directly to the
advertising website rather than the image page.
There's a couple of weird hacks that work. You can use an absolute link
pointing to an image as text, like so:
[
http://mywiki.com/wiki/My_page http://mywiki.com/upload/a/bc/myimage.jpg]
Wrap it in <span class="plainlinks"> to get rid of the link arrow, or
use this as a template:
<span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{{1}}}}}
{{{2}}}]</span>
Pass the page name as the first parameter and the image absolute URL as
the second one. $wgAllowExternalImages needs to be enabled for this to work.
The second hack is CSS-based and can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3AClick
It's used on Wikipedia but doesn't work in all browsers.
Finally, there's an extension here:
http://leuksman.com/extensions/ImageLink.phps
Haven't tested that one, though.
10 brownie points for anyone making a nice FAQ entry out of this response.
Erik
