I have found an ugly workaround. By setting:
$wgAllowExternalImages = true;
I can embed images in my wiki without needing any additional permissions.
The downside is that images are served "as is" without any scaling,
according to:
So I'm at least a bit closer without having to rely on IT, but I'm still
searching.
Regards,
Arjen
2006/10/15, Arjen Verweij <arjen.verweij(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hello Jimmy,
Unfortunately I don't have shell access, but I'll keep this in mind
when I talk to IT about solutions next week.
Regards,
Arjen
2006/10/15, Jimmy Collins <Jimmy.Collins(a)web.de>de>:
Hi Arjen,
just use "php maintenance/importImages.php" from command line.
[...]
Import Images
USAGE: php importImages.php [options] <dir> <ext1> ...
<dir> : Path to the directory containing images to be imported
<ext1+> File extensions to import
Options:
--user=<username> Set username of uploader, default 'Image import
script'
--comment=<text> Set upload summary
comment, default 'Importing image
file'
--license=<code> Use an optional license
template
[...]
Cheers Jimmy
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Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] images won't show
> Consensus on
irc://freenode.net/mediawiki is that it is not possible
(full
> stop) to have [[Image: ]] tags browse images
in a directory that
haven't
> been uploaded. This is rather annoying
because I have a lot of images
to
upload
and just verbatim copying them would make my life a lot easier.
I guess Brion was trying to tell me this, but I didn't get it. Sorry.
Arjen
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