I've got a mediawiki site and lots of images on the same machine which I want to "upload". So far I've just been doing this with a web browser.
Are there any tools for doing this more directly? If not where would I look to start writing such a tool?
Perhaps I missed something, but I cannot figure out how to make an image link to something other than the image page.
Or must I put a #REDIRECT on the image page to achieve that?
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On 11 Feb 2005, at 11:27, Jan Steinman wrote:
Or must I put a #REDIRECT on the image page to achieve that?
Just tried that, and it doesn't work. All the examples I've seen on WikiPedia have been to internal links only.
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:54:44 -0800, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
Or must I put a #REDIRECT on the image page to achieve that?
Just tried that, and it doesn't work. All the examples I've seen on WikiPedia have been to internal links only.
No, you can't just "redirect" a page to a URL, because that would lead to opportunities for some really evil vandalism (#REDIRECT http://goatse... anyone?). You can, however, use "interwiki" links [1] as the target, so "#REDIRECT [[SomeSiteYouOftenLinkTo:Thepageyourafter]]" works - with the caveat that the pagename has to conform to the rules that an internal link would, including spaces becoming underscores.
Personally, I consider the treatment of interwikis as though they were different from "ordinary" external ones as something of a bug, and redirecting to them as exploiting that bug. (Only "sister projects" should receive special treatment in this way, IMHO).
For other possible solutions, see a recent thread on wikitech-l [2][3] and a related bug report [4].
[Refs:] [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_links [2] http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-February/027604.html [3] http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-February/027608.html [4] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539
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