Thanks for the info. See, my main problem is that I'm deploying this to a company that isn't necessarily techie. When they upload a PDF, they don't want to call it an Image or a Media. They want to call it a document, or at the least, a file.

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Hínandil Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:41 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Changing Image to File

Zain Memon wrote:

The default Uploadtext says that you should use a tag in the form [[{{ns:6}}:image.jpg]] to link to an image. When this Uploadtext is displayed on the actual Upload page, the {{ns:6}} displays as "Image". Does this mean that there is one place somewhere (called ns:6) where I can change "Image" to "File" so people can link to it as [[File:image.jpg]] instead?

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Well, no. ns:6 is a variable that is called Image in MediaWiki in English. The Image namespace is called different things in other languages.

The way it works is that you can link with [[Image:image.jpg]] to display a thumbnail, and if you want to link to a non-image, you use [[Media:image.jpg]] (or [[Media:foobar.mp3]], etc.).

If you want to make an inline link, you'd prefix either of those with a colon, like [[:Image:image.jpg]].

You *can* change the name of the namespace but I think it will break all existing links.

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