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