Hi, I would like to implement Wikipedia's image feature where it can automatically link to Wikimedia Commons without downloading another copy of the image. However, I do not want to link to Wikimedia Commons but to my own separate database.
The reason why I intend to do this is because my webhost has suggested that I do not exceed 200MB for my database. At present, I have already exceeded this proposed limit because of all the images that I have downloaded. I was thinking of breaking up Dummipedia.org http://dummipedia.org into a few subdomains, but then realized that since text files do not occupy much space, I might as well transfer all the images into a separate database. This will avoid both linking and category problems.
Any advice will be helpful.
PM Poon
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I would like to implement Wikipedia's image feature where it can automatically link to Wikimedia Commons without downloading another copy of the image. However, I do not want to link to Wikimedia Commons but to my own separate database.
The reason why I intend to do this is because my webhost has suggested that I do not exceed 200MB for my database. At present, I have already exceeded this proposed limit because of all the images that I have downloaded. I was thinking of breaking up Dummipedia.org http://dummipedia.org into a few subdomains, but then realized that since text files do not occupy much space, I might as well transfer all the images into a separate database. This will avoid both linking and category problems.
Any advice will be helpful.
PM Poon
Try having a look at [[Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos]] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos and also the [[Manual:Configuration_settings#Shared_uploads]] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Shared_uploads page will help.
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