On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Ekompute .info <ekompute(a)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.