It's used so that we dont have to go through the trauble of uploading all of them each time we need a picture that exists on the english wikipedia already.
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:32:47 +0200 (MEST), Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it wrote:
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
The french have complained about this before as they use a template in front of every external link. But i'll do it again here. On is. we have a template called Mynd (The name of the Image namespace) which we use in the following way:
{{Mynd|http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/thumb/1/1f/300px-Mahameru-volcano.jpg%7Cright...]] eldfjalli á [[eyja|eyjunni]] [[Java]] í [[Indónesía|Indónesíu]]}}
Using a syntax like that you either force wikimedia not to change the directory structure ever again, or (more probably) you'll need to change all your links when (if) that happens. It would be better to stick with ordinary Image: (or Mynd:) links.
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