[Mediawiki-l] Re: Code Modification?

[JT.Thomas at VerizonWireless.com]

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:36:47 +0200
From: Ashar Voultoiz <thoane at altern.org>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Code Modification?
To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
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John Gonzalez wrote:
> I'm interested in commissioning a code modification that would do the 
> following... payment would be a donation to the Mediawiki team or to an 
> individual...
> 
> Currently you can embed an internal wiki image in a page, such as:
> 
> [[Image:imagename.jpg|90px]]
> 
> However, the URL when cliking on this image is pre-determined and cannot 
> be changed. The hyperlink will always show the image information page.
> 
> Something along the following would be ideal for our purposes:
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[[Image:imagename.jpg|90px|url:http://www.destinationurl.com/destinationfile
.html]] 
> 
> 
> Which would embed the image like normal, follow the normal wiki syntax, 
> but bring you to a different destination URL, should someone click on 
> the image.
> 
> Please contact me off list if possible.

Hello,

This feature request already exist in our database :
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539

Please cc yourself and comment it there :o)

-- 
Ashar Voultoiz

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In the interim you may want to check out the section "Images linking to a
page" in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect 
also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Navigable_images

I bumped into this issue myself as well.

Best Regards,

JT