[Mediawiki-l] making an image a link to an external page.

[Rob Church]

Alas, this is a feature which has been requested, but not yet
implemented. See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539 for
more details.


Rob Church

On 30/12/05, Fenton Travers <fenton.travers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, in plain old html I'd make an image a link to another page by going:
>
> <a href="www.yahoo.com"><img src="myYahooLogo.gif"></a>
>
> Reading the mediawiki help and trying to figure out how to do this
> within the wiki...my god...I'm sorry but it seems horribly complex for
> a relatively easy concept.  Is it really true that I have to make a
> redirect at the image page?
>
> So what I want to do is upload an image and then make that image link
> to an external website, like perhaps:
>
> [http://gmail.google.com/gmail [[Image:GmailIcon.jpg]]]
>
> I'm hoping that there is a reasonably easy way to do this reasonably
> common thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> fenton
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