[Mediawiki-l] Thumbnails

[Jono Bradley]

Ok thanks, Ill have a look.

When I put in -  [[Image:Narcissistic photo of me.jpg|thumb]] And save it /
preview it - it comes up with error messages saying that it cant do it.. I
will try your other suggestions ;)

Jono
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Church" <robchur at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Thumbnails


> On 27/08/06, Jono Bradley <jono.bradley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Is there something I have to do, to enable MediaWiki to use thumbnails?
>
> MediaWiki can use GD (http://ie.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php)
> functions to scale thumbnails if available. These are quite crap,
> however, and if ImageMagick
> (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) is available on the
> server, it will be used instead.
>
> Both of these are detected during installation and the appropriate
> options pre-set in LocalSettings.php where applicable. Check that
> $wgUseImageResize is set to true.
>
> Don't forget to *tell* MediaWiki to render an image as a thumbnail.
> Something like
>
> [[Image:Narcissistic photo of me.jpg|thumb]]
>
> would do it.
>
>
> Rob Church
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