[Mediawiki-l] Image thumbnail URLs

[Brianna Laugher]

Hello,

1) If you know an image [[image:foo.jpg]] exists, you can do
http://domain.com/wiki/Special:Filepath/foo.jpg
to download the source file, without having to calculate your own checksum
thingy to figure out which directory it's actually stored in.
Is there a similar shortcut to image thumbnails? There is thumb.php but that
bypasses the cache so it's bad, right?

And on that related note,
2) If you have a central image wiki set-up (as in Wikimedia Commons/other
Wikimedia projects), how can you check if the image being referred to is
actually on the central project or the local project? Is there a
straightforward way to do that? I can think of some roundabout ways but I
don't know a straightforward one.

cheers
Brianna

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