[Mediawiki-l] Image linking

[Benjamin Lees]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Tim Statler <tstatler at adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make a link out of an embedded image. In HTML terms, an <a/>
> tag wrapped around an <img/> tag.
>
> I tried the following syntax, per the docs<
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files#Link>:
>
> [[Image:Pic.jpg|link=http://google.com/]]
>
> But the link assigned to the image is always the image description page on
> the wiki; not the specified link (google.com).
>
> I also tried the direct linking method:
>
> [http://linktopage http://linktoImage]
>
> But our wiki engine ignore the syntax.
>
> Is there another way to make a link out of an image? Also, are there any
> wiki configuration settings that an admin might need to tweak to make
> something like this work?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>

That syntax was only recently added.  If you can't wait for 1.14 to be
released, you'll have to run the trunk version <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN> or install the ImageMap
extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap>.