[Mediawiki-l] External Image displays only link with $wgAllowExternalImages = true;

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Mike Lisanke wrote:
> I've enabled external images with the above statement in my
> LocalSettings.php, and try many syntax (from help text googled from web and
> mediawiki documentation). It appears nothing I've done has enabled external
> images or link to them. Only the working link to an image is displayed on my
> wiki page. I'm aware of notes that image links which do not explicitly look
> (to mediawiki's parser) like an image will be treated as a link.
> 
> Is there any step missing from the magic incantations needed to get external
> images? Thanks for any help.
> 

You link external images with the full url to the image, you dont use
the image syntax.
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