On 2009-11-21 Mike wrote:
This brought me to the next problem, controlling the
size of
the image, which can't be done with just the external image
URL.
I don't want to be rude, but there is a quite extensive manual.
Two in fact:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial>
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images>
But see:
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages>
where it says you can't get thumbnails of external images
since MW can't know their dimensions.
Also read the section why allowing external images is a
bad idea, and read
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_theft>
I've been the victim of that. No fun!
/BP