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

2009-11-21 Thread nevio carlos de alarcão
Mike said I activated the $wgForeignFileRepos[] to wikimedia commons and was able to use a [[File:file.xxx|xxpx]] to bring in the image in the correct size. Have you tried this? Att 2009/11/21 Benct Philip Jonsson b...@melroch.se On 2009-11-21 Mike wrote: This brought me to the next problem,

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

2009-11-20 Thread Platonides
Mike Lisanke wrote: Q, I've tried many forms for the external image reference including just including the URL without other formatting as you and the wiki documentation indicate. All I see is the hypertext link on the page. I've triple checked the $wgAllowExternalImages = true;, and that

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

2009-11-20 Thread Mike
Platonides, Your response was helpful because it worked. I was using a wikipedia image which had a 'File:' reference in the URL. The direct link was available from the description page and was a URL of the form you response indicated. This brought me to the next problem, controlling the size of

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

2009-11-19 Thread Q
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

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

2009-11-19 Thread Mike Lisanke
Q, I've tried many forms for the external image reference including just including the URL without other formatting as you and the wiki documentation indicate. All I see is the hypertext link on the page. I've triple checked the $wgAllowExternalImages = true;, and that the LocalSettings.php was

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

2009-11-19 Thread nevio carlos de alarcão
see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos#Using_files_from_Wikimedia_Commons_:_ForeignAPIRepo att, Nevio 2009/11/20 Mike Lisanke mikelisa...@gmail.com Q, I've tried many forms for the external image reference including just including the URL without other formatting as