Hi Platonides, thank you for your reply. I will give it a second try and I couldn't understand the explanation the first time round.
PM Poon On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Ekompute .info wrote: > > Hi, can anyone help me interprete the following passage from > > Mediawiki.org:$wgUseSharedUploads< > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseSharedUploads> > > : > > > > If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload path using > > $wgSharedUploadPath< > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSharedUploadPath>. > > If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the shared > repository > > if no file of the given name is found in the local repository (for > > [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links). > > > > Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this directory. > > > > Uploads to the wiki will NOT be put there - they will be put into > > $wgUploadDirectory < > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUploadDirectory> > > . > > > > Presently, I am operating multiple wikis and I think this is a good idea, > > but the above instructions assume some background knowledge and are > > incomprehensible for a novice like me. Supposing I create a new wiki and > > database just to upload images and article categories (as in Wikipedia). > How > > should I go about doing it? > > > > PM Poon > > Take a look to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos > That's explained with more detail. > $wgUploadDirectory will end up setting a ForeignFileRepo property, so > you can use $wgForeignFileRepos instead, or take from there the > parameters you need. > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
