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2006

If I run my own wiki, is it necessary that I show a link to www.mediawiki.org on my site or to note that my site was set up by using mediqiki-software? I tried to figure this out by reading the GPL but didn't find anything about that. As far as I have come I wouldn't need to mention this ... what do you say?? --149.148.230.94 18:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki itself adds a "powered by" icon to all skins and the version page has copyright information. Under the GPL, I believe this attribution is required. 86.138.46.182 17:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Could someone confirm whether or not the MediaWiki logo is supposed to be kept in place? I could not find any mention in the supplied documentation that this is requested to remain. Thus I have removed it on my Wiki, but will glady re-add it if it is requested by the creators. Furthermoor, there is no mention of leaving the copyright in place on the Footer editing page. -- A User 16:04, 04 Oct 2006 (UTC)
(Could this be added to the FAQ as well) To change/edit/add the powered by or copyright logos, the code is located around lines 1090 (copyright) and 1112. Just change the $url to your url. This should work for all skins that use the normal getPoweredBy and getCopyrightIcon functions. Adammw 12:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To change the logo in 1.11, place this line in LocalSettings.php: $wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/skins/common/images/mywikilogo.png"; In this example, "mywikilogo.png" would be placed at C:\wamp\www\mywikipedia\skins\common\images. The $wgLogo line should be placed at the end of the file. Svanslyck 14:20, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is no obligation to show the logo, the GPL applies specifically to the code and requires that the licence not be removed or modified from any of the code it appears in. --Nad 21:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Images not showing after upgrading to 1.6.5

Greetings, this isn't a problem I'm having but more-so a post hoping to help anyone else who ran into the same problem I did after upgrading. I also posted this in the Project:Forum page as well. If this is in the wrong place, my apologies admins but I wanted to share this information for anyone else who might have had this problem.

After I upgraded from 1.4.5 to 1.6.5 none of my images worked, thumbed or normal. The weird part was if I reuploaded the file, I received the standard warning that the image already existed. If I proceeded to reupload it, the image would then show normally. I ran the rebuildImages.php script both with and without the --missing switch but no luck.

What it boiled down to was I had to move all of my images. They were in sub folders in images like /1/10, /1/11 etc. I had to move all of the files from those folders to the root folder images/.

  • Example: opera.jpg is in images/o/o2/opera.jpg. Move it from images/o/o2 to just images/.

Once this was done, every image loaded up just fine without having to take any further action. Anything with the |thumb option regenerated a new thumbnail into the root of the folder thumbs/. To avoid wasting space, I deleted all of the sub folders in my thumbs/ folder since they were not being referenced and were duplicates anyways. --Brownc4 02:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In future, check the effective value of $wgHashedUploadDirectory and set it to true, to see if that helps. robchurch | talk 13:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2007

(OUTDATED) Thumbnails do not work

http://www.khakain.com/wiki2/index.php?title=Special:Newimages

As you can see, only a few images can been seen in their thumbnail form. This has been going on for over a year. Would upgrading solve this problem? If this isn't the right place to ask, please tell me a good place to go. I've been trying for months to find the reason for this.

note: I don't want to see this on any interwiki pages, by the way. --2007

(OUTDATED) Removing logo picture

To remove logo removing of wgLogo variable and setting 

#column-one { padding-top: 21px; }

NOT works if you splitted navigation bar into two parts, you have to set this too: 

#p-logo {
  display:none;
  height: 0px;
  width: 0px;
}

otherwise it redirects you to logo link when you click on first few links in (new splitted) navigation bar

--Betlista 15:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Thumbnails Not Working

I get an error for thumbnails: "Error creating thumbnail: sh: convert: command not found". My LocalSettings.php includes the line '$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/local/bin/convert";' and this is the correct path for the convert executable. And it has execute privileges for all users. Any idea what could be wrong? (Reinstalling ImageMagick did not help either.)—99.236.141.81 04:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I encountered the same problems like you before. Are you using a webhost to host your site? If so, this thing requires your webhost to do something as it involves some server security features. — PM Poon 12:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, I am not using a webhost. I'm using MediaWiki 1.11, Apache 2, PHP 5, and MySQL 5. —99.236.141.81 19:17, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps I should have mentioned that the files involved were SVG files. —99.236.141.81 19:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Try setting $wgSVGConverterPath to /usr/local/bin --Nad 20:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it works now. Thanks! —99.236.141.81 21:48, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had this same problem before I upgraded to 11, I haven't uploaded any images yet, I am still trying to restore my database. PatPeter 01:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have a problem that is like this:
Error message: Error creating thumbnail: The system cannot find the path specified. I have a line in my Localsettings.php: $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert", but in that folder there are no commands, just files like svnstat and ulimit*. What command do I need to convert?
How can I solve this problem? -194.138.26.89 11:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes when I try to upload a file it asks me if I want to open or save index.php, how can I fix this? I am using Mozilla Firefox. -PatPeter 02:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Look here: Image. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team
Do you have a recent version of ImageMagick installed? find where it's put the convert command and set $wgImageMagickConvertCommand to its full pathname. --Nad 05:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have this for my image settings in LocalSettings.php:
## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads		= true;

$wgUseImageResize		= true;
$wgUseImageMagick       = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

How do I find the full URL? -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 05:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if this was addressed, but which convert from the command line should give you the correct path to convert for your OS if it (and which) is installed --Zven 08:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So where can I find "which convert"? -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 23:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You don't find it, just type which convert in to your shell and it will tell you the full pathname of the convert utility which you should then set your $wgImageMagickConvertCommand to (or create a symlink to it in /usr/bin since that's the normal location for it). If it doesn't find any, then you shuld install ImageMagick or set $wgUseImageMagick to false so it uses PHP's GD lib instead --Nad 23:18, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Forgive me for being a noob, but where can I type it, like where is the shell? -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 04:04, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The shell is just the command line of the computer your wiki is running on, if you've never accessed the shell, then I guess you must be running your wiki on a shared web host who offer restricted access to the system in which case you'll need to ask them whether they have ImageMagick installed and where it is located etc. --Nad 04:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have full access to the database along with the image files, the includes, extensions, LocalSettings.php, etc. but I don't have access to the computer the Wiki is running on, correct. In /usr/bin is the default location for that, do you mean that those are folders on the computer server? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 22:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Secure Shell would be useful to give you a Shell console. Then you can check if the file convert is in the filesystem path by typing which convert in the console--Zven 03:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Any particular client you would suggest? FileZilla is listed here, but I don't think that is SSH... the wikipedia page is somewhat confusing. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 18:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like your on a windows machine connecting to a *unix server. Putty will do the job. All those applications are using the SSL protocol, some provide secure copy functionality, some provide an interactive SSH window console. One that does both is best. --Zven 19:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So I downloaded Putty, what information do I put in to access the database? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 17:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Cannot upload images

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.0
  • PHP: 5.1.4 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.45-log
  • Database: Unknown, if you know how to figure it out please tell me.
  • URL: Red Orchestra Wiki

Whenever I try to upload an image on Mozilla Firefox it asks me if I want to open or download index.php, how do I stop it from doing this so I can upload images?

—-PatPeter 02:59, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Worked fine for me on Mozilla Firefox version 2.0.0.11: http://www.maporchestra.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Test.jpg —color probe (talk | contribs) 13:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I should have been more specific, I didn't make my full report here but rather in another thread in Archive 14 about what is not uploading. For instance anything that is not a jpg, png, or ogg causes an error like this, my file extensions:
$wgFileExtensions   = array('png','jpg','jpeg','ico','bmp','ogg','doc','xls','ppt','docx','xlsx','pps','mp3','sxc','pdf','nse','rom','ukx','uc','uax','usx','utx','u');
I actually don't need pdfs and docs so I will take those out:
$wgFileExtensions   = array('png','jpg','jpeg','ico','bmp','ogg','rom','ukx','uc','uax','usx','utx','u');
-PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 20:30, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Also somehow FileExtensions got deleted from LocalSettings, probably when I upgraded the wiki, so let me put that back in and check. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 20:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BUMP. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 20:45, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 02:30, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen this behaviour in my previous installation (MediaWiki 1.6). Sometimes it went wrong (downloaded the index.php) and most times it went right... So whenever this occured, I just tried again. I never found out what the problem was, sorry. Theo s 12:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Update, it is PHP (the program) asking you if you want to download index.php, so that problem is fixed, now the newer problem is that now it displays a blank page when I try to upload. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 01:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) problems with GIF after upgrade to MediaWiki 1.11.0

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.0
  • PHP: 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.27

Hi, I upgraded from MediaWiki 1.6 to 1.11.0 and all went well except: Images in GIF format don't show anymore on the pages. PNG and JPG images are OK, but when I put [[Image:something.gif]], it will give me only this text as a hyperlink, w/o showing the image.. Any help appreciated! —Theo s 10:03, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

code-snippet as of line 82: 

               printf( "%s: %6.2f%% done on %s; ETA %s [%d/%d] %.2f/sec <%.2f%% updated>\n",
                       wfTimestamp( TS_DB, intval( $now ) ),
                       $portion * 100.0,
                       $this->table,
                       wfTimestamp( TS_DB, intval( $eta ) ),
                       $completed,   // $completed does not appear to be defined.
                       $this->count,
                       $rate,        // $rate does not appear to be defined.
                       $updateRate * 100.0 );
               flush();
       }

The comments state that 2 variables ($completed and $rate) are not defined, and that's the case.. Theo s 11:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody any suggestions please...?? Theo s 11:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unzip the rebuildimages script from the .zip file of MediaWiki and put it in its respective folder. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 23:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's what I did before... See the code-snippet above. Output from the script:
 test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Processing image...
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89
 2008-01-04 22:29:49:  14.81% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated>
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89
 2008-01-04 22:29:49:  29.63% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated>
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89
 2008-01-04 22:29:49:  44.44% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated>
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89
 2008-01-04 22:29:49:  59.26% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated>
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89
 2008-01-04 22:29:49:  74.07% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated>
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87
 PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89
 2008-01-04 22:29:49:  88.89% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated>
 test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Finished image... 0 of 675 rows updated
 test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Processing oldimage...
 test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Finished oldimage... 0 of 1 rows updated

Thanks in advance for any help. Theo s 22:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bump. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 18:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Are you still having this problem? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 19:15, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately yes, I do. I tried uploading existing images again, and even tried to upload converted images (from GIF to JPG or the other way around)... nothing seems to help... :( Theo s 21:53, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What does your $wgFileExtensions read? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 00:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
$ cat LocalSettings.php | grep -i wgfileextensions
$wgFileExtensions = array( 'gif', 'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ogg', 'rtf', 'doc', 'xls', 'ppt', 'pdf', 'zip', 'wzmul' );
Thanks, Theo s 10:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Where did the
$ cat LocalSettings.php | grep -i wgfileextensions

come from? I haven't seen that before, also try changing your file extensions to: 

$wgFileExtensions = array('jpg','png','ogg','gif','jpeg','rtf','doc','xls','ppt','pdf','zip','wzmul');

Also may I ask are you able to upload your .zip files? I am trying to upload similar files on #Cannot upload images. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 15:41, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The "cat" command is used on our Linux server to display the content of the LocalSettings.php file, grep -i to filter only the wgfileextensions setting. I accidently included the command when I posted my message, the cat is not in de LocalSettings.php file...
I will change the $wgFileExtensions setting according to your advice, but don't see much difference... I will post any change in behaviour here after I'm done.
Yes, I can upload .zip files, no problem... I will take a look at your trouble there.
thanks again, Theo s 12:22, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
update: changed to $wgFileExtensions but that makes no difference at all... :( Theo s 12:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bump... anybody? Theo s 14:30, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another bump... anybody any idea in how to approach this? Thanks! Theo s 14:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) How to upload Large Files?

hi,

How to enable large file uploads? i had put
$wgMaxUploadSize = 1024*1024*500;
$wgUploadSizeWarning = false;

and this one is too $wgCheckFileExtensions = false; not making any change !!

plz mail me to likhin@gmail.com
any valuable helps will be appreciated.

You will also need to change some configuration in the php.ini file, specifically the upload_max_filesize option. See File Uploads Configuration Options. If you don't have access to this file, you will probably have to contact your webhost provider. —color probe (talk | contribs |  Support team) 18:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What folder is php.ini in? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 23:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This problem is similar to mine #Cannot upload images. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 22:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Image upload problem

  • Additional info: User:McCormack/Upload problem
  • Attempts to upload any image of any format produce the system message: Warning: fopen(/var/tmp/phpepykKu) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/[account_name]/www/htdocs/en/includes/MacBinary.php on line 46 + 3 further ones.
  • Actually this line probably isn't the main problem itself, as the macbinary check is optional, but the fopen's are failing everywhere else as well.
  • Playing around with LocalSettings.php can produce more errors if required. If the upload form is checked to ignore warnings, the file actually uploads and is placed in the /images/... dirctory structure, but it cannot be displayed using the [[Image:...]] tag, so this is not a viable workaround.
  • Prior to this, I upgraded from MediaWiki 1.6 to 1.11. Installation went fine, and there are no signs of any other problems - e.g. page creation, movement, file deletion, logins, etc all work fine. Images uploaded fine before the upgrade. On Mediawiki installations on the same server which are still at 1.6, the file uploads still work fine. All images previously uploaded (before the upgrade) work fine with the new MediaWiki installation.
  • Set just about every directory permission in sight to 777. However directory permissions are unlikely to be the problem, because a MediaWiki 1.6 installation is still successfully using the same upload directory (e.g. (/var/tmp/phpepykKu).
  • Jiggled every available flag for LocalSettings.php
  • Trawled through php.ini and ensured that everything is as it should be. Safe mode is off; open_basedir has no value; allow_url_fopen is enabled.
  • Put debugging code into SpecialUpload.php and verified that Mediawiki 1.6 (working) was using the same upload directory as Mediawiki 1.11 (not working). The only difference between the two installations is that 1.6 is using PHP4 and 1.11 is using PHP5 (both on the same server). 1.11 uses an .htaccess entry to send php files to the php5 parser.
  • Trawled through this site and googled for anything even resembling a similar problem - all with no success.

--McCormack 14:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eventually I found a cludge (changed a couple of lines in SpecialUpload.php) which enabled new file uploads under all conditions and re-uploads if warnings deactivated. I wouldn't exactly call this a wonderful resolution, but it seems to work. --McCormack 11:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
...so what lines did you change McCormack? Your post is somewhat pointless, you said you have a solution and didn't give it :P -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 01:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The point of my 2nd post was to spare any helpful support guy from overexerting themselves on my behalf ;-) The first post is probably worth leaving for the record, as I recreated this problem on two different servers and it might actually affect someone else. Anyway, the details of the cludge: I found that pretty well every PHP f???? method was failing for want of permissions (which was illogical, as the permissions were OK), but the good old move_uploaded_file method still worked. So I did the obvious and moved the file to a new temporary location where the f???? methods started working again. I've little idea why it worked, but it worked excellently. --McCormack 18:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds a bit like my #Cannot upload images problem, which is why I was seeking your solution, could you put the lines you changed in pre tags? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 20:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your reply. I read #Cannot upload images a couple of times during my debugging, and I don't think it was the same problem. At least, not the same symptoms. Perhaps a related cause. I added the lines below to SpecialUpload.php, but not in the same place as an expert would, because my stashing still doesn't work (not that it needs to). --McCormack 15:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
$src = $_FILES['wpUploadFile']['tmp_name'];
$dst = $somewheresafe . $_FILES['wpUploadFile']['name'];
$res = move_uploaded_file($src, $dst);
$this->mTempPath = $dst;
I am getting the exact same error! McCormack, are you able to tell me exactly where in SpecialUpload.php I need to insert those lines? Also, do I need to change anything or can I simply copy and paste that text exactly as is? In case you couldn't tell, I'm a bit of a PHP novice! Cheers mate! -- Stanbridge 13:15, 21 April 2008 (GMT+10:00)
Hello, I had the same problem, I tried to add the same lines into SpecialUpload.php in this way:
function internalProcessUpload( &$resultDetails ) {
  global $wgUser, $_FILES;

  $src = $_FILES['wpUploadFile']['tmp_name'];
  $dst = "./tmp/" . $_FILES['wpUploadFile']['name'];
  $res = move_uploaded_file($src, $dst);
  $this->mTempPath = $dst;
I added the four lines and $_FILES to global declaration into function internalProcessUpload and everything was ok :) Just like a miracle. So good luck and sorry for my english :) protivinsky@email.cz, 14:33, 8 October 2008

(OUTDATED) Uploading Large Files

I keep trying to upload large files and it keeps timing out. How do I fix this?

MediaWiki- 1.11 (The URL says 1.6 because I don't know how to move the wiki into the main folder and prevent it rom messing up. If you can help me with this too I'd appreciate it)

Link- http://lolslayer.com/mediawiki-1.6.10/index.php5?title=Main_Page

-157.89.75.237 17:45, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also have a new problem. I get a "Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 38273024) (tried to allocate 3652 bytes) in /homepages/35/d215937493/htdocs/lolslayer/mediawiki-1.6.10/includes/media/Bitmap.php5 on line 168" message when I try to visit http://lolslayer.com/mediawiki-1.6.10/index.php5?title=Special:Newimages . Any help on this too?
157.89.75.237 09:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2008

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.0
  • PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
  • Database: Er... Is this not the same as MySQL?
  • URL: Home intranet. You can try http://gateway-86558bc/wiki/, but I don't think it'll work. :D

I have a question about using an image or imagemap for the edit links. Can I do that without hacking together an extension? I tried putting an image in MediaWiki:Editsection and it showed up as [[Image:Filename.svg|20px]] instead of an image. Am I trying to do the impossible? Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 19:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have image hotlinking enabled (aka $wgAllowExternalImages is true), try putting the full url of the image in the page and see if that works. If not, there IS an extension available that does this, just can't remember what it's called and I'm too lazy atm to search for it :) --Skizzerz talk 21:30, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea on the $wgAllowExternalImages thing, but it didn't work. I'll go search for the extension, I guess. Thanks! Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 22:11, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Found it; the extension is Edit Section Link Transform. Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 22:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The EditSectionLink hook was introduced in MW1.11 which allows you to change the URL that it links to. Also, there's a system message called editsection-brackets which allows you to customise the format of the edit links further to make them into images etc. The final result is wrapped in a span with class attribute set to "editsection" so that further CSS styles can be applied. Using the official hooks is more efficient than Edit Section Link Transform which does regular expression replacement of the rendered page content. --Nad 22:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, thanks, Nad! I'll have to look into the documentation for that hook and see if I can't write my own extension to fuss with the links. Regex replacements are a little bit of overkill, and I notice it has [square brackets] hard-coded into the regex. Hmm... *Goes off to think * Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 00:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Background image on pages?

I'm designing a page layout template for members of a wiki I admin to use for their user page and other pages that they create. I'd like to be able to use an image for backgrounds in this template. How can I accomplish this?

What versions of MediaWiki, PHP, etc. are you running along with a URL of your wiki? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 17:06, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Let's see. This is needed for two separate wiki's really. The first is as follows:
MediaWiki version: 1.6.8
PHP version: 5.2.4
MySQL version: 5.0.45-community
URL: http://evolution-rpg.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

The second is as follows:
MediaWiki version: 1.11.0
PHP version: 5.2.5
MySQL version: 5.0.45-community
URL: http://sharnyl.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

75.167.211.181 13:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You would have to upload the image to your wiki whether it be manually (using FileZilla or whatnot), or using the upload function. Then you would have to write out the code as to where the image is supposed to go in for instance MediaWiki:Monobook.css, if that is what you want to guide off of. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 15:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I should rephrase the question as this: How can I tell the wiki to accept the html coding for using an image for a background that the text would be placed on? Example coding: <body style="background-attachment: fixed; background-repeat: no-repeat" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" background="splash.jpg" width="1024" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"> 75.167.211.181 13:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please sign your posts with ~~~~. As for the body tags I don't know I will leave this to another member of MST. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 18:15, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I hope this is solved too because I really want to do this too. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team 00:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Me too! I'm anxious to be able to do this ^_^ 75.167.199.197 01:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious if there's a step closer to resolving this? 75.167.199.197 18:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Extension:RawMsg allows you to add HTML code to pages as does Extension:HTMLets --Chris 08:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That should work for other types of coding I'd like to be able to do using html, but when I tried both for having an image as a page's background that the text would be placed on top of, it didn't work 75.167.200.148 12:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any update to this? 75.167.205.251 03:25, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Images not appearing as thumbnails

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.0
  • PHP: 5.0.5 (cgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log
  • Database: Not sure

I'm having problems getting certain images to appear as thumbnails, when using both the Image:Name.jpg|thumb feature and the gallery tag. While some images will look fine, others will simply display as the alternate text in articles and an empty box in the gallery.

From what I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any predictable pattern to guess which images will do this. All are JPGs, but other JPGs have worked fine. Size does not appear to make a difference. All read the MIME type as "image/jpeg", but others with the same MIME type have worked out okay. The closest thing I could find in the FAQ was this, but it doesn't appear to be the same thing. I could ask an administrator at my web host to run the rebuildImages.php script, I suppose, but I wanted to ask here first. Besides, The software hasn't been updated recently as far as I know, and the problem is happening on images uploaded just now... and I'd rather not have to ask them to run the script every time I add some new stuff.

Thanks in advance for the help. I appreciate it.

—66.68.143.7 12:33, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Thumbnailing doesn't work

Hi! My problem is with thumgnailing. Just reported articles are not about my problem,so I'm typing new article.

When I Upload a file I'm emediatly redirect to the main page. The file is uploaded on server, but there is no thumbnail of it. So if I click on its name,I'm always redirect to the main page. All the settings I tried, I think there is all right. Do you know, what it could be? Thanks

—Finalgrab 15:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Thumbnail Conversion not working

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.1
  • PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.45-log

I so far haven't seen my exact problem here, but it's in the same category. Here goes.

When a file is uploaded that needs to be thumbnailed, the thumbnail itself doesn't work. If the image is below the threshold, it will display fine. What happens on a full-size image is it simply shows a grey box with "Error creating thumbnail: /usr/bin/convert: Unrecognized option (-thumbnail)." inside it. Whenyou open the full0sized option, it works fine. Here's our guinea pig picture: right here. All other files have been resized to work for now. Thank you. —75.70.77.232 03:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

THUMBNAIL WORKAROUND FOR SOLARIS

The workaround for Solaris is to install another version of imagemagick. Instead of using the convert program found in /usr/sfw/bin/convert that lacks the -thumbnail option you will need to install a new version.

Go to http://www.sunfreeware.com/ and click on your version of Solaris. In my case it was Solaris 10 Sparc. Then click on the ImageMagick link on the right hand side. In my case it was http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#imagemagick . The program has alot of dependencies. Download all of the dependency packages & the imagemagick program itself. Then unzip each package and add them to your system using pkgadd -d package name. Once you have added all of the dependency packages and the imagemagick package you will need to edit your LocalSettings.php file. Change the line 

 $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/sfw/bin/convert";
                      or
 $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

                      to
 $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/local/bin/convert";

Enjoy your thumbnails.

(RESOLVED) Massimport Images

  • MediaWiki: 1.10.0
  • PHP: 5.1.2
  • MySQL: 5.0.18

I need to massimport images into my MediaWiki. I watched the database and found the table the imagesinformation are stored in. But i don't understand the way how the directories are created and how MediaWiki knows where wich images was placed.

Can anyone tell me how that works?

—192.166.87.111 12:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To import images, use the maintenance/importImages.php script. For the curious: the category structure is based on an MD5 hash of the file name. But don't try to mimic mediawiki internals to improt stuff - let mediawiki do it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) SVG image types / ImageMagick

I recently was able to guilt my hosting company into installing ImageMagick so that we can upload and convert SVG image types. They installed the component on a Windows Server to "c:\imagemagick ". Now I want to configure my LocalSettings.php file to use the component.

I have set the following: 

$wgEnableUploads = true; #false
$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/ImageMagick/VisualMagick/bin"; #"/usr/bin/convert";

.... I have used several variations on the above to see I could get it to work. No luck. ....

And the following: 

$wgAllowTitlesInSVG = true;
$wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = true;
$wgIgnoreImageErrors = true;
$wgSVGConverters = "ImageMagick";
$wgSVGConverterPath  = "/ImageMagick/VisualMagick/bin";
$wgUseImageResize = true;
$wgMediaHandlers = array(
    'image/jpeg' => 'BitmapHandler',
    'image/png' => 'BitmapHandler',
    'image/gif' => 'BitmapHandler',
    'image/x-ms-bmp' => 'BmpHandler',
    'image/svg+xml' => 'SvgHandler', // official
    'image/svg' => 'SvgHandler', // compat
    'image/vnd.djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // official
    'image/x.djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // compat
    'image/x-djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // compat
);

I really don't want to annoy my host any further about this issue at this time, and would greatly appreciate any help that can be given.

Follow this link to see the error I am getting and what happens with the images: http://wiki.spokanebands.com/index.php?title=Special:Uncategorizedimages

—216.223.16.33 02:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If ImageMagick is installed to c:\imagemagick (use single quotes not doubles or the backspaces won't work), then the paths for the commands should be pointing to the executables within that same dir. Another issue is that ImageMagick is about the worst choice of the available options for dealing with SVG. The one preferred by the WikiMedia projects is rsvg. --Nad 10:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have changed the path to '/imagemagick/bin/convert.exe' using single quotes instead of double quotes, but still have no joy. As you can see I also changed the path. After installing the component on my local workstation, I was able to see the directory structure and base the path on that. Did I do something wrong? 216.223.16.33 14:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Why are you setting the path to '/imagemagick...' when it's located at 'c:\imagemagick...', set it to the same path the executables are located at --Nad 19:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Because when I do that, I get the following error, I don't believe it wants a physical path as it is using the forward slash (indicating virtual paths), not the back slash (indicating a physical path) in its defaults.--216.223.16.33 00:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in 
D:\hosting\member\northwestpos\spokanebands\wiki\LocalSettings.php on line 216
PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in 
D:\hosting\member\northwestpos\spokanebands\wiki\LocalSettings.php on line 216
It's not a virtual path, it needs to be a direct local FS location. The default setting uses forward slash because the software is designed to run on Linux, If you're running it on windows you need to include the full pathname including drive specification. Try using forward slashes, but keep the drive at the start not a leading slash as that makes no sense on a windows system. --Nad 06:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Images are not readable in browser after upload

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.0
  • PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.45-Max
  • URL: Klick

The Problem: I can upload images without any problems and can show them without scaling. Images will be also generate for thumbnails in /thumb/<IMAGE>/..., but the rights/permissions of these images are set to 640, not readable for browsers. I must set the rights to 644 with a ftp-client, e.g. Filezilla, then the images are visible. What can I do? I'm baffled...

—Dbt 18:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) escapeshellarg() etc.

  • MediaWiki: 1.9.3
  • PHP: 5.2.4 (apache)
  • MySQL: 4.0.23-standard-log
  • URL: thephantom.frih.net/wiki
Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/phantomb/domains/thephantom.frih.net/public_html/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 992
Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/phantomb/domains/thephantom.frih.net/public_html/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 992
Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/phantomb/domains/thephantom.frih.net/public_html/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 992
Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/phantomb/domains/thephantom.frih.net/public_html/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 992
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/phantomb/domains/thephantom.frih.net/public_html/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 177

sorry for my poor english

i want to make thumbnails but this error appear when I tried

in my localsetings.php: 

## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads       = true;
$wgUseImageResize      = true;
$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode,
## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and
## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment
## this, if it's not already uncommented:
$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;

—189.30.112.38 03:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Commons

Hi, is it possible to use images from Commons on my Wiki, without uploading them on my Wiki? Regards, 81.205.35.85 12:39, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. See InstantCommons --MF-Warburg 11:26, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, not yet. Thanks. Regards, 81.205.35.85 16:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This is partially possible using variables $wgAllowExternalImages and $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom.  mgrabovský | talk  (DJ Jeri)   MW Support Team 13:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) How do I purge the cache for hundreds of images?

I am upgrading to mediawiki 1.11.1 I ran in to a problem the problem with a new version of PHP that could not properly determine the Mime type for png files, so png images would not display properly. Instead I would just see the image name. I fixed the problem in the magic file (magic.mime for some) by simply adding the mime type for png. (it was missing)

Almost there, but when I go to any page like "Image:foo.png" the image is not displaying and is still reading as Mime type "plain/text". If I purge the individual page cache then voila my image is restored and the mime type shows "image/png". victory... ummm for one image...

However I have hundreds of png images! yikes. How can I force all the image pages to purge/refresh. I have tried many techniques nothing seems to work. It tried setting $wgCacheEpoch set to the current date, (and $wgThumbnailEpoch) I have tried the maintenance scripts refreshlinks.php and rebuildImages.php. I even tried the SQL command TRUNCATE TABLE objectcache; in the MySQL database. How the heck do I do this? Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. --Maxelrod 22:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Image template editing

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.1
  • PHP: 5.2.3 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.24a-standard-log
  • URL: http://www.sourcefortsmod.com/wiki - Note, this wiki is being constructed and having templates made up ATM and is passworded until this is complete. It is a manual rebuild of an old wiki from a different package.

Hi, I am helping in the rebuild of a Wiki. The wiki is integrated into the look and feel of the main site. All the templates and so forth follow a theme. I have noticed that the default image thumbnail [[Image:Example.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Sunflowers]] does not fit with our style. (This can be seen here: http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4343/examplekf3.jpg )

My question is this: How can I edit the look of the image thumb template? What files do I need to change and where are they located?

Many thanks!

mc_nebula —86.4.135.223 12:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Broken redirect in image namespace

  • MediaWiki: 1.12.0
  • PHP: 5.2.0-8+etch10 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch5-log
  • URL: here or here

Hi, it seems that the redirect system is broken on image page. When a #REDIRECT is put in a image page, it doesn't forward to the specified link... but it works correctly in the others namespaces.

Any idea ? Is it related with the revision r29858? ("* Support redirects in image namespace, Now doesn't require schema change)", I don't know what he wants to say with "Support redirects in image namespace", because redirects in image namespace worked before...)

—83.203.10.57 09:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As someone with little strictly technical understanding of the software, but someone with fairly intimate knowledge of the general software functionality, I'd guess that it's because the image is actually an uploaded file. Perhaps if the file was deleted, and the same pagename was redirected to the new, desired image name where the file could be re-uploaded, things would end up working. --AnonDiss 10:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just discovered the same issue. After an in-place upgrade from 1.11.1 to 1.13.2, using #REDIRECT on an image description page no longer works. The statement quoted above, ("* Support redirects in image namespace, Now doesn't require schema change)" is indeed a little confusing. Was REDIRECT ever "supposed" to work on an image page? But there is some great discussion on the bug-talk pages related to r29858. And I can see why WP and perhaps other major MWs need to make sure copyright info, etc., is displayed. But it was difficult to tell from the discussions what the final consensus is. (ImageMap good? Click bad?) But our wiki is a recipe wiki, where (God love 'em) middle-age women upload their own picture of soup, so copyright issues are not so much an issue. But as has been said by others, most users come to most wikis thinking that clicking on a picture will take them to something other than a page of information about the image that they don't care about anyway. So a combination of disabling image clicks and redirecting image pages is what really works for us. So we are still hoping to learn, definitively, what has happened to redirecting images before we begin using ImageMap or other. —Brian7632416 04:37, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The original issue was probably bug 13546, but I'm not really sure. The behavior of image redirects seems to have been changed several times in 1.13; try asking about their current status on IRC (on my test wiki running trunk, they don't seem to work).
There's no reason to be using image redirects as a kludge for navigational links when there are so many better tools available. 1.14 (r41727+) even has a built-in syntax for this; see bug 539. —Emufarmers(T|C) 08:28, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The discription on Manual:LocalSettings.php#Logo is not correct. Is it possible tot give me a simple way to change the logo ? Great thanks

—Spiriwiki.com 13:11, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Resizing down not working; error being given

I know that images can be resized by just adding what width you want after the image link. However, for whatever reason, I can only size up images. For example, I have an 80px image -- if I size it up to 100px, it works fine. However, if I resize it down even one pixel -- to 79px -- I get this error message on the top of the screen. 

Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061
Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061
Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061
Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1812

I've checked all my settings, and resizing is set to "true" (even though it's supposed to be automatically). I've even checked my MimeMagic file and the GlobalFunctions file on the lines mentioned (though, all I get is the functions that the wiki is suppressing for whatever reason).

Is there any way I can get images to actually size down? I've checked the Sandbox and know it's a problem with just my wiki, rather than with MediaWiki itself, but I haven't been able to find the problem.

—76.26.130.23 23:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I had a similar problem (with almost the same error massage, although it appeared instead of the images in the images frames) and in my case it turned out to be related to my settings in localsettings.php. For SVG-Images I had inserted the following lines, which seemed to mix up my whole thumbnailing process after my last upgrade of MW:
$wgSVGConverters = array(
   'ImageMagick' => '"/usr/bin/convert" -background white -geometry $width $input $output',
);

$wgSVGConverter = 'ImageMagick';
after deleting them things worked fine again. Only SVG-Images don't display anymore, but they were never rendered properly by ImageMagick anyways... so its not such a big loss. Hope that helps. My best, --Gollum 09:22, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • MediaWiki: 1.9.6
  • PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL: 5.0.18
  • URL:

Is there a good reason, why every image caption text in a gallery goes thru a full parse and calls the ParserAfterTidy hook individually? Is there any way to avoid this or to detect (within the hook) that it is being called on behalf of the gallery (instead of the main content)?

—WsW 05:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) How do I disable Saving of deleted image in mediawiki 1.11 and higher?

  • MediaWiki: 1.12.0
  • PHP5
  • MySQL v5.xx

This feature is totally useless to me and I need to kill it. --Yakushi.kabuto 10:51, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about letting $wgFileStore point to /dev/null ? --Flominator 06:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have got the same "problem", and setting
$wgFileStore['deleted']['directory'] = null;
in LocalSettings.php does not have any effect with my 1.12.0 wiki: files can still be restored and so are saved meanwhile in the deleted directory ... Or how do I have to set this variable? -- 89.55.189.253 09:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Change Destination of uploads

I've been installed MediaWiki on my web space but I have got the permission to upload file only in the directory sssigned to me, so when I try to upload a immage I can't do it because the software tries to upload the immage in a directory where I haven't got the permission to access. How can I modify the destination of the files uploaded? Thk a lot for help.

—House90 20:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Look at $wgUploadDirectory.  mgrabovský | talk  (DJ Jeri)   MW Support Team 07:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Browser unable to access wiki after viewing newly-resized image

  • MediaWiki: 1.10.2
  • PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL:5.0.45-community-nt
  • URL: [intranet]

Whenever I look at a wiki page that requires an image to be newly resized, it seems to lock-up access to the wiki from that browser.

e.g.:

  1. Upload an image
  2. Image is uploaded OK. Browser is redirected to a page containing the image, which never gets displayed ("waiting for response from [server]")

alternately:

  1. Use an existing image in a new size
  2. Preview or save. Browser never loads the page containing the new image ("waiting for response from [server]")

Whenever this happens, no further pages can be viewed from that wiki. Closing and restarting the browser allows things to work normally again, with no changes made to the server.

ImageMagick is used on server: 

$wgEnableUploads       = true;
$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.3.7-Q16\convert.exe";

Many cmd.exe process are visible on the server's task manager after this occurs a few times.

Upgrading server software is likely to be difficult for us, so hints that don't require new mediawiki would be helpful.

80.177.58.133 11:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Unable to delete images, could not create folder deleted/d/a/h

Hello. I have this problem where I am unable to remove images uploaded to the wiki. It says, in Swedish, something as that it was unable to create a folder /deleted/d/a/h/. I have checked and in the FTP there actually are these folders. I am not able to change their permissions and cannot find any .htaccess-files or anything supposedly preventing me from this, but the folders are there allright.

—81.228.213.21 18:36, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The directories in question need to be writable by the webserver; their permissions probably need to be 755 or 777. —Emufarmers(T|C) 01:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've tried to change, but it says "Unable to change permission, file has different UID (398)" 81.228.213.21 14:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Problem displaying image in a browser

Hi

I am trying to display image in a map view (bubble). It display image in a first stage, but it doesn't display image in a second stage.

Please could some one help me.

Many thank

HTML File 

<div ex:role="view"
	ex:viewClass="Map"
	ex:label="Campaign on Map"
	ex:latlng=".Google+Ref"
	ex:center="38.479394673276445, -95.361328125"
	ex:bubbleWidth="200"
	ex:icon=".imageURL"
	ex:iconFit="both"
	ex:iconScale="1"
	ex:bubbleWidth="250"
	ex:shape="square"
	ex:shapeWidth="60"
	ex:shapeHeight="80"
	ex:bubbleTip="top"
	ex:selectCoordinator="campaignLists">
</div>

Data File JSON 

{
	"Element" :           "FSDU 48 Board B1",
	"Film" :              "The Simpsons",
	"Classification" :    "Retail",
	"Stage+Name" :        "Artwork-Local",
	"Google+Ref" :        "55.378051, -3.435973",
	"Status" :            "Started (ArtLoc)",
	"type" :              "Item",
	"Job+Number" :        "520565",
	"label" :             "The Simpsons",
	"Country" :           "UK",
	"Date+Last+Updated" : "May 17 2004 12:00AM",
	"year" : "2007-05-17",
	"imageURL" :
                  "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/stormer_thumb.jpg"
},
{
	"Element" :           "Poster",
	"Film" :              "Starsky & Hutch",
	"Classification" :    "Retail",
	"Stage+Name" :        "Artwork-Local",
	"Google+Ref" :        "34.462425, -89.147104",
	"Status" :            "Cancelled (ArtLoc)",
	"type" :              "Item",
	"Job+Number" :        "516303",
	"label" :             "Starsky & Hutch",
	"Country" :           "Scandinavia",
	"Date+Last+Updated" : "May 13 2004 12:00AM",
	"year" : "2004-5-13",
	"imageURL" :   
         "http://image.olas.net/image?assetId=3AD541ED-26AB-4D47-B5E2-101995447A71&action=dbBinary"
}

April 2008

(OUTDATED) Upgrade from 1.4 to 1.11; no images displayed

I'm upgrading from mediawiki 1.4 to 1.11. At the same time I'm moving from a linux machine to a windows machine. I can't really do the upgrade on the linux machine. In order to do this I had to do an iconv on the linux machine first and copy the database directly from the linux machine to the windows machine. I fixed a bug in "FiveUpgrade" (it wasn't passing the $filename parameter in line 716), ran upgrade1_5, ran update, and repaired the mw_objectcache table, which had become corrupted. For whatever reason mediawiki can't figure out where the images are for thumbnails or inline images. If I add a new image it works fine. But for an old image, if I click on an image link, then on the link of the image page, that link shows the image. But no inlining and no thumbnail. Any ideas?

The best idea I have is to write a script that will look at each page, find the image name, find that image in the file, remove it from the database, and readd it to the database. Is there a script that will do this for me? If not, what sections of the API should I be looking at to figure out how to do this?

The alternative is for me to reupload all 180 images by hand. But I would still need to figure out which page each image is on, which will be painful.

Help?

OK, I understand the imagelinks table better. It relates each image to the page it's on. Still, I can't understand why images aren't being displayed. I did notice that a lot of the information in the image table is absent from the 1.4 version of the table, and is set to 0 or unknown in the new table (such as height and width). Could this be why? I edited these manually for one image, and it still doesn't display. How does media wiki find the image in the file anyway?

Thanks Matt Brown —64.128.200.78 00:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • MediaWiki: 1.93
  • PHP: 5.2.5
  • MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log
  • URL: www.world-of-roleplaying.com

I am using the following command to display a gallery of images on a page. I can only ever get it to display 4 per row, even though it says 6

<gallery caption="Products" widths="180px" heights="180px" perrow="6">

Cheers --bsycamore--12:57, 14 May 2008 (UTC)86.159.48.38[reply]

Has anyone any ideas on how to resolve this?
--bsycamore--13:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)86.159.48.38[reply]
You need to upgrade. The 'perrow' option was introduced in MediaWiki 1.10, see rev:19721. --:bdk: 02:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Categorizing Uploaded files

I was looking in the Special pages section and noticed the heading Uncategorized Files. I clicked it and it shows the images files that had been uploaded with the wiki's upload feature. Is there a way I can set up categories for images to be uploaded to? If so, could someone please explain to me how? Any assistance received is truly appreciated. 75.167.218.31 18:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

—75.167.218.31 18:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just add a category link to the description of the file when using the upload form (at least at Wikipedia; I don't know the upload form on your wiki). It's the same code as a category on a simple page:
[[Category:Example category]]
If it does not exist, it will show up in a different colour (standard, like on Wikipedia: red) after uploading, so you can create it from this link and link it to the categories above. -- 89.55.189.253 10:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Changing site logo using the $wgLogo setting in LocalSettings.php does not work.
  • There is no error, just simply a blank box in the left corner.
  • Note: Not even the default wiki.png shows up.
  • What did I miss during installing?
  • Additionally, I just realized that no images are showing up...not even the footer images pointing to the Mediawiki site.
  • I checked my /var/log/httpd-error.log and see nothing stating problems with the server.

—Oldr4ver 18:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I parsed every php file and verified path variable...no luck
  • Finally, I deleted the uploaded files, and re-uploaded, then edited $wgLogo to call the image via fully qualified domain url.

(RESOLVED) Imaging problem

Whenever an image is uploaded to my Wiki, it uploads OK, but it will not thumb into any other size other then the one it currently is. What code would this be and how could I fix this? -- NuclearVacuum 00:48, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do not believe that this is happening simply because I did not download it to my desktop. It seems to be working fine on others using the same site (and at the same level as mine). What is the problem here, and please answer me. Here is a link to one of my articles that I put a picture on, so I can show you what it looks like. When I try to resize or put the picture in a thumb, it just says "Error creating thumbnail:" and does not show the picture. -- NuclearVacuum 00:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Which OS and platform? — VasilievVV 17:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
My OC is Microsoft Windows and my platform (I believe) is Java. Does this help you out? -- NuclearVacuum (talk · contribs) 17:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Try to set $wgUseImageMagick = true; — VasilievVV 17:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where is this found? -- NuclearVacuum (talk · contribs) 17:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Add the line to your LocalSettings.php. Smaug   17:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Where is my LocalSettings.php? Where would it be found? NuclearVacuum 17:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
В папке, в которую Вы поставили MediaWiki — VasilievVV 17:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I did not download this wiki. It does not require me to download it. I have no folder for it. [1] -- NuclearVacuum 17:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
*Notices your url.* You seem to be on a wiki-farm. You should contact wiki-site and get them to help you, since they have access to your LocalSettings.php and other files if you don't. Smaug   20:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Thumbnails Not Updating

  • MediaWiki: 1.12.0
  • PHP: 5.2.5
  • MySQL: 5.0.45

I have two separate wikis running on a windows xp machine. On one, if you upload a new version of an image file, and a page contains a thumbnail of the image, the thumbnail will not update (I have tried clearing my browser cache, etc., and waiting for weeks, etc., but it never updates).

On the other, it works fine: if you update a new version of the image file, the thumbnail is updated right away when you load the page.

The only difference between the two wikis in the LocalSettings.php file appears to be as follows:

In the wiki where the thumbnails update, this line is commented out: # $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;

whereas in the wiki where the thumbnails do not update, it instead has the line: $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;

There's a comment above the line, but I believe I have followed it: I have the necessary directories, and they seem to all be writable.

I'm not really sure what the line does, and couldn't find a clear explanation of it, other than the obvious thing that it puts the images in a different folder setup. I do not guarantee it is the responsible party, but it is the only difference that I can see between the two setting files. I don't want to comment it out on the not-working wiki because my understanding is I would have to re-upload every image file if I did so.

I use ImageMagick for my image management. Thanks for your help.

—Crlamb 14:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Try appending "?action=purge" to the image (article) page. Like for Image:Logo.png, change the last part of the URL from "wiki/Image:Logo.png" to "wiki/Image:Logo.png?action=purge". This will ask mediawiki to regenerate the thumbnail. If you are having trouble on another article page, you can use the ?action=purge trick there too (which will recreate all the thumbnails used on that particular page). JackSchmidt 18:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I tried your suggestion, but it doesn't appear to do anything. The thumbnails are not changed by appending "?action=purge" It doesn't give me any kind of error; it just doesn't seem to do anything at all. I can delete the old thumbnails myself by going into the appropriate directory on the host machine, and it then generates a new one, but this is not ideal since I usually connect to the wiki from elsewhere. - Crlamb 03:57, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I thought I'd add that if I delete the thumbnails directory, the wiki doesn't always generate new thumbnails. In that case "?action-purge" will force it to create new ones. However, if there are ones already there, it doesn't create replacement ones even if they are from an image version that is now out of date. - 216.15.46.80 13:47, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Upload from web

There's any way to upload a image directly from the web?. Example, going to Upload, then URL:http://commons.../Image:Some.png and then save a copy of the image in the wiki. Maybe an extension was necessary, may be a patch.--Eloy 16:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at Manual:$wgAllowCopyUploads. -- 89.55.189.253 10:41, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) remove blue border from uploaded images

  • MediaWiki: 1.10.0
  • PHP: 5.2.2 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt
  • URL: uh - its internal..

ive been through the help docos and the manual, but I cant seem to find out how to remove the blue border from uploaded images. i dont want to remove the 'clickability' / linkage per se, just remove the blue border. apologies if this is a stupid question...

Cheers

Alastair Jones
alastair.jones@methodologygroup.com —83.217.103.26 10:52, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Thumbnails and appropriate UIDs/Permissions

  • MediaWiki: 1.12.0
  • PHP: 5.2.0 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL: 5.0.27-standard
  • URL: Wiki

Hey fellows, Im having a problem regarding thumbnails and regarding the Permissions of the Images. I would like you to visit this Page and watch those PHP-errors on the top. The contents of the images Folder looks like that: http://wayne.klinkerstein.m-faq.de/1.png and the thumb directory is empty (since I manually deleted the folders(why folders?) that were named exactly like the image name). http://wayne.klinkerstein.m-faq.de/2.png.

Somehow I can't figure out whats going wrong actually. PS: The "deleted" folder has been created by MediaWiki and therefore has the UID of the Webserver, but unfortunately I can't set any permissions of that folder, or delete it, since my ftp's user ID is different.

Now I don't know how to fix that actually. I tried to re-upload the images, but MediaWiki still doesn't generate correct thumbnails. Instead it generates folders that are named like the image. Funnily, Im having another wiki working on the same server, in another directory, that works flawlessly with images and thumbnails: http://it51.stlcd.de/wiki/ Probably it's because it is MediaWiki 1.10.0rc2.

Im also having another problem. When I try to upload images via "Upload file" on the left side on my wiki, the browser loads and loads, but doesn't finish actually. Im not getting any response. Everything else is working fine.

Im appreciating any help I can get, thanks in advance, guys.

—84.62.166.54 11:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) ImageMagick convert SVG problem

  • MediaWiki: 1.12.0
  • PHP: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL: 5.0.51

I had some trouble debugging a problem with SVGs on a local wiki. Image:Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg was displaying with text replaced by boxes. I figured this was a font problem, but had extreme difficulty replicating it. I finally used "strace" to see what was happening, and discovered it was failing to load a font due to running out of memory. The memory limit had been set for 100M, but I had to raise it to 1G to succeed.

In case someone else runs into strange thumbnailing problems, it might be wise to suggest more prominently to set: 

$wgMaxShellMemory = 1024000;

the memory limit higher. —JackSchmidt 18:45, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Getting MediaWiki and ImageMagick to agree on colors.xml and image delegates.

  • MediaWiki: 1.12.0
  • PHP: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL: 5.0.51b
  • URL: Not currently available. Given out only on special request.

I'm trying to set up image thumbnailing for my wiki. I'm pretty sure I correctly installed ImageMagick; it seems to be working just fine. I can convert images and display them. However, my wiki displays this in place of any thumbs: 

Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to access configure file `colors.xml'.
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `/Users/Audacitor/Sites/wiki/images/e/e8/Xcodeicon.png'.
convert: missing an image filename `/Users/Audacitor/Sites/wiki/images/thumb/e/e8/Xcodeicon.png/180px-Xcodeicon.png'.

I found colors.xml alright and made sure the permissions were all set correctly, which they are. I get the feeling that it's because I have an incorrect MAGICK_HOME environment variable (which is currently set to the directory which contains ImageMagick). I have checked my LocalSettings.php and made sure it points to the actual convert command, rather than just an alias.

—65.87.62.33 07:22, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have the same problem, anybody know a solution? --142.162.8.222 18:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) MediaWiki confused about where it is in the file system

  • MediaWiki: 1.12.0
  • PHP: 5.2.6
  • MySQL: 5.0.51b
  • URL:

I'm getting an error message whenever MediaWiki tries to use ImageMagick:

Error creating thumbnail:
dyld: Library not loaded: /ImageMagick-6.4.2/lib/libMagickCore.1.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/bin/ImageMagick-6.4.2/bin/convert
Reason: image not found

This is a MediaWiki specific problem; ImageMagick works just fine everywhere else. IM has no problem creating thumbnails and placing them in MediaWiki's image directory from the command line or a shell script. It just happens whenever MediaWiki tries to use it.

I have a feeling this has something to with the path MediaWiki is working in. The part the error message displays is correct, so I assume it has something to do with where MediaWiki thinks it is in the file system. Here's the relevant paths to files and stuff:

ImageMagick is located in: 

/usr/bin/ImageMagick-6.4.2

Both MAGICK_HOME and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH are set appropriately. Also, symbolic links to IM's executables are located in /usr/bin.

MediaWiki is located in: 

/Users/[username]/Sites/wiki

Apache's root is in: 

/Users/[username]/Sites/

Anybody got any ideas? —65.87.54.60 02:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) logo query

At present our wikis are showing up the top left-hand image (yellow flower) faded out, with the message 'Set $wgLogo to the URL path to your own logo image' over it.

Can you please advise how we can put our own image (University of Sydney logo) in a the default for this wiki site?

Many thanks, Julie-Ann Robson —129.78.64.100 04:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Manual:FAQ#How do I change the logo? didn't help? --:bdk: 09:40, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Thumbnails storage in Safe Mode

  • MediaWiki version: 1.11.2
  • PHP version: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL version: 5.0.45

I have a problem with the storage of the thumbnails. The script creates a folder named the same as the image, but it cannot store the thumbnail in it (logical because of Safe Mode).

With the deletion of images, I had to declare a variable ($wgFileStore) to tell the script that there should not be any subdirectory in the deleted folder ($wgFileStore['deleted']['hash'] = 0;)

Is there a similar variable for the thumb directory ??

Moreover thumbnails were created correctly with MW 1.8.

Thanks for your help!

—Matt84 20:05, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Regenerating Thumbnails

I have updated wikimedia from an older version to the current one, and at one stage or another in the process i have lost the link to the miniatures related to the images.

Is there a way to regenerate all the thumbnails, knowing that my provider does not provide me with the ability to make direct PHP commands.

Thx

I partially solved my problem with removing the activation of ImageMagick. In fact ImageMagick was not activated in my previous wiki. As my provider now gives access to it I had activated it, but it seems to be not compatible with previous thumbnails. I had even deleted the thumb directory but ImageMagick did not generate new thumbnails. On the other hand, GD alone did recreate all the thumbnails.
—213.56.174.155 14:12, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) White background behind png thumbnails

  • MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
  • PHP version: 5
  • MySQL version:
  • URL:

Hi, I use some png symbols I found on WM Commons for my wiki. They are round and shouldn't have any background color (this one for example). But when I display them on a colored background, they appear as white blocks. Is this a MediaWiki problem or a problem with the files? —JazzmanDE 14:17, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Missing images

  • MediaWiki: 1.11.0
  • PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
  • MySQL: 5.0.51a-community-log
  • URL: www.wetwares.org

The wiki was working great and then suddenly no images appear on the site. Help me please as I am new to this -- 68.89.185.78 19:38, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please be a bit more accurate:
  • What doesn't appear? All wiki images or just the files you uploaded? It the logo visible?
  • What kind of images do you use? gif/jpg/png or svg files?
  • Did all work normally before? The images just disappeared suddenly?
  • Did you possibly change something over FTP? You're uploaded images are in the "images" folder in your wiki directory. Is the folder readable? Did you rename it or something? --JazzmanDE 15:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the response. i have made progress as described at the bottom of this page

(RESOLVED) Emoticons: Confluence vs MediaWiki

Confluence has more Emoticons that MediaWiki.

Other than primarily smilie faces in MediaWiki, Confluence has (+) Plus, (/) Check, (*) Star.

Does MediaWiki have some extension that has these extra mini icons?

Thanks --208.80.115.126 22 September 2008

The emoticons extension allows you to use whatever emoticons you want. —Emufarmers(T|C) 03:35, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Error creating thumbnail: convert: no decode delegate for this image format

  • MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
  • PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL version: PostgreSQL 8.3.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
  • URL: http://yves.endofinternet.net/wiki

When uploading images to my wiki, is says:

Error creating thumbnail: convert: no decode delegate for this image format `/var/www/htdocs/wiki/images/b/b4/IMG_1095.png'. convert: missing an image filename `/var/www/htdocs/wiki/images/thumb/b/b4/IMG_1095.png/800px-IMG_1095.png'.

It is the same with jpeg.

This seems to be a common problem on the internet, but there is no solution. I am using the newest ImageMagick 6.4.3 compiled from sources

I tried to run: make install-lib in the ImageMagick folder (as one Site on the internet said, this is the solution) but there is no target for make install-lib

—212.201.74.151 12:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I got the solution:
Although everything seemed to work from the Console I had to install the delegates which I found through the ImageMagick-Download-Site (http://www.imagemagick.org/www/download.html) on a german mirror: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/graphics/ImageMagick/delegates/
I installed as much as I could. After that I was able to upload any jpeg and png without error.
The gs-fonts folder which is also in the above mentioned delegates folder, I copied into the path which is shown in the configure-string (Iam just realizing, that might be a bad location, cause it is a gs-fonts folder and i copied it under the ImageMagick folder, but I will leave that for now)..
Here is my configure string for ImageMagick:
./configure  --with-gslib -with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ImageMagick-6.4.3/fonts/ --with-lqr

The most important thing is that after running (ImageMagick) configure there should be shown a table wich says: 

...
--with-jpeg=yes yes
...
--with-png=yes yes
...
Then its going to work after make && make install
Yves

Hi. I have uploaded a movie (.mov) file but it appears as a hyperlink. how do I make it appear as a quicktime video window? —203.206.122.10 09:48, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(OUTDATED) Community wiki says images are unused, wiki editor begs to differ

  • MediaWiki version: 1.11.1
  • PHP version: 5.2.0-8+etch11 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch6-log
  • URL:

Here's a dilemma that I can't solve on my own: we have been categorizing the images on our wiki, many of which are artwork that is displayed on a gallery-style page in the wiki. We want to show the images as thumbnails, not at full-size until clicking on them takes the user to that image page. This art content can be shown in a wiki in two basic ways that come to mind: using the <gallery> tags under subheaders to group the thumbnails by type, or by simply linking to the category pages, which also show the images as thumbnails. The latter solution seems more efficient, and we started to move in that direction, when I saw that, if an image is on the wiki purely for purposes of display as artwork in this gallery (i.e., not being used elsewhere), and we only link to it by linking to its category page, we are not "using" the image. It falls under the Special page Unused files. Unused files is a useful report for me in eliminating duplicate images and various detritus that is genuinely not in use, and now it reflects the categorized images as unused. This does not happen when generating thumbnails using the <gallery> tag.

One solution to this problem is to go back to using <gallery> to display the images, and also categorizing the images, and never the twain shall meet. The obvious problem with this solution is that someone has to constantly monitor for new uploaded images to make sure they are in the gallery and that the section they fall under there agrees with the category the image has been assigned. Now, the wiki is not so frequently uploaded to that this would be a big administrative burden, but I'm wondering if there isn't a more elegant solution, like a gallery that auto-fills with the images that fall under a certain category.

P.S.: Yes, wikis were not designed to function as image galleries; we also have tons of textual information on the wiki; this is just one aspect of the whole.

—74.235.3.146 18:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Thumbnailed Image get wrong file permissions

  • MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
  • PHP version: 5.1.4-0.1 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL version: 5.0.22-Debian_3
  • URL: intranet

I've set up a clean MediaWiki and enabled FileUpload which seems to work pretty good. If I upload pictures, the appropriate dirs and files are created and the pictures can be referenced in other Articles. The problem I face comes up with thumbnailed versions of those pictures. Thumbnails are created correctly - the dirs are ok, the file is ok, the reference is ok. The problem: the file permissions are set to 600 and thus are not world-readable. This problem seems to be known but I wasn't able to find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

—84.186.242.65 18:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I solved my above mentioned problem by myself and am willing to share my solution. I altered the function doTransform() in includes/media/Bitmap.php to look as follows (this code segment starts about row 96):
		if ( $scaler == 'im' ) {
			# use ImageMagick

			$sharpen = '';
			if ( $mimeType == 'image/jpeg' ) {
				$quality = "-quality 80"; // 80%
				# Sharpening, see bug 6193
				if ( ( $physicalWidth + $physicalHeight ) / ( $srcWidth + $srcHeight ) < $wgSharpenReductionThreshold ) {
					$sharpen = "-sharpen " . wfEscapeShellArg( $wgSharpenParameter );
				}
			} elseif ( $mimeType == 'image/png' ) {
				$quality = "-quality 95"; // zlib 9, adaptive filtering
			} else {
				$quality = ''; // default
			}

			# Specify white background color, will be used for transparent images
			# in Internet Explorer/Windows instead of default black.

			# Note, we specify "-size {$physicalWidth}" and NOT "-size {$physicalWidth}x{$physicalHeight}".
			# It seems that ImageMagick has a bug wherein it produces thumbnails of
			# the wrong size in the second case.

			$cmd  =  wfEscapeShellArg($wgImageMagickConvertCommand) .
				" {$quality} -background white -size {$physicalWidth} ".
				wfEscapeShellArg($srcPath) .
				// Coalesce is needed to scale animated GIFs properly (bug 1017).
				' -coalesce ' .
				// For the -resize option a "!" is needed to force exact size,
				// or ImageMagick may decide your ratio is wrong and slice off
				// a pixel.
				" -thumbnail " . wfEscapeShellArg( "{$physicalWidth}x{$physicalHeight}!" ) .
				" -depth 8 $sharpen " .
				wfEscapeShellArg($dstPath) . " 2>&1";
			wfDebug( __METHOD__.": running ImageMagick: $cmd\n");
			wfProfileIn( 'convert' );
			$err = wfShellExec( $cmd, $retval );

			# Change file permission of created thumbnail to be world-readable
			 chmod($dstPath, 0604);

			wfProfileOut( 'convert' );
		} elseif( $scaler == 'custom' ) {
A huge block of code, yes. I've copied it to make sure, everybody finds the correct location. The single change I made is to be found at the 3rd last row reading "chmod($dstPath, 0604);". This will work if your thumbs are created by imageMagic. If your thumbs are created by a custom scaler or gd, you would have to put the chmod command into the appropriate else-block in this function right after the "$err = wfShellExec ..." line.

(OUTDATED) unaccessible images

  • MediaWiki version:
  • PHP version:
  • MySQL version:
  • URL:

I'm an Art Teacher and am always searching images. My recent task involves the Strawberry Shortcake Family, Friends, Pets,etc. I found your great source through google, however, not all the images are allowed to me and I'd like to know if this is something that can be fixed or if not direct me to a better source. I'm using the MediaWiki version. I'm not interested in editing or altering in any way.

—150.176.58.80 13:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC) Bridget Akers[reply]

(OUTDATED) GIF Thumbnails: Black replaced with transparency

  • MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
  • PHP version: 5.2.6
  • MySQL version: 5.0.51b
  • URL: [internal] Windows 2003/Apache

I'm using the php_gd2.dll library to display thumbnails. There is a problem with GIF images. Although no transparency has been specified, GIF thumbnails always replace black with white (or transparent, not sure). Loading the source GIF into an editor shows that black is not at a certain index in the pallet. In this case, it is not index 0, but index 60. In another case it is index 1, and another index 0 & 1. It seems the thumbnailing routine is finding the RGB(0,0,0) colors and converting to white or transparent.

Oddly, when I comment out php_gd2.dll, thumbnailing still works, and the black-substitution isn't a problem. Unfortunately, I need php_gd2.dll for other apps on this webserver.

Can anyone attempt to explain what is going on with MediaWiki and php_gd2.dll that causes this issue with thumbnailing?

—Cedarrapidsboy 20:12, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) After upgrading from Version 1.4.4 to 1.13.2 Images do not display inline anymore. Cannot run rebuildImages.php

  • MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
  • PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL version: 5.0.51a
  • URL: Behind Firewall so not available

I performed an upgrade from Mediawiki 1.4.4 to 1.13.2 (I know that's a very old version, but I inherited the wiki!). Since performing the upgrade none of my Images are displaying on pages anymore. The files exist, and the image description pages show a MIME type of unknown / unknown and a warning about potentially dangerous files.

I saw in the FAQ # 7.2 (Why…are some of my images not showing up after an upgrade?) that I should run the /maintenance/rebuildImages.php.

However when this does not seem to run properly. The output on the console when I run it is: 

wikidb 2008-10-15 10:22:50: Processing image...
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/html/wiki/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 88
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/html/wiki/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 90
2008-10-15 10:22:50:  58.82% done on image; ETA 2008-10-15 10:22:50 [0/170] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated>
wikidb 2008-10-15 10:22:50: Finished image... 0 of 170 rows updated
wikidb 2008-10-15 10:22:50: Processing oldimage...
wikidb 2008-10-15 10:22:50: Finished oldimage... 0 of 20 rows updated

In the rebuildImages.php script under the function "progress" 

printf( "%s: %6.2f%% done on %s; ETA %s [%d/%d] %.2f/sec <%.2f%% updated>\n",
			wfTimestamp( TS_DB, intval( $now ) ),
			$portion * 100.0,
			$this->table,
			wfTimestamp( TS_DB, intval( $eta ) ),
			$completed,   // $completed does not appear to be defined.
			$this->count,
			$rate,        // $rate does not appear to be defined.
			$updateRate * 100.0 );
		flush();

Which explains the first two errors. How do I fix this? Or is it even relevant?

I read somewhere that the reason the images aren't displaying is because of a change to the databse schema where the MIME type and the dimensions of each image is now stored in the database. So these must have been populated to unknown.

Can you tell me what to do from here?

Thanks —Zaberdk 10:45, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Gernots question. Post in your own topic please.

I've managed to fix this issue. I backed up the whole wiki, removed it from my http server and installed the fresh files instead of upgrading. I then used the online installer to install the wiki again. The install picked up my old database and used that. Then I restored the images folder from my backup. Now the images are all displaying correctly. I've no idea why, but at least its working. I never got the rebuildImages.php script to run.
--Zaberdk 10:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(RESOLVED) Invalid Parameter - white SVG Thumbnails

  • MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
  • PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
  • MySQL version: 5.0.51b-community-log
  • URL: local

I get an error message on every page where a PNG preview converted from SVG file should appear, I followed some instructions I found around, but nothing helped.

I installed the latest ImageMagick, the path contains the correct path, which has no space in it, the server is Windows tho (not my choice, sigh).

Any idea on how to make this work? —88.52.202.25 10:32, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. I get this too. The same string cmd command works if I past it into cmd. Must be an issue with how php is passing it in. Aaron 15:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
After reading about passthru(), it seems there are some PATH issues. You can fix this bug by forcing the search path via $wgSVGConverterPath. For example, $wgSVGConverterPath = 'C:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.5-Q16/' fixes it for me. Aaron 15:50, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That fixed it, thank you very much. --88.52.202.25 11:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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