
png extension for your destination filename. Keep in mind that MediaWiki is particular about file extensions – if you'll be uploading a PNG, use the. In the saved article (or in a new tab from the previewed article), click the destination filename, which will be a red (=no such article) link.Insert wiki markup using whatever destination filename you want.After asking for better alternatives on #mediawiki, I got a tip I thought I'd share. Insert wiki markup using the copied filenameĪ lot of steps, and in a non-intuitive order.
#Mediawiki file uploads pdf
pdf in this example) you would like to allow your site to upload. To upload more file types, you will also need to add lines such as wgFileExtensions 'doc' wgFileExtensions 'pdf' for each extension (.doc and. One thing I don't like about MediaWiki is how convoluted it is to add an image to an article. MediaWiki by default allows uploads of images with the following extensions: png, gif, jpg, and jpeg. I've found it mainly meets my needs, though I only need a small subset of its features. (It may help to archive the folder first, into a zip file or the like. The pages with all the tools and statistics belong to that namespaces.

1 ( NSSPECIAL) - the namespace Special is the other virtual namespace that contains pages that cannot be edited by users. I recently wanted a wiki, to collect some ideas with my girlfriend.Īfter trying several pieces of wiki software, I settled for MediaWiki, which also powers Wikipedia. To import uploaded files from one MediaWiki instance to another, you just need to get the images/ folder from the 'source' wiki onto the same server as the 'destination' wiki, if its not there already. The purpose of that namespace is to make it possible to provide direct links to uploaded media files.
