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I meant my wiki version is 1.16.1 and the picture i wanted to upload i saved in the commons/images folder

Thanks in advance

Hi

I cant seem to upload pictures to my media wiki page I think I did everything that needed to be done I added $wgEnableUploads = true; to LocalSettings and I've got this on the page I wish to edit [[image:skins\common\images\idtheft.PNG]] Now since I'm new to MediaWiki I've seen tutorials on YouTube whereby the upload file tab appears either on the toolbox section on the left hand side or it appears on the scroll bar next to the horizontal line(use sparringly) tab. your help will be highly appreciated

I'm using xampp ver 1.7.4 with MySQL ver 5.0.7 PHP 5 MediaWiki 1.6.1

Generally you should use the web interface to upload files (go to the page Special:upload on your wiki). Putting the image in skins/common/images won't help, because that's not where uploaded images are stored, and there's more to uploading then just putting the image on the server. (It also has to add a db entry).

If you've managed to successfully upload an image via special:upload, it should have its own page - File:SomeImage.jpg where SomeImage.jpg is the name of the file (for example, on this wiki the image example.png has the page File:Example.png)

To include an image in a wiki page, just types its page name surrounded by [[

For example to include Example.png, you would type [[file:Example.png]]

Which makes:

See help:Images for more details.

Hi Bawolff

Thanks alot I managed to get it right I know what my problem was now this code here $wgEnableUploads = true; had to be right at the end of the LocalSettings code. Thanks once again man

Kagiso