Manual talk:$wgAllowExternalImages

Improvements
-Eep² 09:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * A way to limit this to certain domains and even directories (and all subdirectories) of a particular domain
 * Allow image alt/title tags for descriptions, borders, and full HTML/CSS customization

Other URL types besides http:
We have allowed file:// urls to be linked from our wiki using $wgUrlProtocols, but this does not appear to apply to images. This would help us in our work to allow an image to be revised outside of the wiki on a file server and appear in a wiki article without repeated uploading. Bill Johnson 21:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)