Manual talk:Linked images

Move to manual
I like the top paragraph of this page, I think it's good to explain why it is deliberately designed so that you can't easily do linked images, and maybe that explanation belongs in the help pages.

The rest of this page should be in the Manual. Most of the techniques described require server administration access (not just sysop permissions, but shell/FTP access to the server) it's clearly stated that this doesn't go in the help pages, and I'm keen to start sticking to this more strictly. Remember the bunch of help pages potentially get copied to lots of other wikis.

There is one technique (Template:Click) which is available to all users. As is explained on this page, it's really an ugly hacky workaround to bypass MediaWiki's parsing checks, rather than something we actually want to recommend to users (although we're not setting a very good example by using this on the Main Page of mediawiki.org!) I'm not saying we should try to keep it secret, but I dont think it belongs in the concise user help pages.

I like the information, but I think most of it belongs on Manual:Linked images (which the help page can then link to)

-- Harry Wood 11:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Feel free to move whatever needs to be moved. Splarka 22:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

For reference on plainlinks + external image solution
Just a note, this blog entry came about a few days before this page was started. However, this trick is an old one and not one stolen from Andy. See Uncyclopedia:User_talk:Insertwackynamehere for when I first discovered it in 2005. Splarka 18:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC)