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MediaWiki gallery slideshows

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Tribly (talkcontribs)

When I was browsing the gallery tag page of Wikipedia I just noticed there is a slideshow there for the mediawiki gallery, which I found strange because I thought slideshows aren't natively supported in the MediaWiki galleries. I also tried out it's code here on this wiki on the Sandbox page to test if it's working here as well, and it's working fine, but when I tried it on my own wiki it doesn't seem to work. What should I do to enable this functionality on my wiki? My wiki's version is 1.27(LTS).

Example of the slideshow code I found:

<gallery mode="slideshow">
File:Detroit Publishing Co. - A Yeoman of the Guard (N.B. actually a Yeoman Warder), full restoration.jpg|A Yeoman Warder, from a Victorian-era [[photochrom]]
File:Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3,_1913_-_crop.jpg|The Official program of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession held in Washington, D.C.
File:Thurston, the famous magician - East Indian Rope Trick.jpg|[[Howard Thurston]] performing the [[Indian rope trick]]
File:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg|"The Pirate Publisher", a satire of copyright infringement from the magazine [[Puck (magazine)|Puck]].
</gallery>
137.147.5.74 (talkcontribs)

The feature isn't available in a release version yet, you will have to wait for 1.28.

AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)

I'm using MediaWiki version 1.28.0-alpha (5726c9c) - 09:18, 12 July 2016

The "slideshow" mode isn't working for me on this version either.

Is it possible that some additional .js might be involved? I wasn't able to find anything related on Wikipedia.

137.147.5.74 (talkcontribs)

It was called "slider" then. af7ffaeeecd1, committed merely hours after the revision you are using, renamed it to "slideshow".

AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)

And here I was wasting my time trying to find any missing files. Talk about unfortunate close calls.

Anyway, thanks.

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