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Newbie here --

I almost have all the data I need to reconstruct URLs like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Sally_Field_%2811205%29_%28cropped%29.jpg

But, I cannot find where .../1/1b/... comes from. I assume it's in the database somewhere. Any ideas?

Thank you.

- Matt

Those path components are not directly stored in the database. They are instead derived data resulting from the use of $wgHashedUploadDirectory = true; in the settings for Wikimedia wikis. These values are taken from the md5 hash of the filename. See Manual:$wgHashedUploadDirectory for more details.

Thank you BDavis. I'll have a look at that man page.