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Help talk:Images and other uploaded files
Cannot upload PDFs[edit]
- MediaWiki version: 1.16.0beta2
- PHP version: 5.2.6-1+lenny4 (apache2handler)
- MySQL version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny2+spu1
- URL: http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/guide (un: guest pw: todayonly!)
I cannot upload PDFs to my wiki. I am logged in as a sysop. I can upload images just fine. The research I have done leads be to believe these changes in LocalSettings should do the trick, but they don't... The public directory is now 777. I don't an error message.
$wgEnableUploads = true; $wgAllowExternalImages = true; $wgAllowCopyUploads = true; $wgAllowImageMoving = true; # $wgUseImageMagick = true; # $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; # allow more file types: $wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf'; # trying to get pdfs to work $wgVerifyMimeType = false; $wgStrictFileExtensions = false; $wgCheckFileExtensions = false; ## $wgMimeDetectorCommand = "file -bi"; ini_set( 'memory_limit', '64M' ); /** This is a flag to determine whether or not to check file extensions on upload. */ $wgUploadSizeWarning = true;
Any advice? --Two7s clash 16:06, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Different languages[edit]
I cannot figure out how to take a free image from an article on the english wikipedia and use it on the spanish wikipedia article on the same topic. I would think you could just type in the file name and it would just work in any language since its uploaded to wikimedia commons, but aparently that isn't the case. {{http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Blades}} and {{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Blades}} specifically. --Kraftlos 06:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
- Those are dead links due to the braces, working links are http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Blades and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Blades . What makes you think the image is on Commons?--Patrick (talk) 10:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
FTP large amount of files?[edit]
I have a very large amount of image files that I want to upload to my wiki site. Using the File Upload through the wiki will take ages to do this. Can I do something like FTP complete directories of image files to the images directory of the wiki, and then somehow get the wiki to recognize these images? This would save heaps of time and effort. Thanks for any help on this. --JohnE 00:18, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I have this problem as well. Uploading images one by one takes ages... Is there some work around to upload several images at a time???
Joey, The Netherlands 13:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I've been looking around also for this... Nad I found something here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_upload_service/Script
So have removed the section that mentions this is not possible CharlesC 14:53, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- Great. Still, not even the
captionattribute seems to work in my version of MediaWiki (1.5.7). Perhaps, when mentioning new features, you might want to note which version they are introduced in. Not everyone uses the same version as you. Not everyone can use the most recent version. Not everyone wants to. --Swift 21:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
this help page[edit]
- Very long, and repetitive for a "man page"... we can do a link for a Quick-reference here?
Image modification/editing[edit]
I'm trying to determine if there's a smooth way to be able to modify the original diagram that produced a gif or jpg. Here's the path I go through to create an image for posting on a Wiki.
- The diagram is created in OpenOffice Draw.
- Export diagram to gif format.
- Upload gif to Wiki.
Now I want to modify the diagram and I go through the cycle again. That's not too bad, but it gets really cumbersome when someone else wants to modify the diagram. The original diagram could be stored in a version control system, but it would be nice to have everything on the Wiki. One solution we are trying is uploading the original diagram to the Wiki and add a link in the gif image page to the original document. Here's the process we have to go through and I think you'll agree it's not very smooth.
- Select the link to the original document. This brings it up OpenOffice Draw.
- Make changes.
- Save original document to local disk.
- Export to a gif on local disk.
- Upload original document to Wiki.
- Upload gif to Wiki.
- Take a deep breath and feel like there's gotta be an easier way!
Does anyone have a better way to get this done?
PDF upload problems / empty file error[edit]
I have modified my localsettings.php as advised, but I cant get some PDF uploads to work. Some PDFs work fine... some don't and I can't see a pattern.
This is the error i get:
The file you uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file name. Please check whether you really want to upload this file.
Solution is here: Uploading_files
File size limit[edit]
Is there anyway to change the filesize limit on mediawiki?
--maestrosync who can't be bothered logging in
- See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Uploading_files --22.214.171.124 14:49, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
image attributes without imagemagick[edit]
Is it possible to add the height and width attributes to an image without actually resizing the image in imagemagick? I just want to make an image take up less screen space. This is valid HTML, I just don't know how to do it from MediaWiki.
I currently have wgUseImageResize set to false, because I don't have ImageMagick installed.
If I use the tag [[Image:MyImage.jpg|100px]], I get the image at full size with the caption "100px".
If I try setting wgUseImageResize to true, the page dies because it can't find ImageMagick.
How can I specify the height and width tags?
- As far as I know, the current code doesn't try to do this; I'm thinking of reorganising that bit of code though, so this may become available in a future version (as a fallback for those without ImageMagick). - IMSoP 14:59, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
No protection against (even inadvertent overwriting)[edit]
"When a file is uploaded with the same name as an existing one, the old one is replaced. If that is not the intention one has to check in advance that the same name does not exist yet, because currently the system does not warn against overwriting"
- This is an unfortunate situation, as it offers no protection against even unintentional overwrites. Metawiki should at the very least offer up a warning that the file in question already exists and prompt the user for replacement. That's assuming that the users are trustworthy.
- Will "protecting" the Image "desc" page protect the image?
- --Memobug 22:08, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- No. But you can still restore the old image. Walter 22:12, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Enable ALL File Extensions For Upload[edit]
Guys it is fast and simple process and 100% tested. Just add following line in "\include\LocalSettings.php" file
$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ogg','doc','xls','ppt','mp3','sxc','pdf' );
user:Rajan Enjoy
I'm running a local wiki at work. We want to upload scripts (with various extensions on the default blacklist) and arbitrary filetypes.
I took a belt and suspenders approach here, since I couldn't find any good documentation of this, only the source code itself. I added the following to my LocalSettings.php:
# Enable all file extensions. $wgCheckFileExtensions = false; $wgStrictFileExtensions = false; $wgFileBlacklist = array();
Is there a better way to do this? What exactly does $wgCheckFileExtensions do? It doesn't seem to behave as I'd expect. I haven't tested this much, however. If someone more knowledgeable happens upon this, it'd be good to cover this, with a proper explanation, in the content page.
PatrickFisher 22:24, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Is it possible to upload the images using SCP or at least upload them from a URL rather then the harddrive. (So that I could scp them to a server and then upload more quickly.) On a slow connection uploading images even just a few images one by one is really painful.
- q.
html upload still fails. I get an upload warning of The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again. ... ran the html through HTML Tidy to be sure, tried uploading as .xhtml, too. uploaded a pdf without problem. suggestions? -- Adam Katz 17:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Yes! Add the following line to your LocalSettings.php:
$wgVerifyMimeType = false;
In my case, uploading, say, a PDF just results in the user being sent straight back to the upload page (with no message, no error, and nothing in the upload log). Uploading images is fine. Since the file upload (and uploaded files capabilities) seem to be very (VERY!) keyed towards images only, is it fair to say that non-image (and perhaps non-ogg) files should not be uploaded?
I'm trying to do the same thing the original poster is (set up a private Wiki and allow sharing/attachment of files to articles). Has anyone been able to get this working?
-- IanSchorr 1:56, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Try to edit the file includes/DefaultSettings.php and add your extension to $wgFileExtensions
-- See docs: Supported file types & below
I am still getting this error when trying to upload html-files[edit]
If you have done everything to allow html-upload mentioned above and also your ./images directory is writeable, and you still get this The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again-error, maybe this helps you:
There is a mechanism that tries to find some "IE-bug" inside html-files and it is often triggered. Try if this helps:
- Open the file ./includes/SpecialUpload.php
- Search for the string function verify
- Comment the 3 lines that follow with #, it should more or less look like this now:
function verify( $tmpfile, $extension ) { #if( $this->triggersIEbug( $tmpfile ) ) { # return false; #}
Save the file and try if you can upload the html-file that did not work now. If not, this was probably not what you are looking for ;-) If yes: if you are brave leave it commented (because I don't know what it actually does but I am not using IE in my private wiki)
(Actually the error message is incorrect or rather too unspecific. It should better in this case be something like: this file has triggered the IEbug-filter and is therefore not accepted for uploading Please correct the IEBug in the file and try to upload again)
--Kurt Miebach 15:13, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Interlaced/Progressive formats.[edit]
Shouldn't interlaced PNGs and progressive JPGs be proposed? See the difference when loading [1] instead of [2] --Hhielscher 17:29, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Linking and embedding[edit]
We have a collaborative project using MediaWiki, and need to be able to both include and embed images from another server (the wiki server has neither the space nor the bandwidth to host the images itself). The embedded image needs an alternate text along the lines of "click for an enlarged image" and there should be a link to the enlarged image (which should _not_ be embedded). I expected to be able to do this with
[[media:http://mysite/bigpic.jpg|http://mysite/smallpic.jpg|Click for XGA image (35k)]]
hoping to get an output (in its simplest form) like

but what I see is nothing like that. I tried to achieve this without alternate text (I could live without that), but what shows up is a random ">, followed by the small pic. Looking at the source code of the returned page shows that I have got a link to a null URL (just a single space between the quotes), a title in the link tag which is the URL of the embedded image and no reference to the larger image at all.
After a lot of experiment I find that (using the real URLs)
[http://pennine.demon.co.uk/photos/seakayak/xga/Lunga-P7-100-3086.jpg http://pennine.demon.co.uk/photos/seakayak/small/Lunga-P7-100-3086.jpg]
gets me
but nothing I have tried seems to work to get an alternate text. Can the documentation explain how to do this ?
- See the new Help:Navigational_image#Thumbnail, thanks for the example.--Patrick 12:16, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Using Images as Buttons[edit]
I want to use images as buttons, so they are linked to external pages. In regular html, it's done simply. Here, I did not find a way to do it, all images link to their Image pages, which I do not need. Redirects do not solve the problem as they only work on internal pages. - Svakhine 15:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
- I would also like to link images to another page rather than to the image information page. Is this possible in MediaWiki? -- Tyagi 07:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
How to take out the thumb to the small image[edit]
Hi, thanks to everybody here. I am proving with chess template in order to add other little figures to improve chess diagrams with explanations. See. [3] How can I take out the thumbs to the little image? thanks. --GengisKanhg (my talk) 22:08, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
- I see two larger tiles on top of a chess diagram, but it is not clear what the intention is, and what the problem is.--Patrick 06:06, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Customizing Gallery[edit]
Is it possible to change the number of columns gallery uses for displaying thumbnails? I.e., I've got a narrow, fixed width column that my content appears in, and 4 columns of thumbnails is too wide; I'd prefer to be able to force the gallery into a 3 column layout.
Also, although the guide states of the gallery tags, "Using the syntax explained elsewhere on this page gives more control over size...", its unclear exactly how one might change the size of the thumbnails. I took this sentence to mean that something like
would work, but it doesn't; "95x|" is included in the caption instead.
- See my addition.--Patrick 10:17, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I have a new question about the gallery. Is there a way to center a picture in the gallery? Say I have 2 rows of pictures a row of 4 and a row of one, How can I center therow of one? DivineShadow218 04:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Too extensive[edit]
This help seems too extensive and partly reduplicative to edit effectively enough.
First, with the title "Images and other uploaded files", this help appears not to be the best place to give the close description of how to upload files and name them, which types of files can be uploaded, and the like. And the default settings of upload is twice told with contents quite alike in the subsection "Uploading non-image files" and in the section "Default settings".
Second, it seems good to depict what things are going with "embedding external images" in a dedicated help elsewhere, especially because the feature is disabled in most projects.
Thirdly, it may be advisable that a separate help is made to describe links to internal, interwiki and external files (image and sound files among others).--Toby (YebisYa) IQUEPPE 03:01, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Extended image syntax enabling?[edit]
Does this extended image syntax need to be explicitly enabled? I'm a frequent contributor at Wikipedia, so I use this stuff all the time. But on my new insallation of MediaWiki, when I try to use something like
[[Image:My Big Image.jpg|thumb|200px|caption here]] it gives me the full-sized image with a title attribute of "thumb|200px|caption here". Perhaps I need to turn off inline image display? -- Phyzome 16:47, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I was having this problem and realized I needed to turn on $wgUseImageResize in localsettings. It would be nice if there were a way to scale images in HTML if that's what the user wanted. -- Zach 04:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Using English images in other language Wikipedias[edit]
Is it possible to use an image that's in an English Wikipedia article directly in an Esperanto article? I'm trying to translate some articles into Esperanto, and it'd be nice to have the photos without having to reupload them.
Flash (.SWF) Files?[edit]
Is it possible to upload Flash files to MediaWiki (altering the LocalSettings.php file that's mentioned in the Help article)? If yes, is it possible to embed them in articles?
- I don't believe it is possible right now (as of 1.5 beta1), but I've heard of people who have hacked the appropriate areas to make swf files appear in the proper media tag instead of the image tags like regular images.. so something like this should be on the radar for someone to make as an official feature. One day. =) -- Sy / (talk) 23:56, 28 Jun 2005 (UTC)
MetaPost diagrams[edit]
Passionate plea: It would be wonderful to have support for scalable vector graphics via MetaPost. We are already using TeXnology for rendering mathematical formulas, so why not also use the TeX community's very elegant vector graphics engine? In contrast to many other format alternatives (SVG, PDF, etc.), MetaPost was specifically designed to be easy to use when diagrams are edited with plain-text editors. MetaPost graphics should not be uploaded as separate files, they should be included into the main text, as it happens already with mathematical formulas.
MetaPost is well established, widely used, and freely available as portable software. It is a very easy to learn elegant high-level graphics description language that the mpost interpreter converts into embedded postscript (which in turn is easy to raster via ghostscript). MetaPost descriptions are ideally suited to be manipulated with a plain-text editor. The language allows authors to select a level of abstraction appropriate for the diagram at hand. -- Markus Kuhn, 9 October 2005
Making images fit the defined area[edit]
I have a predefined css for my image and am using the [[Image... to add my image to the left of the document. But this picture is smaller than the defined area. Is there a way to make the image fit inside the box please? something like stretch? Thanks.
- Yes, as the page says, you can enlarge with |thumb|width in pixels px|.--User:Patrick | talk 21:57, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Can image links be set to open in a new browser window?[edit]
I have searched and searched and found nothing about this!!!
Enabling MediaWiki to embed .mov[edit]
Never mind
Is there a way to only display a portion of an image? This would be useful where different parts of the image are useful in different articles. An example is Image:Phase diag iron carbon.PNG, which I'm using as a practical example in austenite, peritectic, and as explanation for the chemical reactions in cast iron and steel. Each of these topics emphasizes a different section of the diagram, so that it would be nice to just give four coordinates and have only a section show in the thumbnail. Can this be done? --en:user:Polyparadigm
Super-sections I and II[edit]
I provisionally divided the article into super-sections <32K for easy copying by super section, for editors who cannot copy all at once.--Patrick 07:26, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
embedding images dynamically generated by external servers depending on template parameters[edit]
Wow... what a headline! I'd like to enable automatic map inclusions on wikitravel. We (german wt) use at the moment maps from demis map server. It's possible to generate a variable link in template but i didnt manage to include the map generated from demis depending on the parameters in the query string in the following url:
where '{{{1}}}' is sth like "40,50,60,70". i tried it with an img src tag and also just as plain url... Is this planned to implement that one day? FlorianKonnertz 05:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Embedding images without using upload feature?[edit]
I have several images, that need to be displayed along with the text for my tutorial pages. I would rather use my ftp client to just upload all the images into an "images" directory rather than using the built in upload function. Then I'd like to embed them in my page rather than just link to them.
Is there any way to do this?
- See Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files#Embedding_external_images.--Patrick 20:04, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Hotlink prevention breaks image links[edit]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example\.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|swf|png)$ - [F,NC]
I put these lines in my base .htaccess file, but it breaks image linking for my wiki. I had to put a RewriteEngine off in the wiki directory to get it to work again. Am I doing something wrong here?
Image Page Customization[edit]
Hi. I'm considering using the MediaWiki as the engine to run the majority of my website. I'd like to import a lot of images. I don't really like how the image page itself looks. I'd prefer the title to be something besides Image:image1.jpg. Is it an easy modification to allow me to name images whatever I want, like "London Bridge" or something like that? I suppose I could always create an additional page called "London Bridge" and link to the image, but that seems like a waste of resources. Any suggestions? --Boone 13:53, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
I came up with a hack. Perhaps you can tell me if this will break anything else or cause a security problem. In the content page for the image, I have a line called:
- Title: London Bridge
Then I added a constructor to ImagePage.php:
function ImagePage( &$title ) { global $action; Article::Article( $title ); if ($action=='view') { // scan item content for *Title: and use if available $strText=Article::getContent(false); if (preg_match( '/^\*Title: (.*)$/mi',$strText,$matches)) $this->mTitle->mPrefixedText=$matches[1]; } }
The reason I check for the 'view' action is because other actions like 'watch' were taking the mPrefixedText value and building bad links with it.
--Boone 20:00, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation's policy on image hot-linking?[edit]
Does anyone know of the Wikimedia Foundation's policy of hot-linking images on the Wikimedia servers? I know that hot-linking images on other people's servers is often considered to be rude and an act of leeching. However, I would like to hear of the Wikimedia Foundation's stance on this. --220.127.116.11 08:43, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Thumbnails not being created[edit]
Any suggestions on thumbnails not being created?
I have the appropriate sections in LocalSettings.php activated and have the correct folders created in images, with 777 privileges set.
I can also call convert from the command line.
However when I try and use a thumbnail of an uploaded image I get the thumbnail box and the alt text...
- I also have this problem. Does anyone know what the deal is? 220.127.116.11 02:09, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- I'm getting the same problem. It appears that if I try to have Mediawiki automatically scale the image, or manually scale the image below 100%, I get the same blank thumbnail box. If the image is 100% or larger, everthing works as expected.--Zadzagy 21:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- UPDATE: I've downloaded, compiled and enagled ImageMagick, but am still getting the same issue. My LocalSettings.php file has been modified accordingly. Weirder and weirder...--Zadzagy 20:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Same problem here. no matter what I do, the thumbnails don't get converted...
- Same here as well. I've tried re-uploading the file, no dice. I'm currently running 1.6.5. In a previous version (1.5.7) that I'm also running, thumbnails display fine.
- same here if I try to add a thumbnailed image all I get is the message"Error creating thumbnail" and the alt text...any thoughts? http://untold-legends.com/wiki/index.php?title=Titan_Zero_Fleet_Database
- I'm also having the same issue. Wiki just seems to ignore anything except the image: part 126.96.36.199 22:55, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- Here is the solution: In the file include/DefaultSettings.php set variable $wgUseImageResize to be "true"
- I think you should rather set that variable in
LocalSettings.php, because mw:Manual:Configuration settings says: "Never edit
DefaultSettings.php; copy appropriate lines to
LocalSettings.phpinstead and amend them as appropriate." --Teratornis 19:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- I am getting the same issue on Redhat. I just downloaded and installed ImageMagick and it is as if its not there. I even tried the above recomendation to edit the default settings file.
- Have you checked your error logs? I had the same problem. In my case, it was because the web host had disabled the PHP functions shell_exec() and escapeshellarg(), which are required for the section of code in Image.php that uses IMageMagick. If you don't have access to your error logs, you can change the line "$wgUseImageMagick = true;" in your LocalSettings.php to "false", which will force the use of the GD Library rather than ImageMagick. If the images appear, the problem probably lies with either the disabling of those functions or elsewhere in the code associated with ImageMagick.
- I was having the same problem, then I discovered that if i had the file extension (in my case .jpg) in UPPER CASE (.JPG) the thumbnails displayed and worked correctly.
- I was having a problem with thumbnails and added the line "$wgUseImageMagick = false;" to my LocalSettings.php file and that solved the problem. -February 4, 2012.
MimeMagic does wrong file association[edit]
I have this funny problem with MediaWiki 1.5.2. I want to enable to upload all kinds of office files. I have done this
$wgFileExtensions = array('gif','png','jpg','jpeg','xls','doc','ppt','pdf'); $wgMimeDetectorCommand= "file -bi"; #use external mime detector (linux)
But when I try any office documents besides word I get an error. In the log see that MimeMagic tries to associate it with msword. Is there a workaround?
UploadForm: watchthis is: '' WebRequest::getFileName() 'bla.ppt' normalized to 'bla.ppt' Block::load: '192.168.200.121', '2', 1 MimeMagic::MimeMagic: loading mime types from includes/mime.types MimeMagic::MimeMagic: loading mime info from includes/mime.info MimeMagic::detectMimeType: magic mime type of /tmp/phpW7MOCz: application/msword MimeMagic::guessMimeType: final mime type of /tmp/phpW7MOCz: application/msword SpecialUpload::verifyExtension: mime type application/msword mismatches file extension ppt, rejecting file ** private caching; ** Request ended normally
Hi! Same or similar problem reported here: Uploading / Upload of doc, xls, ppt files fails
--22.214.171.124 09:56, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Error when updating/deleting an image[edit]
I get this error when I try to upload an image :
The file you uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file name. Please check whether you really want to upload this file.
I have already changed the memory_limit and the two other parameters to 30Mo and I am not able to update even small images (but uploading new images work well).
When I try to delete an image I get this error :
There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please hit "back" and reload the page you came from, then try again.
Note that I am the sysop of my wiki
do I make a mistake ? is this a bug ?
Possible answer: check user rights on the images folder. I had the same problem that uploads didn't work. IUSER_... has to have modify rights.
external images[edit]
The external images show up as urls for me. Is this just me, the fact that I am not logged in, or a problem? Smileyface11945
- On Meta embedding external images has been disabled. The text is also used on other projects, it demonstrates whether embedding works or not.--Patrick 01:04, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- So the examples at the bottom of this section are now not working. For illustrative purposes I guess we could cheat and have the rendered examples actually linked to internal images. Might cause confusion though. Any thoughts. Otherwise we'll need to remove the example. At the moment it's broken right? -- Harry Wood 09:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- It says "The examples in what follows are intended for projects in which embedding is enabled." The wikitext should be the same on projects where it is working and where it is not.--Patrick 14:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- So the examples at the bottom of this section are now not working. For illustrative purposes I guess we could cheat and have the rendered examples actually linked to internal images. Might cause confusion though. Any thoughts. Otherwise we'll need to remove the example. At the moment it's broken right? -- Harry Wood 09:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
So can this be enabled?
A: Yes. Add the following line to your LocalSettings.php: $wgAllowExternalImages = true;
[Firefox 1.5: Firefox does not display the images only the alt text if you have enabled the "Content option": Download from the originating website only. ]
Unlinkable images[edit]
I want to have an image on a page as with a locator map with links on top of the image. It works (sort of) but I don't want the underlying image to be a link as well (to prevent user error). Is this possible? --Kwoot 09:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
The upload directory (/home/ninja999/public_html/mwiki/images) is not writable by the webserver.[edit]
What does this mean? Go here: http://www.nictitatingrabbit.com/mwiki/index.php/Special:Upload to see. Why would this happen?
The upload directory (/home/ninja999/public_html/mwiki/images) is not writable by the webserver.
[EDIT] I changed the permissions on the whole images folder to 777 (All permissions) and it works now.
It would be a better idea to chmod 755 it instead
Images replaced[edit]
In the section about image links, I replaced Image:Canterbury Tales.png with a free image of broccoli from Commons. By using a free image, I shoould be able to copy the page to English Wikibooks. --Kernigh 01:39, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Image borders[edit]
Is it possible to add borders to images, using wiki syntax? (similar to style="border:solid 1px #000000;") I know about "thumb" and how that places a border, but don't want the caption and second border. Thanks. --Kmf164 00:36, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
MIME types of uploaded files[edit]
Where are files' MIME types stored? I've uploaded all the images for my wiki via FTP, because there were already database entries for them left over from the previous version of wiki, and now they have unknown MIME type. This causes them to show up "warped" when I embed them with "frame" parameter and prevents creation of thumbnails. The solution is to set MIME type for all files to image/png (as I don't have files of other types in my wiki). How this can be done with MySQL query? --Tweenk 00:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Incorrect information re updating images?[edit]
When a file is uploaded with the same name as an existing one, the old one is replaced. If that is not the intention one has to check in advance that the same name does not exist yet, because currently the system does not warn against overwriting.
I tried this at the Wikimedia Commons and it didn't work. I got an error saying "A file with this name exists already; please go back and upload this file under a new name." How can I update my uploaded image? Simetrical 04:26, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- This is still true. See question on commons:Commons:Help_desk#Upload_warning
- Using a google search for two phrases ("A file with this name exists already" "please go back and upload this file under a new name") I discovered that this message exists at MediaWiki:Fileexists-forbidden.
- As I speculated on Help desk, this seems to be the answer to difficulties tracking changes to images: I guess images are now immutable and to change an image you have to also change the text of all of the pages referencing the image. The only problem is the revision history of the image description page, I guess.
- And of course, this is not documented anywhere I have found yet (still looking). The page we are discussing is the obvious place for the documentation. Archimerged 18:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
- No, according to an archived discussion at commons found further down that google search, my problem is I just created my commons account and am not yet allowed to overwrite images. This needs to be documented on the help pages. Guess I'm elected... Archimerged 18:13, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Thumbnails dont work[edit]
i can add an image to a page and upload it and view it fine in the file view but no matter what i do the image will not display in the page as a thumbnail - it just has the blue question mark (or the red x for pc users) where the image is supposed to be any ideas please?
Embed Camtasia SFW flash video, video controller bar, and xml config[edit]
I'm sure this is possible, although I haven't figured it out myself yet.
Camtasia Studio creates flash videos for training/etc. I could use the Flash extension if I just wanted to show the swf files, but if I want to include the control bar (pause, play, stop, progress bar, about box, etc.) -- I need something else.
in the html page, the relevant code for displaying the swf video with control bar is as follows:

 <object id ="flashMovie" codeBase ="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" height ="497" width ="640 " classid ="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" VIEWASTEXT> <PARAM NAME="_cx" VALUE="26"> <PARAM NAME="_cy" VALUE="26"> <PARAM NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="csConfigFile=1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_config.xml"> <PARAM NAME="Movie" VALUE="1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_controller.swf?csConfigFile=1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_config.xml"> <PARAM NAME="Src" VALUE="1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_controller.swf?csConfigFile=1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_config.xml"> <PARAM NAME="WMode" VALUE="Window"> <PARAM NAME="Loop" VALUE="false"> <PARAM NAME="Quality" VALUE="high"> <PARAM NAME="SAlign" VALUE=""> <PARAM NAME="Menu" VALUE="-1"> <PARAM NAME="Base" VALUE=""> <PARAM NAME="AllowScriptAccess" VALUE="always"> <PARAM NAME="Scale" VALUE="ShowAll"> <PARAM NAME="DeviceFont" VALUE="0"> <PARAM NAME="EmbedMovie" VALUE="0"> <PARAM NAME="BGColor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"> <PARAM NAME="SWRemote" VALUE=""> <PARAM NAME="MovieData" VALUE=""> <PARAM NAME="SeamlessTabbing" VALUE="1"> <EMBED src ="1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_controller.swf?csConfigFile=1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_config.xml" flashvars ="csConfigFile=1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_config.xml" quality ="high" bgcolor ="#FFFFFF" width ="640" height ="497" type ="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspace ="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </EMBED> </OBJECT>

In the above example we have the following files:
- 1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_controller.swf
- 1 Install Eclipse Web Tools_config.xml
- 1 Install Eclipse Web Tools.swf (the actual training video)
I see 2 ways to do this:
- Big Hack: Somehow escape to raw html inside the wiki markup and point to the files located on another server or absolutely located on this server.
- Upload the 2 swf files, and xml file like normal. Then write a
<camtasiaFlash>file=movie_name.swf|config=xml_file_name.xml|controller=movie_name_controller.swf</camtasiaFlash> tag to parse out the html.
Please share ideas you all may have, I look forward to learning from you all. Jcobbers 14:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Proposed revision to the ==Uploading== section[edit]
I have written a proposed replacement for the Uploading section of this page. Feel free to make corrections in place, or if you can vouch for the accuracy (so far I haven't been able to upload a replacement image but I write as if it is still possible), to replace the Uploading section with the new version. Archimerged 23:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
How to link an image to an external URL?[edit]
I want to make an image to link to an external website.
It's something like the following HTML code:

I read media wiki help document and can not find a way to do this.
How should I achieve this? Or this is not possible??
upload folder permissions issue[edit]
i've enabled uploads in the LocalSettings.php file and changed the permissions on the upload folder to 777 (everything checked) and still I get the following error message:
The upload directory (***/images) is not writable by the webserver.
Is this a webhost-related problem or something I am overlooking?
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
- Did you remove the '#' in the localsettings.php before the line $wgEnableUploads = True ? see also Writable by the web server
bugzilla:05143: example with 100x150px option[edit]
→ bugzilla:05143 – "Allow aspect ratio of an image to be specifiable within a page"
- The syntax and the examples should be up to date.
- Maybe MediaWiki:Fileuploaded can be impruved also. w:en:MediaWiki:Fileuploaded contains a link to w:en:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax where you can find:
- Size
- {width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 and height to 40).
I'm not sure who started the widthxheightpx stuff on w:WP:EIS, maybe it was me, and then it was a hallucination: The software accepts anything before px, even %, but unfortunately it uses only the leading digits to get an absolute width. So 22x55px has the same effect as 22px, and 50%px results in 50px.
-- Omniplex (w:t) 23:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Dear Omniplex! I hace no other comment on your note: Most bugs are found either by typing "erroneous code" (from the developers point of view / according to a syntax if the syntax is specified to some degree) or by exhaustive (to what level) testing. I would suggest that you report the bug at bugzilla: at least as a "reminder", as a "good to know". Such issues could be reported when "spacial:WrongSyntax" would be implemented; see bugzilla:05478. What else should the parser do? Best regards Gangleri · Th · T 09:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
- notes:
- embeded the original table in another with "cellpadding=5" and the background as defined for this namespace in MediaWiki:Monobook.css;
- the embeding table must have the same "align="foo"" as the original table
Ambiguity of the first paragraph[edit]
The first paragraph is quite confusing: The last sentence: "For uploading multimedia files that can be used in all Wikimedia Projects, you can use Wikimedia Commons." implies very strongly that the Wikimedia commons should only be used for multimedia files that are used in all wikimedia projects, and that there is another location for files which are intended only for use in wikipedia. However, there is no reference in the entire article to the location for wikipedia-only files! I'm still not convinced that one doesn't exist, because of the way that paragraph was constructed. So if there is, then please add a link to it in the first paragraph, and if there isn't, then please remove this ambiguity from the paragraph. Thank you. 22.214.171.124 15:15, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
- Update: After having been directed to the upload page I have changed the first instance of the word 'upload' into a link to that page. Also, Patrick Has graciously changed the wording of the paragraph to make it more clear. Thank you, patrick. Uniqueuponhim 05:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC) (formerly 18.104.22.168)
I want to include some images on my wiki, but have some of them watermarked. Is it possible to have imagemagic watermark images in a category?
How to delete images[edit]
How can I delete an image?
- If you are a sysops on the wiki, then a "Delete Page" appears at the bottom of the page for all images. Simply click on that link, follow the instructions --Dr DBW 23:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
A one-pixel border[edit]
I would love to put a single-pixel border around an image. One pixel wide, black, hugging the image so that there is no gap. Is there a way to do this? I assume I would have to use a table. If someone could post the code, or an example in reply, I would be eternally grateful. 188.8.131.52 18:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
- use css --User:AaronPeterson
External Images on same server[edit]
I have the need to be able to link to images that exist on the same server as my mediawiki. I used to be able to accomplish this using verion 1.4.12 by allowing external images and embedding something like the following into a page: http:/custom/2001.png
When I upgraded to verion 1.7, that form no longer worked. Instead, I have to include the entire domain name, e.g., http://domainname.com/custom/2001.png. This is annoying for the following reasons:
- There are a LOT of pages that need to be changed to the new format
- It is more to type
- I have a slow connection so when at home, I connect to my own machine using http://localhost/ however, the wiki pages will still be looking for images at http://domainname.com/custom/ etc.. whereas before, the links to images were simply relative, meaning that it will take considerably longer to load images when I am sitting at the machine.
Where was this changed? How can I change it back? Thanks
Make ImageList a Gallery[edit]
How can I make the page that lists the uploaded files (Special:ImageList) into a gallery (i.e. list thumbnails of the images)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 126.96.36.199 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- You might be interested in the Special:Newimages page. --Swift 10:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
- {{special:Newimages/3}}
- creates:
15:41, 23 July 2019
11:48, 30 May 2019
18:52, 29 September 2018
- Adamtheclown 10:44, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
replacement check[edit]
"When a file is uploaded with the same name as an existing one, the old one is replaced. If that is not the intention one has to check in advance that the same name does not exist yet, because currently the system does not warn against overwriting."
that seems to have changed. --en:User:Sarefo 10:35, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Modifying image[edit]
I noticed that the Wikipedia article about Liechtenstein contains a map of Europe where Montenegro still does not appear as an independent country. I downloaded the image and modified it in order to include Montenegro, but seems like I cannot upload it back to Commons with the same name. Is there a way to improve an image while keeping its name, or should I give a new name to the new file and effectively replace the image?--Húsönd 03:03, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Commons and external wikies[edit]
External wikimedia installations (as WikiPAT, http://mitel.dimi.uniud.it/wikipat/ ) can access to Commons images after some proper configuration? WikiPAT is an experimental wiki for pathologists, almost empty so far (see w:it:Wikipedia:Peogetto Medicina/Saletta Morgagni)--Alex brollo 10:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- I think so, yes. See Help:Interwiki linking for more. This help talk-page is for discussing the contents of Help:Images and other uploaded files. For help on MediaWiki software, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Help, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication and http://www.mwusers.com/. --Swift 17:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Well it is the contents of this article that should cover the requirements for getting image to work. However, I doubt this is the case. image.. seems like a standard tag with a standard behaviour in the system...
Doesn't work at all !?[edit]
Showing an image from the commons in my wiki does not work. Instead I get a red link that prompts to upload the image on my local project.
See http://www.tagloops.com/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Tour_of_the_Authoring_Tool
Any ideas of what might be wrong??
how my wiki can support "svg"[edit]
I can upload a file to my wiki with ".svg" extension but I can not view it. As far as I have searched from internet, I understood that I have to use an external program (like RSVG-imagemagi or Inkspace)to render my "svg" to "png" format. Did I understand truely and do I have to configure any mediawiki files. --Hakanc 13:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Access to picture informations[edit]
How can I removed the access to picture informations byc clicking on it ? - I can redirect on the same page but if I use the same image in another page, the redirection can not be change
Thumbnails will not show.[edit]
Images show up fine otherwise, but when I put them into a thumbnail they disappear and link is left in its place. They won't even show up in the gallery. It also seems as though this was not always the case. No images are showing this problem until October 14, 2005.
- I was having the same problem, then I discovered that if i had the file extension (in my case .jpg) in UPPER CASE (.JPG) the thumbnails displayed and worked correctly.
Gallery image in Commons[edit]
Someone moved one of my images to Commons, and now that image does not show up in a <gallery> in an en: page. Putting "commons:" ahead of the image does not make it appear. Perhaps the description of a gallery needs additional information or caveats. (SEWilco 03:55, 26 September 2006 (UTC))
- The examples on the help page are also images on Commons. May be there is a size limitation for using commons images in a gallery.--Patrick 11:33, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
This is not a very good tutorial for images. It's too complex (with file upload). Why is File upload stitched on this images page. It should be file uplaod and a note to Images, IMHO. It think this [4] is a much better image tutorial! Kassie 13:00, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Need image help.[edit]
When I try to make a thumbnail image, it says "Incomplete GD library: missing function imagecreatefromjpeg" where the image should be. Can anyone help me? --Fezir 22:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I too have a similar problem. When I use the following for image
all I get is a box with the name. What am I doing wrong. 126.96.36.199 16:02, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm having the same issue, has anyone found any help or a resolution? --Riluve 13:18, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Me too ... but I solved this issue on a Red Hat RHEL4 system as follows:
- Some PHP 4.x and 5.x versions of PHP have a bug where the libjpeg is detected but not enabled during the ./configure step; this is fairly prevalent on Red Hat/RHEL/CentOS systems. The fix for this (if you don't want to use ImageMagick) is to recompile PHP. First, find out (from phpinfo()) what the existing ./configure switches were, and add --with-jpeg-dir before --with-gd.
make clean ./configure --with-various-switches --with-jpeg-dir --with-gd --with-more-switches make make test #switch to root make install
- Afterwards, restart the webserver (for Apache on Red Hat: service apache stop then service apache start ). To test, simply view the File:... page again (no need to upload again). For more information see the comments on PHP: imagecreatefromjpeg (function synopsis)
Upload is disabled, how enable it ?![edit]
On my Wiki, link "Upload file" doesn't display (I have last French version).
I went in 1247 of includes/DefaultSettings.php and wrote $wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'zip', 'rar', 'pdf', 'doc', 'xls', 'mp3', 'wav' ); for letting these files to be enabled, but "upload file" in toolbox still doesn't appear.
- There's still one more thing to uncomment in your LocalSettings.php --allow or enable file uploads 184.108.40.206 11:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Changing an image[edit]
In the "Inline images" section, I think Image:Wikipedia minilogo.gif should be replaced with a free licenced image, analogous to what was done with en:Image:Example.jpg. I will go ahead with this unless someone objects. Dar-Ape 04:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
...Windows Victims[edit]
- May contain harmful executables for Windows victims
...Nice hehe
18.104.22.168 16:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Breaking HTML Code[edit]
I have found a problem with enabling UseTidy with the HTML code used to display images. Any assistance or opinions would be greatly accepted. Details / information on the problem can be found on MetaWiki at: Manual talk:$wgUseTidy --Dr DBW 23:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Anyone with any ideas on this one at all? Been trying to find a solution to this for nearly two months now, asking in various locations, haven't heard a peep from anyone. --Dr DBW 00:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Filesize in KiloBytes as option[edit]
Hello, Is this possible to show filesize in KiloBytes of a media by using an option ? For example: {{media:Example.odt|filesize}}
I see the function getSize() exists in include/Image.php and include/ImagePage.php. Could somebody tell me how to use it, please ? Thanks in advance.
Can't upload on this wiki[edit]
It says i Can't upload on my wiki. This is my second remake of this wiki and i dont think i got any question that asked me if this should be enabled or not. Do you know how I do to change this. Or do you know someone who does PS: My wiki is on swedish Please answer. /Justin of Noobopedia --188.8.131.52 17:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Is this coding error?[edit]
In the section showing a gallery-tag demo:
<gallery caption="Sample gallery"> A-L Image:Drenthe-Position.png|[[w:Drenthe|Drenthe]], the least crowded province Image:Flevoland-Position.png Image:Friesland-Position.png [[Friesland]] is beautiful <- *** This line is not rendered *** Image:Gelderland-Position.png Image:Groningen-Position.png Image:Limburg-Position.png M-Z Image:Noord_Brabant-Position.png Image:Noord_Holland-Position.png Image:Overijssel-Position.png Image:Zuid_Holland-Position.png|[[w:South Holland|South Holland]], the most crowded province Image:Utrecht-Position.png Image:Zeeland-Position.png </gallery>
The unrendered line (starred above) seems to be a coding error, please kindly confirm. And if so, let's fix it. Godric 09:03, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- It is put there to illustrate "It also allows text taking the position of an image, but not with links: if a text entry contains a link, the whole entry is ignored;".--Patrick 10:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Patrick, I got it now. But even though I admit that I missed it due to careless reading, I propose that we can be more articulate on describing how that piece of code works, thus making it apparent even for careless readers.
- I tried inserting bracketed examples, like (see line with "A-L" & "M-Z"), but it obviously is clumsy. Any idea everyone? I'm now researching for methods of including "line numbers" into
 tag and then we can reference the code by line numbers. However, if this has already been done before, please advise. Godric 13:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Latin Text[edit]
please change that latin text in the division Image at the left in "Help:Images and other uploaded files" back to english 220.127.116.11 16:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
are you serious? --220.127.116.11 06:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
"Division by zero" when I am not logged in or selected a smaller image size[edit]
When I am not logged in to my Wiki and I click on an image thumbnail (thumbnails work well) I do not get to see the bigger image, but the error "Warning: Division by zero in /www/htdocs/w007c267/w/includes/ImagePage.php on line 203" instead. The same happend when I am logged-in but have selected "320x240" as maximum image size in my user preferences. Removing the (320x240) from LocalSettings.php just makes the error appear always.
In ImagePage.php, line 203, it sais "if ( $width / $height >= $maxWidth / $maxHeight ) so I guess $height or $maxheight is zero. But why? How can I prevent that? Since line 200 ("if ( $width > $maxWidth || $height > $maxHeight )") works well, I think it must be the case that $height is zero, because if $maxHeight was zero, the error would aready occur in line 200.
It doesn't change wheter I enable or disable $wgUseImageMagick.
Disabling $wgUseImageResize of course prevents the error but also makes images appear huge in my articles (strange, thumbnails in <gallery> still do work).
My MediaWiki version is 1.6.8, running on PHP 4.4.4 (apache2handler) and MySQL 4.1.22-max-log.
Thanks for any help! --C4d-Jack 10:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Uploads images ok, but wont display them[edit]
Hi, I installed mediawiki and can upload images, but I use the Image:asdf.jpg and it wont display. It only shows a link to the image. Please help. Thanks!
- Check whether the JPEG uses a CMYK colorspace. Apparently, Mozilla-based browsers and some versions of IE cannot display these. Convert them to RGB. See this very informative blog entry: [5] --MichaelHfx 14:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Using Commons images on Wikipedia when WP already has an image with the same name[edit]
I've uploaded an image to Commons with a name already taken on Wikipedia. I want to use the image from Commons in Wikipedia, but it will only let me use the same-named WP image. I've tried [[:Commons:Image:…]] and [[Commons:Image:…]] to no avail. Any suggestions? 126.96.36.199 22:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
- AFAIK, at the moment it is not possible to link to a commons image if there is an image with the same name locally on the wikipedia. What you can do is re-upload the picture on Commons using a different name and add the template {{badname}} to the original image to have it deleted. Yonatanh 22:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[[Image:Example.png|abcde]] shows
[[Image:Example.png|abcpx]] shows
"abc" is not a number, but any string ending with "px" seems to be treated as a width. Is this a recent change, or has it always been like this? I'm suspecting it may be the cause of an apparent change in functionality with w:Template:Navbox musical artist, where the image shows up redlinked as above when there's a string ending with "px". Pomte 03:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Gallery bug[edit]
In the generated HTML all the captions end with

This looks very ugly and it should be fixed. Perhaps someone who knows how to file a bugreport with Wikimedia can do so? Thanks, Shinobu 17:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
P.S. It would be nice if the number of columns would adapt to the width of the browser window / page.
Aspect ratio[edit]
It would be useful to be able to modify the aspect ratio of displayed images, especially if they're in svg format. From what I understand, the wiki software doesn't have such a feature at the moment, although it is easily supported by the underlying html. Would such a feature be maded available in the future?--Doron 16:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Well??? Is anybody watching this talk page at all?--Doron 10:59, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
This article sucks![edit]
For example;
- Therefore it is important that the image page on Commons is linked to the local image pages of that image on all projects that use it. On these, even if they have never been created explicitly and therefore have an empty editable part, the "image links" section shows the local pages that use the image.
Er... who are you talking to? This page needs to be better... I wonder why I think whining about it here will do any good... how can I help out? I don't know how to reorganize such a 'system page' without 100,000 moderators stamping on my face. --184.108.40.206 18:33, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
- Why don't you like the quoted paragraph? Is there something you don't understand?--Patrick 22:57, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Upload multiple images[edit]
I really like MediaWiki and try to implement it in the IT dept of my company. I've got Wiki 1.10 set up and running, and now I am moving documentation from MS Word to Wiki. I've dealt with everything except for images. Documentation contains hundreds of them. I'll go nuts uploading them one by one and don't like the idea of uploading them to another folder and using external links. Is there any handy tool or another solution enabling uploading multiple images directly to wiki at once? Or maybe some editor with image copy-paste functionality? Thanks in advance!
Images stored on a file server[edit]
I am trying to use images stored on a network drive so they do not have to be uploaded to the wiki server. I have used [file://networkdrive:\filename.doc filename] to link to files such as Word documents etc. Is there a way to do the same thing for images? Thanks!
Clarify Instructions: Uploading non-image files[edit]
I'm trying to learn how to keep things tidy in my LocalSettings.php file and on our wiki, so I am new to some of the coding for .php
In the "Uploading non-image files" section, I understand the first two instructions and their examples in the preformatted boxes. But just after the Caution statement, there is the suggestion "Even better, add your extension to the $wgFileExtensions array, so that any future changes in DefaultSettings.php get propagated up to your code." But I don't think this statement is clear, given the code in the preformatted box below. Could someone possibly rework this text to make it clearer what the code will help us do? (It may be clear already I just need to made made clear!)
Note that I am taking the second instruction to imply that maybe the code line is not in the LocalSettings.php file and you should add it, with your preferred extension also included in it. Then I am assuming (I know - bad idea sometimes) that the instruction after the caution is trying to show us an alternate way to get our preferred extension into the array - but I am (possibly over-) thinking that you need the array to be there in the first place, so rather than "Even better," the instructions might want to say something like "Alternatively," or something like that. (Hope this helps show how I'm reading the section and where my possible confusion might be.) Part of that confusion is the reference to the DefaultSettings.php because I'm trying to be very cautious and steer clear of that file like I've been instructed!
Thank you for whatever help someone might provide!
--Esgenoopetitj 18:25, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
External images[edit]
Just wondering. How I would embed something like this on a wiki page?
 184.108.40.206 20:55, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Images Will Not Show / Cannot Be Re-Uploaded[edit]
"Hello I am user of jatland my problem is when i upload my picture that is disappear & my album picture is also disappear so what i do pl help me. profiles of girls & boys pics also not show pl help me I have big problem thanks regards"
Recently our wiki page dissapeared and we spent months with your techs trying to get it restored. Now that it is restored, we are finding that the imagew will not show. They are linked apropriately (See example 1). They appear in the list of uploaded files but when I click a image filename, I get a page with a clear box (See example 2).
When I try to test it by uploading new images, I still get the same result, a page with a white box. How do I fix it?
Example 1[edit]
Example 2[edit]
Borders for gallery items?[edit]
Is it possible with the current version to put a border (like at w:en:Image:Flag of Monaco.svg#Summary) in a gallery, for e.g. w:en:Gallery of flags by similarity#Red (or maroon) and white? -- Jeandré, 2008-09-02t13:42z
How to adjust thumbs and floats?[edit]
Imagine I have the following: [[image:Screenshot.jpg|left|thumb|150px|texttexttext]] the picture and the thumb is in the upper left corner from the picture area, but not centered in it. how can I adjust this? --Lastwebpage 19:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
gallery perrow="6" is too wide[edit]
Just found some pages modified on en:Wikipedia with <gallery perrow="6">.
Can I just point out that this makes the gallery too wide to fit on a standard 1024x768 monitor display? Whereas the rest of the page will be width-adjusted to fit, the user will need to scroll sideways to see the other images. I think users will either find this irritating or just not bother to look at the off-screen images. If the gallery could be auto-adjusted by the browser, this would not be a problem.
I think this could be an increasing problem as the example gallery uses this parameter (both here and at the equivalent en:WP help page).
EdJogg 09:27, 2 July 2009 (UTC) (find me at en:Wikipedia if you want further input)
- Why was the per row customization feature removed on Commons? 18.104.22.168 18:44, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
re-upload description[edit]
On a first-time upload the upload comment is copies as the new image description. But on a re-upload this doesn't seem to happen. Is this correct, and is it documented anywhere? I couldn't find any such documentation. 126.96.36.199 22:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
What's happening to the thumbnail quality?[edit]
I have been a problem for several years, a large discrimination against Wikipedia in other languages than English. This problem I've seen at: Fast servers, amount of traffic used, number of mirrors per kilometer, and ultimately the quality of the thumbnails of the items. A model generated in a wikipedia article in Spanish will always be of better quality than one produced in English wikipedia, for example.
Can anyone explain this? Thanks --Wilfredor 05:49, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
- To me they are no different; of course I see the difference in that picture, but on eswiki and enwiki I see no difference – and there should be no difference at all, since they both use the exact same file as thumbnail (given that they are the same pixel size). Maybe your browser is zoomed in a bit on the Spanish Wikipedia? Try pressing Ctrl+0. That would explain the blurriness. Jon Harald Søby 10:32, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Image borders don't seem to be working[edit]
The border option doesn't appear to do anything. Is there some weird syntax or something? --Pcj 17:36, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Alt argument non-functional[edit]
I've tried all kinds of variations with the Alt tag (in MediaWiki 1.6.7 & 1.16.0beta3), and I have not come across a situation where it would do anything...
In the old version, the tag is shown alongside the text (e.g. you will see "alt=some text"), in the new version, it doesn't show anything.
I also suspected that it might be an option to show an alternative image if the primary one isn't present, but that didn't prove to be true either.
i.e. this:
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produces this: | | File:Tst.xxx | File:Tst.xxx | World
I will add a note in that regard to the Alt section on the main page. 22.214.171.124 18:05, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
What is "upright"?[edit]
I have read the article, but I could not figure out what "upright" is and how to use it? Please could you define what upright is with an example? Bekiroflaz 13:24, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Gallery feature request - Defaulting to image description in Commons[edit]
It would be very cool and helpful if the Gallery tag could default (using some parameters/flags) to the image descriptions as defined in commons:Template:Information description field (optionally selecting English description automatically or allowing the user to chose the language). Without this feature, I find adding image descriptions/captions via pipes tedious and in some cases very redundant. --Codrinb 22:02, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Caption *under* a gallery[edit]
I'm trying to build a gallery of three images showing the workflow of Lotus Improv. I would like to have a single caption under the image that spans all across the gallery, describing the workflow that leads from one to the other. However, the caption= tag puts the text on top, which isn't what I want. Is there any way to do this? Maury Markowitz 12:36, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
widths and heights[edit]
Looking at the examples on #Gallery, the widths="100px" and heights="100px" don't prevent the boxes from being 130px, and when trying to make the widths and heights 150px doesn't change a single pixel. (try editing the section and then modifying the values, and then previewing it. It doesn't affect the size at all). Does anyone know why this is?Joeytje50 18:31, 23 August 2011 (UTC)


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This is part three of a short series of blog posts about North Korea. Part one is here and Part two is here. In part one I complained about people selling their photos of North Korea as "illegal"… In the photos you'll see below, there are lots of soldiers. Many of these photos would be considered illegal. But there isn't nothing sensational about it… Beware what you read and how it is presented. You'll also see pictures of normal people doing normal things. How often do you see that in mainstream news? Never, because it's not as interesting as a single picture of a man in uniform. Yet I find North Korea's true face – its human face – far more interesting.
Although I'd always been curious about North Korea, it was the opportunity to run a half-marathon there that finally drew me in. At the beginning of 2015 I'd made running my New Year's resolution, and after a few months I was within sight of being able to run a half-marathon. I can't even remember how I found out about it, but when I thought about running a half-marathon in North Korea it all just made sense.
On day two of the trip we got to run around Pyongyang a little bit for a warm up, and on day three we took a short flight up to Mount Paekdu, at the border with China. Mount Paekdu is a sacred place for Koreans. It is supposedly the birthplace of the Korean nation, and their mythical founder, King Tangun. To North Koreans it is particularly important, as Kim Il-sung based himself here during the fight against the Japanese, and it is also said – perhaps falsely – that Kim Jong-il was born here.
The flight was quite fun, although the plane came in too early on the runway and was bouncing over the tops of trees. When we came to a stop on the tiny runway there was no airport – it was just a forest with a runway in the middle. It was also freezing, which I hadn't expected.
We were driven up the mountain, along winding little roads, but the top was completely shrouded in fog. Apparently the views over Lake Chon – the highest crater lake in the world, at the top of Mount Paekdu – are stunning, but we could barely see the lake. At the top it was unbearably cold and the air was hard to breathe, too. We kept losing people from the tour in the mist, and it felt genuinely dangerous.
Yet it was more or less from here that we started our half-marathon. We were running downhill, which helped. After fifteen minutes the runners were all spaced out along the road and we were all just running alone through North Korea – no guides, no police, no way of stopping us seeing the country freely. There weren't many people around but every now and then we'd see farmers and old women come out from fields and forests to say hello, or pass a marching troop of soldiers. People stopped and waved or spoke to us, or offered us water, and one group of old women sang and danced as we run past. It felt good to interact with people without any supervision.
I finished the marathon in 1 hour 44 minutes, coming in 5th place.
After this we took a bus to Paekdusan Secret Camp, where the Korean People's Revolutionary Army was based during their fight against the Japanese. The scenery here was absolutely stunning, and the history quite interesting, and there were students on school trips and old people visiting, but we were all too sore and tired to appreciate it.
We spent the night at Pegaebang Hotel, where there was infrequent electricity and cold water. The food, too, was awful. However, there was… Werner Herzog! The world renowned director was filming a movie at Mount Paekdu and was staying at the hotel, also musing over the single baked potato on offer at mealtime. How… Herzogian.
The next morning we visited the stunningly beautiful Rimyongsu Waterfalls, where we had some wonderful encounters with old people who'd come to visit. My friend and I tried to take a photo together in front of the falls, and some old North Korean tourists seized the opportunity to dart over and join us, and then their friends came… and then more and more… It was like being in China with all the people wanting photos taken with the foreigners. Except for some reason you don't expect that in North Korea. In fact, you don't really imagine people in North Korea ever having fun, but that was one of the eye-opening parts of the trip.
Later we saw more giant statues of Kim Il-sung in more beautiful country, and more groups of children and adults and elderly people visiting to learn about the country's history. Many of them had walked or bused over days or weeks to get here, and this was considered a reward for some sort of good behavior. A few of the students spoke English and seemed shy but still somewhat keen to interact.
Finally, we flew back to Pyongyang for the football game. The process of getting on the plane was bizarre – everyone had to dump their bags on a tractor, and then stand on the tarmac as a man with an AK-47 stood in front of us. "Who gets the first class seats?" someone asked. "Whoever runs fastest!" someone else confirmed. And then the rains broke… the skies exploded and we were drenched and everyone ran, leaving the man with the AK-47 helpless. Indeed, those who ran first got business- and first class. I guess that's how communism works.


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Every summer a series of beloved ERUUFians present the story of their personal and/or spiritual quests. We have curated the collection below. Early childhood memories, important forks in the road, significant events, and a few funny anecdotes all have been recorded! We invite you to view and listen to these tales of insight and enlightenment below.
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What is home exchange? This is what I was wondering, I have heard friends that have tried to exchange their houses with strangers through a web or platform to look for this kind of Holiday exchange. For me, the nearest thing was the film Holiday where Kate Winslet and Cameron Díaz exchanged their houses. A tiny town near London with a cottage house exchanged for mansion in Los Angeles.
Of course, in real life it is a bit different, as more likely Cameron Diaz won't exchange the house with you. I heard so many good stories about it so I want it to try it out.
Where to go for home exchange?
I didn't know what webs I could go to home exchange. While on TBEX conference I met Knok, a platform to have your add and home exchange with others. You have a profile with your house, photos, what you accept, facilities etc...So there we were filling in our profile in Knok. At first is a bit boring as you have no info in there, so you have to be uploading all the pictures and writing a description and all the stuff.
The funny part is when you start exploring what is in there, where could you go, what houses are there etc...There are amazing houses, flats, bungalows, anything where you could live in around the world. It is perfect to save money, as you don't need to spend in accommodation and also you have all the facilities you have at home.
How to find a house to exchange?
This is Knok platform where you can publish your add with your house details. You can also publish your preferences in destination and dates so people interested in where you live can contact you. You have an inbox and they will contact you through there and viceversa.
Very easy platform so you will be able to contact and being contacted easily and get to know how it works in no time. What I liked is that they offer an insurance policy, you have to pay an annual fee to access the platform and so when doing an exchange you can sign an agreement with the other person of what the rules will be when doing the exchange.
If both parts sign the agreement online, the insurance policy will cover both parts at the time of the exchange if something happens. For a newbie like in this house exchange thing, this is a great start as it gives you the assurance that in case something happens you have a back up.
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I started looking for a house exchange, we wanted to start for something near home as it was not as scary as exchanging with someone very far away from home. We found a family in Spain that wanted to exchange with us our flat in Barcelona for their house in Ayamonte, Huelva. We have agreed on that exchange for Easter holidays, we will go to Ayamonte and then they will come to Barcelona later on around summer.
We are exited as it is our first time home exchanging and we have never been in that area of Spain either, we are looking forward to it. The plan is to visit Ayamonte, Sevilla and jump to Portugal in Algarve as it is very near.
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DES MOINES, Iowa –Iowa Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix resigned effective at 2p.m. Monday, following the release of a video from the progressive political website Iowa Starting Line that appears to show Dix, who is married, and a Statehouse lobbyist kissing in a Des Moines bar.
Dix sent out a brief statement confirming his departure.
Iowa Senate President Jack Whitver, an Ankeny Republican, sent out a statement about Dix's departure.
"Effective at 2pm today Bill Dix resigned his position as Majority Leader and State Senator. I believe he made the right decision for himself and for his district, but most importantly, I believe he made the decision in the best interest of his family. Senate Republicans will continue to move the policies Iowans elected us to pursue. After discussions with the Republican Caucus this afternoon, an election to fill the position of Iowa Senate Majority Leader will be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.""
Late Monday morning, before Dix's announcement, Governor Kim Reynolds, addressed the video.
"First of all, with what little I know," Reynolds said, "I'm certainly disappointed with what I'm hearing."
But she added, "I don't know all of the facts." She said she hoped her conversation with Dix later in the day would provide her with those facts.
When Channel 13 asked if Dix should resign, given that the lobbyist could represent professional interests that come before Dix in the senate, Reynolds responded, "I think Iowans hold their elected officials to a high standard. They expect us to lead. I expect to lead. I want to know the facts."
Iowa Starting Line reports the video was provided by people who witnessed Dix's interactions with the lobbyist at the Waveland Tap on March 1st. The people told the website they recognized Dix from media coverage of state politics, including a sexual harassment trial involving Senate Republicans – in which a jury awarded former communication director Kirsten Anderson $2.2 million for workplace harassment and retaliation. Anderson was fired after filing a formal complaint over vulgar conversation and jokes that took place within the Senate caucus.
She later settled with the state for $1.7 million.
According to Iowa Starting Line, the woman seen kissing and flirting with Dix works as a lobbyist of municipality groups at the Statehouse and has done so for the past two years.
Dix is married with three children. Dix hadn't filed for re-election yet.


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I wanted to thank you for drawing so much attention to Sex at Dawn (www.sexatdawn.com). I am going to get it as soon as possible so I can better understand myself. I have always felt a certain amount of shame because I've never had a monogamous relationship. Having been married 14 years (married at 19, which I know is a no-no in your book), I've had plenty of temptation and only given in a few times. Those events felt like they were saving my sanity; they never had anything to do with me loving my husband any less. It wasn't until I started listening to your advice that I realized that maybe I wasn't the problem. For all these years, I felt like shit because I couldn't be monogamous. Thanks for clueing me in to evolution, reptile brains, etc.
Thanks for the nice note, M, now go forth and cheat no more, i.e., don't be a CPOS (cheating piece of shit). If you're incapable of being monogamous, don't make monogamous commitments that you're damn well going to break.
And to all the outraged folks writing in to ask if I'm seriously suggesting that no one should ever be monogamous: That's not what I'm saying — and it's not what the authors of Sex at Dawn are arguing either. The point of Sex at Dawn — and my point in drawing my readers' and listeners' attention to it — isn't that no one should attempt to be monogamous or that people who've made monogamous commitments have a license to cheat on their partners. For the record: I'm happy to acknowledge that there are lots of good reasons to be monogamous and/or very nearly monogamous, e.g., children and other sexually transmitted infections.
What the authors of Sex at Dawn believe — and what I think they prove — is that we are a naturally nonmonogamous species, despite what we've been told for millennia by preachers and for centuries by scientists, and that is why so many people have such a hard time remaining monogamous over the long haul. I'm not saying that everyone everywhere has to be nonmonogamous; the authors of Sex at Dawn don't make that argument either. (Lots of monogamists, however, do run around insisting that everyone everywhere should be monogamous — and proscriptive monogamists get a pass because, hey, they mean so well and wouldn't it be nice if everyone were?)
The point is this: People — particularly those who value monogamy — need to understand why being monogamous is so much harder than they've been led to believe it will be. In some cases, this understanding may help people find the courage to seek out nonmonogamous relationships and/or arrangements and/or allowances that make them — gasp! — happier and make their relationships more stable, not less, as a routine infidelity won't doom their marriage/civilunion/commitment/slavecontract/whatever. But understanding that monogamy is a struggle for most people — and being able to be honest with our partners about experiencing it as a struggle — may actually help some people remain monogamous.


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5 Simple Ways to Help Parkinson's Caregivers
If you have a friend who provides care for a loved one with Parkinson's, you may not see them as much as you used to. Caregivers organize doctor's appointments, medication schedules and often take on a slew of other responsibilities. Many find that they don't have the time to see friends or focus on themselves. Unfortunately, those packed schedules often lead to feelings of isolation and high stress.
Our community shared advice on how friends can support busy Parkinson's caregivers. For several of the suggestions, you don't even have to ask your friend or family member if they need help first. You can simply provide your own care and support.
1. Small favors mean a lot. Ask if your friend needs a few groceries when you're at the store, or if you can pick up a meal on your way home.
2. Help out with housework. Mow your friend's lawn, rake leaves or shovel snow without being asked. Stop by and help wash dishes, or ask if you can help with any other chores when you visit.
3. Give the gift of time. Many caregivers struggle to find time for themselves. Offer to sit with their loved one for a few hours while they take a break.
4. Listen with compassion. Caregiving can be stressful, and your friend would likely appreciate a chance to vent. Give your friend a call, or stop by and catch up for a few hours. Ask about what it's like to provide care on a daily basis.
5. Stop by for a visit. Watch a movie or a sports game with your friend and his or her loved one. Parkinson's disease can affect speech and movement, but your friend's loved one will likely still enjoy the company.
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DORAL — Their numbers small, their voices at times drowned out by flights arriving at nearby Miami International Airport, and their target well ensconced out of earshot at his own club, about two dozen protestors stood and sweated and shouted Tuesday afternoon outside Trump National Doral golf resort west of Miami.
Several blocks away, far past a guard house, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was set to hold a private, no-press fundraising reception and dinner.
The businessman and part-time Palm Beacher isn't done this week with Miami. Wednesday morning, he'll hold a press availability in a ballroom inside the same club that hosted Tuesday night's fete.
Not on hand: Gov. Rick Scott.
Announcements of the event list an organizing committee that includes the governor, who has endorsed Trump and who spoke for him at last week's GOP convention in Cleveland. But Melissa Stone, Scott's political spokeswoman, said Tuesday he never was set to attend; he had a conflict from the start.
More than likely, Trump was inside the property Tuesday long before protestors started straggling in around 4:30 p.m.
Standing in the wilting sun and outnumbered by reporters most of the time they were there, they held one sign in English bearing the now well-known "Love trumps hate" and another saying in Spanish, "no one is illegal." A life-size Trump cutout had a voice bubble saying "Who's a racist? This guy." One sign asked Trump in Spanish, "How much did they pay you?."
Trump had hoped Tuesday to hold a roundtable with Hispanic leaders but wasn't able to make it happen, his campaign said. That event, set for July 8 at Miami's legendary Versailles restaurant, was canceled at the last minute because of the previous evening's assassination of five police officers in Dallas. The campaign tried to reschedule it for Tuesday, but wasn't able to synchronize with all the leaders on short notice. Trump's campaign said he will try again at another date.
Follow Post politics reporter George Bennett and digital editor Kristina Webb as they report live from this week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Follow them at PostonPolitics.com and on Twitter @gbennett and @kristina-webb.


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Because of the on going flying programme, Ernie Rogan has only been able to arrange an autumn date for the visit.
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Swimming (aquatics) is one of our most popular sports. Unlike other sports, swimming is a life skill that is taught, first, to ensure safety and, secondly, for sports and competition purposes.
Swimming is appropriate for a range of ages and ability because of the wide array of swimming events offered. Swimming competition events are based on a variety of strokes. We also offer events for lower ability level athletes to train and compete in basic swimming skills. The development of these key skills is necessary prior to advancing to longer, competitive events.
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BIC partners with Ministry of Stories to support young writers
27 May 2016
Ministry of Stories announces a new charity partnership with the power pen brand BIC, who will support its work with young writers in London.
BIC is giving schools the chance to win a creative writing workshop for their class at the Ministry of Stories, as part of its 2016 #JustWrite campaign. The winning entry, and two runners up, will be awarded with the accolade of becoming an 'Assistant Features Editor' and 'Junior Assistant Features Editors' respectively, and their entries will be published in the B.I.C., a unique, free title for teenagers published later this year.
The competition is open to students in years eight, nine and ten and all they need to do is conjure up some creative spirit to handwrite an answer to the question: 'What would waking up in a world without words be like?' in no more than 500 words.
Jonathan Skyrme, General Manager at BIC UK, said: "We can't even begin to imagine how uninspiring a world without the written word would be, would life as we know it come to a grinding halt? We want teenagers to celebrate how beautiful the handwritten word is by putting pen to paper and creatively showcasing what might happen if all words disappeared. How would you create that personal touch? How would artists sign their work? The more creative people get – the better!"
Lucy Macnab, Co-Founder, Ministry of Stories, said: "We're delighted to be BIC's charity partner for this campaign. At the Ministry of Stories we champion the writer in every child, and #JustWrite day is a great opportunity to get young people writing creatively. BIC's support will help us provide the one to one support that makes a huge difference in increasing children's confidence, creativity and ability in writing."
The creative writing competition closes on Monday 06 June. Ten other shortlisted finalists will also be selected to win an individual gift pack, courtesy of BIC and Ministry of Stories and winners are due to be announced on 14 July 2016.
For more information, please visit http://www.ministryofstories.org/bic-creative-writing-competition/ or join in the conversation on Twitter @mybicpen.


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Caving under sweeping protests against spiralling food prices, Tunisia's government has been dismissed and parliament dissolved.
The move comes despite Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's announcement during a late night televised address on Thursday that he would step down from his post in 2014 and push for greater freedoms and reforms.
The Tunisian opposition had welcomed the Presidential address, but there were enough skeptics among the country's opinion makers who either counselled a wait-and-see approach or called for an escalation of protests. Despite Mr. Ben Ali's olive branch, fresh demonstrations erupted on Friday in Tunis and in other parts. Police clashed heavily with protesters outside the interior ministry headquarters in Tunis. Gunshots were heard and police struck with tear gas grenades,
causing protesters to flee from the immediate vicinity. However, the protesters reassembled shortly afterwards and starting pelting stones, leading to running battles with the police which fired more teargas rounds. The clashes started earlier on Friday when crowds assembled shouting "No to Ben Ali, the uprising continues," AFP reported.
In the western city of Sidi Bouzid, the origin of nearly month-long protests, thousands chanted "Ben Ali out", the agency said.
Rioting has been rife in Tunisia for nearly a month after an unemployed educated youth, driven into selling vegetables set himself ablaze after officials prevented him for pursuing his trade. Apart from surging food prices, the denial of civil liberties and tainted elections has left a deep seated reservoir of discontent among various sections of the people, analysts say. Tunisia's large tech-savvy middle class which has been miffed by the country's mainstream politics has also deepened the protests. The Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al Yawm has pointed out that nearly 18.6 percent of Tunisians are on Facebook, a penetration that is higher than Germany's.
Sixty-six people have died since the protests began, the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights has tallied. Of these seven committed suicide in the wake of heavy unemployment and economic difficulties.
The Lebanese daily in Arabic, Al Akhbar has reported that ahead of Mr. Ben Ali's address, cracks had begun to emerge in the Tunisian military. The daily said that the Tunisian Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Rashid Ammar, who was subsequently sacked, had on Wednesday refused to order the Tunisian army to use force against the protestors.
In his address Mr. Ben Ali, who has been in power for 23 years, said he would not seek re-election in 2014. Apart from offering greater freedoms, he promised investigations into the killing of protesters during the wave of demonstrations that have rocked Tunisia since December 17.
Soon after the address, Taoufik Ayachi, an opposition figure, and Naji Baghouri, a former journalists' union chief, made a surprising appearance on television. Formerly blocked websites, including YouTube, Dailymotion and the site for French newspaper Le Monde, became accessible, Reuters reported.
Welcoming the main thrust of the President's address, opposition leader Mohammed Nejib Chebbi, said it was a "positive fact" that Mr. Ben Ali has decided not to run for the presidency again. But dismissing the President's offer, human rights activist Mohamed Abbou asserted that Mr. Ben Ali was "fooling the Tunisians with promises that have no tomorrow".


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I came across this local resident in one of our old horse chestnut trees this morning, basking in the sunlight. The night-time temperature had touched zero and then climbed back up to nearly twenty degrees (centigrade). Cool nights and sunny days - just how my Pamela likes it.
Looking at the web, I was reminded of the giant sequoia trees found in the north western United States. Some of them are over 2000 years old; they have a web of interconnected roots, making a sequoia copse effectively a single tree.
I have always thought of spiders as being distinct from their webs - but of course they are not. The web is part of the spider - the spider is not on the web, the spider is the web, the web is the spider. Each morning this little chap recreates himself for all the world to see - if we have eyes to look.
The effect of the web is to make the spider a much bigger entity, sensitive to wind, weather and other webs. In this case the spider is about four feet across - extended and enlarged by the web he has created.
But you must know how he feels - it is through the power of your own web that you are able to read this!


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Guardian Angel & the Wormhole
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I am a saint, he says to me.
I am Just like his parents, like a sister to him, he says.
Pure innocence in the Body of a "grown Woman", he says to me.
With the Crystal that I gave him, I gave him my heart, he says to me.
Many, many Things he is saying to me. Like a waterfall the words are flowong out of his mouth …. and he repeats the same phrases like a Mantra … with his high & pushy voice.
How good I am, he is telling me and he wants me to get to know Jesus, he says to me. Because good hearts like mine are very rare, he says to me. Pure hearts like the ones of saints & prophets, he says. And I ask myself, how can anyone knows what is inside the heart of someone else...someone you dont know ?
He is going to help me, he says. He will give me what ever I ask for … whatever I want, he says to me. But I have to take him as he is, he says. He is just human, "just" a man …. he says….but he is also my Guardian angel and just like the prophets …. he cant do no harm to me …. he says.
I am so Beautiful, hey says ….. so pure and Beautiful just like a child …. but I am a "grown Woman" now, he says. He takes me in his arms …. he wants to hug me …. wants to be Held by me ….. he cant let go of me. He will save me, he will teach me …. he says. Because my negative thoughts destroying me …. they are dangerous … I Need to trust him, he says.
I am holy, he says.
But still he wants to hold me, to touch me, to kiss me …. even if I dont feel like doing this with him …. with a stranger.
He wants to get a taste of my timeless Beauty …. of my pure Energy. Wants a Kind of love he didnt DO ANYTHING for …. but SAYING Things … again & again like a Mantra.
I fell into a wormwhole, but I got out of it.
With a couple lessons learned.
1. Time is a flexible fabric in reality, which is directly connected to our emotions.
2. No comfort in the world, is worth of giving away my independency
3. My strength is my strong will, MY wisdom and my unique perspective & Interpretation of life
EVERY Situation which is causing emotions, is a possibility to learn About yourself.
© Maela_Mononoke