On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:38:06 -0500, Jamie Bliss <astronouth7303(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes, [[Image:Foo]] doesn't do anything with thumbnails, it just generates the HTML to include that picture at that position. So if you give it a .xls file or whatever, the user's browser will request that file, and try to display it in the middle of the page (obviously, not what you want). Using [[Media:Foo]] instead will create a link directly to the file in question; or, if you want to use the image description pages (which, again, are only really designed to work with images, so may look a bit odd), you can use [[:Image:Foo]] - the leading ":" turns it into a textual link to the description, rather than including the image. As for making a "thumbnail" that looks like the standard .xls icon, there isn't currently a way to do this; but there is a planned feature to let users specify a manually generated thumbnail, so you might with the next version of the software be able to use something like [[Image:Foo.xls|thumb=xlsicon.png|Spreadsheet showing really fascinating stuff]]. Still rather hacky, and the "image description" page will still look weird, but it would probably look how you're expecting on the page. Perhaps while we're thinking about better multimedia support (e.g. sounds, videos) we should think about building a more generic file-upload system? [see http://meta.wikimedia.org/Multimedia for the current discussion] -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l