[Mediawiki-l] imitating commons on private mediawiki installations

Wed May 11 21:08:07 UTC 2005

Thank you Brion! will check into DefaultSettings next time.

Can :en/images be simply set up as a commons replacement? I set up the
following in a spanish localization (http://mpkb.net/es/Portada ),
which doesn't seem to work:

$wgSharedUploadPath = "http://mpkb.net/wikien/images";
$wgSharedUploadDirectory = "/public_html/wikien/images";

$wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true;
$wgSharedUploadDBname = "commons";
$wgSharedLatin1=false;

(wikien is the english copy)

I left  wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory  wgSharedUploadDBname  as they
were because I didn't know what they stood for.

In particular what is the "file system where shared uploads can be
found"? Is that supposed to equal $wgSharedUploadDirectory =
"/public_html/wikien/images"; or is it some other directory? It's
confusing because the comments say it's a file system but the veraible
name says "DB" should I link it to the english MediaWiki db? (but the
spanish mediawiki has no access right to the english db)

yongho

On 5/11/05, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Yongho Kim wrote:
> > How does commons.wikipedia work? Can this be imitated in other
> > people's own installation of MediaWiki? Is there a technical document
> > under meta explaining this, I can't find any.
> 
> All configurable settings are in DefaultSettings.php; please always
> refer to this file first.
> 
> # If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload
> # path here. Uploads to this wiki will NOT be put there - they
> # will be put into $wgUploadDirectory.
> #
> # If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the
> # shared repository if no file of the given name is found in
> # the local repository (for [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links).
> # Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this
> # directory.
> #
> $wgUseSharedUploads = false;
> # Full path on the web server where shared uploads can be found
> $wgSharedUploadPath = "http://commons.wikimedia.org/shared/images";
> # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found
> $wgSharedUploadDirectory = "/var/www/wiki3/images";
> # Set this to false especially if you have a set of files that need to be
> # accessible by all wikis, and you do not want to use the hash (path/a/aa/)
> # directory layout.
> $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true;
> 
> # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found
> $wgSharedUploadDBname = "commons";
> 
> # set true if the repository uses latin1 filenames
> $wgSharedLatin1=false;
> 
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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