[Mediawiki-l] Uploaded file (media) icons

Thu Nov 24 00:28:29 UTC 2005

Hi,

I'm looking for advice about how to get a Media file (it's an MS Word 
doc) to have a Word icon to its left, that, when clicked upon, opens the 
word doc, rather than the Image page for that icon.

I've tried nesting an [[Image:myicon.png]] as the caption for a Media 
file, but that doesn't work. I've also tried using 
[[Media:mywordfile.doc]] as the caption for the image, and that also 
didn't work.

Any guidance welcome.

Also, it might be nice to have another link type (maybe 
[[Attachment:myfile.txt]] which creates a reference to a list of 
attachments, and then elsewhere in the doc, use something like 
[[Inline:Attachments]] or whatever to create a table of files with icon, 
filename, maybe file size, mod date, author, etc.

If possible, please CC me in replies, I quickly fall behind on reading 
this thread.

cheers,
-Nick