[Mediawiki-l] imitating commons on private mediawiki installations

Wed Nov 30 07:09:27 UTC 2005

I am still unable to set the commons wiki properly. Could someone paste here
a working LocalSettings.php wgSharedUpload configuration? Or could I see
wikipedia's configuration? That would make it a lot easier to retroengineer
it and adapt to my site's setup.

Yongho

On 5/11/05, Yongho Kim <yokima at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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