Wiki and Gallery images

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ace123
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Wiki and Gallery images

Post by ace123 »

As many people may have noticed, we upgraded to Gallery2 after SF.net changed their read-only policy.

Now, while you can still link to images at http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/album ... GENAME.EXT

Anything that is a broken image is probably referencing a gallery thumbnail.
You can see that it is a thumbname if the filename is like:
ALBUMNAME/IMAGE.thumb.EXT or
ALBUMNAME/IMAGE.highlight.EXT

The new gallery software no longer stores thumbnails, so you have two choices:
* Edit the page and change the image to use the full size file (This can be done by removing the .thumb or the .highlight, making it only IMAGENAME.EXT).

*Browse to the gallery yourself, find the image you are looking fo.
1. You can look at the full size picture using the above method and then figure out which one, and then find it in the gallery listing.
2. Copy *IMAGE* location, NOT LINK LOCATION (In Internet Explorer, right click on the image thumbnail and go to "Properties" and copy the image address from there).
3. Paste that in the Wiki (instead of the old link to http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/albums).
4. Then, you *must* add "&ext=.png" (Including the dot between "=" and "png") to the end of the URL, so that MediaWiki will detect that it is a PNG image (I believe all thumbnails are converted to PNG's.)
5. When you are done, you should get a link like this in the wiki:
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/galle ... 2&ext=.png
(Note the &ext=.png at the end)
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Post by Halleck »

Ah, it's a relief to see that there's a workaround for thumbnails issue. Thanks for the info.

(BTW, I think that technically these images are only dynamically resized only once, and then stored in an inaccessible cache. We invoke core.DownloadItem to retreive the image for us from the cache.)

EDIT: I've added these instructions to the VSWiki Manual of Style.
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