On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I would like to implement Wikipedia's image feature where it can > automatically link to Wikimedia Commons without downloading another copy of > the image. However, I do not want to link to Wikimedia Commons but to my own > separate database. > > The reason why I intend to do this is because my webhost has suggested that > I do not exceed 200MB for my database. At present, I have already exceeded > this proposed limit because of all the images that I have downloaded. I was > thinking of breaking up Dummipedia.org <http://dummipedia.org> into a few > subdomains, but then realized that since text files do not occupy much > space, I might as well transfer all the images into a separate database. > This will avoid both linking and category problems. > > Any advice will be helpful. > > PM Poon Try having a look at [[Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos]] <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos> and also the [[Manual:Configuration_settings#Shared_uploads]] <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Shared_uploads> page will help.
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