Category:IMPORTDEBUG - Change External Images: Difference between revisions

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:''See also [[template:external image]]''

This category contains every page, imported from Wikispaces, which has been tagged as containing external images. For each of these pages, we should replace the external image notice with a locally-uploaded version of the image, and then remove the page from this category.

In general, MediaWiki discourages external image hotlinking, because external images can break (which has happened in some of the above pages). Furthermore, MediaWiki's external image support is fairly weak: if we enable external image support in MediaWiki, it will turn *every* URL that links to an image file into an <img> tag, embedding the image in the page. As a result, MediaWiki doesn't support external images in quite the same way that Wikispaces does.

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The above example is a particularly good demonstration of why external images are bad, because the original image link is broken, and so even the original Wikispaces page had a broken link here. We will need to replace this with a new image, which we can upload locally [[Special:Upload|here]], and then change this page. ~~This example was originally from~~ the ~~page~~ [[~~21edo#Books_.2F_Literature~~:~~|21edo~~]] ~~(which may have been corrected by the time you read this)~~.

The above example is a particularly good demonstration of why external images are bad, because the original image link may be broken, and so even the original Wikispaces page had a broken link here. We will need to replace this with a new image, which we can upload locally [[Special:Upload|here]], and then change this page.

:''For dealing with dead links in general, see also [[template:dead link]] for marking broken links and auto-collect the affected pages in [[:category:Pages containing dead links]].''

This category contains every page, imported from Wikispaces, which has been tagged as containing external images. For each of these pages, we should replace the external image notice with a locally-uploaded version of the image, and then remove the page from this category.

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+:''See also [[template:external image]]''
+This category contains every page, imported from Wikispaces, which has been tagged as containing external images. For each of these pages, we should replace the external image notice with a locally-uploaded version of the image, and then remove the page from this category.
 In general, MediaWiki discourages external image hotlinking, because external images can break (which has happened in some of the above pages). Furthermore, MediaWiki's external image support is fairly weak: if we enable external image support in MediaWiki, it will turn *every* URL that links to an image file into an &lt;img&gt; tag, embedding the image in the page. As a result, MediaWiki doesn't support external images in quite the same way that Wikispaces does.
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-The above example is a particularly good demonstration of why external images are bad, because the original image link is broken, and so even the original Wikispaces page had a broken link here. We will need to replace this with a new image, which we can upload locally [[Special:Upload|here]], and then change this page. This example was originally from the page [[21edo#Books_.2F_Literature:|21edo]] (which may have been corrected by the time you read this).
+The above example is a particularly good demonstration of why external images are bad, because the original image link may be broken, and so even the original Wikispaces page had a broken link here. We will need to replace this with a new image, which we can upload locally [[Special:Upload|here]], and then change this page.
+:''For dealing with dead links in general, see also [[template:dead link]] for marking broken links and auto-collect the affected pages in [[:category:Pages containing dead links]].''
-This category contains every page, imported from Wikispaces, which has been tagged as containing external images. For each of these pages, we should replace the external image notice with a locally-uploaded version of the image, and then remove the page from this category.
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+[[Category:Todo]]