[06:54:18] hi everybody, please help on this question : "which is the correct code to make a link to a pdf (which is on my wiki server) on an image ? this link must directly lead to the opening of the pdf and not on another wiki page" thanks [06:57:33] Hi Stephane, I recommend you upload it to the server and use the wizard to upload it. [06:59:14] These are also instructions to help you out [06:59:15] If you want to make a PDF an image, you will need to have a program to convert it on your personal computer, however, using PDFs as images in wikipedia is discouraged. [06:59:24] sorry not want I wanted to type [06:59:33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Resources/PDF_conversion_to_SVG [08:07:59] Stephane: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Altering_the_default_link_target [08:09:13] However I don't think you can directly link to the PDF file itself by using wiki syntax, only to its File: page. You could use a https://my.wiki/whatever/url/to/pdf/ link instead [08:36:10] andre__, Stephane: Actually, there's a wiki-way to link directly to the file. Use [[Media:Filename.ext]] instead of [[File:Filename.ext]] [08:36:32] uh, I thought that's just an alias. Thanks! [08:58:11] uhm...it seems that the perfect solution doesn't exist ?! The best for the moment is that solution : [[Image:file.png | link=https://www.mywikiserver/wiki/images/x/xx/myfile.pdf]]. Problem : I'm not sure if one day I want to update the pdf document, the final URL will probably be changed....the ideal should be to have a PERMALINK... [09:01:32] Have you tried [[Image:file.png | link=Media:myfile.pdf]] ? [09:02:57] If you upload over the existing PDF, the URL will be the same [09:29:54] to Vulpix, andre, Galendalia : thanks for your help, I've finaly found : the correct option is : [[Image:imagename.png|link=Special:Redirect/file/filename.pdf]] [16:51:24] For our next awards "most competent MediaWiki sysadmin" I nominate: "You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server." https://de.heroeswiki.com/index.php?title=Hauptseite&action=history [16:52:56] Done from the command line maybe? "22:36, 27. Mär. 2017 Admin (Diskussion | Beiträge) löschte Seite Datei:Tanya kahana.jpg (Requested by copyright holder)" https://de.heroeswiki.com/Spezial:Logbuch [17:05:40] Nemo_bis: interesting, it seems only action=history is disabled and not the entire index.php [17:06:52] "I just wanted the minimum effort to make my entire wiki a copyright violation" [17:14:22] Nemo_bis: they didn't disable Special:Export :) [17:16:05] Vulpix: yeah, I dumped the wiki in 2014 already https://archive.org/details/wiki-deheroeswikicom [17:31:30] well, https://de.heroeswiki.com/Hauptseite works [17:34:33] From what I've fiddled with the URLs, apparently only action=history or diff are forbidden [21:38:19] are the companies that manage mediawiki and keep it up to date for you, so you can just use it via the admin interface? [21:38:57] i know there's this page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services but i can't tell which ones actually manage the software for you, rather than just 1-click installation [21:39:33] bleb: check for "Wiki farm? = yes" [21:40:37] Although some hosts don't really keep MediaWiki up-to-date [21:59:24] does a "wiki farm" mean all the wikis share certain aspects of the backend? [21:59:31] like they all share the same set of user accounts? [21:59:42] because that appears to be the case at least for miraheze [23:30:22] Hi. I wondered if there was a way to hide the deletion logs from the recent changes. [23:59:37] acagastya: you can suppress the deletion log entries, which will hide them from RC