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: [[Sean Fennel]] is the one that probably knows the answer to this one. [[MarkDilley]] | : [[Sean Fennel]] is the one that probably knows the answer to this one. [[MarkDilley]] | ||
::Hotlinks can on some MediaWikis be made by just writing the URL. The {}'s are parameters in templates that allows the user to customize the template. <span title="Swedish n-dash FTW!">–</span> [[User:Smiddle|Smiddle]] / <small>[[User talk:Smiddle|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Smiddle|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Smiddle|@]]</small> 14:01, 15 November 2006 (EST) | ::Hotlinks can on some MediaWikis be made by just writing the URL. The {}'s are parameters in templates that allows the user to customize the template. <span title="Swedish n-dash FTW!">–</span> [[User:Smiddle|Smiddle]] / <small>[[User talk:Smiddle|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Smiddle|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Smiddle|@]]</small> 14:01, 15 November 2006 (EST) | ||
:One caveat with hotlinking: As of MediaWiki 1.8, this appears to be turned off by default although it can be re-enabled by system administrators by changing LocalSettings.php. This may cause hotlinked images to by default stop displaying as images (and instead appear as the corresponding external URL plaintext) if data from this wiki is imported into current (1.9-alpha) or recent MW versions. Perhaps hotlinks are falling out-of-favour on some sites as they consume bandwidth on the external site to which they link, as well as being prone to abuse as a means to link 'shock images' from wiki pages. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 14:13, 15 December 2006 (EST) | |||
== For those of you who function better in UseMod == | == For those of you who function better in UseMod == | ||