Attachments

MediaWiki extension to attach files and external links to pages.

• subpages are automatically attached to their parent page
• files can be attached to a page with {{#attach: pagename}}
• external links can be defined as subpages containing {{#exturl: URL}}

For enabled namespaces the attachments of an article are displayed in an automatically generated section at its end. To facilitate adding attachments an attach page action is provided, which is linked in the Vector and Minerva skins.

Tips

• #attach also works on regular articles.
• You can link files added through action=attach relatively with [[File:{{FILEPREFIX}}filename.jpg]] (or {{FILEPREFIX:..}} for the parent page).
• Enable $wgCountCategorizedImagesAsUsed to exclude attached files from Special:UnusedImages.
• You can exclude subpages starting with a specific prefix from the autoindex with {{#attachments ignore subpages: prefix}} on the parent page.
• Attachments and external URLs are both stored as page props, meaning they can be queried with API:Pageprops and API:Pageswithprop.
• You can access attachments before they are sorted with the BeforeSortAttachments(&$links) hook, where links is an associative array mapping string keys to HTML links. Return false to take over the sorting.
• If new attachments do not show up, it might be because you have many jobs in your job queue.

Setup

Enable uploads.

Place the extension in your extensions directory and load it with wfLoadExtension('Attachments');.

Then enable the extension for the desired namespaces, e.g:

$wgAttachmentsNamespaces[NS_MAIN] = true;

Note that you should also enable subpages for these namespaces.

Optional configuration parameters

• $wgAttachmentsChunkListByLetter
  Boolean, whether or not the attachment list should be chunked by the first letter of list items. Defaults to true.
• $wgAttachmentsShowSubpageForm
  Boolean, whether or not the subpage form should be shown. Defaults to true.
• $wgAttachmentsShowLinkForm
  Boolean, whether or not the external link form should be shown. Defaults to true.

Credits

This extension is essentially a rewrite of PerPageResources by Mathias Ertl, which consists of Extension:Resources, Extension:AddResource and Extension:ExternalRedirects. This extension replaces all three, notable differences are:

• attachments are stored in page_props instead of pagelinks
• no open redirects, just links
• attachments are shown at the end of pages, as opposed to on a special page

The icons in resources/ are from Feather and licensed under MIT.