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==Howto Information==

If you solve a problem, why not contribute your solution to this website as an article that others can easily find? Adding or editing articles is very easy.

and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.

=== Linked Images ===

By default, this system is configured to show an image and link to it's description page. Sometimes, you want to use an image to link to a page of your choice. There are [[mw:Help:Linked_images| many ways to make mediawiki link images]], but the most convenient that we settled on here is to use the [[mw:Extension:Icon|Icon extension]]

To get your image to float left or right, wrap the

<nowiki>{{#icon}}</nowiki> in a div with the appropriate class like so:

<nowiki><div class="floatright">{{#icon}}</div></nowiki> Although I modified the Icon extension to be able to specify a class in the icon tag itself, the extension now reveals some weaknesses that make me want to change to the LinkedImage extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedImage

Also,

<nowiki>[[Media:foo.pdf]]</nowiki> would produce a link to a pdf document, so