
If you are using MediaWiki 1.34 or higher, $wgAllowTitlesInSVG is never applied and now always true. To avoid a false positive, add $wgAllowTitlesInSVG = true to the LocalSettings.php file. Allow upload of SVG files in the LocalSettings.php file: $wgFileExtensions = 'svg' Note that MediaWiki will refuse SVG files containing JavaScript, for security reasons.
#Alternatives to imagemagick install
If you're on a shared host and no SVG renderer is pre-installed, you should probably ask your provider to install it for you. MediaWiki supports SVG image rendering: if enabled, SVG images can be used like other image files - they will automatically be rendered as a PNG file and thumbnailed as needed on the fly. SVG Wikimania 2016 presentation on Dynamic SVG $wgUseImageMagick = false $wgCustomConvertCommand = "gm convert %s -resize %wx%h %d" Image formats GIF įor thumbnailing GIF- Animations under windows, you need to install ImageMagick as described above. Once ImageMagick is installed, you must enable ImageMagick and point MediaWiki to the convert or convert.exe program on your computer in LocalSettings.php like this: In MediaWiki, enable ImageMagick in LocalSettings.php by setting $wgUseImageMagick to true. In recent PHP versions this is not required.
#Alternatives to imagemagick windows
It is recommended to use GD on Windows systems. GD will not require any configuration or modification to be used. PHP comes with GD graphics library enabled by default. Image thumbnailing requires either ImageMagick or GD library – neither are part of the default MediaWiki installation.

MediaWiki's image syntax allows dynamic resizing and thumbnailing of images (see Manual:Configuring file uploads for general help on file uploads). See Manual:Configuring file uploads, Manual:Mime type detection and Manual:Adding support for new filetypes Relevant parameters for file handling


By default this is given to all logged-in users. The user must be in a group with the "upload" right.To upload files, these conditions have to be met: "Image:" is still retained as an alias for backward compatibility. Prior to MediaWiki 1.14, the "Image:" namespace was used instead. This applies to images as well as to any other type of file that can be uploaded.Īll files are stored with a corresponding article in the "File:" namespace. This article describes how MediaWiki handles and stores files, and gives some information on configuring.
