Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:12 UTC
Currently, every image used gets a link to its image page. You can't override this link with another link, so you can't (for example) use an image as a button. The simplest possible solution would be to add a new image option "nolink" which suppresses the link; you could then embed the image in another link. For the wiki I'm setting up, this is an absolute necessity, so I will probably develop that in the next few days and post a patch here.
Created attachment 242 [details] Proposed implementation for "nolink" image option This patch introduces the "nolink" image option as proposed; however, the "nolink" option is ignored if "thumb" or "framed" is specified. But this shouldn't matter as I can't imagine any use of "nolink" together with "thumb" or "framed" that makes sense.
Under this scheme, how will someone get to the image page? There may be licensing issues if there is not an obvious link to the copyright information.
MediaWiki is not intended to create arbitarily-formatted HTML web pages. Images are linked to their info pages so that editors may work with them, copyright and history information can be displayed, etc.
