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in mediawiki you embed images in articles using the following notation:
this notation always(!) displays the latest and greatest file on the article.
every file (including images) keep their file history, in which it is possible to see what has changed over time.
question:
I would like to display a certain version of a file in an article and am not able to figure out how this is done.
does somebody know an elegant way to do this?
thanks. I was looking for embedding a historic version of a file in an article. this to show how an image/diagram looked like at a certain point in time... – udo – 2013-09-04T06:22:36.650
1Why don't you extract the old image and use it as new, rather than addressing the old version in mediawiki? – harrymc – 2013-09-04T07:47:13.713
because every image keeps its history and can be accessed individually. there must be a smart way to embed it. maybe through the "options" attribute. so far I was not able to figure it out. – udo – 2013-09-04T12:20:48.750
I haven't seen anything documented in "options". You could have a look at the mediawiki sources to see if an undocumented option exists (such as oldid). You could even try using oldid, who knows. – harrymc – 2013-09-04T13:58:04.677