The Jackal Rants

Some updates to the RandomImage extension:

• Captions will now be pulled from the image description page, if possible. Text within <randomimage></randomimage> tags is preferred, if present, otherwise, the first paragraph of the description is used. This idea came from Dave Cook.
• The extension can now perform a more complex SELECT to ensure that non-images are excluded from selection.

Update: Dave caught a bug, which I’ve fixed - when a size was specified, the caption wasn’t showing. This is due to the fact that I’m a touch lazy and the extension just generates wiki markup, passing it to the parser to do the actual work. Of course, this results in MediaWiki’s slightly inconsistent sizing/framing behaviour.

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