I ran into the exact same issue & dumped the extension. Would like to get
it to work, but don't know how.
frosty
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Product Version MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.17.0 PHP
> <http://www.php.net/> 5.2.17 (apache2handler) MySQL
> <http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.56
>
> Reading the release notes for 1.16 (using 1.17.0 currently).
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.16
>
> I read that....
>
> # Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
>
> However, 1.16 / 1.17 breaks the extension I am interested in, namely
> "ImportFreeImages" (via FLICKR API).
>
> Documentation suggests that the ImportFreeImages extension is no longer
> maintained, viz
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImportFreeImages
>
> The browse function works well.... on upload I get the following:
>
> ****
> Upload warning
> Invalid URL: $1
> ****
>
> Version info:
>
> ******
>  * @ingroup Extensions
>  * @version 2.0
>  * @author Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]>
>  * @author Travis Derouin <[email protected]>
> *****
>
> Options? Fix "ImportFreeImages"? Or find an alternative that works with
> 1.17 (and higher)? I thought I had found such a version in SVN, but it
> was just copy.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Gordo
>
>
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