SimplePasteImage is an extension which allows to automatically upload images when you copy-paste something on a wiki page in VisualEditor.

MediaWiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimplePasteImage

Installation

• Allow uploads from external URLs by specifying $wgAllowCopyUploads = true; in LocalSettings.php
• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called SimplePasteImage in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file: wfLoadExtension( 'SimplePasteImage' );
• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Simple demo

Simple gif to show how it works:

Todo list

It is a PoC for now. We havea big list to do:

• Check behaviour on re-upload deletd file
• Error reporting
• Wait form
• Test paste when copy from local apps (Word?). Likely we cannot paste images in this case but
• Test older MWs (oldest supproted?). Looks like we can make it very generic (we need ot modify buffer only).
• Enable when pasting one file
• Fix image URLs, make it so image is not a link to its file
• Test what if copy-paste images from VE of the same wiki
• ...
• Ofc refactoring. Currently it is a mess, I wanted to see if the idea works at all

Nevertheless, it works in simple scenarios