In chat, when you post a link ending in .gif, the system tries
to import the image. This doesn't work for Wikipedia links like
File:Linguistic_map_Southwestern_Europe.gif.  Solution:
Wikipedia links which end in .gif but have File: in the right
place should have a special import method.  share|improve this
question I doubt that there any real Wikipedia articles ending
in .gif (only actual wiki pages are oneboxed). –  balpha Oct 6
'11 at 17:54 @balpha: Oh, yeah? –  Pops Oct 6 '11 at 18:09
@PopularDemand: touché :) –  balpha Oct 6 '11 at 18:42 @balpha:
Here's one that's not a redirect: .cat –  Mechanical snail Oct
27 '12 at 0:58 add comment  1 Answer  If you want the image to
be displayed, link to the image ( and not to some page that
contains the image.  share|improve this answer ... which
wouldn't be oneboxed anyway, since that's not an article page.
–  balpha Oct 6 '11 at 17:52 Error generating thumbnail – 
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