Partial solution (quick hack) for bug 12970.

diff --git a/includes/media/Bitmap.php b/includes/media/Bitmap.php
index ca82aab..db3d82c 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/media/Bitmap.php
+++ b/includes/media/Bitmap.php
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ class BitmapHandler extends ImageHandler {
                }
 
                if ( !wfMkdirParents( dirname( $dstPath ) ) ) {
-                       return new MediaTransformError( 'thumbnail_error', $clientWidth, $clientHeight, 
-                               wfMsg( 'thumbnail_dest_directory' ) );
+                       wfDebug( "Unable to create thumbnail destination directory, falling back to client scaling\n" );
+                       return new ThumbnailImage( $image, $image->getURL(), $clientWidth, $clientHeight, $srcPath );
                }
 
                if ( $scaler == 'im' ) {