diff --git a/roles/mediawiki/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mediawiki/tasks/main.yml
index ee237598d9..3d627b6a37 100644
--- a/roles/mediawiki/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mediawiki/tasks/main.yml
@@ -57,11 +57,6 @@
   - config
   - mediawiki
 
-- name: creating attachments dir
-  file: path=/mnt/web/attachments owner=apache group=root mode=755 state=directory
-  tags:
-  - mediawiki
-
 - name: startup apache
   service: name=httpd enabled=yes state=started
   tags:
diff --git a/roles/mediawiki123/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mediawiki123/tasks/main.yml
index 3c2b74420f..f3bfc91659 100644
--- a/roles/mediawiki123/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mediawiki123/tasks/main.yml
@@ -53,11 +53,6 @@
   - config
   - mediawiki
 
-- name: creating attachments dir
-  file: path=/mnt/web/attachments owner=apache group=root mode=755 state=directory
-  tags:
-  - mediawiki
-
 - name: startup apache
   service: name=httpd enabled=yes state=started
   tags: