On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
Hello,
I'm setting up a small mediawiki site with content migrated from
kwiki.
I'm getting quite confused by how to find out how to do things with
mediawiki, so I joined this list to ask some questions. But I'm even
confused about whether this is the right place :)
Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists says "MediaWiki-l
for people with questions about their own installation of MediaWiki",
but the sign-up page for the list suggest a different focus
"MediaWiki-l
-- MediaWiki announcements and site admin list". So my apologies if
I'm
not in the right place.
Site admins? That's you. And me.
I have one page where I'm documenting how some of my code works. It's
Javascript so the text is liberally scattered with HTML tags that I'm
discussing. But mediawiki is *interpreting* these tags as HTML! I see
that this is a feature from
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Help:Editing
and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext even tells me
which tags are affected. But I can't find anywhere that tells me
how to
turn this feature off when I don't want it. How can I write text that
includes HTML tags as literals?
<pre> <---- Makes text look like code, but
I expect you know that.
<nowiki> <--- Turns off wiki. Totally. Everything below here will
appear AS YOU TYPE IT.
function thisIsCode() {
$done = true;
return true;
}
</nowiki> <--- Turns back on wiki. Continues as normal.
</pre> <--- closes code block.
I'm also trying to include some images of what the resulting page
looks
like. I succeeded by just adding something like
http://localhost/htdocs/images/one-line-evidence.png to my
wikitext, but
I suspect that's not the pukka way to do it. Is there a better way?
First,
upload it - there's an 'upload file' link in the toolbox on
the sidebar. Or you can go to
http://sub.domain.tld/your/wikidir/
index.php?title=Special:Upload
Then, upload the file. The interface should be pretty self
explanatory. Once you've uploaded it, you can type
[[Image:Filename.ext]] in any page and instead of a link, it will
actually substitute it in.
Oh, is there a searchable archive for this list?
No idea.
Thanks and regards,
Dave Howorth
No problem,
Elliott Cable