Hi,
I just did a fresh install and somehow (due to my own tinkering with my database backup) I managed to make my WikiSysop account a non-sysop user.
As there is no other Sysop, how can I create one?
I have a copy of the original DB backup, but I've already made a few changes and would rather not clear/restore the database.
Thanks
Dear All,
(I should have asked this in my previous mail.) I am trying to add a wiki to
an existing website which has sections that require a login using apache
.htaccess and password files. I would like it so that if a user logs into the
site then they also login to the Wiki automatically. i.e. Each user would not
need a separate login for both the wiki and the htaccess restricted areas of
the site. Has anyone tried to do something similar with MediaWiki and if so
how did you go about it? I have looked in the User.php file, but I cannot see
an obvious way to do this.
Thanks for any help,
Charanpal
Hi
I just installed mediawiki on a web server (hosted). It seems to work ok
except for the Special:Statistics page. It doesn't count the legitimate
content pages and the number of edits.
I got the following warnings when I configured the wiki:
Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in
xxx/wiki/install-utils.inc on line 27
# PHP 4.3.8: ok # Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled.
MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to
potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your
server. You should disable it if you are able.
# Warning: PHP's safe mode is active! You will likely have problems caused
by this. You may need to make the 'images' subdirectory writable or specify
a TMP environment variable pointing to a writable temporary directory owned
by you, since safe mode breaks the system temporary directory.
# PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
# Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
# PHP's memory_limit is 8M. If this is too low, installation may fail!
Attempting to raise limit to 20M... failed.
# Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
# Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if
you enable uploads.
Anything I can do?
Are there any other critical problems I could encounter with these warnings?
I know about the image upload problem.
Thanks in advance
Lasse
Hello,
The wiki I'm working on is intended to be used as a users' manual for an
open-source software project. There will be a number of documents that will be
translated from English. What I would like advice on is how to manage these
pages in the wiki.
There will not be enough language-specific pages for a complete wiki in, say,
French, but there will be several important documents in other languages. How
should we name and/or organize these pages to maximize the ability of other
people to find the document they require in their desired language?
One thing that I have attempted to do was create page names like this:
nl:Starpagina for Dutch-language pages.
We are striving to minimize or completely avoid using sub-pages, as it has been
suggested to us that sub-pages complicate the search process and make the wiki
more difficult to manage.
We started to create some new namespaces, but it's obvious that we don't really
understand them well enough, and are not using them properly.
Your suggestions and advice would be most welcome.
Thank you.
Craig Hartel
http://codex.wordpress.org/ - WordPress Documentation Wiki.
Brion Vibber wrote:
> Jon Kenoyer wrote:
> [clipped]
> > Question 3: How do I make an external link open in a separate window
> > instead of the current wiki window?
>
> Right-click and select "Open in New Window". In some browsers clicking
> the middle button or control+click will also do it.
>
> (I know, you're asking how to make a link do that automatically. You
> can't, and that's a Good Thing. Your users would curse you for forcing
> them to pop up new windows all the time without their permission if you
> did. It's easy for the user to override it one way, but very hard for
> the user to override it in the other direction.)
I'm annoyed with that, too. Maybe it should be an option in MediaWiki 1.3.4.
Also, Is there a good way to reply to a message in the digest?
-- Jamie
-------------------------------------------------------------------
http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/
Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to GMail!
I need to create a new skin but I having trouble figuring out to do this and
get the skin to be recognised by MediaWiki. I understand that I need to
create a new SkinXXX.php file in the include directory and also a new css
file in the stylesheet directory. But, how can this new skin be registered in
MediaWiki so that I can use it with the wgDefaultUserOptionsEn['skin']
variable in Language.php?
I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance,
Charanpal
The following wiki text:
#a
text
#b
text
Gives
1. a
text
1. b
text
I would like my list numbering to keep going (1, 2 ...). I realize the
problem is because of the new line. However I want the entries under
each list item to have an example in a nice box (hence the leading
space). However I cannot find a way to achieve this that keeps the list
number from restarting at 1 every time.
Is there an easy way to achieve this?
Thanks,
Jc
I started with 1.3.2, and I'm trying to upgrade to 1.3.3. I'm frustrated because
the UPGRADE document essentially tells me nothing. I have no idea how to upgrade
the software. I read the INSTALL document, and it says for upgrading, see
UPGRADE, which, as I've already mentioned, basically only talks about upgrading
from 1.2 or previous.
Perhaps this is so obvious I'm not seeing it?
Craig Hartel.
We did the following in our 1.2.6 installation (Skin.php):
function getExternalLinkAttributes( $link, $text )
{
global $wgUser, $wgOut, $wgLang;
$link = urldecode( $link );
$link = $wgLang->checkTitleEncoding( $link );
$link = str_replace( "_", " ", $link );
$link = wfEscapeHTML( $link );
if ( $wgOut->isPrintable() ) { $r = " class='printable'"; }
else { $r = " class='external'"; }
if ( 1 == $wgUser->getOption( "hover" ) ) {
# $r .= " title=\"{$link}\"";
$r .= " target=\"_new\" title=\"{$link}\"";
}
return $r;
}
Please note that this approach allows the user to override the behavior by
disabling 'Show hoverbox over wiki links' in the user preferences.
Not a perfect hack perhaps, but it suits us fine.
Best Regards,
JT
===
You said:
===
Message: 1
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:00:51 -0400
From: "Jon Kenoyer" <jonk(a)op2s.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] collection of dumb questions
To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org
Message-ID: <opsd2prpyzw9v1w3@work>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes;
charset=iso-8859-15
Hi I am very happy with mediawiki so far. I got it up and running pretty
easy but now have two questions that I can't find answers for in the
documentation or mailing list.
Question 1: I would like the have the same skin as the mediawiki and
encyclopedia site. Especially with the tabs across the top. However in
LocalSettings.php only cologneblue works for $wgDefaultSkin =
'cologneblue'; If I set it to something else the default skin appears. Is
monobook the skin that mediawiki uses?
Question 2: Is there anyway to reference the contents of another page to
be included inline in the current page? I have a collection of pages that
I would like to have a link with the option to view all the pages compiled
into one page.
Question 3: How do I make an external link open in a separate window
instead of the current wiki window?
Greetings mediawiki gurus,
I am responsible for maintaining a mediawiki installation within a corporate
firewall and would like to pass the login information from a web application
into mediawiki - can this be done via the URL?
Best Regards,
JT