> From: Simon Renshaw <simon(a)castortech.com>
>
> Is there a way to add a spell-checker to the wiki (version 1.5.3)?
Personally, I think that's the responsibility of the client.
At least Mac OS X has great common spell-checking across all
applications, such that I would personally NOT want the server doing
it, if it had the slightest negative impact on performance or
experience.
:::: I'm not looking for culprits because we're all culprits. Every
last one of us is doing things that shouldn't be done in a rational
society because we haven't known any alternative. -- M. King Hubbert,
1976 ::::
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.IslandSeeds/wiki/Energy> ::::
> From: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com>
>
> Type http://en.wikipedia.org/WikiWord and see what happens :)
> [If it's good enough for Wikipedia...]
I guess I should have tried that before asking the list... :-)
> As for why not just have your wiki contents there in the first place,
> it's because it rules out exposing anything other than articles...
That's what I had suspected, but wanted to make sure I hadn't
committed some deadly sin!
:::: If the energy crisis forces us to diminish automobile use in the
cities, stops us from building highways and covering the country with
concrete and asphalt, forces us to rehabilitate the railroads, causes
us to invest in mass transportation and limits the waste of
electrical energy, one can only assume that the Arab nations and the
big oil companies have united to save the American Republic. -- John
Kenneth Galbraith
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesimths.com/Van>
It's been stated here before that one should not put the wiki
directly under the root of your site, like "http://www.mysite.com/
WikiWord", but rather have something else in-between, like "http://
www.mysite.com/wiki/WikiWord".
I forget the reason for this, and wonder if that reason holds true
for a hack I just implemented. I have Apache set up to go to
Error.php upon encountering a missing page, which contains the
following:
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/wiki/<?php echo basename
($_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']) ?>">
</head><body></body></html>
This effectively means that a URL "http://www.mysite.com/WikiWord"
will be redirected to "http://www.mysite.com/wiki/WikiWord".
Is this a bad thing? Should I just throw up a generic error page
instead?
:::: I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to
technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the
real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man.
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. -- EF Schumaker ::::
:::: Jan Steinman, SEEDS http://www.IslandSeeds.org/wiki ::::
Hi! I came up with an idea for MediaWiki and I was wondering if I could
get the mailing list's thoughts on it. One of my favorite applications
is a program called Tomboy (the site is down, but the wp article on it
is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy_%28software%29). What would be
really awesome is that same kind of simple interface, but attached to a
MediaWiki backend, so this personal note-taking tool would be a great
way to collaborate.
Naturally, for really big wiki's this interface would probably be more
cumbersome than anything, but for small group projects it'd be
fantastic! Basically, here's what I came up with for how to implement
this, but I don't know much about MediaWiki so your opinions would be
very valuable; I'm implementing it in .NET to take advantage of the
existing Tomboy code (and because I like .NET)
1. Make an ASP.NET web service that responds to SOAP requests and
queries the MySQL database directly.
- This way is version dependent, somewhat bad in software design
because now it's meddling with internal MediaWiki structures
- Requires being installed on the server
+ However, if it works, other applications could use it as well
+ Doesn't require patching MediaWiki itself
2. Add an RSS feed to get recently changed page names and names of all
pages that exist, and use custom POSTs to submit new pages.
- Requires patching / adding to MediaWiki
- Still need to find a way to get the text of a page in MediaWiki
format
+ Other apps could still use it but it would only work on patched wikis
3. Don't touch the server at all, use screen scraping and post requests
to do everything client-side
- Ugly, custom themes might bust it
- Very version dependent
+ Works with all MediaWikis
I think that this project could definitely make MediaWiki more useful in
the area of small-group collaboration. If anyone's interested in helping
write it or has any ideas, I'd be glad for the help!
--
Paul Betts <paul(a)paulbetts.org>
Hi,
this happens to all of my protected sites!
I tried different browsers (firefox, konquerer) different computers and even a windows system
=> everywhere symw problem
What do you mean server losing POST data?
How can I find out?
Can I change this? It is a server of a university where I cannot do a lot.
But isn't it strange that few days ago I could protect the sites and not I cannot unprotect them?
Martin
MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> schrieb am 12.12.05 17:54:16:
>
> What page are you trying to unprotect? Also, does this happen on one
> particular page or all of them? If the latter, then something's up
> with the browser or server losing POST data.
>
>
> Rob Church
>
> On 12/12/05, Martin Baumann <mailsgetlost(a)web.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am definitely loogen on as SysOp. When I click 'unprotect' I am asked for a reason for unprotecting this site. No matter what I enter here after I clicked the Confirm button I am redirected to just the same site and the same procedure starts. The site is not unprotected !!!
> >
> > What can be the reason for such a thing?
> >
> > Thanks, Martin
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I understand your concern.
But I'm running a small, private wiki so performance is not an issue.
I found one at http://mcintosh.cjb.net/wiki/index.php/Spell_Checker but my
knowledge of PHP is basically is null.
Anybody tried that one or willing to help me install it?
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Sent: 12 décembre, 2005 13:54
To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Spell-checker
> From: Simon Renshaw <simon(a)castortech.com>
>
> Is there a way to add a spell-checker to the wiki (version 1.5.3)?
Personally, I think that's the responsibility of the client.
At least Mac OS X has great common spell-checking across all
applications, such that I would personally NOT want the server doing
it, if it had the slightest negative impact on performance or
experience.
:::: I'm not looking for culprits because we're all culprits. Every
last one of us is doing things that shouldn't be done in a rational
society because we haven't known any alternative. -- M. King Hubbert,
1976 ::::
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.IslandSeeds/wiki/Energy> ::::
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> From: Martin Baumann <mailsgetlost(a)web.de>
>
> is there a way to use external image links with a thumb preview?
You mean as in "goatse.cx"? :-)
I think it is generally agreed that allowing arbitrary external
images has tons of security and copyright issues.
:::: The white man seeks to conquer nature, to bend it to his will
and to use it wastefully until it’s all gone and then he simply moves
on, leaving the waste behind him and looking for new places to take.
The whole white race is a monster who is always hungry and what he
eats is land. — Chiksika, elder brother of Tecumseh, March 19, 1779
:::: Jan Steinman, http://www.Bytesmiths.com
I have noticed this issue at wikien-l, but really only just now grapped with
it.
When an ip is blocked, user gets the "blocked" message suggesting to ask an
admin for clemency. This message seems flawed. Which of the following
facts do I have wrong?
-blocked user can't get wiki help
-blocked user must have e-mail address to get e-mail help
-anon user can't set preferences including an e-mail address
-therefore blocked anon can't get wiki or e-mail help
Here is what needs to be fixed:
Standard blocked user message needs to be changed to say:
"If you are not logged in you will need to log in and have a verified e-mail
address. If you don't have an account, you will need to create one and
verify your e-mail address. Even from this blocked ip address, the system
will let you create an account and verify an e-mail address so you can
contact an administrator."
--
Tom Haws
1094 North Martingale Road
Gilbert, AZ 85234
Home Office and Fax: 480-807-8417
If you have LOVE, you are already in heaven.
If you have no LOVE, you are already living in hell.
--Kevin Williams
> ok, thanks dori,
> then i will also access to via normal http.
> but the problem is, that there is a transfer of a lot of data, which are
> not necessary, i think of the when you open a site with the source-code,
> (e.g.
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berkshire_Hathaway&action=edit )
> you need only the source-text for the bot.
> it's only the part in the textarea
>
> i think it would be nice of you add to the index.php also the action
> "source".
> like: "index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=edit", and you only get the
> sourcecode of the article "Wikipedia"
sorry, i thought about "index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=source"
it could also include the hidden input arguments you get when using
"edit", could look like something like that when opening that page:
:wpSection
20051211120204:wpStarttime
20051210103959:wpEdittime
:wpScrolltop
SOURCE
the same for the action "submit".
we could also make an action called "botsubmit" which only tells an error
code
something like
0 = ok
1 = timestamp error
2 = site is locked
i think can also write a patch for the CVS-version of mediawiki if you think
this would be nice! i think this would be very easy and could improve the
speed for bots
and decrease the load of the servers!
what do you think about?
mfg johannes