I just started admining a mediawiki on an intranet,
and already my users are asking about support for
blogs. Doing a quick search, all I found was this,
which isn't that useful:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_and_Blogs
and I found this extension:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fxparlant/Blog
but I don't think that is exactly what my users are
looking for (I mean, that extension is almost
misnamed). Or maybe I don't understand it that well.
Some of the more bloated wikis seem to have some
suppport, but there is a reason I didn't choose them -
they were too bloated! I like the simple and sleek
look of mediawiki.
I know users can create/edit pages, (for instance, top
post to a weekly page (or daily page) etc.), but is
there something or some technique that might be a
little more automated for posting? If it's not easy,
they won't use it (comparing it to blogger), and just
complain!
thanks
bob
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Hi
I'm sure I've seen somewhere the parameter for the number of template
call in one page (default is 5)... I need to set it to a greater number
on my personal wiki, but can't find where I have to change that.
Thanks the solution
Fxparlant (françois)
Hi,
Has anybody figured a way to integrate authentication with a forum tool
like phpBB? I know Auth plugin is for this job, I'd be glad if somebody
wants to share their implementation with me/us. Is it possible to make
someone log in to one (mw or the forum) and automatically be logged in
to the other?
Another question would be which forum s/w is better? I would prefer if
the forum is directly integrated or at least would look similar to
Monobook. Has anyone found a good solution?
Thanks.
Muzaffer
I am a member of a mediawiki, not a sysop. I have been adding
content to the wiki, but I have encountered a couple of (related?) problems.
I like the mediawiki interface, very simple, but the problems I am having
are unacceptable and may cause me to recommend a change in software.
I make changes and non-members cannot see them.
Before I log in, I cannot see the changes I have made. After I
log in, I can see my changes.
I make changes which later disappear.
I added a page to the main page and populated it. Now the
page is missing this has happened more than once.
I expect that these are generic issues which have configuration based
causes, rather than being bugs, but I have not found these issues reported
or in FAQs. There are similar issues in bugzilla, but the descriptions are
subtlely different.
MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4rc1
PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (apache2handler)
MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.1.10a
Scott Emery
emery(a)nas.nasa.gov
Hello all,
Would anyone know why I cannot put <center>text</center> in any markup,
nor does the following image markup work.
[[Image:myimage.jpg|thumb|none|100px|center|my description of this thing]]
I can use <div align="center"></center> but that is annoying for images?
Thank you,
Graeme.
I'm trying to get the math formatting working on my wiki. I've
installed OCaml and teTeX but I'm having problems with ImageMagick. I'm
running on Solaris 10. The texconfig for the teTex installation works fine.
As part of the set-up I need to set the environmental variables
MAGICK_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
I've got the following lines in /etc/profile
export MAGICK_HOME="/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.2.1"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.2.1/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
and I've got them again in /.login and /.profile.
However, I'm getting the error
*Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation
of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): \int_{s=a-1}^{b} f(s)\, ds \le
\sum_{i=a}^{b} f(i) \le \int_{s=a}^{b+1} f(s)\, ds*
on a sample math equation I've got.
How do I set an evironmental variable for the wiki? What user is it? I
think it may be webservd:
(extract from /etc/passwd) **webservd:x:80:80:WebServer Reserved UID:/:
and that has no home directory or shell so I can't set it in ~/home.
Just in case it makes a difference the wiki is installed in
/var/apache2/htdocs/wiki. Also I've enabled $wgUseTeX in
LocalSettings.php and the make in /var/apache2/htdocs/wiki/math
generated no errors.
Help?
-- Emma
PS
I used symbolic links from /usr/local/bin instead of setting the PATH
for dvips, convert etc:
root[k)(sh]@sunray21#which latex
/usr/local/bin/latex
root[k)(sh]@sunray21#which dvips
/usr/local/bin/dvips
root[k)(sh]@sunray21#which convert
/usr/local/bin/convert
root[k)(sh]@sunray21#which gs
/usr/sfw/bin/gs
How do I rename an article? I looked in metawiki under renaming, changing, or moving an article but I found nothing useful. I'm surprised I didn't find such an elementary thing there... obviously I must have been looking in the wront place?
(Please forgive me if this is a FAQ...)
Is is possible to upgrade the user interface to provide a better
revert/restore interaction then the following?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting
I'm hoping to see something like a "revert" link in the page history and/or
a "revert" link in the view-the-old-page-revision-content display.
I'm running 1.4.0; maybe this has already been added in later revisions?
The edit-the-old-revision-and-save-it approach seems to be unintuitive for
my users (and for me).
-Matt