MediaWiki-l May 2005

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Email (optional): Enables people....
by Graeme Canivet 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hi again, I can't find information on this feature. It seems like it is implemented, but I can't find it. On the user preferences page it says: *Email (optional): Enables people to contact you through the website without you having to reveal your email address to them, and it can be used to send you a new password if you forget it. When I click on a user, their corresponding User:Page shows up. Where can I email them using the wiki interface? Thank you, Graeme.

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problem configuring for a subdomain
by John Norvell 26 May '05

26 May '05

(using Mediawiki 1.4.2) I can't get this quite right. I have "www.mediaanthropology.net" as a add-on of "www.johnnorvell.net" pointing to files in /public_html/mediaanthropology. The wiki is in /public_html/mediaanthropology/wiki. I can get the wiki to appear normally when I access it as "www.johnnorvell.net/mediaanthropology/wiki" and have the following LocalSettings/php lines: $IP = "/home/johnnorv/public_html/mediaanthropology/wiki"; ini_set( "include_path", ".:$IP:$IP/includes:$IP/languages" ); require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); [...] $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; but when accessing it as "www.mediaanthropology.net/wiki," which I would prefer, I see only the unformatted output of the index page. Following some advice on a similar issue here some months ago, I added: $wgServer = "http://www.mediaanthropology.net"; When I do this, accessing it either way just gets the static page. Any ideas about what I should try? Thanks in advance... -- John M. Norvell Department of Anthropology William James Hall 314 33 Kirkland St. Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Telephone: (617) 496-5690 Fax: (617) 496-8355 Email: norvell(a)fas.harvard.edu Office hours: T 10-11:30, W 3:30-5 Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~norvell/

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Special character box
by Clément Plancq 26 May '05

26 May '05

I'd like to add a special character box to the Edit page in my wiki as one can find on several wikipedia. Does someone know how to add it? Thanks Clément Plancq

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Redirect Questions
by Heiser, Damien 26 May '05

26 May '05

Is it possible to do a redirect such as the following? #REDIRECT [[{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}]] For example I'm trying redirect the page Today to "May 26 2005" in this case. All I'm getting is Today 1. REDIRECT May 26 2005 It may be entirely not possible to use variables in redirects, but I thought I would check. I can't find anything about this specific case in the Meta. Thanks!

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"Unknown file type, save file?"
by Carlton B 26 May '05

26 May '05

I had an odd problem with an article today... when I tried to navigate to it using a local link, instead of displaying the article, I got the dialog "Unknown file type" with options to open or save. Trying the shotgun approach, I navigated to the article by typing the URL in the address window of the browser. I was able to see the article. I clicked the "edit" tab and saved it without changing. The problem then went away. Does anyone know what happened?

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How to file article validation bugs?
by David Gerard 26 May '05

26 May '05

I just filed a bug (#2250) on article validation, based on test.leuksman.com behaviour. 1. Magnus, is this a useful thing to do? Should a tracking bug for the 1.5 release version be created? 2. Brion, you've mentioned you'd prefer the feature to be an extension - should bugs presently be filed under MediaWiki or under MediaWiki Extensions? 3. Anything else to make bug filing as useful as possible? (apart from learning enough PHP myself, of course) - d.

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My WIKI is being HIT!!!
by Pradeep Dsouza 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi I don't know whats going on but some worm or something is throwing junk on my pages. Any one with a solution To STOP this worm Pradeep

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two questions about the discussions tab
by b h 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, I'm still fairly new to media wiki, but I couldn't find this information.... I would like to 1. protect the article (that is easy) 2. allow non admins to edit the discussion (that is easy) but..... instead of allowing them to click the "edit" on the discussion page, actually want to click the "+" beside the "edit" - as I'd like each new comment/discussion to be in it's own section - this kind of prevents someone from erasing someone elses comments.... is this possible? and more importantly, for a subset of pages only? If that is possible, then my followup question is, can the user signature automatically be appended to the comment when saving? I already have turned on the option that the user must be logged in, but as these comments on these specific pages might only be read every six months, it would be useful in our intranet application to have some form of user traceability (not foolproof traceability, but just enough to figure out in our small organization who it was so we could speak to them in person for more details). because I picture a lot of non wiki experts and people not putting on their user signature by comments. thanks (and apologies if I missed something in the documentation) b __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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bogus users
by Crit Van Tuyl 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hello, I have about 40-50 users that I think are auto registration or a search bot. They have names like 06995f<http://sportscardpedia.org/index.php?title=User:06995f&action=edit>. My wiki is about 3 weeks old. Anyone have any insight? Crit

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Re: SpamBlacklist Extension
by stephen o'grady 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi - I'm running MediaWiki 1.3.11 at redmonk.com/wiki and am having some escalating spam issues, as Ubermoose told me would. I've attempted to install the SpamBlacklist Extension and followed the relatively simple instructions, but am getting an error which hasn't turned up either in Google or the archives. If anybody has a notion what I did wrong, I'd appreciate the tip. On Save, getting the following: Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in ~/wiki/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php on line 65 Thx. sog

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