MediaWiki-l August 2005

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Multiple languages
by James Gardiner 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Morning! I am building a web site for a family member who is in the process of completing a PhD and MediaWiki looks like the ideal CMS to use as they will be able to update their own web site (delegation is always important :-) Two questions: 1) There may be a need to have certain pages in multiple languages. Is the best way to do this for a small site is to add a language identifier to the page title eg: here is the CV in [[CV.en|English]] or in [[CV.nl|Dutch]]. Is there a way to do this and still have a more readable title eg "English CV" rathern than "CV.en"? 2) I see from the LocalSettings.php that it is possible to prevent access to certain pages for users who are not logged in. Do I need to list all the pages I want blocked or is it possible to do wildcards eg internal* TIA James

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imitating commons on private mediawiki installations
by Yongho Kim 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

How does commons.wikipedia work? Can this be imitated in other people's own installation of MediaWiki? Is there a technical document under meta explaining this, I can't find any. Yongho

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RSS ?
by David J. Biesack 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Is there any RSS support for MediaWiki - i.e. generating a .rss stream for a site? I am aware of an extension that parses/embeds rss files within MediaWiki pages with <rss>url</rss> but I want the inverse: to allow others to use RSS to see what's new on my MediaWiki site. -- David J. Biesack SAS Institute Inc. (919) 531-7771 SAS Campus Drive http://www.sas.com Cary, NC 27513

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Database Corruption
by Arthur Guy 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

I have had another go with this today but the same message keeps coming back about permissions I can't see what other permissions the maintenance scripts need Arthur arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Guy [mailto:arthur@astarsolutions.co.uk] Sent: 29 June 2005 19:48 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Database Corruption Thanks for replying, I hadn't filled out the details in adminsettings.php. I created a new database user and put the account details in that file and re-ran the rebuild script, it came back with a message saying the user I had created didn't have permission. I gave the user the following privileges SELECT INSERT UPDATE DELETE INDEX ALTER Are there any other privileges it needs? Thanks Arthur arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- Make sure AdminSettings.php is present and contains correct username and password settings as per AdminSettings.sample. Note that rebuildIndex.php requires ALTER TABLE permission (iirc) to drop and re-add the fulltext index. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) 'a star solutions' disclaimer The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. We believe that this communication is free from viruses and other potentially dangerous programmes, but the recipient opens this communication at their own risk. We assume no responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the receipt or use of this communication

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ORACLE_WORK
by Kate Turner 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

i have just merged the ORACLE_WORK branch into CVS HEAD, now that 1.5 is branched. this may create problems with MySQL, as i haven't tested MySQL support extensively. so, please be aware that things may not be working correctly (and let us know, so they can be fixed :-) on the other hand, MediaWiki now supports Oracle out of the box (including installer support). kate.

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Uploading Word documents
by Marcel de Ruiter 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi There, How can I have the Wiki upload Word / Excel / Powerpoint documents? It appears not to be supported. Thanks. Best regards, Marcel --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Apparently this is what I'm referring to - I just set the title via editing Mediawiki:MySpecialPage - thankyou! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Bliss Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:14 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page Are you refering to SpecialPage::getDescription()? (Which, by default, calls wfMsg() with the lowercase version of the page name. So if your special page is called SomeSpecialPageIWrote, you would want to look at [[MediaWiki:somespecialpageiwrote]].) On 6/21/05, Bart Q. Simon <bqs(a)bluefang.com> wrote: > Yeah I'm aware that special pages are php (I made one that's working > beautifully). > > I'm just trying to figure out a way to give a new special page a title > without hard-coding it in PHP. I'm pretty sure there is a way to do it > (I looked through my old custom-made special page, and there isn't a > title in there - yet it still has the right title when I browse to it). > > I recollect it being something like this, but not quite like this: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Pagetitle That appears to be for the HTML <title> tags. I assume you're talking about the title at the top of the page. > > Maybe I'm losing it :). That's entirely possible. However, this is not an authoritative source in the areas of mental stability. ;) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail! Have lots of invites. Gmail now has 2GB. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Re: breadcrumbs
by Ashar Voultoiz 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Kev4020(a)aol.com wrote: > Hello experts, > > I've got a question about generating breadcrumbs in a mediawiki 1.4. > How can I manage that the breadcrumbs show me, where I am? I want to > see a string like this: ->Category->Subcategory->Article. Has anyone > an idea how to manage this problem? I've already tried the extension > "kwBreadCrumbs.php" but there is another idea behind. You might want to try adding in your LocalSettings.php: $wgUseCategoryBrowser = true; For an output example, have a look at: http://www.aurevilly.net/mediawiki/index.php/A_man_so_gray cheers, -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/ IM: hashar(a)jabber.org ICQ: 15325080

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multiple redir
by jdd 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

after some tests, it seems that #redirect works only once (1.5) that is test1 redirect to test2 redirect to test3 clicking on test1 send the user on test2, not on test3 is that what is wanted ? I mail fail, but I had already renamed a page more than once (due to excess typos :-() and I think a got the last page from the first on the same clic (1.4)? thanks jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

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