MediaWiki-l January 2006

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by anselm 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

How do i change the directory where to upload files with the upload dialog? is is possible to upload files to another server? thank you for answering anselm ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de

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(OT) Trade Assoc. Applies New Use of Wikis
by Sterling D. Allan 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

I thought one of you might know where this story could be linked from the mediawiki system. Trade Assoc. Applies New Use of Wikis http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=41249 -"A Wiki is a type of website that allows users to add and edit content that is suited for collaborative authoring," and the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC) has found a way to put this new technology to work. In their attempts to bring together the views of an entire industry on dry, but critically important, new regulations from the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service, OREC has set-up a website that allows its members to contribute their thoughts all in one place. 1/4/2006 5:36 PM

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Koren Wikipedia under National Security Law?
by Puzzlet Chung 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

I am Puzzlet Chung, one of the administrators in Korean Wikipedia. User:WonYong (also in en.wp) in Korean Wikipedia claims that Korean Wikipedia should follow South Korean National Security Law so that the contents potentially able to threat the nation (i.e. South Korea) should be censored. He made National Security violation templates, to tag "anti-State" articles which should be deleted: http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:National_Security http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:National_Security2 WonYong insists that it is South Korea that try to conserve Korean language and protect it from extinction, hence both administration and contents of Korean Wikipedia should follow South Korean laws, and Korean language speakers who is not South Korean citizens don't have anything to do with it. He states that North Korea is not recognized by South Korea as a nation but a "band of mafias," (the statement of which is not true, since North Korea is a member of UN, and relation between two Koreas has changed), and doesn't deserve for Korean Wikipedia to reflect its POV. The problem is that some users would agree to his point of view. Out of two Korean [[names of Korea]], some South Koreans relate "Chosŏn" with North Korea and Communism. They think equal juxtaposition of two names, (juxtapose the names when they have to, of course), as not satisfying Natural Point of View as in South Korea, where the majority of the Korean Wikipedia users live in, and where the server is located as well. Although "Chosŏnmal" is the name of Korean language called not only by North Koreans, but majority of Chinese Koreans and some Japanese Koreans, some find "Chosŏnmal" aggressive and inappropriate to use it in some articles. I am a South Korean citizen myself, but as far as I understand Wikipedian policy of NPOV, WonYong's activity threats NPOV more than the "Evil Wikipedia" would threat the existence of South Korea, not like what he might think, as long as Wikipedia is not a some kind of Communists' propaganda. But I've started to seriously consider about moving DB server back to Florida and "foreigning" the site, contributed by so-called foreigns and South Koreans who's not afraid of South Korean laws. Regards, Puzzlet Chung

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Re: how to delete my wiki page? mistakes
by Jan Steinman 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

> From: Sy Ali <sy1234(a)gmail.com> > > ... apparently going into the database > would indeed be required to purge history.. but such things are not > for me... I think anyone who is going to administer a MediaWiki site would benefit from learning something about MySQL. If you're someone who does a lot of web stuff, that learning would not be limited to one application, either, as the PHP/MySQL combo is used on hundreds of free web applications. There are also numerous GUI tools for administering a MySQL database, that span the range from free to thousands of dollars. My favorite (although it lacks a thing or two that cause me to run off to some other tool now and then) is phpMyAdmin, which is free. As when learning anything, work on a backup. Record the manual steps you take to accomplish your goal. Then try to do them in a script. Then instead of ranting, submit your work for the benefit of all, and become a famous contributor, rather than an infamous ranter! :::: At the root of our problem is America's addiction to cheap energy. It would be a sad commentary if our leaders found it easier to send Americans to fight in the desert than to impose gasoline and other energy taxes. -- James Gustave Speth, 1990 :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesimths.com/Van>

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Setting for MySQL Server?
by Brian Finifter 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

I'm attempting to install MediaWiki on a sub domain of my website, as in: http://wikifilm.riddleplayersproductions.com On the installation screen, I've got everything else down properly, at least nothing is giving me an error message still, except for the MySQL server. I thought it was simply just typing the server that the database was on, as in riddleplayersproductions.com or wikifilm.riddleplayersproductions.com, but apparently this is not so. It's giving me the error message of,"Couldn't connect to database (2005)" What am I suppose to enter for this field? Many thanks, Brian

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MediaWiki as a blog?
by Jeff Carr 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

A while back a developer posted: On 08/13/05 11:59, Sy <sy1234(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I designed a simple set of templates to allow weblog-style articles -- > namely for permanent links and discussion. <snip> > http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_as_a_weblog > http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_calendar_templating My email is just to request that a blog feature be added to MediaWiki. Perhaps a blog link on each user's mail wiki page that can be enabled by the site administrator? A bonus would be having a site-wide option to make the blog's only editable by the blog owner. When the Mozilla Foundation migrated developer.mozilla.org to the MediaWiki, one of the things I noticed at the time was that they use something else for the developer blogs. Perhaps if the MediaWiki had this feature it could be used for everything? Enjoy, Jeff

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Delete History
by Dharmaweb.org 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Due to space limitation, I would like to delete all history. I previously compressed these but having problem with search so I decided to delete them all. Is there a script that does this? If not, which table so I delete these but keep the current copy? Thank you very much

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How to change title style of wiki
by Horvath Levente-Laszlo 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hello Could somebody tell me please how to change the style of my title in my wiki? I would like to have "index.php\Title" instead of "index.php?title=Title". I don't even know if this is a PHP/Apache configuration issue or does it come from a bad wiki setup. PLZ help and thanks in advance. Sincerely, Levente ------- Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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commons-l@wikimedia.org
by Horvath Levente-Laszlo 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

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HTML to Wiki-Converter?
by Martin Puaschitz 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello! We would like to transfer a big CMS-System to a brandnew Wiki-System. As everything was done with HTML we would love to get a good filter where we put HTML in and get Wiki-Syntax out - i know such filters exist for Word & Co.... Any ideas, links or hints? Would be great. Happy new Year, Martin

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