MediaWiki-l October 2006

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Featured article
by Yandry Perez Clemente 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hello..., I was wondering..., is there any extension that I can use to have a 'Featured article' section in my Main Page, as wikipedia does? What I want exactly is some kind of tool that admins can use to select an article for that issue. Best wishes, Yandry. . .. ... %w(Everything is an Object).each { |x| puts x } http://gatopeliblanco.blogspot.com/ ... .. .

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Feature: "Email this page"
by JTAutry 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Not sure what magic words work with each versions, but this external hyperlink works in 1.7.1: [mailto:?subject=Check%20this%20page%20out&body=You%20might%20be%20interested%20in%20this%20web%20page:%20{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Tell a friend] Of course its still a bit sloppy not to have the email sent by the wiki's server, but still, it works right NOW! :) Taylor ----- Original Message ---- From: Sam Odio <sam(a)bluwiki.org> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:04:47 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Feature: "Email this page" Erik, I would agree with Robert - ideally you make a special page and add an "email user" button in your skin. If you want to go the "hackish" route use a mailto link and define the subject/body. Of the top of my head, something like this might work: <A HREF="mailto:?subject=Foobar.com web page recommendation.&body=Hi, You might be interested in this web page; <?php $this->text ('pageurl') ?>">Tell a friend</A> Let me know if you implement a SpecialPage - as I would be interested in also doing that on http://BluWiki.org -s On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:44 AM, Robert Leverington wrote: > That would require editing the skin files as all of the links that > appear in the toolbox are found in the SkinName.php files, it might > also need a new special page depending on how it was implemented. > > If it were like the Emailuser item then it could just be a special > page with options on it (you would need to be logged in though) > otherwise it could be a mailto: link however they are not very > friendly if you are using a public computer or use online web mail. > > On 18/10/06, Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> "Email this page" is a very useful feature that can boost the >> traffic of a website. Any suggestions on how to enable this in the >> Toolbox on the left for every page? >> >> thanks >> Eric >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > > -- > Robert (aka Lcarsdata), > > Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM (Digital > Restrictions Management) -- learn about the dangers at > http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Sidebar with expanding links?
by Mark London 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hi - I'm looking for information on how to create links in the sidebar that expand, like in the following example: http://white.stanford.edu/newlm/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar Thanks for any help. - Mark

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Installing MediaWiki on a co-lo server
by Gary Kirk 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

I'm getting a shared package and wanting to install MediaWiki there. It's Linux hosting and has all the prerequisites. My question is this: what is it I am supported to download, and install? I think I'm supposed to download the tar.gz file, but then what? Do I upload it (via FTP) to my webspace, and if so, will it unpack itself or what? I run Windows XP on my desktop. For the record, I haven't purchased the package yet, so I can't try things out yet, just want advice. Thanks -- Gary Kirk

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Image: link alias
by Nicolas STRANSKY 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hi, For some time I've been using the following syntax successfuly on Mediawiki 1.5.x: [[Image:document-xyz.pdf | My document XYZ]] which used to produce the following output as a link to the "Image:" page: My document XYZ Now this doesn't work anymore, at least with mediawiki 1.5.6 and 1.5.7 and for the same syntax I just see this link as if no alias had been given after the pipe: Image:document-xyz.pdf Is there any reason why I should observe that ? I have noticed that the following alternative syntax works as I want it to work but I wonder if this is the right way to do it (I added a colon at the beginning): [[:Image:document-xyz.pdf | My document XYZ]] Thanks for your help, Regards, -- Nicolas STRANSKY Équipe Oncologie Moléculaire Institut Curie - UMR 144 - CNRS Tel : +33 1 42 34 63 40 26, rue d'Ulm - 75248 Paris Cedex 5 - FRANCE Fax : +33 1 42 34 63 49

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Control instantiation of edit tabs
by ApostateAmish＠aol.com 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

I need more control over edit tabs and the instances in which they appear. hooks.txt states: SkinTemplateContentActions': after building the $content_action array right before returning it, see content_action.php in the extension module for a demonstration of how to use this hook. In the 1.7.1 package I recently downloaded, I found no "content_action.php" file in the extensions directory or anywhere in the package. From all I've read in hooks.txt and elsewhere, a hook titled 'SkinTemplateContentActions' exposes logic controlling tabs at the top of each page (article, discussion, edit, etc.) and preferences can be set with the content_action.php page. Without that page, I can't find even a demonstration of how tabs can be manipulated. Is content_action.php still part of the main Mediawiki installation, and if not, where can I find the extension that includes it? _Twenty_ (http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Twenty&action=edit) 18:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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sidebar and authorities question
by Nicholas Buttle 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

I'm trying to put together a wiki for an Architectural firm. 1. They want categories somewhat like you have in Twiki. However, I've had a look at Twiki and I find it pretty difficult to get to grips with so I imagine it'll be user unfriendly in the firm. Is there a way of changing the side bar if you navigate to a category page? ie the sidebar becomes the subcategory bar when you get to the selected category. 2. What level of user access control is there in mediawiki? We're after 'locking down' certain pages and leaving others open to editing by just about everybody. TIA Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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upgrading to 1.8.2 RSS not working
by city wiki 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

upgrading to 1.8.2 RSS not working no errors noticed in upgrading ideas?' thanks

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Feature: "Email this page"
by Jan Steinman 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

> From: Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com> > > "Email this page" is a very useful feature that can boost the > traffic of a website. Any suggestions on how to enable this in the > Toolbox on the left for every page? On MacOS X Safari, you simply press CMD-I to send the whole page in HTML, or SHIFT-CMD-I to send a link to the page. Don't other browsers have something similar? :::: Well, gotta get back to whatever it was I was avoiding... :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.EcoReality.org ::::

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special Pages gone after 1.8 upgrade
by Scott M 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Well I was indeed running php 5.0.4 on an X86_64 machine in 64 bit mode. I built the 5.1.4 using the Fedora 5 source RPMS and upgraded. I then restored my mediawiki 1.7 database and reran the upgrade process. I still have no access to the special pages and can't log in. Any other ideas? ----- Original Message ---- From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:18:39 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special Pages gone after 1.8 upgrade Scott M wrote: > After upgrading from 1.7 to 1.8.1, my wiki no longer has any special pages. > I can't even login now because the UserLogin special page is missing. Are you running PHP 5.x on an x86_64 (AMD64) machine? If so, upgrade to PHP 5.1. Older versions of PHP are broken on 64-bit, which ends up corrupting data. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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