MediaWiki-l February 2006

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Non-searchable text
by Farrell, Rob (contractor) 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi all, I'm a N00b, so please bear with me. I have a need to mark certain text in my articles as non-searchable. Are there tags in existence that I can use, or can anyone out there help me create them? You may ask why? Good question. I am creating a Technical solutions knowledgebase using MediaWiki technology and have strict guidelines around content to minimise the "noise" - searchwise - that one can get with long articles. The format is: - Environment - Symptoms - Cause - Fix I only want the symptoms & Environment sections to be searchable, as the "cause" only adds context to the solution and the "fix" is simply that, and does not need to be searchable. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. If you wish to contact me directly for details please do. Thanks Bob Farrell BP Global Service Desk Project GRS&T DCT Service Operations 20 Canada Square London E14 5NJ Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7948 3638 Mobile: +44 (0) 7725 025 162 E-mail: rob.farrell(a)uk.bp.com MSN Messenger: rob.farrell(a)uk.bp.com Yahoo IM: bobcfarrell BP Connect: http://connect.bpweb.bp.com/Me.asp?IDN=531391 Get connected: http://connect.bpweb.bp.com

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Aggregator
by Joseph C. Campana 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Is there a MediaWiki add-on, or stand alone server app, that could automatically inject RSS and other XML feeds onto the Main Page of a wiki? -- Joseph C. Campana Founder and Webmaster, ResearchID.org jccampana(a)gmail.com http://www.researchid.org/

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Cologne Blue Skin Changes
by mediawiki＠wpascanner.com 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

I need to make some minor tweaks to the Cologne Blue skin Some of the pages come up in the same color background as my site now v. white Where do I change the background color of the pages in this skin so they ARE ALL this beige color like User:WikiSysop page is. All pages in the site should be using this background color. Next where do I change the "Free Encyclopedia" text at? ? Thats got to go. As a side note, the ONLY way I could get anon user blocks to work was to edit defaultsettings.php. While that may be uber verbotten, it works, and localsettings didn't, MW 1.5.6, so I can proceed with converting over now that security hole is fixed. I may have found solutions to my other ban issue to block out site thieves. ---- Support your LOCAL scanner frequency site and groups! http://www.wpascanner.com http://www.tampascanner.info ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gulfcoastdish.net

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One installation - Many sub-directories
by Jim 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Is there anyway to install Mediawiki once and have it use the directory structure of the operating system so I can control rights to even see the text using permissions on the directories. For example install to: mydomain.com/wiki but have different sections of the wiki exist in different subdirectories mydomain.com/public/ mydomain.com/private/ mydomain.com/sports/ mydomain.com/work/ etc. I was trying to figure out a way to do this using the languages type stuff public.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/public/ private.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/private/ sports.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/sports/ work.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/work/ Or must I install mediawiki multiple times to each of the subdirectories? Thx in adv, Jim -- Jim (trodel(a)gmail.com) "Our love may not always be reciprocated, or even appreciated, but love is never wasted" - Neal A Maxwell ---Intersted in Gmail - let me know I have invites---

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Folding navigation bar
by Stephan Stapel 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi, I am quite new to mediawiki and could not find this information in the docs. Is it possible to fold the navigation bar on the left? My bar already gets quite long because of the topic and sub-topic structure which I would really like to keep for my use case. If folding should not be possible, what alternative structuring would you suggest? cheers, Stephan

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MediaWiki Times
by Andrew Barnett 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hey everyone, Is it possible to adjust the times for entries to the database? My server runs in a different country to where I would like the times situated. Not for individual users but for the Mediawiki system. Cheers, itsonlybarney (http://www.itsonlybarney.net.ru/)

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Article IDs on Wikinews
by Frankie Roberto 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi there, Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. On Wikinews, we've started to talk about whether there could be any way to expose unique identifiers for news articles, rather than having to rely on page names. (See: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#URLs_using_IDs_…) This is important because: a) Without a unique identifier, it's impossible to tell when an article has moved. This is a particular problem for the RSS feed - without a unique ID, articles that get moved appear twice (or more). b) It should be possible to have two articles with the same headline. As I see it, there are two possible solutions. The first would be to just address a) by exposing an ID in the RSS feeds (in the <guid> sub-element of item), without altering the URLs. The second way would be to alter the URLs so that they're at en.wikinews.org/wiki/8986456, allowing more than one article to have the same title. I realise that both solutions would probably require a major re-working of the underlying MediaWiki architecture. Is there any chance that such a change could ever be implemented? Or are there any other workarounds to the problem? Cheers, Frankie Roberto

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Configuring the sidebar
by Jan Steinman 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

> From: "Victoria Powers" <vpowers(a)schematic.com> > > Wow, don't be so hard on yourself. That is what this mailing list > is for. I'm sure others have run into the same issue and will learn > from your emails. I agree, Diego! Sometimes I find that simply writing out my question helps me figure out the answer, but sometimes it take READING the question on the list, and thinking, "Oh, I could help that guy!" :-) BTW: your English is better than that of most native speakers! :::: Terrorism is the best political weapon, for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. -- Adolf Hitler :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com>

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Configuring the sidebar
by diego assis 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi everyone, at first i'd like you to sorry my terrible english... if you don't understand something I say, please tell me :) I'm writing this e-mail to ask for help in the configuration of the sidebar of mediawiki. I have modified it with success, editing the page MediaWiki:SideBar. The changes are almost perfect, it just there is one defect: when I go to the main page, the modifications I've done disapear... it only hapens at the main page. Could somebody help me? The version of mediawiki that I'm using is 1.5.6 Very thanks, -- Diego Machado de Assis

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Changes to localsettings.php
by mediawiki＠wpascanner.com 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

I am new at this and I am setting up my wiki, and one of the changes to localsettings.php I'm making is that if you want to edit a page you have to have an account. Anon can read/view all they want, but editing is user only. I also want to change the default skin used. So I per the documentation I ADD: # # Permission keys given to users in each group. # All users are implicitly in the '*' group including anonymous visitors; # logged-in users are all implicitly in the 'user' group. These will be # combined with the permissions of all groups that a given user is listed # in in the user_groups table. # # This replaces wgWhitelistAccount and wgWhitelistEdit # # The following line should be commented, otherwise these settings will # throw away the settings on DefaultSettings.php (you probably don't want this). # With this line commented you will only overwrite the settings you explicitly # define here (that's what you probably want). #$wgGroupPermissions = array(); $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; And UNCOMMENTED and CHANGED: $wgDefaultSkin = 'cologneblue'; But these changes don't take effect? ?? ? What step am I missing? I tried searches and didn't seem to find an artcile that would explain what step I am missing to get these changes to take effect. Thanks!

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MediaWiki-l February 2006