MediaWiki-l April 2006

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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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Re: Never delete users !
by Rob Church 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell out of the software. MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will. Rob Church

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Image: link alias
by Nicolas STRANSKY 20 Oct '06

20 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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Re: Get Mediawiki to read template variables within extension tags?
by Jan Steinman 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

> From: Billy Covington <wrcovington(a)gmail.com> > > I am attempting to create a template in which all anyone needs to do > to put a Google Map on a page is use a template with 3 variables > (longitude, latitude, and description) using Evan Miller's Google Maps > extension (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Emiller/ > GoogleMapsExtension). > > The only problem is, Mediawiki won't read the variables if they're > inside the <googlemap></googlemap> extension tags. You will have to modify the extension to feed the included text through the wiki parser. > I am definitely no expert or even novice at php... This would seem to be beyond your scope, then. It sounds like an interesting project, but I have no extra time to help you right now! Perhaps someone else with an interest will want to craft a solution. :::: We may no longer have a free press, but it is reasonably priced. -- John Cory :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com>

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Getting started - echo type stuff disabled?
by Hugh Prior 29 May '06

29 May '06

I downloaded and installed Mediawiki 1.5.5 a few days ago, and have been having a look. I have pretty good experience in PHP, but it's my first look at Mediawiki. One of the biggest things I have noticed is: a) echo, doesn't b) if I try and create my own "test_wiki.php" file calling wiki functions/methods, I get I think errors but all that is displayed on the screen is a complete blank I suppose these things are basically the same thing. Is "echo" disabled? Is there some other global setting I haven't seen which is stopping output to the screen? Is there some magic constant that I have to set to get debug output (I have found $wgDebugLogFile, $wgDebugRedirects, $wgDebugRawPage, $wgDebugComments, $wgReadOnly, $wgLogQueries, $wgDebugDumpSql but they don't seem to help much). Thanks for any help. Hugh Prior

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Diacritics problem
by iubito 12 May '06

12 May '06

Hi, my old host is so bad I decided to switch to another one, we higher memory limit :-) In earlier messages in this list, I talked about a diacritics problem when switching from mysql 4.1 to 4.0. Now my old host is mysql 5.0, and the new is 4.1. I exported to SQL and imported it. All seems OK in PhpMyAdmin. But in MediaWiki (using 1.6.3) as you can see at http://tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr (new host), the diacritics (à é... greek and cyrillic letters) are OK but the title of pages are bad. [[:Catégorie:Macédoine]] points to http://tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr/index.php?title=Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mac%C3%A9do… link is red, this page doesn't exists. On the old host, it pointed to a similar url : http://tousauxbalkans.free.fr/index.php?title=Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mac%C3%A9doine with a correct link and the page exists. How do you explain that ? Which table(s) I must look better to compare in what they are different ? Does the experimental new support of UTF8 should solve this ? (I kept the compatible UTF8) Thanks in advance Sylvain Machefert

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logo only shows up on some pages
by Matt Morgan 11 May '06

11 May '06

I changed my logo by setting $wgLogo in LocalSettings.php. I believe that's the right way. It only shows up on some pages. It seems like it likes to show up on editing pages, login pages--pages with forms. It doesn't show up on content pages (when you're only reading them), the main page, etc. When it doesn't show up, I don't see a broken image box or anything, it's just not there. It doesn't seem to matter what skin I use, and I've been sure to clear cache and restart httpd, etc. It's actually happening the same way in two different installations. In both cases the logos are nice and small; one of them is a png with transparency and the other is a non-transparent png. Any ideas? Side note: I'm new to MediaWiki, but I'm having a really hard time googling for help. If I include "MediaWiki" in the search string, the results seem to return every third wiki out there, rather than help about MediaWiki. Any tips there? Thanks, Matt

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how to put a block of html/javascript code into main page?
by L K 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi, I want to put a block of html/javascript code into the main wiki page that can monitor my website activity. There are many websites offer this kind of service. I just want to copy and paste the code they generated to my page. Does anyone know how to put such code in the main page? Thanks a lot Roy

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Adding an RSS feed to a MediaWiki website
by Joseph C. Campana 10 May '06

10 May '06

You can use magpierss, available at http://magpierss.sourceforge.net. I used it at the feeds page at ResearchID.org<http://www.researchintelligentdesign.org/wiki/ID_news_feeds>, and it works fine. -- Joseph C. Campana Founder and Webmaster, ResearchID.org jccampana at gmail dot com http://www.researchintelligentdesign.org > Can anyone give me some pointers on this (has anyone managed to embed > an webfeed into MediaWiki): On 24 Apr 2006, at 1:46 PM, Christiaan wrote: > I want to embed this feed content (not just a link) into our > MediaWiki intranet: > feed://techboard.nemetschek .net/ubbthreads/ContentIslands/2_rss20.xml > > I've since realised that this isn't just a matter of adding some > html. It seems I need a javascript to embed the actual content. > > I tried this, but with no luck so far: > http://www.puuba.com/translator > > I'm running MediaWiki 1.6.1 on Mac OS X Server 10.4.5 > > Thanks, > Christiaan

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