MediaWiki-l March 2007

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Auto created redirects
by Milan Tešović 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

When an article is moved a Redirect is made at the original location. Wouldn't it be good if there would be an exception when article is moved to User page space or Wikipedia: space (or Wikinews, Wikiquote...) Some articles proposed for deletetion don't get deleted, but are moved to the User:MyName/TheUndeletedArticle This leaves the redirect page at TheUndeletedArticle, which should be deleted, but it sometimes isn't. Samesituation when SomeWikipediaPolicy is moved to Wikipedia:SomeWikipediaPolicy This is bigger problem on smaller Wikipedias and smaller projects, then on major Wikipedias. Many articles that should be deleted are still there throug the redirects Page => User:Me/Page, instead of being red links.

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Talk for this IP removal
by Dr. Nancy Dailey 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

The instructions to "remove the "Talk for this IP" link at the top right when $wgDisableAnonTalk is true" listed in MediaWiki's Manual: FAQ seems to only apply to versions 1.9.2 and 1.9.3. I'm running 1.8 and the SkinTemplate.php instructions just disables the site for me. I checked in the Meta FAQ and could not find an answer. Is there a way to remove the links for "Talk for this IP" in earlier versions? Thanks for your help. Nancy Dailey

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Email this article to a friend link
by Paul Coghlan 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

I have created the Template:Email page as per wikipedia (see bottom of email) and it works fine. I have a nice icon and the 'email to a friend' text to go along with it. The one problem is that the creation of the email depends on a client side email client. Clicking on the link attempts to open Outlook etc. What I would far prefer is a simple form which the user can input an email address and click on send. This would mean they can send from a machine with no email client. Any ideas on whether this is feasible? Thanks, Paul Template:Email [mailto:?subject={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20in%20{{SITENAME}}&body=Check%20out%20th e%20{{SITENAME}}%20page%20{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20at%20{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?ti tle={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%2526oldid={{REVISIONID}} {{{1|E-mail someone this page}}}]

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special:Confirmemail Permissions Denied when $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; - Repost?
by Jack D. Pond 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Just to clean this up and document for future users, this was an IO error (idiot operator) The answer is already documented in: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#Preventing_access_to_all_pa ges_for_non-validated_users It requires a hack to the title.php file Jack D. Pond CIO, Montgomery County, PA "Partnerships are the basis for success." -- Neal Prescot Washington >I've locked down a wiki to allow only logged in users for almost all functions, but would like to allow a new user to self register (subject to >"approved" status via email as facilitated by the Rob Church (THANKS!) extension NewUserNotif. The user can go in and create a new user login, but when >they go to confirm the email address, the following error is shown:

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Decreasing vandalism
by Philip Beach 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

My wiki is experiencing a lot of vandalism lately. I would like to implement things to reduce the amount of vandals allowed into the system. Perhaps limiting the number of edits by brand new users? Requiring a valid email address by new users? Requiring a full name? One thing I would really like to do is to limit the number of characters in a new user id to less than about 12. Is there any easy way to do any of this, like an extension or something already in the software? Thanks a lot!

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Greetings, everyone.
by Dave Sigafoos 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

I am a newbie to wiki and have found this group very 'forgiving' and very informative. Great to see another newbie DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Umidjon Rahmonberdiev Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 0:25 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Greetings, everyone. Hi there, I've recently joined this mailing list and just wanted to say hello to everyone. My name is Umid, I'm from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I'm currently installing wiki to create an Regional Agricultural Information System for Central Asia and Caucasus region, I hope your help will be useful. Thanks. Umidjon Rahmonberdiev NINP, Web Manager, MCSE www.cacaari.org

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29 Mar '07

Hi List, I'd like to change the Login / create account Site: wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup Which files I have to edit, and probleme where I could add some PHP scripting. I want something like this (red text): http://i7.tinypic.com/33f7ud1.png And probably if its not that hard - a little script which checks the username form if there are 3 letters. Scripting i do byself but I'm not sure where to put ;-) TIA for any hints. Oliver

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Greetings, everyone.
by aretai aretai 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hello Umid, I hope you will find the answers you need here. Aretai On 3/29/07, Umidjon Rahmonberdiev <u.rahmonberdiev(a)cgiar.org> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I've recently joined this mailing list and just wanted to say hello to > everyone. > > > > My name is Umid, I'm from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. > > > > I'm currently installing wiki to create an Regional Agricultural > Information > System for Central Asia and Caucasus region, I hope your help will be > useful. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Umidjon Rahmonberdiev > > NINP, Web Manager, MCSE > > www.cacaari.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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Greetings, everyone.
by Umidjon Rahmonberdiev 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hi there, I've recently joined this mailing list and just wanted to say hello to everyone. My name is Umid, I'm from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I'm currently installing wiki to create an Regional Agricultural Information System for Central Asia and Caucasus region, I hope your help will be useful. Thanks. Umidjon Rahmonberdiev NINP, Web Manager, MCSE www.cacaari.org

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Special:Import fails
by Scott 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Is there a permission, or other setting that will prevent Special:Import from working? I've not found any documentation other than for Interwiki importing so far at least. I have exported the MediaWiki help section referenced here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Copying and saved the generated XML file to desktop. I have tried this with IE 7 as well as Firefox 2 in case it was an issue of the "save as" corrupting the xml file. The file is only 75kb. The import does not work and generates the following error: "Couldn't open import file Please export the file from the source wiki using the Special:Export utility, save it to your disk and upload it here. " I do not have any troubles using the regular upload file page if that's a question. - Scott

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