Hi.
Yesterday I uploaded an image and, unfortunately, I named
it "Holsten_Lemon+.jpg". I completely forgot that '+' is a special character
in URLs.
The upload went fine, and there was no error message, but when I was
redirected to the Image page Image:Holsten_Lemon+.jpg, I got redirected
to "Image:Holsten_Lemon_.jpg" (underscore instead of a plus). But the page
says there is no file with this name, and the page title is "Image:Holsten
Lemon .jpg" (space instead of a plus).
I can see the image correctly in the gallery of new files:
http://disperso.net/Special:Newimages, and I can link to it too, but I can't
see the the Image page in any way.
First: What should I do? I prefer to delete the file and upload it with a
proper name, but I don't know how to do it. If I delete the file in the
server, I suppose that some tables of the database have to be fixed, but I
don't know which ones.
Second: It's a bug? I don't know if MediaWiki should allow upload a file with
this name, but if it does, it should show it properly, isn't it?
Thanks in advance. Any suggestion is welcome.
--
Alex
> As for news, I want write my own news. Special page where visitors can
> read/browse my news, subscribe to my RSS, but at the home page there will be
> listed latest 3 or 5 news.
I'm not aware of any such extension - though it shouldn't be too hard to
code, I guess.
You might try creating a separate namespace for your news, and then use
the News extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News) on the
front page to display only changes from that namespace.
> Thanks for your help, HTH.
You're welcome.
PS: HTH = "Hope That Helps" :)
-- F.
> How do I do news, events and forum pages on mediawiki?
That a rather unspecific request.
Not sure about news - do you want to aggregate RSS feeds from news sites
like CNN.com or BBC.co.uk?
Or do you want something like WikiNews.
For events, the Calendar extension could be useful:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Calendar_%28Cdamian%29
Also see the recent thread(s) on this issue.
As for forums, there is AWC's Forum Extension:
http://forums.anotherwebcom.com/vb/wiki.php?page=Category:MediaWiki:Forum
Not having used that myself, I'm not sure whether it works with the
latest MW version (though I believe Wikia uses it).
HTH.
-- F.
Dear all,
How do I do news, events and forum pages on mediawiki?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Umidjon B. Rahmonberdiev
NINP, Web Manager, CACAARI
P.O. Box 4564,6, Murtazaev St.,
Tashkent 700000, Uzbekistan
Tel.: (998-71) 137-21-30/69; Fax: (998-71) 120-71-25
E-mail: <mailto:u.rahmonberdiev@cgiar.org> u.rahmonberdiev(a)cgiar.org
WWW: http://www.cacaari.org
All (or most) Wikipedia sites have a Captcha at the time of creating accounts. That prevents bots from registering.
Does anyone know of any extension for this?
thanks
Eric
Captchas:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-42%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=…
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>This isn't the answer you're looking for, but here's what worked at my
>organization. When we rolled out MediaWiki, the big message to the team
>was:
>"Just type."
>Put blank lines between your paragraphs and click Save. That's it.
That`s exactly my current approach :)
'Keep it simple, don`t try to overformat things, be willing to delete a 100lines ones they get inaccurate or obsolete.'
>And if you WANT to do formatting, here's a cheatsheet. But don't let
>that stand in the way of documenting what you know.
And we also have that one :)
>Then we have a few motivated people who scurry around improving the
>formatting on other people's pages as they run across them.
ok, there we currently have only just ONE, but we`re working on it :)
>It worked out well, even with the WYSIWYG die-hards.
It works here - but only with the pure technical staff (and even some of those guys are quite hard to change).
The bad things are:
- users without basic wikicode expirience see wikicode mingled with content (inline links, formatting etc) and their initial reaction is 'i cannot read that - it`s too complicated', which is - although a purely psychological problem - a major factor with my users: 'if it does not behave like M$ Word, i cannot use it'. (Imagine a 'normal user' opening a page containing tables in edit-mode... ok, i`ve banned the use of tables, but even the little things like '===' or '*' come quite hard to most of them.
- lacking ability to abstract content from design and/or the will to do so or to even try.
So i`m looking for a way to 'lower the bar'.
>DanB
nevertheless: thanks :)
dwe
Thanks, folks, for the replies.
1 - In response to the suggestion that I NOT "bother" (my interpretation) the MediaWiki folks with my inquiry: I disagree. ANY customer-need is a signal for the original programmers to tune their product, or marketing, to better align with their audience. Grow or die. Nature abhors a vacuum, information fills it. Hey, and if these listservs can tolerate "out of office replies" and cc's of the entire threads, I'm quite confident readers can also handle seeing my full original inquiry.
2 - I note no one has "Any leads on a basic wiki setup-and-configure instruction manual?" except (a) web links that contain contents that are not responsive to my inquiry (and I've printed and read hundreds of those pages already) or direct answers (thank you very much, but ... I'm asking how'd YOU learn so I can teach myself - I want read what YOU read to answer these questions for myself, and more!)
I'll keep hunting.
- Peter Blaise Monahon, USPTO/OTPC, 571-272-3950, MDE 4D68, WS01419
- Monday, April 09, 2007 9:13:07 AM
> michael.ittner(a)elixic.de wrote: I will be out
> of the office starting 17.03.2007 and will
> not return until 06.04.2007.
> Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu> wrote:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents
> michael.ittner(a)elixic.de wrote again: I will
> be out of the office starting 17.03.2007
> and will not return until 06.04.2007.
> Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter, It's best to ask only the MediaWiki
> mailing list about this rather than cc'ing the
> Wikitech list which is meant for Wikimedia's
> own projects rather than external projects
> that use MediaWiki. There's a FAQ at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ
> and MediaWiki forums at http://mwusers.com/
> which you may find answer some of your
> questions.
[Peter Blaise says: My original (refused) post shared my particular comments that those exact resources as offered were unresponsive to my specific challenges. The FAQ is a mere 20 pages. Remember, though, that I'm asking about an INSTRUCTION MANUAL so I can answer my own questions, and I offered 4 sample questions, which you very kindly tried to address below.]
> > 1 - Sign in as admin. Is that so hard?
> > How do I sign in as admin?
>
> Go to [[Special:Userlogin]] on your wiki.
> You will have created an admin account
> when you installed MediaWiki. If you don't
> remember that user's name, try looking at
> [[Special:Listadmins]] on your wiki to see
> if there is anyone with admin access. If not,
> you'll need to add that via the database.
[Peter Blaise says: Nope. I presume you mean "Go to [[Special:Userlogin]] on your wiki by typing "Special:Userlogin" into the [Search] box" ... however, even "going" to "Special:Listusers" I only get red "Admin (Bureaucrat, Sysop)" links. When you suggest that I "add that via the database" - what I'm asking is "...by doing what...?" In other words, I'm looking for a MediaWiki INSTRUCTION MANUAL someplace. Has anyone else found one that provides a referential resource for MediaWiki? Letting MediaWiki know I'd like one seems a logical act. Hello? MediaWiki? Are you li$tening? Hello?
> > 2 - Make others sign-in as lesser-editors
> > and contributors. I need to see how
> > hierarchies of user-capabilities work
> > before I go live.
>
> Other users should be able to create
> normal accounts at [[Special:Userlogin]].
[Peter Blaise says: Ahhh ... but I want to prevent anonymous contributions, hence my wording "MAKE others sign in as lesser editors". Again, thanks for some insight (which does not work for me), but I'm asking how you learned, and if there's a MediaWiki INSTRUCTION MANUAL someplace.]
> > 3 - Lock parts of article contents so users
> > can add to them but not delete the
> > locked part, admins can change anything.
>
> You can only lock an entire article, not part of
> it. A way around that is to add content to a
> template and lock the template. For example,
> put your content at [[Template:Main]] and
> type {{main}} on a page to include that
> content there.
[Peter Blaise says: Yes, I was reading about templates over the weekend and wondered if that might work. How'd you learn that? Have you tried it, actually? Anyway, I'll try, but I imagine the call to the template will be visible when editing the page, so the original page contents will not only NOT be visible during editing, but the call itself can then be munged. In other words, I'll explore. I was hoping MediaWiki or someone already explored what to me is hard to imagine is unprecedented, and that there might be a MediaWiki INSTRUCTION MANUAL someplace...]
> > 4 - Change/customize a few visual things,
> > like the sidebar.
>
> The sidebar can be edited by any admin
> at [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]. Angela, Angela
Beesley http://www.Wikia.com/
[Peter Blaise says: By doing what? " MediaWiki:Sidebar" brings up "There is no page titled "MediaWiki:Sidebar". You can create this page." Is that an error? Do I need to be "admin" first? Is that an okay default message, meaning that if I want a custom, non-default SideBar, I need to create a new SideBar from scratch? Do I ... oh, too many questions.
Any leads on a basic wiki setup-and-configure instruction manual?]
*Hello,
I have installed two identical Mediawiki, on the same machine and the
same disk.
Each Wiki belongs to a different user.
One of them works fine with <math> </math> while the other gives :
*Failed to parse (Can't write to or create math temp directory): \sqrt{x}*
**
*I checked permissions, texvc behavior etc... everything seems ok.*
*Is the message hiding something else ?*
**
*Thanks for helping.*
*Francois Colonna **
**
Hi all,
does someone know the status/plans for 'real' wysiwyg editors included in mediawiki?
Around release of 1.5 there was a real spike in development, however this appears to have faded into a trickle :( - and much information about wysiwyg editors found in meta is no longer accurate :(:(.
- Wikiwyg does not appear under active development on the mediawiki site.
(to quote the developer who wrote the conversion to make it work with mw : 'it`s been month i`ve looked at that code - it`s quite ugly.)
- FCKEditor is the most advanced, but has 'serious issues' with mw 1.9 - at least if you don`t want it to convert wikicode to html and save it as html ... there are rumors some people solved them, however it is still quite buggy and awkward (callig perl from php, well... :))
- Mozile has much potential, but the xsl-stylesheet for the conversion is still quite 'rough' and there isn`t a working 'load&save' implementation for it.
and this goes on.
But: considering one wants 'the big hats'/'wikicode illiterate' being able to take active part in a mediawiki based wiki on an intranet, there`s just no way without an wysiwyg editor providing at least basic formatting and bulleted lists. I`d go for a basic editor which is just able to do basic formatting and preserves all othere elements for the users mentioned above and using the 'code way' for the admins/section maintainers.
So the question is:
- does anyone have a working wysiwyg editor on a mw 1.9 installation? If so - which one?
- are there any plans for one in the main mw code branch?
many thanks,
dwe
Hi all,
Ian, Jim,
many thanks for the suggestions :)
Since we in fact use the monobook stylesheet, we can try both suggested ways :)
best regards,
dwe
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