MediaWiki-l April 2007

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Tabbed data extension
by Ian Smith 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi all, thought I'd let you know that I've just enhanced my extension for simple tables. You can now format a table by just separating fields with tabs, spaces or commas, all inside <tab>...</tab> tags. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TabbedData_extension Cheers, Ian

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Wikipedia Like Categories.
by Connolly, Wayne 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi all, First of all I would like to thank you all for your help over the past couple of months. Yesterday I finally integrated our wiki into our non-standard LDAP system with a bit of custom code which I will re-submit back to mediawiki. Though I borrowed from the custom auth one and the windows NTLM one. Finally www.telstra.com now has 55,000 users(workers) that can potentially use the wiki. Its on the intranet so you cant see it :-( Onto the question. Since yesterday we now have around 240 articles added and everyone is about to go nuts I believe so.. Q: I would like to get a category section like the one on wikipedia front page(after your language choice at top right). So you have overarching categories and subs under them. How is that done with the FCK editor? Also Q: Can you have closed user categories/groups? Cheers, Wayne

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Help for rollback script
by Library Guardian 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Some hacker has deleted the content of most of my pages, like 1200 ....on http://www.monstropedia.org Is there a way to roll back all those articles to their previous pages instead of doing by hand from [[user contributions]] Any help appreciated. Thanks, Loïc

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Newbie questions about ServerName and URL / virtual hosting
by Dafydd James 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi, I'm a total MediaWiki newbie and new to this list, so forgive me if either of these questions have been asked before. 1) I operate a Debian machine on which I would like to install several instances of MediaWiki. The instances will use different URLs and different database connections. Is this possible? Is there anything to watch out for? Is there any online documentation related specifically to this subject? 2) Secondly, one of the instances will be accessed via a virtual host. However, the hostname is not yet ready. Can I install MediaWiki at one URL then access it via another URL when the hostname is ready to point at my machine? The reason I am asking is because MediaWiki claims to rely on the ServerName in the apache config for some reason - if I set up the virtual host, the ServerName will change, I just want to know if this will have any adverse effects. I.e. to begin with, I will use http://www.myhost.com/xxx/mediawiki/ and then later on I will use http://bla.xxx.com/mediawiki/ when the owner of xxx.comsets up bla.xxx.com to point at www.myhost.com, I will point bla.xxx.com to www.myhost.com/xxx/ in my apache2 config. Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Dafydd

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Section auto-numbering in TOC
by Jim Hu 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Is there markup that will suppress autonumbering in the TOC on a specific page? In general I like the auto-numbering, but I have some pages where the headings are already numbered and they don't match. This is on 1.67 (it's one I'm not sysadmin for). Thanks! ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] ProtectSection.php extension
by Fred Bauder 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

>-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Hu [mailto:jimhu@tamu.edu] >Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 03:58 PM >To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' >Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] ProtectSection.php extension > >On Apr 18, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Platonides wrote: > >> Jim Hu wrote: >>> Thinking about this, I'm not sure how protect should interact with >>> nowiki, since you wouldn't want someone to be able to unprotect >>> something by wrapping it in nowiki. But you do want to be able to >>> document the protect tag in the wiki. >>> >>> Jim >> >> Don't <nowiki> full protect tags. Document it with >> <nowiki><prote</nowiki>ct> or similar. I couldn't get this to work but using only the closing tags </protect> works, together with a note pointing out the situation. Fred

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Where the wiki sidewalk ends?
by revansx＠cox.net 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hi all, I'm looking at my wiki's mysql database using phpMyAdmin and I see that the page table defines the primary key (page_id) as an unsigned int(8). Which got me thinking, 1) what is the maximum number of wiki articles possible and 2) what is the failure mode (i.e what happens). Does it generate an error? Does is apologize? Also, does moving a page bring the wiki one step closer to its limit? thanks, - rich (revansx)

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] ProtectSection.php extension
by Fred Bauder 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

>-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Hu [mailto:jimhu@tamu.edu] >Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:53 AM >To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' >Subject: [Mediawiki-l] ProtectSection.php extension > >I meant to do this months ago but just got around to it today. I put >a page for ProtectSection.php up on mediawiki.org > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection > >it links to the svn version and has the code for my modified version >on the page. Originally written by ThomasV... I just tweaked it. > >For those who don't already know, ProtectSection.php allows you to >block editing of text between <protect></protect> tags from editing >by anyone who is not a sysop or a bureaucrat (these group permissions >can be modified in the code). My modification suppresses the section >edit link for subsections inside protect tags - it may not work >properly with caching, but I don't have squid running for my wikis so >I can't test that. >===================================== >Jim Hu >Associate Professor >Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics >2128 TAMU >Texas A&M Univ. >College Station, TX 77843-2128 >979-862-4054 It installed all right (after I got my typos fixed). It did not allow editing when I was not logged in. It does not respect the <nowiki> tag, or perhaps the nowiki tag does not recognize it. "==Protect section== I have added an extension to the /extensions folder ProtectSection.php see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection Supposedly it will by use of the tags <nowiki><protect>(section protected)</protect></nowiki> protect the section between the beginning and ending tags. This should be useful for signed articles, copyright notices, and links back to Wikipedia. Please test and comment. [[User:FJB|FJB]] 16:49, 17 April 2007 (EDT) :It works when I am not logged in, but gives no warning that the section is protected until after the edit is attempted. Of course, one can see the tag, if one is looking for it. [[User:Fred Bauder|Fred]] 16:52, 17 April 2007 (EDT)" Shows as: "Protect section I have added an extension to the /extensions folder ProtectSection.php see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection Supposedly it will by use of the tags (section protected) protect the section between the beginning and ending tags. This should be useful for signed articles, copyright notices, and links back to Wikipedia. Please test and comment. FJB 16:49, 17 April 2007 (EDT) " I guess it must be this way, otherwise it could be defeated by the simple addition of nowiki tags inclosing the protected section. However it does present a problem in explaining the tag. This was tried on a system which has a robust, and troublesome, caching system, ibiblio. Seemed to take effect immediately. Fred

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Email article to friend
by Mr Scsi 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Is anyone aware of an exisiting extension/hack that would add an 'email this article to a friend' link on every page?

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Troubleshooting Extension:CategoryTree
by Tong Sun 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hi, I just installed the Extension:CategoryTree out of svn, but it doesn't seems to be working. I have the following in my sandbox: ------------------------------------------ [[:Category:Test P1]] <categorytree>Test P1</categorytree> ------------------------------------------ The 1st tag works while the 2nd, the categorytree tag doesn't work. The page is rendered as: ------------------------------------------ Category:Test P1 Category Test P1 not found ------------------------------------------ PS. I think my CategoryTree extension is installed fine. I followed the instructions to the words, and I can see the following page: http://mediawiki/kb/index.php/Special:Specialpages Moreover, I saw the following from the rendered sandbox page: ------------------------------------------  <script type="text/javascript" src="/kb/extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var categoryTreeCollapseMsg = "collapse"; var categoryTreeExpandMsg = "expand"; var categoryTreeLoadMsg = "load"; var categoryTreeLoadingMsg = "loading"; var categoryTreeNothingFoundMsg = "nothing found"; var categoryTreeNoSubcategoriesMsg = "no subcategories"; var categoryTreeNoPagesMsg = "no pages or subcategories"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/kb/skins/common/ajax.js?42b"></script> ------------------------------------------ PPS. my CategoryTree Checked out revision 21352. My mediawiki: mediawiki-1.9.3 Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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MediaWiki-l April 2007