MediaWiki-l November 2008

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user photo template howto ?
by stephane ancelot 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi, I would like to setup a template to add a photo in each user page a default photo will be used first and the user could change it later. Best Regards steph

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alias for
by Klaus Becker 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi, I configured Mediawiki 1.13.2 in german, but finally I use it in french. Images work with $wgNamespaceAliases["Bild"] = NS_IMAGE; in LocalSettings.php. "Bild" is german for image of course. Now I need an alias for "Hauptseite" instead of "Accueil" (mainpage). I can't find the syntax. cheers Klaus

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Welcome to mediawiki-l. This mailing list exists for discussion and questions about the MediaWiki software[0]. Important MediaWiki-related announcements (such as new versions) are also posted to this list. Other resources. If you only wish to receive announcements, you should subscribe to mediawiki-announce[1] instead. MediaWiki development discussion, and all Wikimedia technical questions, should be directed to the wikitech-l[2] mailing list. Several other MediaWiki-related lists exist: - mediawiki-api[5] for API discussions, - mediawiki-enterprise[6] for discussion of MediaWiki in the enterprise, - mediawiki-cvs[7] for notification of commits to the Subversion repository, - mediawiki-i18n[8] for discussion of MediaWiki internationalisation support, - wikibugs-l[9] for notification of changes to the bug tracker. List administrivia (unsubscribing, list archives). To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit [12]. Archives of previous postings can be found at [3]. This list is also gatewayed to the Gmane NNTP server[4], which you can use to read and post to the list. Posting to the list. Before posting to this list, please read the MediaWiki FAQ[10]. Many common questions are answered here. You may also search the list archives to see if your question has been asked before. Please try to ask your question in a way that enables people to answer you. Provide all relevant details, explain your problem clearly, etc. You may wish to read [13], which explains how to ask questions well. To post to the list, send mail to <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>. This is a public list, so you should not include confidential information in mails you send. When replying to an existing thread, use the "Reply" or "Followup" feature of your mail client, so that clients that understand threading can sort your message properly. When quoting other messages, please use the "inline" quoting style[11], for clarity. When creating a new thread, do not reply to an existing message and change the subject. This will confuse peoples' mail readers, and will result in fewer people reading your mail. Instead, compose a new message for your post. Messages posted to the list have the "Reply-To" header set to the mailing list, which means that by default, replies will go to the entire list. If you are posting a reply which is only interesting to the original poster, and not the list in general, you should change the reply to only go to that person. This avoids cluttering the list with irrelevant traffic. About this message. This message is posted to the list once per week by <river(a)wikimedia.org>. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns about this mailing. References. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/ [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ [4] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki [5] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api [6] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise [7] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-cvs [8] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n [9] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l [10] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Inline_replying [12] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l [13] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2009: Call for devrooms, stands and lightning talks
by Finne Boonen 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Anybody interested in trying to get a devroom? I'm willing to help organise, would just like to have an idea if people are interested first :) Finne/henna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:09 PM Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2009: Call for devrooms, stands and lightning talks To: FOSDEM <fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FOSDEM is probably the most developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February 2009. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning talks to projects from the Free and Opensource community. We hereby welcome proposals from projects to participate in organizing a devroom, manning a stand or holding a lightning talk. As every year, we have only a limited number of rooms, space for stands and lightning talk slots. Since we always receive more requests than we can host, a committee within the FOSDEM organizing team will review all proposals. Selection will be based on possible impact, our experience of previous editions and diversity in the offerings. *** Devrooms We offer large projects a devroom during the conference. A devroom is a room in which projects can organize their own schedule made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects, and as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains to host a devroom together. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands *** Stands We offer stands to projects that want to present themselves to the visitors in a more personal fashion. Stands can be used to share information, demo software, sell merchandizing or give away goodies. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands *** Lightning talks We offer lightning talks to all other projects that want to present themselves. A lightning talk is a short talk in which a project can introduce itself, talk about recent developments, or share exciting new directions. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_lightningtalks FOSDEM 2009 will be the 9th edition of the event, which has been steadily growing every year in importance and in the number of visitors. Our goal is to provide a platform to Free and Opensource projects to meet, discuss, present their current and future developments, both to their own developer and user community as to other projects that are present. Given the large amount of active contributors from many different projects present during the conference, it is an exceptionally well suited occasion to share goals and ideas with people from other communities, which is something we strongly encourage and do our best to support. Of course, the event only lives through the projects that take part in it, and through the many FOSS contributors who attend. We merely do our best to provide the best possible service to the FOSS community at large. *** Key dates: * 2008-11-22: Deadline for devroom & stand requests * 2008-11-30: Devroom & stand acceptance notification * 2008-12-26: Deadline for lightning talk requests * 2008-12-29: Lightning talk acceptance notification * 2009-01-09: Deadline for final devroom & lightning talk schedules * 2009-02-07 to 2009-02-08: FOSDEM 2009 For more information, visit http://fosdem.org/ Feel free to forward, kind regards, The FOSDEM Team - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org /\\ FOSDEM 2009 :: 7 + 8 February 2009 in Brussels _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJEhmmr3NMWliFcXcRAuMXAJ4+q1QnQ8K9Jpdjnht4uo27hoIyrgCeLiBV jn68og3FoU9PBahsZCQNv64= =9npI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ FOSDEM mailing list FOSDEM(a)lists.fosdem.org http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/fosdem -- "Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth!" Alyssa, "Chasing Amy"

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Search box location question
by 65s.mg＠atlas.cz 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

InputBox extension should help you (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox)

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Search box location question
by Addady 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hello, How can I locate an search box in the middle of the main page? I plan like to remove the current search box from the common pages layout , by css setting or changeing the skin. Thanks, Addady

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Semantic forms
by Alain 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi, I followed the example as in the semantic forms extension and am running against a small problem. When I create a book through the Form:Book, the author shows up in red and links to the author's page as a regular edit instead of to the Form:Author. When I edit the author's page in the usual way and then delete that page, the link to the author turns red again but now it brings me straight to the Form:Author. Could someone tell me what could be wrong? I'm using MW1.13 and adjusted the Linker.php as said (version 1.11 and 1.12 section). Thanks, Alain

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View Links as Network
by Dave Sigafoos 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Is there an extension that shows pages/links as a network. This would be graphic similar to that mindmap but using the links as the relations I have not been able to find one but thought I would ask DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com

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Embedding a default template on each image description page
by Wikimini 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi, I need to embed the same template on each image description page (the page you get when you click on a thumbnail image). I found a similar request here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/129846 According to answer given by Brianna ( http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/129448?do=post_view_fl…), javascript seems to be the easiest solution to insert default text in summary box. Since *I don't speak javascript*, I thought it best to ask here. Thanks in advance for any help. Laurent (sorry for my bad english)

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How put wikitext into the side bar in MediaWiki 1.13.2?
by Benct Philip Jonsson 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I've long usod the patch for putting arbitrary wikitext into the side bar, but but according to the manual it won't work in the latest version of mediawiki. I really don't like not to update, but neither do I want to lose this possoibility. What is there to do? <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar#Allow_wiki_markup_.2…> > Allow wiki markup (PHP) > > Many people on support desk have been asking > about how to put arbitrary wikitext into the > side bar. You can hack your skins/Monobook.php > file (if you're using monobook) and replace the > following section of code. (Note that this patch > doesn't work for the new MediaWiki 1.13.2) /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)

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