MediaWiki-l March 2008

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Dynamic menu
by Reizer Gábor 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi! I have a page, that include a 300 row-table. That's why the page is very slow. I would like to partition this table. How can I implement a dynamic menu to solve it? Thanks, Gabor

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integrate data from external database
by Bin Hu 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi, Can anyone give me some tips on how to connect an external MySQL db to mediawiki? I need to display some contents from an external database in a mediawiki page. The contents of the external database will change independently of the wiki and no one shall be able to write to the external db from the wiki pages. Thanks. Bin

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how to put an internal link to special pages with arguments?
by Jay Fang 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi, all, I was trying to put the internal links to special pages with arguments. For example, on my http://chinatravelguide.com/ctgwiki/Train_Stations_in_Anhuipage, I want to place an internal link to a special page, Special:CNTrainSearch?via=Anqing. But it seems [[Special:CNTrainSearch?via=Anqing Anqing]] does not work. I'm temporarily using external link, [ http://ChinaTravelGuide.com/ctgwiki/Special:CNTrainSearch?via=AnqingAnqing]. But would prefer to use an internal one. Does anyone know the right syntax. I dug around for a while, but could not figure it out. Maybe I should change my special page code to handle parameters? Thanks for the help. Jay Fang ChinaTravelGuide.com

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links containing MediaWiki variables
by 65s.mg＠atlas.cz 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Look at extension Variables (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables), DynamicFunctions (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicFunctions) or UserFunctions (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserFunctions). -MGrabovsky

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User List Personal Page is Hanging Wiki
by Rowe, Dolores A 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Teammates, I am using MediaWiki v1.11.0. When I go to this url: http://sete-wiki/sete/index.php?title=Special:Listusers and select a particular user's personal page, it hangs the wiki (cannot load). I do not know what part of the content is causing this, but does anyone know how to find the user page in the MySQL database, so that the erroneous portion could be deleted or something ? Thank you, Lori

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(no subject)
by Patricia Marin 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi, When I install and extension that is parse using s this way, everything works fine $wgParser->setHook( "websiteFrame", "websiteFrame" ); But if the extension looks like this does not work, do I need to istall another extension I have mediawiki-1.11.0 . function register_embed_document_handler() { global $wgParser; $wgParser->setHook( "embed_document", "embed_document_handler" ); } thanks patty

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] searching for WYSIWYG-wikitext Editors
by Jan Steinman 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

> From: Rob Rye <rye(a)usc.edu> > > Neooffice is extremely similar to OpenOffice, being explicitly based > on OpenOffice (its developers are former OpenOffice.org developers > who went independent to write a Mac-GUI based version of the software > on their "spare time"). In general, Neooffice has almost identical > functionally to OpenOffice.org though I cannot speak to whether or > not it is able to export wikitext as I have never attempted to use > Neooffice in this way. I've gone Microsoft-free, and I rather like iWork as an Office work- alike. Keynote does a wonderful job reading PowerPoint files, and seems to me much more intuitive. You can do more powerful stuff quicker -- and the result doesn't look like built-in PowerPoint template. :-) Numbers is weaker than Excel, but okay if you can do without stuff like pivot tables. And this is Version 1.0. So I expect greater Excel compatibility is on the horizon. Pages goes beyond Word processing with page layout. Think of it as a lean, mean version of Word combined with a lean, mean version of InDesign. I'm not always happy with its .doc imports, thought, finding SimpleText does a more faithful rendition, especially with tables. Anyway, I'm an iWork fan. It costs more than Neooffice, but you're worth it. :-) :::: Sell your cleverness, and purchase bewilderment -- Rumi :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99-6313-15>

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moving image links
by Ming 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

I uploaded a set of icons to my wiki using the SpecialUploadLocal extension. The target folder by default is the images folder of the local wiki. I moved those uploaded (hash sorted) directories and image files to a shared folder. (I have an upload.subdomain to serve the images from that shared folder. I figured such an arrangement would be useful for servicing future wikis. ) However, the Image: page for each icon still has a link to the image path of the local wiki. How do I update these links to reflect the new path? ($wgSharedPath, etc have been set properly.) rebuildImages.php in the maintenance folder didn't fix (or change) anything for me. And imagetransfer.py of pywikipedia seems to only move or copy images between wikis. And how do I make these changes in bulk? Thanks.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] searching for WYSIWYG-wikitext Editors
by Rob Rye 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Simon, I just wanted to pass on a thought about OpenOffice, with regard to Mac users... OpenOffice works quite well on Mac. Unfortunately, it runs in the X11 windowing environment. This environment is unknown to many if not nearly all Mac users (I don't know any non-scientists that use it on the Mac). Thankfully, its cousin, Neooffice, is a Mac-native suite. Neooffice is extremely similar to OpenOffice, being explicitly based on OpenOffice (its developers are former OpenOffice.org developers who went independent to write a Mac-GUI based version of the software on their "spare time"). In general, Neooffice has almost identical functionally to OpenOffice.org though I cannot speak to whether or not it is able to export wikitext as I have never attempted to use Neooffice in this way. You can direct Mac users to Neooffice's mediawiki-based site: http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page Cheers, Rob > Simon wrote: > >> Are there also Windows, Mac, Linux Desktop Editors? I mean offline >> editing and then upload the wikitext to MediaWiki? >> > > Hey Simon, > > The OpenOffice.org Writer can export wiki text and works on any OS as > far as I know. If you want to pull an existing page down to edit I > haven't found a way to do that though. Also, it isn't sure what to do > with custom wiki tags. > > Good luck. > -Courtney

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] searching for WYSIWYG-wikitext Editors
by 65s.mg＠atlas.cz 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hello. I'll try to translate it for you and then send you link. And a note: It's not Czechoslovakia but Czech :) -MGrabovsky

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