MediaWiki-l August 2008

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how to get a non-breaking space between text and a graphic?
by Derrick Farnell 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi Placing a non-breaking space -   - between text and a graphic doesn't seem to work. That is, on this page: http://www.chainsofreason.org/wiki/Chain_32 gradually reducing the width of the browser window eventually causes the arrow graphic to jump down a line without taking with it the word which comes before it, even though the space between them is a non-breaking one (in the case of the first arrow on the page). The arrow doesn't make sense unless it is preceded by at least the last word of the preceding sentence. Does anyone know how to create a non-breaking space between text and a graphic? Derrick

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '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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Moving wiki problem - part 2
by Martin S 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

So finally managed to get all my standard pages (recipes) to display on the new host (null editing a few pages made all turn up). Now the next step is to get the properties and templates related to my Semantic Mediawiki installation to "behave". I am not sure whether this belongs on this list or the Semantic Mediawiki list. Apologies if on the wrong one. Most of my properties are mixed up, turn up as "Page" rather than their correct type; or both, see first few item in "Properties" on Old host: ArticleLongAuthor<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php/Property:ArticleLongAuthor>of type String<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php?title=Type:String&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (2) This property is hardly used within the wiki! ArticleLongContent<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php/Property:ArticleLongContent>of type Text<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php?title=Type:Text&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (2) This property is hardly used within the wiki! ArticleLongName<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php/Property:ArticleLongName>of type String<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php?title=Type:String&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (2) This property is hardly used within the wiki! ArticleRelatedRecipe<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php/Property:ArticleRelatedRecipe>of type Page<http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php?title=Type:Page&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (1) This property is hardly used within the wiki! New host: ArticleShortContent<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php/Property:ArticleShortContent>of type Text<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php?title=Type:Text&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (1) warning.pngThis property is hardly used within the wiki! ArticleShortName<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php/Property:ArticleShortName>of type Page<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php?title=Type:Page&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (1) warning.pngThis property is hardly used within the wiki! No type was specified for this property (assuming type Page for now). ArticleShortSource<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php/Property:ArticleShortSource>of type Page<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php?title=Type:Page&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (1) warning.pngThis property is hardly used within the wiki! No type was specified for this property (assuming type Page for now). ArticleSourceAuthor<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php/Property:ArticleSourceAuthor>of type Page<http://62.149.36.60/%7Etheopden/wiki/index.php?title=Type:Page&action=edit>This type is among the standard datatypes of this wiki. (24) warning.pngNo type was specified for this property (assuming type Page for now). Is this something that will sort itself with time or something I should do something about manually? Also (perhaps related) the templates show incorrect data for, e.g. specific recipes or my menu pages. And editing a page doesn't open the related form for editing, but the source code editor. Confusedly, Martin S

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Page Views Magic Word
by Bobby S 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Is there a magic word for page views (or some extension that posts page views for a page over a certain time period)? Trying to gauge popularity of pages, and I wanted to push this value in as a Semantic Mediawiki value so I could query articles and sort based on it.

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replace bullet-point dots with characters?
by Derrick Farnell 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi Is it possible to replace the square dots in bullet-point lists with a particular text characters? Derrick

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moving wiki problem
by Robert L. DeSilets, Jr. 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

I have had problems in the past using phpMyAdmin to export a database dump. I suggest that you try to do a mysqldump from the command line and see if you get better results. I have found that phpMyAdmin times out too quickly during a dump, and I don't get good results. Bob -- Robert L. DeSilets, Jr. Sr. IT Support Specialist ISC-CSG desilets(a)isc.upenn.edu (215)898-0067

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Mediawiki Live USB
by Olivier 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi All, Just a message to say that Cooperation-iws 0.3.2 is released. CIWS 0.3.2 is a Live CD/USB that offers web services of Open source Web applications like MediaWiki. CIWS is under GPL2. Changes log of 0.3.2 is: ------------------ 0.3.2 release -fixed math support for mediawiki -upgrade Nuxeo from 5.1.4GA to 5.1.5GA -upgrade Ossec from 1.4 to 1.5.1 -upgrade Net2ftp from 0.96 to 0.97 -added Claroline 1.8 module -added Joomla 1.0-15 module More info on http://cooperation-iws.gensys-net.eu/blog See you, @+ Oliv

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Upgrade from 1.13.0rc1 to final?
by Sven.Hartrumpf＠FernUni-Hagen.de 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi all. What will the upgrade process from 1.13.0rc1 to final look like? Will replacing a couple of changed files (from the distribution) suffice? Sven

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wikitext for text colour?
by Derrick Farnell 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi Is it possible to change the colour of text using wikitext? This doesn't seem possible from the help files on mw.org, but I just thought I'd ask in case I missed something! Best Derrick

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Moving wiki problem
by Martin S 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

I am trying to move a wiki from one host to another following the docs "Manual:Backing up a wiki" and "Manual:Moving a wiki". Everything seems to have got moved over, except for the image missing (minor prob, probably a setting somewhere that points to the wrong place on the new server) and the major uh-oh. Only a part of the pages were moved. Compare if you like http://62.149.36.60/~theopden/wiki/index.php/All_Sweet_dishes_etc http://www.theoldecookerybook.com/index.php/All_Sweet_dishes_etc The latter is the "From" server, the former the "To" server. I am using the same tool on both machines PHPMyAdmin, difference being MySQL version is 5+ on the From-server, 4+ on the To-server. Looking at the tables in PHPMyAdmin shows the same number of rows though. What do I try now? Regards, Martin S

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