MediaWiki-l August 2008

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCKeditor in real use?
by Wolesky, Pat 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

We enabled FCKeditor on our Wiki and it has caused a few problems with loss of page formatting if someone opens the page with the editor enabled. The most frequent problem is the use of leading spaces to put indented text into shaded boxes, or any kind of text indenting. That gets messed up when the page is edited with the editor enabled. Usually that can be fixed by reverting to the previous version and then editing the page with the editor disabled. We suggest to our users that they disable the editor as a default if they are editing previously created pages, and only enable it for new pages where they want to do things such as complex tables that are much easier using the editor. PatW

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preserve case-insensitivity, but not force first-letter capitalization?
by Bill Traynor 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hello, I'm currently runing Mediawiki 1.7.0: Is it possible to disable capitalization of uploaded files names? I'm aware of $wgCapitalLinks but I don't want to turn off capitalization for the whole namespace, but rather just for uploaded files names. I want to preserve case-insensitivity, but not force first-letter capitalization. Specifically, I want 'file.patch' to upload as 'file.patch', not 'File.patch'. Thanks Bill

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Commons media also for external projects?
by Rolf Lampa 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

What's the status for the idea to adapt the MW platform for using media from Commons in ("live") image links? I recall an idea being discussed earlier was to cache pictures on the calling MW site after the first fetch from Commons. The idea was to try to avoid wasting bandwidth by providing a means for external sites to not having to repeatedly retrieving the same picture several times. What's the current status of this idea? Or is it already possible (and allowed) to retrieve images from Commons via "live links"? Regards, // Rolf Lampa

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FCKeditor in real use?
by Daniel Barrett 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

I'm considering FCKeditor+MediaWiki (http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/) as a WYSIWYG editor for our wiki. Is anyone out there using this in a "serious" environment? Is the current "proof of concept" implementation reliable? Is it ever destructive (i.e., incorrect edits, broken saves)? I know there are some small bugs (e.g., double-click a word to highlight it, click Italics, and you get ''foobar<space> '' instead of ''foobar''). Any more significant issues? Or does it work great for you? Thanks, DanB

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flushing memcached?
by Jim Hu 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

I made a change in my interwiki table and it's not showing up - I assume this is because that table is in the cache. Is that right? Is there a command line way to flush the cache? Jim ===================================== 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] Noobie Namespace help
by briefer＠cox.net 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Wow...you guys be quick! OK. I knew we were putting things in different segregated containers, for some reason. Now I know some of the reasons. Very helpful responses. Thanks. BS

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Noobie Namespace help
by briefer＠cox.net 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hey all. I've been a subscriber for a few months and have been trying to learn about Wikis. One catch I have is that I simply have not gotten the concept of "namespace" drummed into my head. I know you can create them, and I've generally read the "help" on MediaWiki regarding namespaces, but I guess I'm just not cluing in on why they are useful and why I might want to create different ones (other than the defaults) on a wiki. Why are we separating different wiki pages out into different namespaces?? I'm not asking for anyone here to write me a big treatise on them; but if anyone can refer me to some online source that might have a good explanation, I'd appreciate it. Sorry the question is so general. Maybe it's too general to answer. I just think that this is just one of those basic concepts I've got to get a handle on before I can understand mediawiki. Thanks

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Namespace Sort on Category Page
by zham rock 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi Guys, Can you please let me know the best way to sort articles under Category Page? I have managed to sort it, but its a big ugly as articles starts with NameSpace:Article_Name. I have seen some wiki where the namespace is at the end e.g. My Article (NameSpace_Name) I used "{{DEFAULTSORT:{{PAGENAME}}}} but it only sorted the articles but the namespace is stil in front. Any help will be highly appreciated. -zham.

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About the API : Backlinks from Template
by Pierre LINDENBAUM 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi all, I've a question about the API, I hope this is the right place to post this question. I already asked it on the talk page a few weeks ago but I got no answer: I've been trying to use the API to find backlinks , but I cannot see how to retrieve all the pages using a given Template. First example "What are the pages linked to Einstein" ? * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Alber… OK, works fine. Now "What are the pages using the Template:Infobox_Scientist" ? * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Templ… Hum, it returns no data; And (no namespace) * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Templ… returns a few 'Talks' pages but I expected much more pages: I expected to see all the pages here http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_Scientist Is it a bug ? I'm I wrong ? Thank you for your answers _____________________________________________________________________________ Envoyez avec Yahoo! Mail. Une boite mail plus intelligente http://mail.yahoo.fr

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Moving MediaWiki domains and mod_rewrite
by Robert L. DeSilets, Jr. 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Awhile back I had written in to look for mod_rewrite help in moving my MediaWiki from one url to another. I finally accomplished the move, while still retaining the ability to correctly process any legacy hard-coded urls that may be floating around. Now, any url addressed to: http://old.domain.name:16080/index.php/Article_name Will get properly redirected to http://new.domain.name/wiki/Article_name I followed the instructions available from MediaWiki to truncate the servername within the Apache virtualhost config file, but also added the following to an .htaccess file in the olddomainname directory to process requests for the old domain name. I am posting this in the helps that it will help with someone else's migration needs: # The lines below do the article and url translation: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.domain.name:16080$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php($|/.*$) RewriteRule ^(.*) http://new.domain.name/wiki%1 [R=301,NC,L] # The lines below take any other old.domain.name urls # and redirects them to new.domain.name Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.domain.name$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^($|/.*$) RewriteRule ^(.*) http://new.domain.name/wiki%1 [R=301,NC,L] -- Robert L. DeSilets, Jr. Sr. IT Support Specialist ISC-CSG desilets(a)isc.upenn.edu (215)898-0067

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