MediaWiki-l January 2010

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Signing text automatically in discussion page
by Bernard＠bernardHulsman.nl 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Tech Geek, that is standard behaviour of WikiForum http://manual.wikiation.nl/Level_2_wikiforum It is used in its own namespace but could be used instead of the discussion page as well. It give much more structure and enforce respectation the time depending structure of the thread. It is propriety software. It is part of Wikibox Blue of Wikiation This very valueble for my Organisation. I have many doubts, but maybe I consider to make it Open Source. I will start a new thread about this. Bernard Hulsman

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Some extension functions only working for users logged in
by Frank Sundermeyer 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I have got a problem with some extension (CategoryTree, ParserFunctions) only working for users that are logged in. If not logged in, the plain tags are displayed (CategoryTree) or the output is completely garbled. I can rule out that any settings in Localsettings.php are causing this error (have tested it on a test instance). I have also tried the latest snapshot of CategoryTree from SVN. It is also no browser or caching issue. The interesting thing is that Special:Version also differs for users logged in / not logged in. Among others, <categorytree> is only listed under "Parser extension tags" when logged in: http://wiki.opensuse.org/images/5/56/Logged-in1.png http://wiki.opensuse.org/images/1/18/Not-logged-in1.png Any hints what could cause this error? MediaWiki version: 1.15.1 PHP version: 5.2.6 OS: Linux -- Thanks Frank Frank Sundermeyer, Technical Writer, Documentation SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-7417755; http://www.opensuse.org/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) "Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane" Dogbert

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Change Design for single page?
by T4b 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

Is it possible (maybe with an extension?) to change the design for a single page? T4b

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] ToC spanning pages
by Giuseppe Briotti 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Well, if such pages are all subpages of the first one, probably this can be done by a template that use the __TOC___ statement for the main page and a Dynamic Page List extension to obtain the subpages toc.. difficult to do but not impossible... G. -- Giuseppe Briotti g.briotti(a)gmail.com "Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius." (Orazio)

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ToC spanning pages
by Anne Wilson 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

A user would like a single ToC for his pages Application Application/Configuration Application/Adding Components I realise that he will have to consider the length of such a ToC, but although I feel it should be perfectly possible, I can't find any explanation of how to do it. Could someone either explain it to me or point me to the right reading to understand it (preferrably both :-)) Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

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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Editing discussion-sites but not articles
by Rudeladmin 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hello, We're using MediaWiki in our company as an informationsystem to our customers. We collect manuals, FAQs and other information from our products in the wiki and all our customers got a user to read this articles. All customers are only able to read, employees also can create and edit articles. Now we want to use the discussion-sites from the articles to get feedbacks from our customers. The problem is: i can't enable the edit-permission for customers to protect our articles, but without this permission customers are not able to edit the discussion-sites. Customers may not get the edit-permission to guarantee the quality of the information inside. How can i solve this conflict!? Are there any extended permissions for discussion-sites?! Thanks a lot for your help! Dennis Wolf Answers in German language are also welcome ;-)

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"Old" text in articles
by Rudeladmin 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hello, I edited an article-text directly in the database via a script from a SQL-Database-Manager. When i select the article inside the wiki it shows me the "old" article. After klicking the Edit-Button the "new", extern edited, Text is shown in the edit-interface. After storing the article the "new" text is also shown in the wiki. Why is the new text primal after the "wiki-internal" storing visible and not directly after the "wiki-external" scripting?! Thanks for your help, Dennis Wolf

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postgres upgrade
by Scott Brunza 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

I'm in the middle of a server migration, and decided to upgrade my instance of mediawiki and postgres to versions 1.15.1 and 8.3.8 (stock SLES11 version) respectively. pg_dumps, restores, and db admin is nothing new to me, but I can't for the life of me get my instance (MW 1.9.3 and pg 8.1.11) into the new postgres. I've even tried moving from 8.1 to 8.2 as an intermediate step before going to 8.3. Nothing is working for me. Can someone clarify the steps for me? I have read the Manual:Upgrading_Postgres page. -B- --- Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow --- Scott Brunza 860.326.3637 scottso(a)sonalysts.com This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be proprietary and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender.

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multiple language wiki
by wen miao 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hello, there. I'm now working on my lab's website using mediawiki 1.15.1 on an ubuntu 9.10 system. The original website works quite well. But I want to setup a copy of the original website with a language different from the original one. How can I do this with the simplest way ? Thanks ~

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