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Greetings MediaWiki hackers!
I am pleased to announce the upcoming MediaWiki Hack-A-Ton in Washington, DC.
As you are all aware, every year in April our good friends at
Wikimedia Deutschland
host the annual "MediaWiki Developers Meetup" in Berlin. At that
event, the program
is focused on demonstrations, workshops and small group discussions. To
complement this, we're planning the DC meetup to be focused solely on hacking,
bugfixing and getting down and dirty with the code.
We're scheduling this for October 22nd-24th in Washington, DC. Some of
the details
haven't been ironed out yet, but will be announced over the coming
days as it is.
So clear your calendars, and keep your eyes on MediaWiki.org[1] and the mailing
lists for more information.
Some travel assistance may be available for those coming a long way. I've also
been told there will be swag of some sort for attendees :)
-Chad
[0] http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/hack-a-ton-dc/
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hack-A-Ton_DC
I made a new extension last night that when someone types [[ it brings up a window right there inline with the editor with search suggestions. It searches farticles and iles, categories, (if you type category:, file: or image:) . And it searches the entire article name, not just the beginning of the name.
You can see a video of it here.
http://vimeo.com/15483955
It is written using the MooTools javascript framework. But if anyone would like to port it to use just plain javascript, let me know and we can work together so everyone can use it.
-Adam
How can i change the edit function at the top menu, edit, history,
delete etc, so that edit is changed to say inventory. I'd also like
to change this from action=edit to action=inventory without breaking
anything.
Greetings All,
As Roan kindly noted, the times for my office hours session were wrong
for Canberra.
In Canberra time, the first session will happen at 03:00 and the
second session will happen at 15:00.
To see the full (and corrected) chart of times, please see:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant#Office_Hours
Cheers!
--zak
Hi,
I'm going to merge my Wikisysop account (say "Larry") with a wiki user's
account (say "Jimmy"). As a result, I want to keep the name of the 2nd
account ("Jimmy").
Is that a bad idea?
Some more info : "Jimmy" account is a "ghost account". I created it but
never used it (contributions = 0).
I could do that with the User_Merge_and_Delete extension (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete). Maybe there
is a better way ?
I would like to be sure that this won't break my wiki. Thank you for any
advice.
Laurent
Hi folks,
anyone know how to create a hierarchical structure for the mediawiki pages?
I need to show on the header or footer a browseable menu like this
extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Hierarchy (I cant use it
because Im using mediawiki 1.13 and the extension just work for 1.8 or
1.9)...
please help, thanx
--
"If there is a shell, there is a way"
Hello,
Someone can tell me how to use security groups in the Wiki?
I am using the extension SimpleSecutiry But Protect tab I can only select
one group at a time. There is any way I can but select a group to free
access to a page or article?
Waiting in the wings.
Att
Hugo Vasques
I want to preload a page with a dynamic pre-filled template like so:
{{contained | Dynamic text here }}
But the preload parameter only seems to allow for a page, and I cant see how to dynamically change the page to do that either.
Any idea on how this could be done?
I am willing to write an extension if needed.
Thanks,
-Adam