Hi,
I have a group of pages that I want will be read by some group of users.
Exists some meaning to create a new group and configure a group of pages
cos' only this group can read? Thanks
MOving over to the other side of the argument for a moment, it seems to me
that the building could be built one brick at a time. E.g., get the basic
features in place first, such as bolding, underscoring, links, and
god-forbid tables - and then move on from there. Worry only about the
visual componets and leave under-the-hood stuff like categories for
another day.
Whenever I need to write a 6-inch long formula in Excel, it rarely saves
any time or effort if I try to do it all at once. Invariable breaking the
problem down into smaller parts, then joining them up, results in a
working solution "more fasterer."
Not that anyone here needs a lesson in applied software engineering, but
maybe the problem really *is* that too much is being attempted in the
first go.
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Barrett <danb(a)VistaPrint.com>
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:24:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct
venue?
> James Sullivan wrote:
> >Well, yes and no. Early word processors were quite buggy,
> >and they had to produce postscript to send to a laser printer...
>
> Hmmm, the "early word processors" I remember were HARDWARE. I guess that
makes me ancient. :-)
>
> >...but improvements were made and today we expect word processors to
work flawlessly...
>
> Well, yes... except they don't. :-) My wife's word processor (Word 2008
on the Mac) crashes almost daily. And even the most sophisticated word
processors today lack advanced features for writers. Consider a simple
search-and-replace that changes "MediaWiki" into "Wikimedia." What if
you want replacement only if "MediaWiki" is in a level-1 heading? Or
only when it's part of a URL?
>
> I'm going off on a tangent, so I'll stop here. :-)
>
> Anyway, I agree with your points in principle and definitely welcome
improvements to ease-of-use. I just don't think they're going to come in
the form of a fantastic WYSIWYG wiki editor, because the features that
make MediaWiki great, as opposed to merely good (templates, parser
functions, parent & child categories, etc.), seem incredibly difficult to
support in WYSIWYG, and even harder to prevent novices from deleting by
accident.
>
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Hello,
in my center the previous persons which managed Mediawiki created the
main tables with a prefix namespace like this:
| tier1operationsarchive |
| tier1operationsblobs |
| tier1operationsbrokenlinks |
| tier1operationscategory |
| tier1operationscategorylinks |
| tier1operationschange_tag |
| tier1operationscur
etc...
I wanted to ask if it is possible for me to change all the tables name
into something more readable like the default
mediawiki tables remoing the awful prefix:
archive
blobs
brokenlinks
category
categorylinks
or if this operation is somewhat dangerous.
I also wanted to ask if it is possible for me to delete tables which are
not used anymore by Mediawik
and they are slso empty, like:
mysql> select * from tier1operationsblobs;
Empty set (0.00 sec)
thnk you very much
Rick
Hello,
I have added the Extension:NetworkLink/NetworkLink.php
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NetworkLink/NetworkLink.php>.
However, when I create a link and select it, this error is produced:
Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the
protocol(s)isn't associated with any program
It does state on the download page the following:
It seems that this extension is not working on Firefox.
Has anyone come up with a solution?
Current setup:
MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/>: 1.11.0
PHP <http://www.php.net/>: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/>: 5.0.77
Many Thanks.
Take a look at what Wikipedia is currently doing with the vector skin. I'm
having no problems, and, really, asking people to do their own markup is
not something I see as a great issue. It requries people to engage
mentally - at least somewhat - with what they're doing and forces them to
use the interface. Every car needs to run reliably, but every car does
not need automatic mirrors or A/C.
I'm not suggesting that luxuries and tools are not warranted, but only that
the users really do not require as much hand-holding as we think they do,
and if they're insisting on it for something which is really pretty basic
then I have to question why. I am a great believer in
tools-for-efficiencies, but I also believe that a little bit of work
never hurt nobody. Typing ''2,'' '''3,''' or '''''5''''' single quotation
marks, or [one] or [[two]] brackets, or even <u>underscoring</u> one's
own text really isn't a big deal.
On tables I agree with you 100%, but for bold, underline, strikeout,
italics, and links, well, I think people can - and largely should - do it
themselves. I don't want to have to learn Dreamweaver simply to edit a
wiki page. And if we're not carefull that's exactly what we'll end up
with.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]" <sullivan(a)mail.nih.gov>
To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:59:52 -0400
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct
venue?
> I've been following the CKeditor effort and their promises, once version
3.0 was out, to work on a CKeditor+Mediawiki. Version 3.2 is now out and
no sign of a CKeditor+Mediawiki effort, and most concerning is the lack
of any recent responses to direct questions about the previously promised
effort on the CKeditor's forum. Wikia's efforts are not comforting
either. Almost all wikia wikis I have visited have the wysiwyg editor
disabled, which is not the default, so people must be purposely disabling
it. And the discussion page of wikia's editor help page
(http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help_talk:Rich_text_editor) has people asking
for the older version of the editor because of problems with their latest
version.
>
> We are currently using version 2.6.4 of the FCKeditor and even with its
issues have found it has lead to a wider acceptance of using our wikis.
For us there is no going back to wikitext. If the wysiwyg editor future
is not resolved for Mediawiki soon I'm afraid we will be forced to move
toward another wiki software, most likely commercial where wysiwyg has
been around for years, because requiring non-technical people to learn a
markup language to use a wiki seems archaic in the 21st century.
>
> -Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clayton [mailto:ccornell@openoffice.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:51 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct
venue?
>
> On 05/19/2010 01:20 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 18 May 2010 18:35, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Forwarding on behalf of Jack, which is not subscribed:
> >
> >>> Maybe the best idea would be to kill off our FCKeditor extension and
try
> >>> to collaborate with Wikia regarding their CKeditor integration
extension.
> >>> It certainly would be cool to have a good WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki
> >> one day...
> >
> >
> > argh argh argh. I was so looking forward to 1.16 specifically for a
> > half-decent WYSIWYG editor ...
>
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Hello,
I'd need to set charset for my mediawiki 1.15.3 to latin1 instead of
utf8 default
this because I cannot convert my mysql DB to utf8.
All tables in mysql DB are set to latin1.
if I convert it to utf8 I have key lenghtness errors.
Actually special characters are mangled in my mediawiki pages since I
upgraded from an old mediawiki version 1.5.*
to version 1.15.3
how can I Solve this ?
is there a way to set latin1 charset in mediawiki 1.15.3 ?
thanks
Rick
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I was particularly keen to get halfway-usable WYSIWYG editing in
MediaWiki for our office intranet. So I just did a test installation
of MW 1.16b2 with FCK Editor Official svn head.
It's pretty good, I'm really impressed! But it's buggy. (Chews up form
fields for the InputBox extension, and there's glitches in the
rendered editing window.)
I'd quite like to help get it into shape, as we'd like to do a
customer-facing MediaWiki installation for our (utterly nontechnical)
sales guys to use.
Is this a suitable place to talk about problems with it? Is anyone
from FCK here?
- d.
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a site different from that start with capital letter. It is possibel put
them together? How?
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What if anything happend with the quality of the posts?
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Cummings <robert(a)interjinn.com>
>
> I have to disagree with you given my experience. In one government
> department where MediaWiki was installed we saw the active user base
> spike from about 1000 users to about 8000 users within a month of having
> enabled FCKeditor. FCKeditor definitely has it's warts, but it very
> closely matches the experience non-technical people have gotten used to
> while using Word or WordPerfect. Leveraging skills people already have
> cuts down on training costs and allows them to be productive almost
> immediately.