MediaWiki-l August 2010

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Display category name on article page
by orschiro＠googlemail.com 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello guys, all I want to do is to display an alternative category name on an article page. I included the following: [[Kategorie:A1:Kapitel 3|Kapitel 3]] But instead of displaying Kapitel 3 he shows me A1:Kapitel 3. Why doesn't this work? Thank you in advance. Regards orschiro

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Questions to Vector Skin
by orschiro＠googlemail.com 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello guys, I downloaded the latest stable release 1.16 and changed the skin to the new "Vector" but wonder why my local version still differs in some ways from the version mediawiki, wikimedia, wikipedia etc. uses. Some points that I noticed: 1. My search field has to additional submit buttons right beside the field, one with "Site/Seite" and one called "search/suchen". The field on wikipedia does not have these. 2. While editing a page I still have the old editor. How can I get the new one? Well that's it mostly. Thanks for your response. Regards

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Server 500 error
by Erik Luken 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

I recently tried to upgrade my wiki from 1.15 to 1.16. After I copied the files to the server, I get a 500 Server error. Any ideas on what to do to fix it?

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"WARNING: This page is XX kilobytes long" - what browsers are affected in 2010?
by David Gerard 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

MediaWiki seems to still include the default notice: "WARNING: This page is XX kilobytes long; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections." I understand this was in place for the last few Netscape 4 users in the world. Are there still browsers known to have trouble with editing 32KB pages? Perhaps some of those wonderful phone browsers that give us all such joy. What sort of size limit is there in practice these days? (I personally like keeping pages under 32KB for stylistic reasons, but that's just me.) - d.

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How many internal links?
by Katharina Wolkwitz 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi all, I'm looking for a way to find out how many internal links are in use inside my wiki. Is there an extension that does that kind of "statistics"? Alternatively I'm looking for a way to search inside the wiki-text for occurrences of "[[" (or other special syntaxes). Perhaps I can search directly in the database, but I'm not sure in which table I'd have to look. I'm using mediawiki 1.15.1 Thanks! Katharina Wolkwitz

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Templating text
by John Meyer 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

I'm not quite sure how to do this. I'd like to write a section of text and be able to tag it so I can insert it as is in any other area of my wiki. Does this require an extension?

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collapse TOC on NavFrame or collapsibleTable expansion
by Frederick Grose 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

How would one automatically collapse a page TOC in the event of a NavFrame or collapsibleTable expansion, such as by adding an option to the MediaWiki:Common.js ? This might be useful where there is a long TOC that shares the page position of the NavFrame or collapsible table whose expansion moves its content below the window view because of the TOC size. --Fred

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Dumb Question about Linking to Images/Files in File System
by Chuck Carson 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I played around with trying to manually upload images and documents (like pdf’s) to my wiki server and referencing them like so: [[media:example.pdf]] I could not for the life of me figure out that directory is was looking for these in.. When I enabled file uploads and uploaded a file that way, it would then resolve correctly. Can you manually upload content and if so, what directory does it look in? Thx, CC

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HTML Entities in page title (special page)
by Adam Meyer 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I have this custom special page http://wiki.bildr.org/index.php/Special:TagSearch But look at the title header on the page. Why is it <tagsearch> ? I know that means <tagsearch> - But why would the page be called that either? It should be Special:TagSearch or just TagSearch I checked all my code, and I cant find any reference to that or <tagsearch> Thanks -Adam

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Recent Upgrade Problem
by Rowe, Dolores A 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Teammates, I recently upgraded from MediaWiki 1.11.0 to MediaWiki 1.15.3. There were a couple of pages before the upgrade which were protected, and now I find I am unable to un-protect them. I am a sysop and a bureaucrat. The error message is: "You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason: You cannot change the protection levels of this page, because you do not have permission to edit it." Do you have any suggestions ? And/or do you know how I could do it via MySQL ? Thank you, Lori

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