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I have a wiki set up where if I attempt to create a new page, I get a
browser error. In IE it gives the typical "Internet Explorer cannot
display the webpage", and Chrome says "This webpage is not available".
But it's fine if I view an existing page. I also get the same error if I
click on the Discussion tab on the homepage.
This wiki implementation is on the same server as another Mediawiki
implementation and the other install works just fine. Not sure if that's
related or not.
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It seems the action=parse prop=sections does not return anything UNLESS
there is a TOC (i.e. at least four sections). Is this intentional? Am I
missing something?
Matt
In 1.16, custom preferences added by third-party extensions aren't getting displayed on our wiki. They all use the "UserToggles" hook and a function like this:
function wfToggle($extraToggles) {
global $wgMessageCache;
$extraToggles[] = 'foo';
$wgMessageCache->addMessage('tog-foo', 'my checkbox text');
return true;
}
They used to show up under the Misc tab, but now they don't. Is this no longer the way to add toggles? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/UserToggles says nothing about it.
Thanks,
DanB
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> Message: 5
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure whether *Htmldoc* is installed on the shared server i'm having
> as i don't have root access. I installed Extension:Pdf Export by using the
> codes in the link given below
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:Pdf_Export/Source_Code…
>
> When I go to Special:Version page in my wiki page it's showing
> ***PdfExport<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export>
> * under Installed extensions section.
>
> But when I click Make PDF after entering http://www.google.com on
> Special:PdfPrint page i'm getting file has been damaged error from Adobe
> Reader. I'm not sure whether i'm doing the right procedures to generate pdf
> file and what's the problem with the generated pdf file
>
> Also i didn't found Print as PDF link under toolbox.
>
> Please let me know how to fix these issues.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> ~Vineeth
.
Probably HTML2DOC is not installed. The extension produces an HTML
page in a directory on the server, then invokes the HTMLDOc to convert
the HTML to obtain a PDF
I would like to create a page that lists all pages that are displaying the
Under_Construction template. I thought that maybe the path might be to use
What Links Here, transcluded, but
{{:Special:WhatLinksHere&target=Template:Under+Construction&namespace=0}}
doesn't work.
Am I taking the wrong approach, or is it an impossibility - I
don't like that word :-)
Anne
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Is it possible to (easily) move all existing pages on a wiki to a sub
"directory"? That is, move pages line "foo", "bar" and "baz" to
"archive/foo", "archive/bar" and "archive/baz"?
Thanks!
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Is there any way to disable MediaWiki's limitation of "one active request per browser instance"?
In our MediaWiki site, the #1 source of user confusion (by far) is this limit. When a user encounters a slow wiki page and clicks the browser "Stop" button, the user now cannot view any other wiki pages in that browser window, because the previous request hasn't completed. As a result, the user believes the wiki has crashed and files a support ticket.
Now, the user can simply close and reopen the browser to get a new session cookie, but in practical terms, many end-users don't know this. And even when they DO know it, they believe this behavior is a MediaWiki bug, which breeds distrust of the system, and costs us more time explaining why it isn't a bug.
Why do we have slow-rendering wiki articles? Because some of them, by design, retrieve data from external systems. These retrievals can legitimately take 10 seconds or longer, and they provide VERY high business value so they're not going away. We tried making the requests asynchronous, using AJAX, but this does not avoid the limit.
So, what is the appropriate way to disable the "one request per browser" limitation? We are not worried about individual users abusing the system with multiple requests: this is a private wiki within a corporation.
Thanks,
DanB
Hi,
is there any way to activate css background-image via the wikitext? (I.e. include an html element with "style='background-image: url(...)' ")
I use extension.css and have specified
$wgAllowExternalImagesFrom, which works for direct links, but CSS is obviously not affected. Any solution?
Bernhard
Is there a way to find pages that are not in 2 categories?
I have 2 major categories, but I need to find all the pages that are not in either of them so I can sort them.
Thanks,
-Adam