MediaWiki-l February 2011

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editing the edition buttons
by André Meunier 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hello, I'd like to modify the edition buttons (the buttons you have above the edition frame when you modify a page), to remove the date from the signature button, and keep only the name. It works manually when removing one of the '~' from the signature added (the button adds --~~~~), so I'm trying to find where the javascript for the buttons comes from. -- *André Meunier*

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Kapuneipu - help wanted
by K. Kamhamea 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hello, I created a project Kapuneipu that is a close cousin to mediawiki. In fact it enhances it providing a dynamic solution to problems when some authors clash, which unfortunately more frequently happens. The idea behind this project is to eliminate Dunning-Kruger Effect ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger-Effekt) by evolutionary principles. See the project's wiki page for more details ( https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/kapuneipu/index.php?title=Main_Page). Kamhamea

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Announcing SMWCon Spring 2011
by Jesse Wang 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

My fellow wiki and semantic wiki-ers, It's my honor to announce the next International Semantic MediaWiki Conference - SMWCon Spring 2011 on April 28-30 in Arlington, VA, USA - Greater Washington DC area. This longest SMWCon will have a tutorial day for the first time, so we are calling for tutorial speakers as well as participants. Please note that if you're an expert on MediaWiki, you're very welcome to propose a tutorial (or be part of it). For more information, please visit http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011. Cheers, Jesse <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jesse>

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] A call for skins
by Daniel Friesen 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

On 11-02-08 02:17 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Daniel Friesen > <lists(a)nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote: >> If you have a MediaWiki skin you've built, feel free to bring out it's >> source code. Currently most of the few custom skins that exist are >> floating around the Internet, and they are various degrees of out of >> date. Bring up the source code, and I'll look into committing the skin >> into svn and cleaning it up stripping away the boilerplate. > Have a look at userstyles.org[1]. I'm not sure what the licences are, > but perhaps we can contact some of the authors? I'm a big fan of > Wikipedia Grey Lady III. > > Btw would you mind explaining the difference between a skin and a CSS > file, assuming there is one? > > Steve > [1] For those unfamiliar with it, it's a repository of site-specific > CSS files for use with the browser extension Stylish. You pick a style > that someone has defined for a given site, and everytime you visit > that site, you'll get that CSS layered over the top. A CSS file is simply a stylesheet to style the markup, you can reference some images from the styles as backgrounds. An actual skin is comprised of css files, optionally js, images, and most importantly a php file that is used to generate the markup. I guess I should be clear, I'm not really looking for just stylesheets, or the plethora of monobook clones with minor tweaks out there. The reason why I asked for mockups especially rather than just asking for skins (besides saying I'd be happy to clean them up and commit them to svn so that we have an actual maintained repository of the skins) was since what I'm especially looking for are mockups that have the areas necessary for a skin to function as a wiki (something blog themes are lacking making them hard to port as examples) but break the normal rules (maybe they don't use the standard sidebar, have extra links, do navigation differently, put categories somewhere else, etc...) of how a skin looks. Besides some nice extra skins to add to the repo, I need some examples that break the normal patterns to work with and build as I rip out the restrictions in the current skin system. And hence I asked for mockups since such skins are already hard enough that most people probably would never have got to implementation. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

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A call for skins
by Daniel Friesen 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

I've been making some improvements to the skin system for awhile now, so... If you have a MediaWiki skin you've built, feel free to bring out it's source code. Currently most of the few custom skins that exist are floating around the Internet, and they are various degrees of out of date. Bring up the source code, and I'll look into committing the skin into svn and cleaning it up stripping away the boilerplate. I would LOVE skin designs right now. If you've got a nice idea for a skin feel free to mock it up and post the mockup images for it. If it looks interesting I'll consider turning it into a real skin, ESPECIALLY if it break our de-facto traditions on what makes up a wiki skin. Our rigid skin structure is one of the big limitations of our skinning system right now, skins that define things beyond the current restrictions are good examples needed while we break open the rigid structure of our skins. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

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(no subject)
by Sus17＠seznam.cz 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Nic neposilejte,já to nechci

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PostgreSQL search function
by Jens Sauer 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hey, I've installed a fresh MediaWiki using Mediawiki 1.16.2 and PostgreSQL 8.4.7. Now i stuck in some trouble with the search function. Example: extract from the Main Page: "Therapieempfehlungen" (german) If I search "Therapieempfehlungen" I got as result the Main Page. But if I search "Therapie" MediaWiki cannot found this phrase on the Main Page. More examples: Therapiepfade, Chemotherapie. None of these words can be found if I search 'Therapie'. Is this a problem of the fulltext Search Engine of PostgreSQL or is there a mistake in the configuration? Thanks

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Installation problems
by Hugo Gomes 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi, I'm trying to install mediawiki 1.16.2, but i'm getting these errors: PHP 5.3.3 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * Session save path (/var/lib/php/session) appears to be valid. * PHP's memory_limit is 16M bytes. Raised memory_limit to 52428800 bytes. * Couldn't find eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching. * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Found GD graphics library built-in. * Installation directory: /net6/web/private/mediawiki * Script URI path: /private/mediawiki * Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. * Generating configuration file... * Database type: MySQL * Loading class: DatabaseMysql * Attempting to connect to database server as mediawiki...success. * Connected to mysql 5.1.51; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode * Database wiki_mediawiki_IBERGRID exists * Creating tables... FAILED Query "CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX si_title ON `searchindex` (si_title) " failed with error code "Column 'si_title' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index (localhost)". The database was created by me and the user has all privileges to that database. Can anyone give me a hand on this? Best regards, -- ************************************************* Hugo Gomes LIP Av. Elias Garcia 14, 1º 1000-149 Lisboa, Portugal Telef.: +351- 217 998 587 URL: http://www.lip.pt E-mail: hugo(a)lip.pt *************************************************

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Tab / New Window for External Links on Mediawiki namespace pages
by trueskew 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

I've tried using several Common.js solutions for having specific external links and sidebar external links open in a new tab, including these: - <http://old.nabble.com/> http://old.nabble.com/"Category:-Noindexed-pages"-puzzle-to30698862.html#a30 863268 - <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery_snippets#External_links_in_Sidebar_in_ new_window> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery_snippets#External_links_in_Sidebar_in_n ew_window I use this on my normal pages (the "pops" solution): - <http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Popup_links_in_MediaWiki_to_new_win dow> http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Popup_links_in_MediaWiki_to_new_wind ow and it works fine. However, none of the solutions above work on my sidebar. I'm using CustomNavBlocks, so my sidebar consists of Mediawiki namespace pages. Perhaps my problem is that Common.js contents don't apply to the Mediawiki namespace. Have any of you CustomNavBlock users solved this problem? If Common.js isn't applied to Mediawiki namespace pages, is there another way, or another .js page, that can be used to add jscript to pages like Mediawiki:ThisPage? Thanks - skew

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"Category: Noindexed pages" puzzle
by Anne Wilson 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Mediawiki version - 1.16.0 (r74364) I have been running some experiments in moving pages to a newly created Archive namespace. I created some test pages and moved two with redirects and two without redirects, so that I could look for unwanted side-effects. I also marked those four pages with __NOINDEX__. Up to that point everything seemed fine. A new category was automatically created - Noindexed_pages. All four of the pages now in the Archive namespace bear a link to that category, yet when I use the link I find that only one of the four pages is listed. Is this a bug, or have I missed something important? Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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