Hi everyone,
I have been talking to some third-party users trying to learn more about
what they would like to see happening in MediaWiki in the near future. Here
is a list of the things on the wish list, with the ones on top being more
popular.
Please let me know if you know of an existing extension or another solution
for these problems, if you are currently working on something similar or
would be interested to, or if you have any general comments/feedback you
would like to share. I did some searching and included what I found but I
have no experience with the mentioned extensions so I am not sure how
relevant/stable they are.
1. WYSIWYG editor - VisualEditor is in progress !
2. Integrated access control: ability to hide some pages from the groups of
users. Fine grained read access in the wiki.
Some extensions that I found addressing the problem.
Extension:AccessControl
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessControl>- has a security
disclaimer
Extension:Access_Control_Panel
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Access_Control_Panel>- an old
beta
Extension:Access_Control_List
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Access_Control_List>- developers
site down
3. More modern skins included in MediaWiki or at least easier extension
development and maintenance.
Are there any skin suits you know of and would recommend?
Any good skinning resources ? e.g.
http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/
4. The implementation of Semantic MediaWiki on mediawiki.org website in
order to manage easily extensions pages.
5. Wiki-markup editor for template gurus - with autocompletion, syntax
highlight, template parameters suggestions: more like markup IDE.
6. An easy way to share wiki content on social media services.
Extension:AddThis <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AddThis> -
seems like a solution, any opinions?
Also:
Extension:Facebook <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Facebook> -
just Facebook
Extension:WikiShare <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiShare> -
unstable version, seems like it's not worked on any more
7. Built in support for Google Analytics
Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration>(latest
version 2009)
http://karenfreemansmith.com/2011/02/10/adding-google-analytics-mediawiki/
8. Built in support for XML Sitemaps without using command line
Extension:GoogleNewsSitemap<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleNewsSitemap>
9. Built in support for Google Adsense in popular layout positions
Extension:Google_AdSense_2<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_AdSense_2>
10. Easy way of gracefully retiring old tags (e.g. Google Maps extension is
no longer supported, replaced with Maps which has different tags)
11. Update to the documentation about creating a simple extension that is
XSS safe.
12. Mobile version for website that turns with MediaWiki - this is in
progress
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_support_in_MediaWiki_core
13. MediaWiki Core API.
"Not the HTTP-API but the set of PHP classes in the core that are less
likely to change in the next version. Core developers to think about
MediaWiki as framework with programming interfaces for extension
developers. All the changes in those interfaces have to be calm, with slow
deprecation. A role model for that is Python compiler."
Sorry for the long email and thank you if you made it here. The alternative
was to send many emails and I thought that would be too spammy :) More to
come soon !
Mariya
> 2. Integrated access control
We've developed a rather reliable way for artists to control
read/edit/upload rights on their own page/files. Although the code is
not ready for forking, I haven't seen such advanced feature for MW yet
and it's at least a proof of concept. Note that only the page content
and the files are safely protected, logs (recent changes, histories,
search, edit summaries...) cannot be trusted yet.
Resources:
* Demonstration on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/57671929
* Extension:ProtectOwn (brings "read right", and "owner" access
control. /!\ ugly, should be broken down)
https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Protect…
* Note: Extension:ProtectOwn comes from Extension:AuthorProtect
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/Extension:AuthorProtect
* Extension:WikiPlace (our concept of private space, could be broken down)
https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Wikipla…
* What is a WikiPlace?
http://www.seizam.com/Help:Wikiplace
The reason why there is no page on MW.org and the code is not on WM's
git is because we don't have the resources to refactor and clean it
(as it should be done to avoid thousands of headaches). Sorry about
that, but it is GPL3 and we're eager to help whoever wants to test it,
use it and/or bring it forward.
> 6. An easy way to share wiki content on social media services.
Our Extension:WidgetsFramework allows easy embedding of external
content in the wiki, including social features. Already available
widgets are AddThis, Google+, Facebook, twitter...
Resources:
Demonstration on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/57689952MW.org: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WidgetsFramework
Code on Github:
https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Widgets…
Again, code is not on MW's git because of lacking resources. Again, sorry.
Hope all this can be helpful.
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hy i have a question
i have installed mediawiki on my server.
when i m going to the interface on my firefox or opera there is no
problem i can finish the installation with no error and the php are
interpreted.
When i click on the link to access at my mediawiki i get some really
strange error**more than halfthe time.
you can show it below
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/errorphp.png/
the file log
/2013/01/29 15:55:28 [error] 32690#0: *405 FastCGI sent in stderr: """
is not a valid magic word for "tree" //
//"" is not a valid magic word for "menu" //
//"" is not a valid magic word for "star"" while reading response header
from upstream, client:/
Do you know how i can resolved it ?
Sorry about that last. THIS is what I meant to bump.
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But isn't the recommend method to use /w/ as Wikepedia does so that the
scriptpath and articlepath don't point to the same directory?
On 1/27/2013 13.49, John wrote:
> wiki is just a suggestion, you could call it purplepeopleeater and it
> wouldnt make a difference /wiki/ is just short simple and to the point
> where /w/ can be too short
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Steve VanSlyck
> <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
>> The file "INSTALL" says, "Decompress the MediaWiki installation archive
>> either on your server, or on your local machine and upload the directory
>> tree. Rename it from "mediawiki-1.x.x" to something nice, like "wiki," since
>> it'll be in your URL."
>>
>> Shouldn't that be "w" instead of "wiki"?
>>
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Any thoughts?
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:39:03 -0500
From: Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net>
Reply-To: Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net>
Subject: Installing
To: MediaWiki Announcements List <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The file "INSTALL" says, "Decompress the MediaWiki installation archive
either on your server, or on your local machine and upload the directory
tree. Rename it from "mediawiki-1.x.x" to something nice, like "wiki,"
since it'll be in your URL."
Shouldn't that be "w" instead of "wiki"?
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I need some help installing Math. I've got everything installed per the
instructions and I'm working down the Mac OS X special instructions.
Everything seems to work correctly individually until I try to use a Wiki
page. I have a simple one-line test <math>a = b</math>
*Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of
latex and dvipng (or dvips + gs + convert)): a = b*
latex, dvips, and gs are definitely working right. Convert is in
/usr/local/lib - is that correct?
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D. E. (Steve) Stevenson
(Almost emeritus) Associate Professor
Clemson University
steve at clemson dot edu
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach," Aristotle.
I wanted enable the animated star icon for the watchlist on my wiki with the Vector skin (like it works on Wikipedia and RationalWiki), but I have no idea how to enable it.
I looked over MediaWiki.org over and over again and I couldn't find any information how to enable that feature.
If anyone knows how to enable that feature, your help would be appreciated.
