MediaWiki-l December 2013

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AUTO: Agata Correia is out of the office (returning 06/01/2014)
by Agata.Correia＠unibas.ch 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

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Sign-off extension?
by Yan Seiner 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

I've been asked to provide "sign-off" ability to the articles. I am putting manuals and procedures into a wiki and the production manager wants sales and tech people to sign off on each article signifying they have read it and/or been trained on the procedures. I have a template that can sort-off do that but I am really looking for a clickable link on each article page that a user can click on and it will then record that action as the user name and date/time. It could do it in the Talk pages, as long as the action is recorded. I would rather not require the users to edit the page. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, --Yan

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Preventing a tag extension from rendering twice on save?
by Daniel Barrett 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

I've noticed that parser tag extensions render twice when an article is saved from the edit page. All I did was write a parser tag <foo> that runs error_log('foo'). It prints once when I hit <foo/> on a page, but twice when saving the page from the wiki editor. Is there a way to prevent this double-running on save? Even way for the extension itself to detect it's on the first (or second) run and suppress itself? I have an extension that is heavyweight, making a SQL query to an external database, and I don't want to run twice. Thanks for any insights! DanB

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barbourdavid247@gmail.com
by David Barbour 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Looking forward to getting more help from your site. DEB

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(no subject)
by Ashley Robinson 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

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Printing background images
by Ad Strack van Schijndel 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi, I'm using Print.css to define a background image. Works fine with Safari: when I check 'Print background' the image is printed. On other browsers however (Firefox, Chrome, IE) nothing happens when I check 'Print background'. I searched the internet about background printing in browsers and I really am out of ideas. Perhaps it is related to MediaWiki in some way? I'm not a css or php expert, so if you could help, please do! Thanks! Ad

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Fwd: Tech Talk: MediaWiki Upgrades and Extension Dependencies
by Quim Gil 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Tech Talk: MediaWiki Upgrades and Extension Dependencies Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:10:09 -0800 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Please join our next Tech Talk via video streaming: MediaWiki Upgrades and Extension Dependencies – Ideas for Improvement Friday, December 13, 2013, 19:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131213T19&p1=1440 Facilitators: Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser. Watch https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-12-13 or #wikimedia-dev IRC for URL details. Upgrading MediaWiki is easy, upgrading a MediaWiki site using extensions is not. Versioning extensions and aligning them with MediaWiki versions is not done consistently. And how would you know which extension version works for your slightly older MediaWiki, e.g. because you are using a LTS version? The talk explores the various possiblities of remedy for this issue. It'll cover: * the current situation * the question of how we version extensions * the question of how we manage dependencies * an idea of using our users' power to know what's working * of course, a discussion Technically, we'll touch issues of LTS versions, git tagging and branching, Composer support, WikiApiary, usage statistics and crowd certification. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Cloning Vector to modify its PHP
by Forest S 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hello, I would like to copy all of the files from Vector and then make changes in them to create a new skin. There are directions for what I would like to do here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Vector However, I am concerned that with the Resource Loader, the above directions won't work. How should one go about cloning Vector with newer versions of Mediawiki? Regarding why I don't want to make a subskin: Daniel Friesen has an excellent tutorial that would be great if we didn't need to make changes in the skin's PHP ( http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ ). I imagine that to veteran developers, it may seem easier to make a subskin and override various methods from Vector or use hooks to make changes. My heart really sinks at the prospect of doing this. I have explored the files in the Vector skin and I can't tell you how much easier it feels to just edit a clone of those files. I'm perfectly happy to redo changes whenever we upgrade. There won't be that many, after all. Forest

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Flowchart extension
by Jan Steinman 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

> From: Yan Seiner <yan(a)seiner.com> > > Is anyone aware of a maintained easy to use flowchart extension? Have you looked at Graphviz? http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Test:Graphviz :::: Four multinational companies control over seventy percent of fluid milk sales in the U.S... These giants have grown through debt-fueld acquisitions and mergers and by keeping payments to dairy farmers as low as possible. -- Ron Schmid :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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is any way first create content,then choice a title
by Sen 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

if i wana doing it very quick...i maybe need after i finish my content,then i have a idea about title..is that possible Regrades Sen From SLboat(http://see.sl088.com)

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