MediaWiki-l January 2014

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Are there any good resources for writing scripts and gadgets
by Arcane 21 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

I'm currently trying to adapt several gadgets that are meant for wikis using the Monobook/Vector skins to the Monaco skin, and so far, I've managed to successfully port over the UTC Clock gadget and Sandbox page gadget to Monaco, but aside from those I've been having trouble since, frankly, my knowledge of Javascript/JQuery is slim and I'm not familiar with all the variables used in writing user scripts. I've fairly decent with CSS style sheets, but I still need help with Javascript, so does anyone know of some good resources I could look into, preferably tailored for writing scripts on MediaWiki? Also, if anyone wants to see what I have done so far (and have released publicly), the wiki I have been testing my live gadget/user script code on is here: https://mediawikitesters.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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File descriptions aren't fetched
by Till Kraemer 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Hi, I'm running multiple language wikis and one pool wiki. The problem is that no file descriptions are fetched in the language wikis although $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions is set to true. LocalSettings.php of the language wikis: $wgUseSharedUploads = true; $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://pool.example.com/w/images'; $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/path/to/pool/w/images/'; $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions = true; $wgSharedUploadDBname = 'poolwiki'; # DB-Name of PoolWiki #$wgSharedUploadDBprefix = 'wiki_'; # Table name prefix for PoolWiki $wgRepositoryBaseUrl = "http://pool.example.com/wiki/Image:"; ForeignAPIRepo used to work fine before, but since I switched from Apache to Nginx, no images show up anymore in the language wikis. This is how my LocalSettings.php used to look like: $wgForeignFileRepos[] = array( 'class' => 'ForeignAPIRepo', 'name' => 'pool', 'apibase' => 'http://pool.example.com/w/api.php', 'fetchDescription' => true, // Optional 'descriptionCacheExpiry' => 43200, // 12 hours, optional (values are seconds) 'apiThumbCacheExpiry' => 0, // required for local thumb caching ); I also tried to set 'name' => 'poolwiki', (name of the pool database) but that doesn't work either. I also re-started Memcached and I even deleted a file description page from the CloudFlare cache, but still no file description can be seen :/ My software: MediaWiki: 1.22.0 PHP: 5.3.27 (fpm-fcgi) MySQL: 5.1.70-log Any help would be über-cool. Thanks and cheers, Till

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subskin customizations
by Bill Traynor 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

In an old vector based skin on a 1.16 version of MW, the skin author added custom html and css directly into the skin.php code to add a custom header above the personal tools links. Where do I put that code in a vector subskin in MW 1.22? Do I add it directly to myskin.php again, or to myskin.skin.php? Do I separate the html and css and add the html to myskin.skin.php and the css to screen.css? Thanks Bill

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Table issues
by John W. Foster 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

I am & have been seeing these little glitches for some time. I actually have never been able to get rid of them. </td></tr></table></td></tr></table> They show up randomly through out my mediawiki site sometimes in boxes, & sometimes just in headers or actual pages. Sometimes they are complex, sometimes not </td></tr> Any tips on fixing this are really appreciated. john

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New extensions from Vistaprint
by Daniel Renfro 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

At Vistaprint (www.vistaprint.com), we have an extensive internal wiki, and over the last six years, my team has built 50+ custom MediaWiki extensions. I'm happy to announce that we are starting to release these extensions as open source. They range from very small (see below) to quite powerful & unique. To help us get familiar with Wikimedia's Git/Gerrit process, we're beginning with a very small but useful extension: CategoryTagSorter. It simply alphabetizes the category links displayed in articles. (Normally they appear in the same order written as in the wikitext.) It has been called "the simplest useful MediaWiki extension" and was written originally by Dan Barrett (User:Maiden_taiwan, also author of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book). Have a look at the documentation at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTagSorter View the code at: https://git.wikimedia.org/log/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCategoryTagSorter We are looking forward to releasing more extensions in the coming months, and hope to become more involved in the MediaWiki community in general. Questions and/or comments can be sent to me directly, or to MediawikiExtensions(a)vistaprint.com. Cheers, --Daniel Renfro (User:AlephNull) and the rest of the MediaWiki development team at Vistaprint

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Edit talk pages but not anything else
by yan＠seiner.com 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Is there a way to give users permission to edit talk pages but not the main pages? The only extension I found is no longer maintained. I want to give regular users permissions to read the main page and then make comments on the talk page, but not edit the main page.

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.01 release
by Kartik Mistry 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Hello, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.01. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.22.2 and MediaWiki 1.21.5 releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.01.tar… * sha256sum: 2dc673ba0bbc43a3d69237c15600171e85d3c56d9ff520e5bdb3eda0f2fdc74a Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Babel, CLDR, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate == * Only localisation updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Bug 45695: Added plural support for Android file format. * Bug 46831: Fixed HTML validation error which caused broken layout in especially in the Monobook skin when language is blacklisted. * Bug 59199: Regression in the previous MLEB release: Message groups without changes were listed on Special:ManageMessageGroups. * Bug 59241: MediaWiki plural syntax checker no longer warns about false positives. * Bug 60128: Fixed statsbar for subgroups in the message group selector for correct statistics. * Bug 60198: Preserve whitespace in review mode. In review mode, whitespace was not preserved and new lines were being displayed as single spaces, which was messing up the messages. * Fixed a regression caused by Alt shortcuts introduced in the previous MLEB release: Can again access special characters with AltGr. * Translation editor now reacts better to page scrolling and resizing. * Set directory and language of insertables to the source messages' values. * Special:SupportedLanguages is now faster. * Translate can be installed via Composer now. == UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * Bug 59175: When clicking a regions in the map in ULS, scroll only the list of languages and not the entire page. * Bug 59239: Fixed an alignment issue of ULS personal toolbar trigger. * Bug 59958: Fixed an issue where web fonts were sometimes loaded for elements that use the Autonym font. === Fonts === * Added new font RailwaysSans. * Updated AbyssinicaSIL font to latest upstream (1.500) version. * Fix name of Scheherazade to properly target locally installed font on system. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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