MediaWiki-l April 2015

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Consistent section and item numbering while documenting policies and procedures
by Larry Silverman 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Hi, all, I'm documenting policies and procedures using Mediawiki. Generally, when documenting procedures using something like Word, you'd have a consistent numbering system such as: 1.0 Purpose 2.0 Scope 3.0 Responsibility 3.1 General 3.1.1 Whatever goes here. ...and so on... I'm using the MagicNumberedHeadings <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MagicNumberedHeadings> extension to enable display of section numbers only on pages containing a template designed for procedures. I'm curious if there might be a way to use the current section number as a prefix for ordered list numbering. In the example above, "3.0 Responsibility" would be ==Responsibility== ===General=== and then I'd begin enumerating paragraphs with an ordered list either using # or 'ol' and 'li' tags. Any tricks possible to accomplish this? I like that the section titles automatically create the TOC. I don't want to use section markers for everything I want numbered in this manner as it seems inappropriate to use headings for this. I was thinking perhaps there could be some kind of magic word that injects the current counter for the section, and it could possibly be used with the 'ol' tag's 'start' attribute to start the numbering at that of the section. I'm sure something could be hacked together with CSS and javascript, but I'd like to know if anyone has tackled anything like this previously. Thanks, Larry

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MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2
by Martin Ewing 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2015-March/044200.html>I was also caught up trying to patch 1.23.8 to present level. No Gruntfile.js or test directory. I appreciate the need to talk about distributions, but meanwhile it would be nice to have a valid patch procedure for users like me who just want to get current. Or do we have to reload the whole distribution? Tnx Martin

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Cookies
by Frank Baxmann 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi all, I tried to get a cookie in an extension like this: $request = RequestContext::getMain()->getRequest(); $cookie = $request->getCookie ( 'wiki02UserName' ); wfDebugLog( "wad", print_r($cookie,true), false ); but $cookie empty, even if print_r of $request shows all Cookies: 2015-04-01 18:20:40 vm-debian7-server2 wiki02:WebRequest Object ( [data:protected] => Array . . . [headers:protected] => Array ( [HOST] => wiki02 . . . [COOKIE] => ui-tabs-1=0; ui-tabs-2=0; wiki02UserID=1; wiki02UserName=Root; wiki02Token=bc16d37ee81625c62...... Has anyone an idea what I missed? Greetings Frank

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Announcement: SimpleTooltip and Substitutor Extension
by Simon Heimler 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hello! I'd like to announce two MediaWiki extensions that I've developed recently and believe they are quite stable now: SimpleTooltip: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleTooltip Just a simple ToolTip Extension that has no dependencies and support tooltips over text, images or a tooltip icon. It has special support for Semantic Forms, so tooltips will work with multiple instances, too. Substitutor: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Substitutor This extension does one-time string substitutions. It works similar to magic words, but once replaced, they will not change again. This might be useful for timestamps, random numbers, ID's. (For a complete list of extensions see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fannon - but a few of them are not stable yet!) Have fun :) Simon

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