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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 01 Mar '26

01 Mar '26

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

31 Dec '23

Lis ton message de Nganguem Victor avant qu'il ne soit effacé! Pour lire ton message, suis simplement ce lien: http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 D'autres personnes sont aussi présentes: Oded (Tel Aviv, Israël) Priya (Udaipur, Inde) RajaYogi BK (Udaipur, Inde) Karuna (Udaipur, Inde) Chika Reginald Onyia (Pnompen', Cambodge) ...Qui d'autre? http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 Les liens ne fonctionnent pas dans ce message? Copie les dans la barre d'adresse de ton navigateur. Tu as reçu cet email suite à un message envoyé par Nganguem Victor de notre système. S'il s'agit d'une erreur, ignore simplement cet email. La requête sera alors effacée du système. Amuse-toi bien ! L'équipe Badoo Courrier automatique de Badoo suite à l'envoi d'un message à ton attention sur Badoo. Les réponses ne sont ni stockées, ni traitées. Si tu ne veux plus recevoir de message de Badoo, fais-le nous savoir: http://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=6&mail_code=65&email=media…

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MediaWiki mailing list emails exposed to potential spam
by ahmadfarooq123＠gmail.com 10 May '17

10 May '17

Even if the email addresses can’t be removed, I was hoping they could at-least be automatically transformed into images or with “at” replacements in the address. Similar transformation is performed at other places on gossamer threads’ archives, it should be possible to do it in the “From” area of message bodies too. In fact, the archives site even has the following in their FAQ: Q. How do you protect users email addresses from harvesters? A. We make every effort to stop people from harvesting emails from the site. Currently, we encode, strip and transform all email addresses we can find (including parsing the message body for emails that show up in forwards). The only place the email address is viewable is by clicking on the user, and we embed the email in an image to prevent harvesting. I tried contacting them through https://www.gossamer-threads.com/contact/, but didn’t get a reply. I was hoping if someone from the Wikimedia foundation contacted them, they would be more motivated to reply back. Regards,

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Page Forms input type list
by Phil Legault 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

is there a way to insert an item into a list from within the form? Something that would provide a text box and an insert link. Thanks, Phil

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Subject: Wikipedia Training Site
by rami＠wikimedialevant.org 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Wikimedia Levant arranged to start teaching Wikipedia material as a chapter in an IT course for first year students in the University of Jordan. 18k students :) Pushing 18k students directly to Wikipedia will lead a certain IP Range blocks by the admins, as they can hardly keep up with vandalism. Certainly they will not have the time to take care of all these students mistakes and destruction expected at the beginning. We rented a server in Germany, to install a copy of mediawiki and have Arabic, English, Japaneses, Russian and other dumps of Wikipedia. This will provide a buffer, and safe environment for the students to work, destroy and learn. As a start, we are having problems installing Arabic Wikipedia. We used the latest dump, but for some reason, not all article where reflected on the site. example (Jordan Article) is missing : http://ar.wikimedialevant.org/index.php?title=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D… Plus, almost all pages have errors (could be due to use of Arabic ParserFunctions) example: http://ar.wikimedialevant.org/index.php?title=%D9%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%… And, of course the main problem is having different languages. We have no idea how to add more than languages on the servers :( The users from Arabic Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Levant community will help running the servers as Local Admins. Any help installing the servers is appreciated. Actually we are begging here :S Thanks for all Dr. Rami Tarawneh user:tarawneh

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Show a different sidebar for anonymous users
by Phil Legault 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Has anyone found a solution for show different sidebar for anonymous users? As always thanks for your help, Phil

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Show a different sidebar for anonymous users
by Valerio Pelliccioni 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Hello, my wiki at http://tunearch.org <http://tunearch.org/> uses two sidebar (one for anonymous and one for subscribed users) and switches between them using this modified buildSidebar() function: ________________________________________________________ In /home/tunearch/public_html/w/includes/skins/Skin.php function buildSidebar() { global $wgEnableSidebarCache, $wgSidebarCacheExpiry; global $wgUser; $that = $this; $callback = function () use ( $that ) { $bar = []; global $wgUser; if ($wgUser->isLoggedIn()) { $that->addToSidebar( $bar, 'sidebar' ); } else { $that->addToSidebar( $bar, 'anon_sidebar' ); } Hooks::run( 'SkinBuildSidebar', [ $that, &$bar ] ); return $bar; }; if ( $wgEnableSidebarCache ) { $cache = ObjectCache::getMainWANInstance(); if ($wgUser->isLoggedIn()) { $sidebar = $cache->getWithSetCallback( $cache->makeKey( 'sidebar', $this->getLanguage()->getCode() ), MessageCache::singleton()->isDisabled() ? $cache::TTL_UNCACHEABLE // bug T133069 : $wgSidebarCacheExpiry, $callback, [ 'lockTSE' => 30 ] ); } else { $sidebar = $cache->getWithSetCallback( $cache->makeKey( 'anon_sidebar', $this->getLanguage()->getCode() ), MessageCache::singleton()->isDisabled() ? $cache::TTL_UNCACHEABLE // bug T133069 : $wgSidebarCacheExpiry, $callback, [ 'lockTSE' => 30 ] ); } } else { $sidebar = $callback(); } // Apply post-processing to the cached value Hooks::run( 'SidebarBeforeOutput', [ $this, &$sidebar ] ); return $sidebar; } where the anon_sidebar is http://tunearch.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Anon_sidebar <http://tunearch.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Anon_sidebar> * Orientation ** Special:UserLogin|Login ** TTA|mainpage-description ** A collection of tunes|What ** help|How ** Acknowledgments|Acknowledgments * The Index ** Category:Tune|All tunes ** Special:BrowseData/Tune|Drill down ** Special:RunQuery/TuneQuery|Query Interface ** Special:Browse/{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|Browse Properties * Issues ** Tune_History_Articles|Magazines ** Tune_books|Tune Books Valerio Pelliccioni ---- e-mail: vmp(a)silkwood.it <mailto:vmp@silkwood.it> mob: +39 3487649160 www: http://tunearch.org <http://tunearch.org/> while the ordinary Sidebar is: http://tunearch.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar <http://tunearch.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar> * Orientation ** TTA|mainpage-description ** A collection of tunes|What ** help|Getting started ** ABCSandbox|ABC SandBox ** Acknowledgments| Acknowledgments ** {{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|printable=yes}} | Printable version * Contribution ** Special:FormEdit/Abc tune|Add tunes ** Special:Upload|Upload ** Special:SpecialPages|Special Pages * The Index ** Category:Tune|All tunes ** Special:BrowseData/Tune|Drill down ** Special:RunQuery/TuneQuery|Query the Archive ** Special:Browse/{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|Browse Properties * Issues ** Tune_History_Articles|Magazines ** Tune_books|Tune Books I don’t know if this is the most elegant solution or if it fits your needs, but it works for me. Regards. Valerio Valerio Pelliccioni ---- e-mail: vmp(a)silkwood.it mob: +39 3487649160 www: http://tunearch.org

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Extension Header Tabs
by lukas.willoeper＠web.de 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Hi guys, can anybody have a look at Topic Tmqmfq10285gkgv9 ? ... im Using Wiki 1.28 and the appropriate version of headerTabs : HeaderTabs: (REL1_28 2016-11-18T19:07:46 9ebb9c2) My sourcecode for the page : Some text above the tab view = First section header = This will be displayed on the first tab{{#switchtablink:Second section header|Click here to go to the next tab...}} = Second section header = This will be displayed on the second tab{{#switchtablink:Third section header|Click here to go to the next tab...}} = Third section header = This will be displayed on the third tab{{#switchtablink:First section header|Click here to go to the first tab...}} <headertabs/> = Fourth section header = This will be always displayed under the tab view because it's below the headertabs tag. appens when I click on one of the switchtablinks The console throws the following error : Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'Second_section_header' of undefined<br> at HTMLAnchorElement.eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=de&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=1utpy7x:4), <anonymous>:112:315) at HTMLAnchorElement.dispatch (load.php?debug=false&lang=de&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=1utpy7x:65) at HTMLAnchorElement.elemData.handle (load.php?debug=false&lang=de&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=1utpy7x:60)

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