MediaWiki-l January 2018

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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 16 Aug '25

16 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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Mermaid 1.0.0 released
by [[kgh]] 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the initial release 1.0.0 of the Mermaid extension [0] created by James Hong Kong. It requires MediaWiki 1.27 and later as well as PHP 5.6 and later. It provides the #mermaid parser function to support the generation of diagrams and flowcharts with the help of the mermaid script language, e.g. flowcharts, sequence diagrams and gantt diagrams. See the README [1] to learn what this extension is all about. Cheers Karsten [0] https://bit.ly/mermaid-100 [1] https://bit.ly/mermaid-readme

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.01 release
by Kartik Mistry 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.01. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.29 and 1.30 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.01.tar… * sha256sum: a6d90633cf16dbf48c0481d1e073130717d98b9540c0d1b80059bb34946c6749 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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Highlights and upgrade notes == == Babel and LocalisationUpdate == === Noteworthy changes === * Localisation and maintenance updates only. == cldr == === Noteworthy changes === * Updated to CLDR 32. * Localisation and maintenance updates. == cleanchanges == === Noteworthy changes === * Added wgCCFiltersOnly to disable "clean changes" (which has issues with new recent changes interface) while keeping filters available. * Localisation and maintenance updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Special:PageMigration: Fixed save button, added RTL direction support and fixed broken icon in delete button. (T179182, T139463) * Added RESTBaseWebService support to allow using Apertium using CXServer MT API through RESTBase. * Removed MediawikiExtensionFFS. Migrate to JsonFFS if you were still using this format. * Almost all legacy non-TUX code has been removed. (T132546) * Added "Link to this message" to translation editor tools. * GettextFFS keyAlgorithm default value changed to "simple" from "legacy". This will produce shorter page titles and shorter titles. You must add legacy to your configuration to keep using existing titles for GettextFFS. (T178882) * Translation filter is now part of the new recent changes interface if the new interface is available. == UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * User interface and search improvements. * Fixed page scroll to the top when the the ULS gear icon is clicked. (T178188) ==== Fonts ==== * Removed non-default webfonts for some languages. (T180422) * Remove the autonym font and tofu detection. * ULS no longer serves TTF files to browsers because all recent browsers support the woff format. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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Why is MW 1.28 obsolete?
by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Can anyone say simply why 1.28 is obsolete and 1.27 is still supported? I'm not looking for anything too technical. I'm just curious as to what went wrong. Sounds like there must be an interesting story there. -Rich

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Category: Pages where template include size is exceeded.
by Phil Legault 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

I have a query that returns over 15,000 rows and it returns this error, Category: Pages where template include size is exceeded. Is there a default size limit that can be changed? Thanks, Phil

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references - linkback after reference text
by Bri 21 Jan '18

21 Jan '18

Is there a means to place the linkback numbers after the text of the reference? When there are a large number of backlinks, it can be difficult to read. Currently it appears as: 1. ↑ ^1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 Text of reference. Is there a way to have it look like: 1. ↑ Text of reference. ^1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05

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Using MediaWiki to front-end a log server?
by John Lewis 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Hello everyone, Has anyone use MediaWiki plus Cargo or SMW to act as a fronted-end to a SQL based log aggregation sever? It would be trivial to access and mix historical data and notes about servers with that kind of setup. If someone has already made this as a product or a project, this is your chance to plug.

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