William van Zwanenberg wrote:
How can I generate a list of all articles with links tocorresponding article page contained within a given namespace and display this in a "special" wiki page (article)?
Not sure what you want here. Does Special:WhatLinksHere fits your
needs?
It can also be reached from the toolbox.
Not really. My apologies, I should have explained this in more detail.
To give one very simple example of what it is I'm trying to achieve, I want to put all "help" related pages, in a namespace called "help." All articles within this namespace will, as the name suggests, be pages offering guidance of how to navigate one's way around the wiki, search for content and edit/modify existing content etc, etc. In order to make finding the specific "help" page one might potentially require, it would be helpful to create an index article page that did itself, list all other pages (articles) within the namespace.
So, using my example, if there were say 20 pages within the help namespace, I'd want to create a "Help:IndexPage" page that listed all 20 pages and included internal links to take you to the page in question.
I hope this makes sense.
The easiest way would be putting {{Special:Allpages/Help:}} at Help:IndexPage. That would include there the list from that namespace that Special:Allpages generates.
In addition to answering these questions, I would be grateful if somebody could reply to this message by explaining in greater detail
the
process of editing articles within the "mediawiki" namespace so that
I
can go about changing the appearance of the master templates (and
hence
the look and feel of the wiki as a whole) and so that I can go about adding 3rd party extensions that will increase functionality.
They are edited just as any other page, but they are used by the software for different functionalities. As it would be dangerous to allow its editing to anyone, you need to be a wiki admin in order to edit pages there.
I believe I have given myself wiki admin rights based on the account I created for myself but I'm not certain. I apologise if this is a very elementary question to be asking, but can someone tell me how I might check this and more importantly, how I go about changing my account status if I haven't given myself the appropriate access rights?
Go to Special:Listusers You should see there the groups you are in: eg. (sysop, bureaucrat) The account created during install is an administrator account. A bureaucrat can make other people an admin. That's done from Special:UserRights.
I'm not entirely sure I understand your question but what I can tell you is this. I've only step the wiki up in what can only be described as a sandbox server. In actuality, it's running on nothing more than a standalone, non-networked windows PC and is using a XAMPP architecture.
The wiki is operating off localhost.
The URL to access the wiki is: http://localhost/eurowiki/
Which, for reasons I don't quite understand seems to actually result in the following URI actually being loaded: http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/Main_Page
Given that I want to assign pages to namespaces, and I want to edit the MediaWiki.Common.css page, I need to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
Many thanks.
That configuration should be ok. So, if you go to http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css you see a message of "Access denied" provided by the web server ? (ie. no sidebar or other part coming from the wiki) Does it work if you use instead http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css ?