Hello to the list,
our school is trying to integrate wiki pages into our site, and apparently we'll be the first school in this country (Slovakia) to do that. We were already asked to present the wiki integration at a government-sponsored conference to be held next year.
Everything seems to be working fine except for 2 serious problems, and we would appreciate if anyone could help us in resolving them. We have MediaWiki 1.6.8 / PHP 4.4.1 / MySQL 4.1.19 installed.
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ISSUE NO. 1: Thumbnails creation does not work. We also have phpBB (with the Attachments mod) and Coppermine installed elsewhere on the site, both (I believe) relying on ImageMagick, and in those two apps, thumbnails are created without a hitch. Here is our Sandbox:
The syntax is correct, but no thumbnail is created. Replacing "Image" with the local language equivalent does not help either. We tried to follow the advice on the following webpages but it did not help us: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Image_thumbnailing http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-October/001941.html http://tinyurl.com/j6vmv
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ISSUE NO. 2: Interlanguage Links do not get displayed, no matter if the skin is MonoBook or Classic. After you enter [[de:PageName]], for example, this gets displayed in the body of the wiki webpage and not in a special "In other languages" section.
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As to school work, assignments etc. discussed in another thread, we're planning to install the following fine extension: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PageProtection
We hope we can get this to work. The extension basically allows any student or teacher to mark any wiki page of theirs, or even any section of their page, with the <protect> </protect> tags, specifying within the <protect> tag to whom a wiki page or a section of it should display and to whom it should not. Both names of individual users or specific user groups may be defined within the tag. If anyone has any experience with this particular extension, we'll be happy to receive any advice on using it.