... endless:
When copying and pasting from MediaWiki.org, the leading bullets come across as asterisks, so these lines below that start with a single * (asterisks) SHOULD be bullets or blanks when shown in plain text (hmm, "bullets or blanks" - hahahah), such as on these mediawiki-l plain text postings here, sorry! The only real problem with the display of the cut-and-paste quoted page displayed as plain text here in mediawiki-l is in editing the contents of then MediaWiki:sidebar where 2 asterisks are intended, but the leading 3rd asterisk is inappropriate, otherwise:
===== open quote with * errors =====
... this raw URL that works on it's own, but not when inserted into the sidebar: * http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from= &namespace=1 ... 4. Paste the long complex link of the intended target page into the contents of the new page, such as the one line in our sample: * http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from= &namespace=1 ... 7. Edit the Mediawiki:sidebar page, adding a new line at the bottom that reads: * ** new-link-page-name|description ... Caveats: This seems to require the long URL, such as: * http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from= &namespace=1 ... but we cannot yet figure out how to make shorter, relative links, such as: * index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=1 * Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=1 ... ===== close quote with * errors =====
Now, this SHOULD be displayed in plain text THIS way:
===== open quote with errors "repaired" =====
... this raw URL that works on it's own, but not when inserted into the sidebar:
http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from= &namespace=1 ... 4. Paste the long complex link of the intended target page into the contents of the new page, such as the one line in our sample: http://www.our-mediwiki- ... 7. Edit the Mediawiki:sidebar page, adding a new line at the bottom that reads: ** new-link-page-name|description [yes, the remaining 2 asterisks SHOULD be in the MediaWiki:Sidebar page contents!] ... Caveats: This seems to require the long URL, such as:
http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from= &namespace=1 ... but we cannot yet figure out how to make shorter, relative links, such as: index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=1 Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=1
===== close quote with errors "repaired" =====
Thanks for your patience!
-- Peter Blaise