The current windows based sandbox installation is as follows:
PHP 5.30 installedMySQL 5.1.37 installedDB user: root@localhostPHP's memory limit is 128MInstallation directory c:\xampp\htdocs\eurowikiScript URI path: /eurowiki
You should have also included the mediawiki version, so we can yell at you if it isn't the latest one :)
I'm sorry, I should have included this. I'm using version 1.15.1 - i.e. the latest version.
In addition to the default namespaces created during initialinstallation, can I create namespaces of my own and if so, how do I
do
so? I would like to create potentially another 5 unique namespaces specific to my wiki installation. What I need to know therefore is
(a)
if this is possible and if so (b) how to do so.
Of course it is possible. It is explained at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces
Thank you. I should really have checked this.
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.
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?
At the moment, if I attempt to create a new article (e.g.: MediaWiki:Common.css in order to alter the general appearance of the wiki), I get the following 403 page appear with the following
wording:
"Access Forbidden - you don't have permission to access the requested object"
Please can somebody explain what is going on here as I obvious want
to
change start making changes. This same 403 appears regardless of whatever article I try to create where in the process I'm assigning
it
to a namespace.
That path seem to be handled by apache instead of the wiki. What kind of url are you using? Looks like an error with your redirect rules.
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.