I have added two more wikis to my site (Italian and Spanish) and through AuthDrupal am handling login with the Drupal community site.
I have just noticed that for the two new wikis I see a question mark after the username?
e.g Paul? Tom? Patrick? etc
Does this have some special meaning?
This is NOT occurring on the first wiki even though the _user record looks to be identical for each.
Thanks Paul
On 05/06/07, Paul Coghlan pcoghlan@usa.net wrote:
I have added two more wikis to my site (Italian and Spanish) and through AuthDrupal am handling login with the Drupal community site.
I have just noticed that for the two new wikis I see a question mark after the username?
e.g Paul? Tom? Patrick? etc
Does this have some special meaning?
This is NOT occurring on the first wiki even though the _user record looks to be identical for each.
Are the two wikis different versions?
I believe this is a user preference called "highlightbroken" ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgDefaultUserOptions ). Instead of putting "broken" links (non existent pages) as red links, it puts a question mark link after the title. You can change this in your preferences, or for the whole site by putting this in LocalSettings.php:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['highlightbroken'] = 1;
I recall installing MW once and was surprised to find this formatting too. Then on a later install it was back to red links, so I guess that the default value of this option has changed with some releases.
HTH, Brianna
Thanks Brianna.
This is all a bit concerning. As far as I am aware nothing has changed on the main English wiki and yet I am now seeing red question marks all over the place?!
Looking at the source whilst viewing a page showing the question mark I see this...
<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/ @import "/archives/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw&c type=text/css&smaxage=18000"; @import "/archives/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Scribas.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw& ctype=text/css&smaxage=18000"; @import "/archives/index.php?title=-&action=raw&gen=css&maxage=18000&smaxage=0"; /*]]>*/</style>
This seems to refer out to a page called /archives/index.php?title=- ???
When I view that page I get a page not found BUT when I use the full URL as listed above I get the following:
<html> <head/> <body> <pre>/* generated user stylesheet */ a { text-decoration: none; } a.new, #quickbar a.new, a.stub, #quickbar a.stub { color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; } a.new:after, #quickbar a.new:after { content: "?"; color: #CC2200; text-decoration: none; } a.stub:after, #quickbar a.stub:after { content: "!"; color: #772233; text-decoration: none; }#toc { display: none; } .editsection { display: none; } </pre> </body> </html>
Any ideas why I am suddenly seeing this and more importantly how to turn it off?
I inserted the following line into the LocalSettings.php file but no change, question marks for all non-existing pages.
$wgDefaultUserOptions['highlightbroken'] = 1;
If I visit my user page and edit it then the question mark goes away. Similarly it goes away for any pages that I newly create/edit.
Confused, Paul
On 6/5/07 6:38 AM, "Brianna Laugher" brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/06/07, Paul Coghlan pcoghlan@usa.net wrote:
I have added two more wikis to my site (Italian and Spanish) and through AuthDrupal am handling login with the Drupal community site.
I have just noticed that for the two new wikis I see a question mark after the username?
e.g Paul? Tom? Patrick? etc
Does this have some special meaning?
This is NOT occurring on the first wiki even though the _user record looks to be identical for each.
Are the two wikis different versions?
I believe this is a user preference called "highlightbroken" ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgDefaultUserOptions ). Instead of putting "broken" links (non existent pages) as red links, it puts a question mark link after the title. You can change this in your preferences, or for the whole site by putting this in LocalSettings.php:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['highlightbroken'] = 1;
I recall installing MW once and was surprised to find this formatting too. Then on a later install it was back to red links, so I guess that the default value of this option has changed with some releases.
HTH, Brianna
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On 05/06/07, Paul Coghlan pcoghlan@usa.net wrote:
This is all a bit concerning. As far as I am aware nothing has changed on the main English wiki and yet I am now seeing red question marks all over the place?!
1. Special:Preferences 2. "Misc" tab 3. Ensure that "Format broken links like this (alternative like this?)" is checked 4. Save
Rob Church
Rob
Thanks for that. I still retain my anxiety about why this is showing 'all of a sudden' but at least I can resolve the issue at user creation.
Interestingly the following line in LocalSettings doesn't appear to have any effect.
$wgDefaultUserOptions['highlightbroken'] = 1;
As a result I am automating the inclusion of this in each member's user_options at registration to maintain a consistent look and feel.
Thanks again, Paul
On 6/5/07 1:10 PM, "Rob Church" robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/06/07, Paul Coghlan pcoghlan@usa.net wrote:
This is all a bit concerning. As far as I am aware nothing has changed on the main English wiki and yet I am now seeing red question marks all over the place?!
- Special:Preferences
- "Misc" tab
- Ensure that "Format broken links like this (alternative like
this?)" is checked 4. Save
Rob Church
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