Hey all,
I'm installing mediawiki (1.3.5), got everything up and running okay, but the "Help" link in the Navigation bar on the left side of the window takes me to an empty page. It looks like I need to load the Help:Contents from Meta into my local database. Did I miss something in the installation instructions? Can somebody point me to some instructions for this?
Sorry if this is answered somewhere else, but I haven't been able to find it. I have read all the FAQ's I could find, installation instructions on Meta (and other wikis), and googling for "help:contents" (or some variation) only seems to return the actual help pages, NOT how to install them.
FYI, the server is running FreeBSD 4.10
PHP 4.3.6 (cli) (built: Apr 29 2004 01:16:17) Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.18, for portbld-freebsd4.10 (i386)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jim Vanderveen, IT Manager Office of Water Programs, Calif State University Sacramento jim.vanderveen@owp.csus.edu -- PGP key 0x4F449230 PGP info at http://www.owp.csus.edu/~vanderveenj/pgp/
I believe that the Help:Contents page has to be written for every wiki installed. Meaning that if you have not explicitly written it, it will not be there.
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:05:27 -0700, Jim Vanderveen jim.vanderveen@owp.csus.edu wrote:
Hey all,
I'm installing mediawiki (1.3.5), got everything up and running okay, but the "Help" link in the Navigation bar on the left side of the window takes me to an empty page. It looks like I need to load the Help:Contents from Meta into my local database. Did I miss something in the installation instructions? Can somebody point me to some instructions for this?
Sorry if this is answered somewhere else, but I haven't been able to find it. I have read all the FAQ's I could find, installation instructions on Meta (and other wikis), and googling for "help:contents" (or some variation) only seems to return the actual help pages, NOT how to install them.
FYI, the server is running FreeBSD 4.10
PHP 4.3.6 (cli) (built: Apr 29 2004 01:16:17) Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.18, for portbld-freebsd4.10 (i386)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jim Vanderveen, IT Manager Office of Water Programs, Calif State University Sacramento jim.vanderveen@owp.csus.edu -- PGP key 0x4F449230 PGP info at http://www.owp.csus.edu/~vanderveenj/pgp/
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Jim-
Hey all,
I'm installing mediawiki (1.3.5), got everything up and running okay, but the "Help" link in the Navigation bar on the left side of the window takes me to an empty page. It looks like I need to load the Help:Contents from Meta into my local database. Did I miss something in the installation instructions? Can somebody point me to some instructions for this?
the Help: effort on Meta was started less than two months ago. As a result, the associated pages are still fairly chaotic and often include Wikimedia-specific content. There is currently no script to import them automatically.
My recommendation for now is to browse Help:Contents and select the pages which you think are useful/important, and copy and paste their content into your wiki manually.
Regards,
Erik
On 14 Oct 2004, at 12:10, Erik Moeller wrote:
the Help: effort on Meta was started less than two months ago. As a result, the associated pages are still fairly chaotic and often include Wikimedia-specific content. There is currently no script to import them automatically.
My recommendation for now is to browse Help:Contents and select the pages which you think are useful/important, and copy and paste their content into your wiki manually.
Thanks! I'm happy to know that this *isn't* written down somewhere yet--I hate spamming people with already-answered questions.
Jim Vanderveen, IT Manager Office of Water Programs, Calif State University Sacramento jim.vanderveen@owp.csus.edu -- PGP key 0x4F449230 PGP info at http://www.owp.csus.edu/~vanderveenj/pgp/
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