Dear All
May i know how to enable Auto interlinking ? is all link have to create by manual [[foo]] ?
thanks
Internal links are made by surrounding the article name with [[ and ]]. For prettier links for "uglier" article titles (or any other namespace actually) use this format: [[Ugly article name|Pretty name]]
-- Gary Kirk
On 4/24/06, Tin Wong tinwong@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All
May i know how to enable Auto interlinking ? is all link have to create by manual [[foo]] ?
thanks _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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In addition to typing the square brackets manually, there is also a button above the editing window that you can press to create sets of square brackets. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Kirk To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] questions about linking
Internal links are made by surrounding the article name with [[ and ]]. For prettier links for "uglier" article titles (or any other namespace actually) use this format: [[Ugly article name|Pretty name]]
-- Gary Kirk
On 4/24/06, Tin Wong tinwong@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All
May i know how to enable Auto interlinking ? is all link have to create by manual [[foo]] ?
thanks _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list
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so mediawiki didnt have auto interlink right ? for example i have a page called (CDROM) , when later on someone create a page have word (CDROM) is that possible to auto generate a link to (CDROM) page without type any square brackets ?
thanks
On 4/25/06, Michael Dorosh madorosh@shaw.ca wrote:
In addition to typing the square brackets manually, there is also a button above the editing window that you can press to create sets of square brackets. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Kirk To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] questions about linking
Internal links are made by surrounding the article name with [[ and ]]. For prettier links for "uglier" article titles (or any other namespace actually) use this format: [[Ugly article name|Pretty name]]
-- Gary Kirk
On 4/24/06, Tin Wong tinwong@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All
May i know how to enable Auto interlinking ? is all link have to
create by
manual [[foo]] ?
thanks _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list
-- Gary Kirk _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
MediaWiki does not come default with any such feature.
On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Tin Wong wrote:
so mediawiki didnt have auto interlink right ? for example i have a page called (CDROM) , when later on someone create a page have word (CDROM) is that possible to auto generate a link to (CDROM) page without type any square brackets ?
thanks
On 4/25/06, Michael Dorosh madorosh@shaw.ca wrote:
In addition to typing the square brackets manually, there is also a button above the editing window that you can press to create sets of square brackets. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Kirk To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] questions about linking
Internal links are made by surrounding the article name with [[ and ]]. For prettier links for "uglier" article titles (or any other namespace actually) use this format: [[Ugly article name|Pretty name]]
-- Gary Kirk
On 4/24/06, Tin Wong tinwong@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All
May i know how to enable Auto interlinking ? is all link have to
create by
manual [[foo]] ?
thanks _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list
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I run MediaWiki on an intranet (Mac OS X Server 10.4.5) and every month or so it forgets everyone and they have to login again. I've previously increased some setting in LocalSettings.php but this appears to be something different. Any ideas?
Christiaan
On 25/04/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
I run MediaWiki on an intranet (Mac OS X Server 10.4.5) and every month or so it forgets everyone and they have to login again. I've previously increased some setting in LocalSettings.php but this appears to be something different. Any ideas?
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
Rob Church
On 25 Apr 2006, at 1:53 PM, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
I run MediaWiki on an intranet (Mac OS X Server 10.4.5) and every month or so it forgets everyone and they have to login again. I've previously increased some setting in LocalSettings.php but this appears to be something different. Any ideas?
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
I meant have you any ideas on how to extend them indefinitely? We don't need or want them to expire.
Christiaan
I doubt it would be a good idea [if its possible; I don't know] to have a cookie that didn't expire. Google's cookie expires in 2038 or something, but that's Google.
On 4/25/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
On 25 Apr 2006, at 1:53 PM, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
I run MediaWiki on an intranet (Mac OS X Server 10.4.5) and every month or so it forgets everyone and they have to login again. I've previously increased some setting in LocalSettings.php but this appears to be something different. Any ideas?
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
I meant have you any ideas on how to extend them indefinitely? We don't need or want them to expire.
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I can't imagine why it would matter, I'm running it on an intranet.
Christiaan
On 25 Apr 2006, at 7:04 PM, Gary Kirk wrote:
I doubt it would be a good idea [if its possible; I don't know] to have a cookie that didn't expire. Google's cookie expires in 2038 or something, but that's Google.
On 4/25/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
On 25 Apr 2006, at 1:53 PM, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
I run MediaWiki on an intranet (Mac OS X Server 10.4.5) and every month or so it forgets everyone and they have to login again. I've previously increased some setting in LocalSettings.php but this appears to be something different. Any ideas?
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
I meant have you any ideas on how to extend them indefinitely? We don't need or want them to expire.
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
On 25 Apr 2006, at 1:53 PM, Rob Church wrote:
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
I meant have you any ideas on how to extend them indefinitely? We don't need or want them to expire.
Looking at the source, I'd say you want to set $wgCookieExpiration to some nice value. It's in seconds.
-Kalle.
p.s. I initially sent this from the wrong account. Hopefully the first one won't reach the list or I'll double-post my first post! Woe unto me. ;) d.s.
Thanks Kalle. I couldn't find $wgCookieExpiration in my LocalSettings.php file. I assume I should just add it.
Christiaan
On 25 Apr 2006, at 8:54 PM, Kalle Alm wrote:
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
On 25 Apr 2006, at 1:53 PM, Rob Church wrote:
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
I meant have you any ideas on how to extend them indefinitely? We don't need or want them to expire.
Looking at the source, I'd say you want to set $wgCookieExpiration to some nice value. It's in seconds.
You can see all the existing preferences (with their default values) in "includes/DefaultSettings.php".
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
Thanks Kalle. I couldn't find $wgCookieExpiration in my LocalSettings.php file. I assume I should just add it.
Christiaan
On 25 Apr 2006, at 8:54 PM, Kalle Alm wrote:
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
On 25 Apr 2006, at 1:53 PM, Rob Church wrote:
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
I meant have you any ideas on how to extend them indefinitely? We don't need or want them to expire.
Looking at the source, I'd say you want to set $wgCookieExpiration to some nice value. It's in seconds.
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Great, thanks, was set to just over 4 weeks (2592000 secs). Added $wgCookieExpiration to LocalSettings.php and changed it to 3155760000 seconds. 100 years. :)
Christiaan
On 26 Apr 2006, at 1:55 PM, Rotem Liss wrote:
You can see all the existing preferences (with their default values) in "includes/DefaultSettings.php".
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
Thanks Kalle. I couldn't find $wgCookieExpiration in my LocalSettings.php file. I assume I should just add it.
Christiaan
On 25 Apr 2006, at 8:54 PM, Kalle Alm wrote:
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
On 25 Apr 2006, at 1:53 PM, Rob Church wrote:
Sessions expire. So do cookies.
I meant have you any ideas on how to extend them indefinitely? We don't need or want them to expire.
Looking at the source, I'd say you want to set $wgCookieExpiration to some nice value. It's in seconds.
On our setup users are required to login to see anything other than the Main Page. If a user clicks on a link from the Main Page and they're not logged in they're prompted to login, after which they are taken back to the Main Page.
Is there any way to configure MediaWiki to make it forward the user to the page they clicked on before being prompted to login, instead of the Main Page?
Christiaan
On 25/04/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
On our setup users are required to login to see anything other than the Main Page. If a user clicks on a link from the Main Page and they're not logged in they're prompted to login, after which they are taken back to the Main Page.
Is there any way to configure MediaWiki to make it forward the user to the page they clicked on before being prompted to login, instead of the Main Page?
The user should be returned to the page from which the login link was clicked, assuming the use of the standard login link; a "returnto" argument is added to the request string which is then used to dictate the location of the redirect.
Rob Church
Moin,
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 14:58, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
On our setup users are required to login to see anything other than the Main Page. If a user clicks on a link from the Main Page and they're not logged in they're prompted to login, after which they are taken back to the Main Page.
Is there any way to configure MediaWiki to make it forward the user to the page they clicked on before being prompted to login, instead of the Main Page?
The user should be returned to the page from which the login link was clicked, assuming the use of the standard login link; a "returnto" argument is added to the request string which is then used to dictate the location of the redirect.
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
However, when you are presented with the login page, clicking on the "Log in" on the upper right corner does preserver the "returnto".
Go and try it on any wiki, logout, press edit, then click on the word "login" on the page that apears. On my wiki it leads from:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit
to:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin
Upper right corner instead goes to:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Mai...
This is very frustrating, even if you know it, since your instinct is to click on the link that appears in front of you.
Best wishes,
Tels
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
Got the bug number to hand?
Rob Church
I think I know what's the problem: the link in the messages ("You have to login to edit", etc.) is [[Special:Userlogin|log in]]. I suggest to use "You have to $1 to edit" ($1 is "log in" in the local language, linked to Userlogin with returnto) instead of "You have to [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] to edit", etc.
Also, we can change the links parsing, so linking to [[Special:Userlogin]] will also generate a "returnto" link. I don't think it's a good idea.
Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
Got the bug number to hand?
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On 25/04/06, Rotem Liss mail@rotemliss.com wrote:
I think I know what's the problem: the link in the messages ("You have to login to edit", etc.) is [[Special:Userlogin|log in]]. I suggest to use "You have to $1 to edit" ($1 is "log in" in the local language, linked to Userlogin with returnto) instead of "You have to [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] to edit", etc.
That is what I intend to do. I was asking for a bug number so I know what to close, since it's a known bug and I don't want to leave it open once fixed.
Rob Church
Moin,
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 19:38, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
Got the bug number to hand?
No, sorry, I never bothered to file one thinking it must be already dozend times in the bug DB :)
Will look it up tomorrow or create one, must sleepnow,
Tels
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
Moin,
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 19:38, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
Got the bug number to hand?
No, sorry, I never bothered to file one thinking it must be already dozend times in the bug DB :)
Whoops, fixed in SVN trunk, r13870. :)
Rob Church
Two requests:
1. There are more messages with the same problem just below the message you've fixed, and there is a message already has $1 in that way, but I think it still links to Special:Userlogin without returnto. 2. Please fix it also in REL1_6, because that's a small fix, and should appear also in v1.6.4.
Thanks.
Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
Moin,
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 19:38, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
Got the bug number to hand?
No, sorry, I never bothered to file one thinking it must be already dozend times in the bug DB :)
Whoops, fixed in SVN trunk, r13870. :)
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Also, you've created "loginshort", but I think you haven't used it (and it's better to use it, because in other languages, the login page title may not be suited to use in a sentence).
Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
Moin,
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 19:38, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
Got the bug number to hand?
No, sorry, I never bothered to file one thinking it must be already dozend times in the bug DB :)
Whoops, fixed in SVN trunk, r13870. :)
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On 26/04/06, Rotem Liss mail@rotemliss.com wrote:
Also, you've created "loginshort", but I think you haven't used it (and it's better to use it, because in other languages, the login page title may not be suited to use in a sentence).
Whoops, that was a mistake; I added that but later realised there was an existing message. Removing it as we speak, and looking at the other instances.
Rob Church
On 25/04/06, Elliott F. Cable ecable@avxw.com wrote:
MediaWiki does not come default with any such feature.
On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Tin Wong wrote:
so mediawiki didnt have auto interlink right ? for example i have a page called (CDROM) , when later on someone create a page have word (CDROM) is that possible to auto generate a link to (CDROM) page without type any square brackets ?
An extension to add it wouldn't be too hard to write, although a bit of a performance drain on a large site. It depends on the traffic and performance levels desired.
Rob Church
On 4/25/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/04/06, Elliott F. Cable ecable@avxw.com wrote:
MediaWiki does not come default with any such feature.
On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Tin Wong wrote:
so mediawiki didnt have auto interlink right ? for example i have a page called (CDROM) , when later on someone create a page have word (CDROM) is that possible to auto generate a link to (CDROM) page without type any square brackets ?
An extension to add it wouldn't be too hard to write, although a bit of a performance drain on a large site. It depends on the traffic and performance levels desired.
I'd think that there are some other questions about just what the right specifications for such a feature should be.
For example, let's say that you don't have a CDROM article now but one gets added in the future. Should existing pages be rescanned to generate auto-links?
A more subtle issue is how to deal with ambiguity. Perhaps this is less of a problem with a narrow purpose wiki, but for wikipedia...
-- Rick DeNatale
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Again, it's the question of how small or otherwise the wiki is. For smaller ones it would be easy to just use Special:Wantedpages to create articles for the most-linked to non-existent articles.
On 4/25/06, Rick DeNatale rick.denatale@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/25/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/04/06, Elliott F. Cable ecable@avxw.com wrote:
MediaWiki does not come default with any such feature.
On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Tin Wong wrote:
so mediawiki didnt have auto interlink right ? for example i have a page called (CDROM) , when later on someone create a page have word (CDROM) is that possible to auto generate a link to (CDROM) page without type any square brackets ?
An extension to add it wouldn't be too hard to write, although a bit of a performance drain on a large site. It depends on the traffic and performance levels desired.
I'd think that there are some other questions about just what the right specifications for such a feature should be.
For example, let's say that you don't have a CDROM article now but one gets added in the future. Should existing pages be rescanned to generate auto-links?
A more subtle issue is how to deal with ambiguity. Perhaps this is less of a problem with a narrow purpose wiki, but for wikipedia...
-- Rick DeNatale
Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
-- Gary Kirk
On 4/25/06, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
Again, it's the question of how small or otherwise the wiki is. For smaller ones it would be easy to just use Special:Wantedpages to create articles for the most-linked to non-existent articles.
I think that there's a pretty wikid* chicken and egg problem in using Special:Wantedpages to detect links which don't exist in order to add them, and there is no Special:Wantedlinks as far as I know.
*I mistyped wicked and just couldn't NOT include the pun.
-- Rick DeNatale
Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
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