Hi Manny,
I saw your previous email
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-September/ 001459.html
where you talked about heavily customizing the MediaWiki skin.
Did you get anywhere?
Because I'm trying to do essentially the same thing. I'm trying to fully transition my website
to MediaWiki. Basically I want to use MediaWiki as a Content Management System. I'm aware it's not strictly built for that because there is no access control management, but I'd be the sole user anyway. My only point in using MediaWiki is to stop writing HTML by hand (too cumbersome) and have the MediaWiki-markup and all its features I've grown to like at my disposal.
Now I'm essentially trying to get my MediaWiki skin to look pretty much exactly like my homepage (see above) looks today. I'd want to hide all the "edit", "preferences", etc. links. Then all I'd need to do to edit my website is to manually type in
and login and start working away.
I know it's a daunting task, especially given my comparatively limited qualifications, but anyway.
Please let me know how you got on. Anybody else who's got any pointers/comments -- that's very welcome! :-)
Thanks and regards, Jens Ropers
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I think I mentioned it on this list recently, but I have a page that should provide a useful answer to your question.
In http://wise-nano.org/t/Programming_notes I describe how I've been changing MediaWiki, including several skin hacks.
I also give brief hint sections on the various standards/languages that go into MediaWiki.
Chris
Jens Ropers wrote:
Hi Manny,
I saw your previous email
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-September/ 001459.html
where you talked about heavily customizing the MediaWiki skin.
Did you get anywhere?
Because I'm trying to do essentially the same thing. I'm trying to fully transition my website
to MediaWiki. Basically I want to use MediaWiki as a Content Management System. I'm aware it's not strictly built for that because there is no access control management, but I'd be the sole user anyway. My only point in using MediaWiki is to stop writing HTML by hand (too cumbersome) and have the MediaWiki-markup and all its features I've grown to like at my disposal.
Now I'm essentially trying to get my MediaWiki skin to look pretty much exactly like my homepage (see above) looks today. I'd want to hide all the "edit", "preferences", etc. links. Then all I'd need to do to edit my website is to manually type in
and login and start working away.
I know it's a daunting task, especially given my comparatively limited qualifications, but anyway.
Please let me know how you got on. Anybody else who's got any pointers/comments -- that's very welcome! :-)
Thanks and regards, Jens Ropers
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Thank you :)
This is very cool -- and it will keep me busy for a while, trying to figure out things with this new info :-)
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On 28 Sep 2004, at 07:08, Chris Phoenix wrote:
I think I mentioned it on this list recently, but I have a page that should provide a useful answer to your question.
In http://wise-nano.org/t/Programming_notes I describe how I've been changing MediaWiki, including several skin hacks.
I also give brief hint sections on the various standards/languages that go into MediaWiki.
Chris
Jens Ropers wrote:
Hi Manny, I saw your previous email
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-September/ 001459.html
where you talked about heavily customizing the MediaWiki skin. Did you get anywhere? Because I'm trying to do essentially the same thing. I'm trying to fully transition my website
to MediaWiki. Basically I want to use MediaWiki as a Content Management System. I'm aware it's not strictly built for that because there is no access control management, but I'd be the sole user anyway. My only point in using MediaWiki is to stop writing HTML by hand (too cumbersome) and have the MediaWiki-markup and all its features I've grown to like at my disposal. Now I'm essentially trying to get my MediaWiki skin to look pretty much exactly like my homepage (see above) looks today. I'd want to hide all the "edit", "preferences", etc. links. Then all I'd need to do to edit my website is to manually type in
and login and start working away. I know it's a daunting task, especially given my comparatively limited qualifications, but anyway. Please let me know how you got on. Anybody else who's got any pointers/comments -- that's very welcome! :-) Thanks and regards, Jens Ropers There are two types of IT techs: The ones who watch soap operas and the ones who watch progress bars. http://www.ropersonline.com/elmo/#108681741955837683 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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I've been kinda thinking of doing the same thing.
I've (relatively) recently got my site online, but it's old and written in FrontPage. I want to have it make the navbars automatically, as well as header/footer/etc. I was thinking of using just HTML fragments and PHP. Using the MediaWiki parser would be awesome, too.
For me, it would be a lot easier to use MediaWiki than writting my own stuff. Of course, If I use MediaWiki, I'll probably do that anyway.
Has anyone managed to 'lift' the parser so that it just takes in some WikiTax and spits out an HTML fragment? w/ an interwiki table, of course. (Now I know why the structure is so complex. The actual querying code is buried so deep that the highlevel code won't care if you redirect it to a directory setup.)
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:22:10 +0200, Jens Ropers ropers@ropersonline.com wrote:
Hi Manny, ... Basically I want to use MediaWiki as a Content Management System. I'm aware it's not strictly built for that because there is no access control management, but I'd be the sole user anyway. My only point in using MediaWiki is to stop writing HTML by hand (too cumbersome) and have the MediaWiki-markup and all its features I've grown to like at my disposal. ... Thanks and regards, Jens Ropers
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