I've already looked at the meta help pages and can't find the answers to my questions. Would be nice to be able to search the mailing list archives, though.
1. I can't get the <math> tags to display anything - they just display the code I put in. I have tex packages on my system, but is there something I'm missing that needs to parse these tags correctly? 2. Linking to categories, like [[:Category:CategoryName]], will provide a link to that category, but it always puts the page in edit mode. Is there something I may be doing wrong? 3. Is there wiki code to be able to open links in a new window (external links)?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Jason
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Quoting Brinkle, Jason, from the post of Tue, 12 Oct:
- Linking to categories, like [[:Category:CategoryName]], will provide
a link to that category, but it always puts the page in edit mode. Is there something I may be doing wrong?
add a few lines describing the category and save it... :)
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"Brinkle, Jason" Jason.Brinkle@aiminvestments.com writes:
- Linking to categories, like [[:Category:CategoryName]], will provide
a link to that category, but it always puts the page in edit mode. Is there something I may be doing wrong?
Just out of curiosity, did you create a page for the category? If so, that will appear above the listing of everything in that category.
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:36:15 -0500, Brinkle, Jason jason.brinkle@aiminvestments.com wrote:
Is there wiki code to be able to open links in a new window(external links)?
No, this has generally been considered to be a Bad Idea, since this should be up to the user and their browser-interface, rather than the website they are viewing. (I believe shift-click, ctrl-click and the middle mouse button allow users of some browsers to open a link in either a new window or a new tab).
If you really really want to hack the code and insert one, you need to look at includes/Skin.php: the function that generates ext. links is "makeExternalLink()", or you could add it in "getExternalLinkAttributes()"
On 12 Oct 2004, at 14:36, Brinkle, Jason wrote:
- I can't get the <math> tags to display anything - they just display
the code I put in. I have tex packages on my system, but is there something I'm missing that needs to parse these tags correctly?
You need TeX packages on your server, but you also need texvc, which is included in one of the MediaWiki plugin directories as a source distribution. It didn't compile cleanly for me (at Dreamhost - their server setup is a little weird sometimes), so I tried downloading this precompiled Linux/x86 binary: http://download.wikimedia.org/texvc-linux-x86-20040107.tar.gz ...uncompressed into the correct folder, it worked first time.
I can't remember where I came across it, but search around for 'texvc' and you'll find copious notes.
How to keep google out of the history copies of pages? (would adding noindex metatag work? how do i do that for non-current revisions of a page?)
All the spam gets indexed although the pages are reverted.
Selva.
Yes, I'm pretty sure Google respects at least robots.txt, and probably the meta tags as well.
See: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:01:08 +0000, selva@thescian.com selva@thescian.com wrote:
How to keep google out of the history copies of pages? (would adding noindex metatag work? how do i do that for non-current revisions of a page?)
All the spam gets indexed although the pages are reverted.
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On Oct 12, 2004, at 2:01 PM, selva@thescian.com wrote:
How to keep google out of the history copies of pages? (would adding noindex metatag work? how do i do that for non-current revisions of a page?)
It should, and it's already included.
All the spam gets indexed although the pages are reverted.
Can you clarify what exactly is being indexed? Note that google doesn't update instantly when your pages change; if it happened to last visit a page while it was vandalised, the google cache will contain the vandalised version until googlebot next visits.
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