On Tuesday 18 January 2011 19:21:19 Benjamin Lees wrote: No. Since it was created automatically I don't feel comfortable in messing with it. It doesn't feel as though it should be handled as any normal category. Do you know any reading about such automatically-created categories? Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

Might also try the MagicNoCache extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MagicNoCache). This extension creates a magic word (__NOCACHE__) that disables the cache for that page. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Lees Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:58 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] "Category: Noindexed pages" puzzle Purging doesn't cause any changes: it just forces the system to regenerate some things.[0] I think it's normal for categories to exhibit this "sticky" behavior, and the job queue might also be involved (but I might be misremembering and making the whole thing up). [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Purge

I have added:- $wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank'; And external links now open in a new tab as I wanted. Except for external link I have added in the "navigation" and "toolbox" sections. Can I correct this? Charlie MediaWiki v1.16.0, PHP v5.2.6 and MySQL v5.0.77 Apache v1.3.41

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of nakohdo Sent: 20 January 2011 08:47 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Please start a new threat for any new question! See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery_snippets#External_links_in_Sidebar_ in_new_window for a possible solution to your problem. hth Frank Don't understand this it was a new thread. Original e-mail below. Just as puzzling is that your post can through twice. Any way thanks for the suggestion. I've looked at it but I'm not clear as to how I implement it. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Markwick Sent: 19 January 2011 11:13 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: External Link Opening in New Tab or Window I have added:- $wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank'; And external links now open in a new tab as I wanted. Except for external link I have added in the "navigation" and "toolbox" sections. Can I correct this? Charlie MediaWiki v1.16.0, PHP v5.2.6 and MySQL v5.0.77 Apache v1.3.41

Well stop or else Charlie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve VanSlyck Sent: 20 January 2011 14:52 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window I always start my questions with threats. ;) ----- Original Message ----- _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Katharina Hmm That's what I've always done in the past and it worked fine. When did it change? It seems absolutely intuitive that changing the subject starts a new thread, it's a habit I use all the time with e-mail. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Katharina Wolkwitz Sent: 21 January 2011 07:00 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Hi, if you want to start a new thread in this mailing-list, you have to post a new mail. If you answer an existing mail and just change the subject, that won't start a new thread, but continue the old thread with a new subject. Greetings Katharina Am 20.01.2011 15:14 schrieb Charlie Markwick: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Katharina Possibly. How would one know it was doing that unless one visited the archive? It comes through with the subject correct. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Katharina Wolkwitz Sent: 21 January 2011 07:25 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Hi Charlie, afaik it's dependent on the mailing-list concerned and perhaps the mediawiki-l-list is just a bit different than most others... ;-) Katharina

Outlook and exchange. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Katharina Wolkwitz Sent: 21 January 2011 08:53 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Hi Charlie, what kind of mail-client are you using? If you have the option of using a thread-view (e.g. in Thunderbird) you'll be able to see the difference. Katharina Am 21.01.2011 08:41 schrieb Charlie Markwick: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of nakohdo Sent: 20 January 2011 08:47 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Please start a new threat for any new question! See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery_snippets#External_links_in_Sidebar_ in_new_window for a possible solution to your problem. hth Frank Can anyone help me understand how to use the suggestion in this link. I'm not sure where to start.

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of nakohdo Sent: 21 January 2011 19:57 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Just put the following JavaScript code in your wiki's MediaWiki:Common.js page: // Anything in this function wrapper will be executed when the page is ready for action ( function( $ ) { $( document ).ready( function() { // Open external links in the sidebar in a new window $( '#mw-panel, #panel' ) // #panel is for pre-1.17 compatibility .find( 'li a' ) .filter( '[href^=http://], [href^=https://]' ) .attr( 'target' , '_blank' ); } ); } )( jQuery ); Thanks I'll try that. Charlie

From: Charlie Markwick Sent: 24 January 2011 15:04 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Just put the following JavaScript code in your wiki's MediaWiki:Common.js page: // Anything in this function wrapper will be executed when the page is ready for action ( function( $ ) { $( document ).ready( function() { // Open external links in the sidebar in a new window $( '#mw-panel, #panel' ) // #panel is for pre-1.17 compatibility .find( 'li a' ) .filter( '[href^=http://], [href^=https://]' ) .attr( 'target' , '_blank' ); } ); } )( jQuery ); ------------------------------- I've added it to MediaWiki:Common.js but it changes nothing. I have tried clearing the cache and also accessing the URL using another browser that hasn't accessed the wiki before. No difference. ------------------------------- Just noticed that there a a rogue line break in my e-mail below. My common.js reads:- /* Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load. */ // Anything in this function wrapper will be executed when the page is ready for action ( function( $ ) { $( document ).ready( function() { // Open external links in the sidebar in a new window $( '#mw-panel, #panel' ) // #panel is for pre-1.17 compatibility .find( 'li a' ) .filter( '[href^=http://], [href^=https://]' ) .attr( 'target' , '_blank' ); } ); } )( jQuery ); Charlie

Charlie Markwick wrote: Do you use the latest version of MediaWiki (at least 1.16)? "We have been shipping the jQuery JavaScript library with MediaWiki since the 1.16 release." http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/%22Category%3A-Noindexed-pages%22-puzzle-tp30698862p3… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Can anyone help with this? Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Markwick Sent: 28 January 2011 09:26 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Yes: MediaWiki v1.16.0, PHP v5.2.6 MySQL v5.0.77 and Apache v1.3.41 Charlie

Thanks Sam This setting forces external link on wiki pages to open in a new tab/window but doesn't have any effect on links in the sidebar. :>(€ Charlie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam.Sexton(a)thomsonreuters.com Sent: 01 February 2011 07:49 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Hi Charlie, Could this be the answer: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget ? /Sam -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Markwick Sent: 31 January 2011 22:20 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Can anyone help with this? Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Markwick Sent: 28 January 2011 09:26 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window Yes: MediaWiki v1.16.0, PHP v5.2.6 MySQL v5.0.77 and Apache v1.3.41 Charlie _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Thomson Reuters. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Charlie Markwick wrote: Please start a new threat for any new question! See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery_snippets#External_links_in_Sidebar_in_… for a possible solution to your problem. hth Frank -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/%22Category%3A-Noindexed-pages%22-puzzle-tp30698862p3… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.