Hi Jim,
Exactly as what you said. The formating function simply doesn't work :( I typed ''Italic Text'' and I got the same character string, not italic font.
Thanks,
-- Xin
----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 9:32:51 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Formating does not work
Did I missed something like skin or extensions?
No, nothing like that - I'm just trying to find out what your setup is.
For reference, the formatting toolbar adds formatting characters, but doesn't format the text directly, per se.
So for example, if you write this:
Italic Text
And highlight it and hid the Italics button, you'll get this:
''Italic Text''
Those two apostrophes before and after the text indicate italics. They're the same as <i></i> in HTML.
Is this what you're talking about? (Sorry if I misinterpreted the question)
-- Jim
On 4/23/07, BAI Zeming baizeming@yahoo.com wrote:
I just downloaded the mediawiki-1.9.3.tar.gz and decompressed it in my local directory. Did I missed something like skin or extensions?
Thanks,
-- Ming
----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:11:16 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Formating does not work
Are you using MediaWiki out-of-the-box? or have you installed any extensions or skins?
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 4/23/07, BAI Zeming baizeming@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
Sorry if somebody else has posted this question. But the formating tool bar doesn't work for me. For example, ''Italic text'' would become ''Italic text'' after I press the save or preview button. Does anybody know this problem before?
Thanks,
-- Ming
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Yeah - MediaWiki uses its own markup language called wikitext. Here's a good place to get started learning it (if you're interested):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Most_frequent_wiki_markup_explaine...
There are other wiki systems that take a WYSIWYG approach to wiki editing - I can't really recommend one off the top of my head without knowing what you intend to do with your wiki.
Good luck!
-- Jim
On 4/23/07, BAI Zeming baizeming@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Jim,
Exactly as what you said. The formating function simply doesn't work :( I typed ''Italic Text'' and I got the same character string, not italic font.
Thanks,
-- Xin
----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 9:32:51 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Formating does not work
Did I missed something like skin or extensions?
No, nothing like that - I'm just trying to find out what your setup is.
For reference, the formatting toolbar adds formatting characters, but doesn't format the text directly, per se.
So for example, if you write this:
Italic Text
And highlight it and hid the Italics button, you'll get this:
''Italic Text''
Those two apostrophes before and after the text indicate italics. They're the same as <i></i> in HTML.
Is this what you're talking about? (Sorry if I misinterpreted the question)
-- Jim
On 4/23/07, BAI Zeming baizeming@yahoo.com wrote:
I just downloaded the mediawiki-1.9.3.tar.gz and decompressed it in my local directory. Did I missed something like skin or extensions?
Thanks,
-- Ming
----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:11:16 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Formating does not work
Are you using MediaWiki out-of-the-box? or have you installed any extensions or skins?
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 4/23/07, BAI Zeming baizeming@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
Sorry if somebody else has posted this question. But the formating
tool
bar doesn't work for me. For example, ''Italic text'' would become ''Italic text'' after I press the save or preview button. Does anybody know this problem before?
Thanks,
-- Ming
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Once I saw someone who used typographic quotes in wikitext, like ‘‘Italic text’’. Don't know if it was just his browser that was f*ed or if he did some funny thing like writing the text in Word and then copied to wiki. I would suggest:
1. check if this happens with other markup, like [[Main page]] 2. try a different browser
BAI Zeming wrote:
Hi Jim,
Exactly as what you said. The formating function simply doesn't work :( I typed ''Italic Text'' and I got the same character string, not italic font.
Thanks,
-- Xin
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