I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way...
I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page?
Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
On 5/13/05, FxParlant f-x.p@laposte.net wrote:
Hello; There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F
It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this the title of your special page will have < and > around. I
haven't
got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it
works
That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page.
I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Bart Q. Simon wrote:
I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way...
I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page?
No such thing could possibly exist, because MediaWiki does not contain any capability to 'create' special pages by editing wiki pages. Special pages are code modules, defined by hook functions in the code. (Most of the built-ins are defined in SpecialPage.php; extensions can add their special pages from the extension initialization function.)
You might be thinking of the ability to customize the user interface strings; go to Special:Allmessages for a complete list of editable messages.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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