Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home page? (Tim Ware) - MediaWiki-l

27 Nov 2006

      In response to Tim's email: Re: How to change "Main Page" displayed on 
home page? (Tim Ware)
I prefer to not change Monobook.js in case people want to use a different 
skin. So, I go to [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] to edit the left sidebar 
navigation.
For example, make sure to have two pages for your Main Page link on the 
left sidebar (first one is the URL, second is the display text):
mainpage|mainpage-text
Then make sure [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]] is the URL to the home page, e.g., 
Main Page AND [[MediaWiki:Mainpage-text]] is what you want to appear on 
your Main Page -- e.g., Welcome to My Wiki!
Karen
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1. no categories in keywords metatags (FxParlant)
   2. Re: no categories in keywords metatags (FxParlant)
   3. Re: lotus notes with mediawiki (aretai aretai)
   4. User editing permissions (Tim Ware)
   5. Re: User editing permissions (Swen Wacker)
   6. Changing Target Webpage After Clicking the Logo
      (wiki@avenarius.sk)
   7. How to change "Main Page" displayed on home page? (Tim Ware)
   8. Re: How to change "Main Page" displayed on home page? (Jan)
   9. Re: How to change "Main Page" displayed on home page? (Tim Ware)
  10. Re: How to change "Main Page" displayed on home page?
      (Frederik Dohr)
  11. Re: How to change "Main Page" displayed on home page?
      (tim@greenscourt.com)
  12. Re: How to change "Main Page" displayed on home page? (Tim Ware)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:04:53 +0100
From: FxParlant f-x.p@laposte.net
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] no categories in keywords metatags
To: mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org
Message-ID: ekc3da$j22$1@sea.gmane.org
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Hi,
I've noticed that only the title of my pages appears in the keyword
metadat of my pages. Is there some place to enable the addkeywords
function with category links ?
I'm running :
# MediaWiki: 1.8.2
# PHP: 5.2.0 (cgi)
# MySQL: 4.0.27
# Extensions:
* Special pages:
          o NewestPagesBlog
    * Parser hooks:
          o CharInsert,
          o DynamicPageList2 (version 0.7.7),
          o ParserFunctions by Tim Starling
          o Semantic MediaWiki (version 0.5),
I've noticed that the same thing happens on meta.wikimedia.org (running
1.9 alpha): the title is displayed in the metatags keywords list.
Maybe an extension breaks this feature.
Thanks for any advice.
Fran?ois
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:08:07 +0100
From: FxParlant f-x.p@laposte.net
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] no categories in keywords metatags
To: mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org
Message-ID: ekc3jd$j22$2@sea.gmane.org
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On meta.wikimedia.org, it is thus only on category pages. Excuse for
misdirecting.
Fran?ois
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:31:26 +0000
From: "aretai aretai" aretaiuc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] lotus notes with mediawiki
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
                 mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org
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 5783abc70611260731o48991613m157f4577cefe53ad@mail.gmail.com
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Thank you that really helped. Danke sehr;)
On 11/26/06, Gunter News2006@freenet.de wrote:
...
Add this to your localsettings.php, delete the protocols you do not
like.
...
/**

The external URL protocols

*/
$wgUrlProtocols = array(
   'http://',
   'https://',
   'notes://',
   'file://',
   'ftp://',
   'irc://',
   'gopher://',
   'telnet://', // Well if we're going to support the above.. -?var
   'nntp://', // @bug 3808 RFC 1738
   'worldwind://',
   'mailto:',
   'news:'
);
aretai aretai schrieb:
...
I'd also like to extend the basic MediaWiki "linking capabilities"
with
...
...
notes:// links - i.e. users should be able to link to databases from
wiki
...
either by handtyping new link or using new button from toolbar.

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:04:46 -0800
From: Tim Ware tim@hyperarts.com
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] User editing permissions
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
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Where can I set the editing permissions? I want only registered users 
to be able to edit anything in the wiki. Thanks.
Tim
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:14:54 +0100
From: Swen Wacker swen.wacker@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] User editing permissions
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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Tim Ware schrieb:
...
Where can I set the editing permissions? I want only registered users 
to be able to edit anything in the wiki. Thanks.
Have a look at include/Defaultsetting.php 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Defaultsettings.php, specially 
$wgGroupPermissions 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgGroupPermissions. Copy it in 
your localsetting.php
At the end you'll have something like this:
$wgGroupPermissions ['*']    ['edit'] = false; 
$wgGroupPermissions ['user'] ['edit'] = true;
Swen
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:17:36 +0100
From: wiki@avenarius.sk
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Changing Target Webpage After Clicking the Logo
To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org
Message-ID: 1878719214.20061126191736@avenarius.sk
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Hello,
could please someone remind me how we can change the page
that gets displayed after visitors click the wiki logo
in the top-left corner of pages?
The default target is Main Page. We'd like to specify our overall
homepage instead.
We have just switched from Classic skin to MonoBook as our default.
I used to know how to achieve what I need to do now:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-August/014136.html
but I can't remember right now what I seemed to know back on 6 August 
2006.
Searching via MediaWiki FAQ or Google brought no results.
Thank you very much for your help.
-- 
Yours,
Alex.
[processed by "The Bat!", Version 3.80.06]
(MediaWiki: 1.6.8 / PHP: 4.4.1 [cgi] / MySQL: 4.1.19-standard)
http://wiki.vdp.sk

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:02:11 -0800
From: Tim Ware tim@hyperarts.com
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home
                 page?
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How can I change the "Main Page" text that's displayed at the top of 
the home page? I don't want to change the URL, just the name that's 
displayed. Thanks!

Tim

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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:30:43 +0100
From: Jan 2036@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home
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Just change this page in your wiki:
MediaWiki:Mainpage
[[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]

Regards,
Jan

Tim Ware schrieb:
> How can I change the "Main Page" text that's displayed at the top of 
> the home page? I don't want to change the URL, just the name that's 
> displayed. Thanks!
> 
> Tim
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:42:31 -0800
From: Tim Ware tim@hyperarts.com
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home
                 page?
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
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 > Just change this page in your wiki:
 > MediaWiki:Mainpage
 > [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
 >

If I go to:

MediaWiki:Mainpage

and click "edit", I just see

Main Page

If I change that text, then the system wants to look for a page with 
the next text as the main page.

Please remember, I don't want to change the URL of the main page, 
just the displayed text "Main Page".

Tim

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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:50:18 +0100
From: Frederik Dohr fdg001@gmx.net
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home
                 page?
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                 mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org
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How about inserting a REDIRECT leading to the page with the desired title?
(Disclaimer: I'm a MediaWiki newbie myself, so this might be a stupid 
suggestion... )

-- Frederik

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Ware
Date: 2006-11-26 20:42
>  > Just change this page in your wiki:
>  > MediaWiki:Mainpage
>  > [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
>  >
>
> If I go to:
>
> MediaWiki:Mainpage
>
> and click "edit", I just see
>
> Main Page
>
> If I change that text, then the system wants to look for a page with 
> the next text as the main page.
>
> Please remember, I don't want to change the URL of the main page, 
> just the displayed text "Main Page".
>
> Tim
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:51:30 -0700
From: tim@greenscourt.com
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home
                 page?
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Another option is to disable the display of the "Main Page" header on
the Main Page only. That should allow you to place any other heading on
the page that you like, without actually changing the name of the page.
To do this, edit the page MediaWiki:Monobook.js and add the following
text:

if (isMainPage && !isDiff) 
{
document.write('<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/ #lastmod, #siteSub,
#contentSub, h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; }
/*]]>*/</style>'); }

Tim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home
> page?
> From: Tim Ware tim@hyperarts.com
> Date: Sun, November 26, 2006 1:42 pm
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
> mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> 
> > Just change this page in your wiki:
>  > MediaWiki:Mainpage
>  > [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
>  >
> 
> If I go to:
> 
> MediaWiki:Mainpage
> 
> and click "edit", I just see
> 
> Main Page
> 
> If I change that text, then the system wants to look for a page with 
> the next text as the main page.
> 
> Please remember, I don't want to change the URL of the main page, 
> just the displayed text "Main Page".
> 
> Tim
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:09:24 -0800
From: Tim Ware tim@hyperarts.com
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change "Main Page" displayed on home
                 page?
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
                 mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org
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Thanks. This is probably the correct approach. But how do we escape 
the curly brackets? After I edited Monobook.js to include this code 
and the loaded the home page and did a "view source", it showed that 
the script's document.write ends after the ending curly bracket on 
the style.

Tim

> Another option is to disable the display of the "Main Page" header on
> the Main Page only. That should allow you to place any other 
> heading on
> the page that you like, without actually changing the name of the 
> page.
> To do this, edit the page MediaWiki:Monobook.js and add the following
> text:
>
>
> if (isMainPage && !isDiff)
> {
> document.write('<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/ #lastmod, 
> #siteSub,
> #contentSub, h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; }
> /*]]>*/</style>'); }

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