On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:47:58 -0400, Bernardo Carvalho bcarvalho@gmail.com wrote:

I have just installed Mediawiki and finished configuring it, and there are two annoying issues I cannot seem to solve. If these questions have been answered before, sorry, I could not find the list archives!

NP, but for future ref, the list archives are at http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ The easiest way to search them is to add "site:mail.wikimedia.org" to your query in Google (or some other search engine that supports restricting results to a domain in this way).

1. Is there anyway to automatically convert a single linebreak into a

<br> in the editing box?

There isn't a way built into the software, and there are reasons why it's not as simple as it seems. A look through the list archives (in my case cheating and using the fact that they're all in one GMail "label") turned up a thread from October: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-October/#1953

2. How can I put that little blue wikipedia Icon that indicates that

a link is external? Cant seem to find that setting anywhere.

Hm, funny - I'd have assumed that was on by default. I remember there being problems with certain browser/language combinations (right-to-left scripts, for instance), but... Anyway, it's done through CSS - I think it's these lines in main.css:

#bodyContent a[href ^="http://"], #bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] { background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; } [and so on for other protocols, with their different icons]

Are you sure the browser you're testing your site in *does* display these icons when you look at Wikipedia? If so, I'm stumped, because this seems to be part of the basic code in both 1.3 and 1.4 - maybe someone who's spent more time hacking the skins can shed some light on this. Might be an idea to mention what version you're running, and any configurations you've changed that you think might affect this.