Hello.
Im the admin of a newish (by definition) mediawiki.org wiki. and have a few queries about which settings etc i should be using.
i am very familiar with web design / programming etc (not a newbie), however when looking over your mailing lists for this type of wiki, I am confused.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
also - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview
im finding mailing lists of requesting funds, setting up new local groups, competitions, education progarmmes, committees, media etc & all these other "administration" type lists.
Can anyone advise which list i should be joining on "how to" do, or "how to find" etc type queries. for people who are new to running a wikimedia wiki and want to set up the wiki correctly.
Thank you
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:49 AM, gordonisnz@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
Im the admin of a newish (by definition) mediawiki.org wiki. and have a few queries about which settings etc i should be using.
i am very familiar with web design / programming etc (not a newbie), however when looking over your mailing lists for this type of wiki, I am confused.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
also - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview
im finding mailing lists of requesting funds, setting up new local groups, competitions, education progarmmes, committees, media etc & all these other "administration" type lists.
Can anyone advise which list i should be joining on "how to" do, or "how to find" etc type queries. for people who are new to running a wikimedia wiki and want to set up the wiki correctly.
Thank you
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Gordon.
It sounds like you would like the MediaWiki-l mailing list. MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia and many similar projects. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
---- James Hare Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:23 AM James Hare jhare@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:49 AM, gordonisnz@gmail.com wrote:
It sounds like you would like the MediaWiki-l mailing list. MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia and many similar projects. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Thats this list :) the one i posted to.
My main initial queries is/are
a) I occasionally check my wiki & see there are dozens / hundreds of people signing up as users - but no one is creating any pages.
is there a place i can see that can check that people CAN create pages - but they are pending / needing approval to be published ? i'm guessing that people create new accounts but cant do anything. how do i check ?
b) is there something i can do to force the wiki to send an email to the admin (me) - to check that i am receiving emails. (I periodically forget about this wiki as i'm not getting anything).
c) where do i (if i can) edit the script to use my own mailing process instead of the default process to send emails.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:12 PM gordonisnz@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:23 AM James Hare jhare@wikimedia.org wrote:
It sounds like you would like the MediaWiki-l mailing list. MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia and many similar projects. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Thats this list :) the one i posted to.
Briefly: This list is https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l you want https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
(The confusion is legendary. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipmediawiki for details. :)
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org