Regarding the "E-mail this user" feature: Currently it says:
"If this user has entered a valid e-mail address in his or her user
preferences, the form below will send a single message. (...)"
Is there any way for the sender to see if his email will actually be
delivered?
Would it make sense to log this as a feature request/bug?
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
www.ropersonline.com
Hi
Some browsers are not UNICODE compliant.
The consequence is that some users are breaking pages... and don't understant how/why.
I propose to implement a test on each update of article, and put a warning if the user's browser belongs to a regexp (browser black list) specified in the config file.
reactions ?
Best regards
Emmanuel Engelhart
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I noticed that mediawiki has the MySQL root account name hardcoded in,
even though many database installations use a different username as the
administrator as a bit of added security, or for convenience, or whatever.
I've created a simple patch that gives the installer an extra field for
'root username', defaulted to "root". It applies cleanly to versions >=
1.3.3
http://qartis.com/root_username.patch
- Andrew Fuller
(moving to wikitech-l)
Is this related to the recent file-type restrictions? Do we have
other code files in the database?
+sj+
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 02:40:07 +0000 (UTC), Matthew Wilson
<matt(a)overlook.homelinux.net> wrote:
> I'm working on a distributed operating systems textbook here:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ComputerScience:Distributed_Systems
>
> There's lots of example code samples in the text. The code samples are
> getting longer and longer, and I'd like to make them available for
> download, but I can't tell how. I tried the Special:Upload page, but I
> kept getting the message ".c is not a valid image type" or something
> similar.
>
> Any ideas? I posted this to the staff lounge last week but got no
> responses.
>
> Matt
>
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Sysop SQL Queries - what about them? They have been unavailable for over
half a year, but since a few weeks the page where they could be filled in is
there again. However, filling in a query does not give out the intended
result; it used to be the fund raising text with nothing else, now it is a
"The database is currently not available" (or something similar; I am
back-translating the Dutch text).
Are they supposed to be working, not working or working only part-time (and
in the latter case, what part of the time)? If not working, is the intention
to get them working again in the near future, some time or never? What is
the current situation regarding the attempts to avoid queries that take too
long?
Andre Engels
I've been wondering about an improvement to wikiTeX.
AFAIKS, there is no way, given the raw wiki code to locate an image
generated from a section of wikitext on the server.
This would seem to be desirable, so third parties who do an XML
export of wiki content can display the wikitex sections
At the moment I'm working on an experimental project (that will be
properly anounced soon) that uses javascript to parse wikitext and
generate the HTML on the client. Of course, I have no way to generate
images so being able to locate the already generated ones on the main
server is necessary.
On wikisophia.org's examples the math image is:
/extensions/wikitex/tmp/2d129aef84955396d6b7a75c141ea41a.gif
I think some kind of namespace for automatically generated images would be
helpful, for example:
/images/wikitex/Wikitex/math1.gif
(where Wikitex is the name of the article, and math1 indicates the first
use of math wikitext on that article)
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Jim
I need to add a new user type to my local wiki, in addition to the
existing sysop, developer etc. Can anyone point me to any resource which
suggests what needs to be changed?
In particular, I want a particular user type to only be able to access
a subset of special pages. MediaWiki already restricts normal users
from accessing some special pages but I want to restrict my new user
from accessing any of the specialpages and user pages except a few
special pages that I will specify. Is there any easy way to do this or
do I have to go through all the existing SpecialPages and check for
access rights?
Adi
>Hi ...
>I need this feature :
>When a user logins , some articles must be marked with a light yellow to
>view faster the last changes ...
TWO independent answers:
Solution and answer 1:
My "enotif" - email notification for changed pages and user_talk pages
- implements what you want as a positive side-effect - see
http://meta.wikipedia.com/Enotif for the whole documentation.
All watch-listed pages (User X has in his/her watchlist) with not-yet
visited(!) changes are visible marked with this green label. See middle
of page http://meta.wikipedia.com/Enotif .
I call it side-effect because not everyone wants to store his/her
email-address in the preferences; however, with this green marker
everyone can notice what pages have new contents since the last visit.
The marker signals, that an email notification was actually sent out to
the stored email address -- but the marker is shown in any case, no
matter if an address is stored or not.
Is this what you want ?
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Solution and answer 2:
First, please visit the Recent Changes view on the German wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Recentchanges .
There, we applied 2 months ago an NEW icon which clearly indicates any
NEW page with an icon .
A discussion was started on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Newpageletter to have this
also on the English WP (WE).
Intermediate positive result:
EVERYUSER can now edit his/her page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EVERYUSER/monobook.css with this line:
#newarticlemark {background-color:yellow;}
See my User-CSS page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nyxos/monobook.css
I think, we need to put this info onto the Meta (I will do, because I
started the discussion).
Tom
So, there are some language entries in the LanguageXX.php files that can
be set to a value to indicate "Don't show this". For example,
'disclaimers', 'currentevents', 'portal'.
The 'don't show this' value used to be '-'. At some point in the recent
past, this was changed to the empty string (""). The problem with using
the empty string is that it converts to a boolean FALSE value. So in
places where we check that _any_ string was returned, like this:
if (!$message) { do_something_else(); }
...a blank value is going to make us do_something_else().
It'd probably be good coding practise to make a clear distinction
between returning the empty string and returning NULL. However, that's a
lot of work, and it's not clear that that's a distinction that needs to
be made for any other reason.
So, I'm kinda unilaterally deciding that '-' means "don't show this". I
would put in code to allow "" to mean "don't show this", too, but since
the lower-level functions will never return an empty string, it'd be
untested code, which I don't want to leave in as a time bomb for later.
So: "-" now means "don't show this." I'm making changes to Skin.php,
SkinPHPTAL.php, and Language.php (just the documentation part) to
indicate that.
~ESP
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