I have two questions and I do not know which list is the correct place for asking these types of questions. They are different enough that I assume they should be on different lists, but the explanations on the LIST pages is insufficient to determine the correct spot.
Our organization put up a WIKI using your software and I am trying to create and edit pages.
Here's my two questions:
User question, how do I go about linking to individual items in a glossary page? It appears I can only link to Header items, but I want to link to individual terms. Right now the page is set up as ==ABC==, ===DEF==, etc.. I want to be able to create a link that goes directly to the word in question and not an alphabetic section where the user has to search for the word. Is that possible?
Tech Question: The footers at the bottom of Wiki pages seem to force a case structure that is sentence style (first letter capitalized, balance of the word lower case). When an acronym is in there like, USA, CNN, NBC it capitalizes the first letter and forces the rest to ,lower case. Is there a way to force a word to remain in upper case?
If this is the wrong list, please direct me to the list for each question type.
Thanks,
Michael P. Deslippe
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." -- Martha Washington (1731 - 1802)
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
Hi!
2008/10/21 DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS MICHAEL.DESLIPPE@dfas.mil:
User question, how do I go about linking to individual items in a glossary page? It appears I can only link to Header items, but I want to link to individual terms. Right now the page is set up as ==ABC==, ===DEF==, etc.. I want to be able to create a link that goes directly to the word in question and not an alphabetic section where the user has to search for the word. Is that possible?
You can add anchors manually using HTML (unless that is forbidden in the configuration of your wiki, of course), e.g. <span id="loremlinkid">'''Lorem'''</span> ipsum dolor… You can link to those identically to linking to headers, e.g. [[#loremlinkid]], headers are special only in that they add those anchors automatically.
You might want to wrap this syntax into a template, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ref and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Note
Tech Question: The footers at the bottom of Wiki pages seem to force a case structure that is sentence style (first letter capitalized, balance of the word lower case). When an acronym is in there like, USA, CNN, NBC it capitalizes the first letter and forces the rest to ,lower case. Is there a way to force a word to remain in upper case?
Could you elaborate a bit? I have no idea what "footers at the bottom of Wiki pages" are you referring to.
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
I tried to upload an HTML email, but the server does not allow it. The "footer" problem I am having has to do, apparently, with "skinning". The manual stored here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Footer
says:
Note: The term FooBar will be used as a placeholder for the newly-created skin's name. (Notice the use of the uppercase FooBar and the lowercase foobar in different contexts.)
However, I am looking for true uppercase FOOBAR and it isn't available. What is forcing the Title Case of FooBar and how do I change it in the skin so I can get FOOBAR? Specifically, the data in the field "About" is what I am trying to change. By default, I am getting:
About Nato
When what I want is:
About NATO
---Mike
Michael P. Deslippe DCMA Customer Liaison - DFAS DCMA-AQCF ( (614) 693-5757 ( DSN: 869-5757 Fax: (216) 367-3357 * Michael.Deslippe@dfas.mil DCMA Customers, please comment on my support or services at: https://pubapp.dcma.mil/CustSat/main.jsp DCMA Employees comment on my support or services at: http://webapps.dcma.mil/dcmasurvey/
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." -- Martha Washington (1731 - 1802)
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Petr Kadlec Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:30 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking protocol
Hi!
2008/10/21 DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS MICHAEL.DESLIPPE@dfas.mil:
User question, how do I go about linking to individual items in a glossary page? It appears I can only link to Header items, but I want
to
link to individual terms. Right now the page is set up as ==ABC==, ===DEF==, etc.. I want to be able to create a link that goes directly
to
the word in question and not an alphabetic section where the user has
to
search for the word. Is that possible?
You can add anchors manually using HTML (unless that is forbidden in the configuration of your wiki, of course), e.g. <span id="loremlinkid">'''Lorem'''</span> ipsum dolor... You can link to those identically to linking to headers, e.g. [[#loremlinkid]], headers are special only in that they add those anchors automatically.
You might want to wrap this syntax into a template, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ref and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Note
Tech Question: The footers at the bottom of Wiki pages seem to force a case structure that is sentence style (first letter capitalized,
balance
of the word lower case). When an acronym is in there like, USA, CNN,
NBC
it capitalizes the first letter and forces the rest to ,lower case. Is there a way to force a word to remain in upper case?
Could you elaborate a bit? I have no idea what "footers at the bottom of Wiki pages" are you referring to.
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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In fact, to be real specific, the PHP language for the footer says:
[edit] Footer [iterative]
<div id="footer"> <?php if($this->data['poweredbyico']) { ?> <div id="f-poweredbyico"><?php $this->html('poweredbyico') ?></div> <?php } if($this->data['copyrightico']) { ?> <div id="f-copyrightico"><?php $this->html('copyrightico') ?></div> <?php }
// generate additional footer links ?> <ul id="f-list"> <?php $footerlinks = array( 'lastmod', 'viewcount', 'numberofwatchingusers', 'credits', 'copyright', 'privacy', 'about', 'disclaimer', 'tagline', ); foreach( $footerlinks as $aLink ) { if( isset( $this->data[$aLink] ) && $this->data[$aLink] ) { ?> <li id="<?php echo$aLink?>"><?php $this->html($aLink) ?></li> <?php } } ?> </ul> </div>
Now it appears an array named $footerlinks is created, then an iterative For/next loop is created which cycles through each array element. When it displays them, something in that loop is forcing the Title case instead of allowing all Capital letters. Can anyone tell me what must be changed to fix it?
---Mike
Michael P. Deslippe DCMA Customer Liaison - DFAS DCMA-AQCF ( (614) 693-5757 ( DSN: 869-5757 Fax: (216) 367-3357 * Michael.Deslippe@dfas.mil DCMA Customers, please comment on my support or services at: https://pubapp.dcma.mil/CustSat/main.jsp DCMA Employees comment on my support or services at: http://webapps.dcma.mil/dcmasurvey/
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." -- Martha Washington (1731 - 1802)
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:00 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking protocol
I tried to upload an HTML email, but the server does not allow it. The "footer" problem I am having has to do, apparently, with "skinning". The manual stored here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Footer
says:
Note: The term FooBar will be used as a placeholder for the newly-created skin's name. (Notice the use of the uppercase FooBar and the lowercase foobar in different contexts.)
However, I am looking for true uppercase FOOBAR and it isn't available. What is forcing the Title Case of FooBar and how do I change it in the skin so I can get FOOBAR? Specifically, the data in the field "About" is what I am trying to change. By default, I am getting:
About Nato
When what I want is:
About NATO
---Mike
Michael P. Deslippe DCMA Customer Liaison - DFAS DCMA-AQCF ( (614) 693-5757 ( DSN: 869-5757 Fax: (216) 367-3357 * Michael.Deslippe@dfas.mil DCMA Customers, please comment on my support or services at: https://pubapp.dcma.mil/CustSat/main.jsp DCMA Employees comment on my support or services at: http://webapps.dcma.mil/dcmasurvey/
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." -- Martha Washington (1731 - 1802)
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Petr Kadlec Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:30 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking protocol
Hi!
2008/10/21 DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS MICHAEL.DESLIPPE@dfas.mil:
User question, how do I go about linking to individual items in a glossary page? It appears I can only link to Header items, but I want
to
link to individual terms. Right now the page is set up as ==ABC==, ===DEF==, etc.. I want to be able to create a link that goes directly
to
the word in question and not an alphabetic section where the user has
to
search for the word. Is that possible?
You can add anchors manually using HTML (unless that is forbidden in the configuration of your wiki, of course), e.g. <span id="loremlinkid">'''Lorem'''</span> ipsum dolor... You can link to those identically to linking to headers, e.g. [[#loremlinkid]], headers are special only in that they add those anchors automatically.
You might want to wrap this syntax into a template, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ref and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Note
Tech Question: The footers at the bottom of Wiki pages seem to force a case structure that is sentence style (first letter capitalized,
balance
of the word lower case). When an acronym is in there like, USA, CNN,
NBC
it capitalizes the first letter and forces the rest to ,lower case. Is there a way to force a word to remain in upper case?
Could you elaborate a bit? I have no idea what "footers at the bottom of Wiki pages" are you referring to.
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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