[Mediawiki-l] Some questions

[Juho Heikkurinen]

M. Kiberu kirjoittaa keskiviikkona, 17. joulukuuta 2003, kello 20:01:

> Hello List,
>
> since you helped me so gratefully, some more questions.
> 1. How can I clean up the Database (MySQL).
>    Actually it's the History (visions).

Manually: Copy each page to your clipboard you want to lose the history 
for. Delete the page and Recreate it from the clipboard. This way 
everyone can see that you did that which might be perceived as nice or 
not-nice.

Automatically: Study the database structure carefully and craft the 
right SQL statements to make the modification you want to do. Please do 
tell people that you have modified something, so they know that the 
right policy is to not really trust anything the history says. If the 
install is public, archived copies may be used to detect this which 
will put you into a bad light for those that can access this detail 
level of information which in turn widens the so called "digital gap" 
between those who know that you are a crook, who guess you are a crook 
and those who have no clue.

or

You could use mysqldump -uusername -ppassword databasename > file.sql 
and edit that with emacs or whatever tool you have available

drop and create the database in MySQL

and

mysql -uusername -ppassword databasename < file.sql to import the 
modified data.


>
> 2. How can I change the second (standard) Title on every new Page
>    ("aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie").
>    ("from Wikipedia, the free Encyclopaedia" Eng.???)
>
Last time I checked it can be modified in Language.php which can be 
found in the subdirectory named languages

> 3. And do I really need to write or to copy the whole Help for 
> Mediawiki
>    (it was completely empty).
Depends on how friendly you want to be to wiki users

i hope this helps. sincerely Juxo

ps. If i have a "kick me, i'm stupid"-note on my back or something i'd 
really appreciate if you folks telling me about it. The same goes for 
if you perceive that i smell bad, though that is much more subjective 
and might amuse some people.