... endless:
When copying and pasting from
MediaWiki.org, the leading bullets come
across as asterisks, so these lines below that start with a single *
(asterisks) SHOULD be bullets or blanks when shown in plain text (hmm,
"bullets or blanks" - hahahah), such as on these mediawiki-l plain text
postings here, sorry! The only real problem with the display of the
cut-and-paste quoted page displayed as plain text here in mediawiki-l is
in editing the contents of then MediaWiki:sidebar where 2 asterisks are
intended, but the leading 3rd asterisk is inappropriate, otherwise:
===== open quote with * errors =====
... this raw URL that works on it's own, but not when inserted into the
sidebar:
*
http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=
&namespace=1
...
4. Paste the long complex link of the intended target page
into the contents of the new page, such as the one line in our sample:
*
http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=
&namespace=1
...
7. Edit the Mediawiki:sidebar page, adding a new line at the
bottom that reads:
* ** new-link-page-name|description
...
Caveats: This seems to require the long URL, such as:
*
http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=
&namespace=1
... but we cannot yet figure out how to make shorter, relative
links, such as:
* index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=1
* Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=1
...
===== close quote with * errors =====
Now, this SHOULD be displayed in plain text THIS way:
===== open quote with errors "repaired" =====
... this raw URL that works on it's own, but not when inserted into the
sidebar:
http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=
&namespace=1
...
4. Paste the long complex link of the intended target page
into the contents of the new page, such as the one line in our sample:
http://www.our-mediwiki-
...
7. Edit the Mediawiki:sidebar page, adding a new line at the
bottom that reads:
** new-link-page-name|description
[yes, the remaining 2 asterisks SHOULD be in the MediaWiki:Sidebar page
contents!]
...
Caveats: This seems to require the long URL, such as:
http://www.our-mediwiki-url.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=
&namespace=1
... but we cannot yet figure out how to make shorter, relative
links, such as:
index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=1
Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=1
===== close quote with errors "repaired" =====
Thanks for your patience!
-- Peter Blaise