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2012-11-26 Thread Mikko Lehtinen
Hello Mediawiki people, I noticed that the line length is very long on PDF ebooks generated out of Wikipedia articles. It slows down reading. The Wikipedia people suggested that I report the issue on this list. Research has shown that the perfect line length for printed texts is about 66

[MediaWiki-l] please stop this

2012-11-26 Thread chembio...@yahoo.com
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[MediaWiki-l] Extensions to include in the 1.21 tarball/installer

2012-11-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
TL;DR: Please add feedback to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated Since MediaWiki 1.20 has been released, a discussion (opened by hexmode) is ongoing on how to make our release notes better so that users understand what improvements there are and why

[MediaWiki-l] please stop this (2)

2012-11-26 Thread chembio...@yahoo.com
also it appears here: nabble.com and whoever knows where else... please delete all instances of my email in web thanks ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extensions to include in the 1.21 tarball/installer

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 26/11/12 13:17, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: TL;DR: Please add feedback to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated That's an old page. Probably better to open a new one / archive its contents and start nominating extensions from scratch.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] wiki syntax - man page extension todo-list extension

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
That's cool. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Math extension

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 21/11/12 19:32, Ivan Sarvak wrote: Hey. How do i get the Math extension to work? It worked on my old wiki. It is now provided as a separate extension. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

[MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki reference book: Working with MediaWiki

2012-11-26 Thread Yaron Koren
Hi everyone, I'm very excited to announce the release of my new book, Working with MediaWiki. It's a general reference guide to MediaWiki, that's meant for anyone who runs, or is thinking of running, a MediaWiki installation. Its 23 chapters cover everything from MediaWiki syntax, to categories

Re: [MediaWiki-l] please stop this (2)

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 26/11/12 12:57, chembio...@yahoo.com wrote: also it appears here: nabble.com and whoever knows where else... please delete all instances of my email in web thanks You are writing to a mailing list with thousands of subscribers. It is publicly archived. If you do not want your email

Re: [MediaWiki-l] how to get the number of occurences in a string

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 23/11/12 16:44, Marcelo Chiaradía wrote: Hello everyone, I've been lookng the parserFunctions extension, and other extension that provide parser funtions over strings. I a way to get the number of occurrences of a character in a string. Is there any funtion for this that I missed? Not

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki reference book: Working with MediaWiki

2012-11-26 Thread Yury Katkov
Great news! Is the book on MW programming in your plans, Yaron? - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Yaron Koren ya...@wikiworks.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm very excited to announce the release of my new book, Working with MediaWiki. It's a general reference guide to

Re: [MediaWiki-l] how to get the number of occurences in a string

2012-11-26 Thread Yury Katkov
I think that it would be better to program that extension: just hire the developer, it's an hour or two of work. - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/11/12 16:44, Marcelo Chiaradía wrote: Hello everyone, I've been lookng

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki reference book: Working with MediaWiki

2012-11-26 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Op 26 nov. 2012 om 16:10 heeft Yaron Koren ya...@wikiworks.com het volgende geschreven: I'm very excited to announce the release of my new book, Working with MediaWiki. It's a general reference guide to MediaWiki Working with MediaWiki is available via print-on-demand, as an e-book, and as

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki reference book: Working with MediaWiki

2012-11-26 Thread Yaron Koren
Hi Yury, Thanks! I'll see what the demand is for any future books - whether on related topics, or subtopics, etc. I haven't really thought about it yet. But I'll count that as one vote for a development book. :) -Yaron Great news! Is the book on MW programming in your plans, Yaron? -

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extensions to include in the 1.21 tarball/installer

2012-11-26 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/26/2012 04:17 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Wikimedia projects use no less than 140 extension (most of them functioning) but the tarball ships only 7. A problem that many MediaWiki users have is that they don't understand how vital many extension are, at least for any wiki open to the

[MediaWiki-l] update from MW 1.19.1 to MW 1.20.0

2012-11-26 Thread Frédéric SOSSON
Hello, I have just ran php update.php to update MW from 1.19.1 to 1.20.0 and now I go Fatal exception of type MWException. How can I debug? Regards, Frederic ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [MediaWiki-l] update from MW 1.19.1 to MW 1.20.0

2012-11-26 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/26/2012 03:49 PM, Frédéric SOSSON wrote: I have just ran php update.php to update MW from 1.19.1 to 1.20.0 and now I go Fatal exception of type MWException. How can I debug? Is there any other output? You can try to get a backtrace by putting $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the

[MediaWiki-l] Adding text to the footer on all pages

2012-11-26 Thread Michael C Beuerlein
Hello, After extensively searching the internet, I have been unable to find out how to put a line of text above/below the usual links in the footer (Terms of Service, About, etc.). This would be a line of plain text visible on every page. Imagine it saying something like This wiki is for

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding text to the footer on all pages

2012-11-26 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/26/2012 08:08 PM, Michael C Beuerlein wrote: After extensively searching the internet, I have been unable to find out how to put a line of text above/below the usual links in the footer (Terms of Service, About, etc.). This would be a line of plain text visible on every page.