Re: [MediaWiki-l] report new pages?

2014-03-06 Thread Bill Traynor
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Sigbert Klinke sigbert.kli...@web.de wrote: Hi, what about http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageCreationNotif ? Promises to send an e-mail on new page creation and you could filter the e-mails into a specific folder. Thanks. We're actually using that

[MediaWiki-l] Created subskin but changes to main page not visible

2014-03-06 Thread Alastair Sherringham
Hello, I have recently installed MediaWiki 1.22.3 and hope to use it to host some documentation. I like the Vector skin and have been using Common.css to add some local styling. All looks great so far and I am very impressed with Mediawiki. But I would really like to be able to add a banner (or

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Error message is new to me during FileUpload

2014-03-06 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:37 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@verizon.netwrote: Could not create directory mwstore://local-backend/local-public/5/55. This generally indicates the /images directory is not writable by the webserver. Somebody should fix

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Created subskin but changes to main page not visible

2014-03-06 Thread Bill Traynor
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Alastair Sherringham alast...@sherringham.net wrote: Hello, I have recently installed MediaWiki 1.22.3 and hope to use it to host some documentation. I like the Vector skin and have been using Common.css to add some local styling. All looks great so far and

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Created subskin but changes to main page not visible

2014-03-06 Thread Alastair Sherringham
Thanks Bill. That's very helpful. I've removed all the extra code I pasted and just stuck a test div at the end. This didn't work - get a blank page. But I noticed that the ?php at the top was unterminated. I terminated it and /then/ added my div - and this outputs! Daniel's tutorial does not

[MediaWiki-l] AUTO: Agata Correia is out of the office (returning 13/03/2014)

2014-03-06 Thread Agata . Correia
I am out of the office until 13/03/2014. Note: This is an automated response to your message Re: [MediaWiki-l] Error message is new to me during FileUpload sent on 06.03.2014 16:56:54. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Created subskin but changes to main page not visible

2014-03-06 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-03-06, 8:55 AM, Alastair Sherringham wrote: Daniel's tutorial does not terminate the ?php tags - I assume they get automatically terminated by EOF. Maybe they should be terminated explicitly in the tutorial. Yes, ? tags are not necessary at EOF. In fact the practice of adding ? before

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Created subskin but changes to main page not visible

2014-03-06 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-03-06, 7:20 AM, Alastair Sherringham wrote: But nothing I add or modify inside the execute function makes any difference to the page I see e.g. adding anything after : div id=mw-page-base class=noprint/div or anywhere else. I almost certainly have a fundamental misunderstanding

[MediaWiki-l] direct image import (was: (kein Betreff))

2014-03-06 Thread Uwe Baumbach
Hi, no idea how my message could fly away without subject... sorry! Message: 7 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:34:00 +0100 From: Bartosz DziewoƄski matma@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org There is an importImages.php maintenance

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Created subskin but changes to main page not visible

2014-03-06 Thread Alastair Sherringham
On 06/03/14 19:12, Daniel Friesen wrote: Add $template = 'ZedDocsTemplate' to the line with $skinname and $stylename. This will tell your skin implementation to use the template class you created instead of continuing to inherit the name of the template that SkinVector gives it. Thanks

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Created subskin but changes to main page not visible

2014-03-06 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-03-06, 12:01 PM, Alastair Sherringham wrote: On 06/03/14 19:12, Daniel Friesen wrote: Add $template = 'ZedDocsTemplate' to the line with $skinname and $stylename. This will tell your skin implementation to use the template class you created instead of continuing to inherit the name of

[MediaWiki-l] Just got bombed by spam bots

2014-03-06 Thread Yudi Wijaya
Dear all, My site ( www.indopancing.com/wiki ) just got bombed by spam bots since last week, i already implement re-captcha few days ago on user registration, but still not help. Then, i try protect all access from spam bots: ---cut--- $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Just got bombed by spam bots

2014-03-06 Thread George Barnick
BlockAndNuke will likely be very useful to you. I don't think a fresh MediaWiki installation would be ideal, since it would allow for spambots to rejoin and spam using the same usernames and IP addresses as you have already blocked. It would just create more work. One solution I can tell you from

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Just got bombed by spam bots

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Tharp
Hi all My site had the same problem. The best answer I ever found was the ConfirmEdit extension combined with dynamic questions. See here: http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/ It has effectively wiped out spam on my site (a very, very large site). I was

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Just got bombed by spam bots

2014-03-06 Thread Nathan Larson
BlockandNuke looks pretty good, except that I don't like the idea of deleting stuff completely from the database. Therefore, I might create a fork of that or of BlockBatchhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockBatchto revert rather than nuke changes. I've started a page to brainstorm