[MediaWiki-l] Short URLs with Apache on Sabayon Linux

2015-08-24 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'm running Sabayon Linux (64-bit, up to date with all updates -- it's a rolling release system to version numbers are irrelevant) and while I managed to install MW 1.25.2 on it successfully I cannot seem to shorten URLs properly. My MediaWiki base directory (i.e., the one with index.php,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Short URLs with Apache on Sabayon Linux

2015-08-24 Thread Brenton Horne
killed apache. Most of the ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED related SO answers seem related to Apache or a VirtualHost not listening on an IP or the order of Allow/Deny entries denying access. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On 2015-08-24 2:20 PM, Brenton Horne

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Short URLs with Apache on Sabayon Linux

2015-08-24 Thread Brenton Horne
-24 2:53 PM, Brenton Horne wrote: Here's my error_log file for Apache2: [Tue Aug 25 07:39:31 2015] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wiki [Tue Aug 25 07:39:36 2015] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/w/index.php/SageMath

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Short URLs with Apache on Sabayon Linux

2015-08-24 Thread Brenton Horne
-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On 2015-08-24 3:26 PM, Brenton Horne wrote: Here's my httpd.conf file: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=rmP7jbYL On 25 August 2015 at 08:19, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Ok, it's getting requests. But the RewriteEngine rule isn't

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Short URLs with Apache on Sabayon Linux

2015-08-24 Thread Brenton Horne
I'll be damned it worked. I added: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L] to default_vhost.include between the Directory tags and now my short URL works. Thanks a million, mate! On 25 August 2015 at 08:52, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote

[MediaWiki-l] Issues starting the httpd.service daemon on Manjaro Linux

2015-08-18 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've been following the following two guides on how to install MediaWiki on Arch Linux (which is so similar to Manjaro that I'd expect these instructions to be applicable to Manjaro too): 1. MediaWiki - ArchWiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MediaWiki 2. Running MediaWiki on

[MediaWiki-l] How to check whether a variable is a date or not

2015-07-21 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'm creating my own custom version of Wikimedia Common's Information template https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information for my local wiki. My local wiki uses D M dates (where `M` is month name). The issue is that I commonly copy files across from commons to my wiki via

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Free MediaWIki hosting sites

2015-07-14 Thread Brenton Horne
Thanks Frodo, these sites are the best I've come across so far but do any of them allow shell access? See I have a local wiki I would like to transfer to this online Wiki, via running `php maintenance/importDump.php` on the XML dump of my local wiki. I have tried importing via Special:Import but

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Free MediaWIki hosting sites

2015-07-14 Thread Brenton Horne
Thanks, Arcane, while I've got your attention I wouldn't suppose you could tell me how's it's going with my GitHub extension feature request ( https://meta.orain.org/wiki/Request_features#Atom_Wiki_.28Status:_Partially_done.29). It's not a particularly tricky extension, unlike that Jmol extension

[MediaWiki-l] CharInsert extension

2015-07-13 Thread Brenton Horne
HI, I just asked a question about extending the functionality of the CharInsert extension at StackOverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31376229/how-do-i-modify-the-mediawiki-charinsert-extension-to-enable-the-insertion-of-wi), if anyone in this mailing list is interested. I think I may

[MediaWiki-l] Displaying hierarchies in Infoboxes

2015-07-05 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I have been working on a Wiki (MediaWiki-based, ofc) on the topic of Linux related topics (e.g., software that can be run on Linux machines and other operating systems) on my Ubuntu machine for some time. I have Lua-based infoboxes (including Infobox OS

[MediaWiki-l] Free MediaWIki hosting sites

2015-06-30 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I would like to ask if anyone knows of a free MediaWiki hosting site that gives one complete control over one's Wiki. I know of Orain Wiki, ShoutWiki and Wikia but they all give fairly limited over the MediaWiki software itself. Basically the website I'm looking for is one that provides a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Free MediaWIki hosting sites

2015-06-30 Thread Brenton Horne
I hadn't but I have now, thanks. But from what I've gathered so far it is similar to Orain Wiki (e.g., you have to request extra extensions or other features), except its MW version is the latest stable version (I think it's 1.23.1), its default extensions are different, and there are some paid

[MediaWiki-l] Building advanced wiki searches.

2015-06-29 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I would like to allow advanced searches on my Local Wikis (MySQL databases: HMWiki, Linux_Wiki) and I was wondering which MediaWiki extensions will allow me to do this. Now I realize what I'm saying so far is casting my net a bit wide so odds are many of you won't know what to recommend

[MediaWiki-l] Math extension

2015-05-06 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I would like to be able to render chemical reactions properly (e.g., the way that \ce does in MathJax [an example of successful rendering using this package may be found here http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/5338/876], I have tried this on my local MW installation if you're wondering

[MediaWiki-l] Updating WikiEditor; consequent loss of WikiEditor and Edittools gadget

2015-04-16 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I ran |git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikiEditor.git| and removed the contents of the existing folder //localhost/extensions/WikiEditor/ in my local Wiki installation replacing it with the contents of the Github download. I noticed WikiEditor quit working

[MediaWiki-l] Thumbnail error

2015-04-14 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi I have been receiving the error: Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination For a PNG image I recently uploaded to my local Wiki, even after I upload smaller versions of the file (out of concerns that the image's size might be the problem). These are my current

[MediaWiki-l] Math extension, errors that may be Windows-related

2015-04-10 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I have a local Wiki that I have been trying to install the Math extension on. In LocalSettings.php I have the following lines for the extension: require_once(extensions/Math/math.php); $wgUseTeX = true; $wgTexvc = /extensions/Math/math/texvc.exe; texvc was installed via following

[MediaWiki-l] Images in Lua infobox

2015-03-18 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I have an infobox (created using XML exporting Wikipedia's Lua-based infobox [template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox?action=raw, module https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Infobox?action=raw]) with the following image-related field contents: |image1

[MediaWiki-l] How do I install curl on Windows 7 such that elastic search can then be installed?

2015-03-10 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I have been trying to install CirrusSearch on my local wiki and to do so I understand I need to install elastic search (which requires curl I believe). I downloaded the zip file containing the .exe file for Curl on 64 bit Windows (i.e.,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Setting collapsed content (contained in divs) to match the width of the cell it is in

2015-03-07 Thread Brenton Horne
Nope that didn't work, gave this output: http://i.imgur.com/rhmOhPe.png. On 6/03/2015 10:50 AM, Ricordisamoa wrote: Il 04/03/2015 08:32, Brenton Horne ha scritto: Hi, I used to include something like: |{{{!}} class = mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable|| || ! {{{content name

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Magic word media:

2015-03-06 Thread Brenton Horne
directly to the full-size Foo.png file, while a link [[File:Foo.png]] will embed the image and link to the file information page. It should work as it's built-in to MediaWiki core... what are you seeing happen instead of the expected links? -- brion On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Brenton Horne

Re: [MediaWiki-l] QuickLink extension not working with MediaWiki 1.24.1

2015-03-05 Thread Brenton Horne
Thanks, but it doesn't seem to be compatible with WikEd because when it is active it doesn't load, whereas when I disable it, it appears to work perfectly. Any ideas of how to overcome this problem? On 5/03/2015 7:50 PM, Arcane 21 wrote: The autocomplete script works far, far better, and can

[MediaWiki-l] Make an account set as a bot

2015-03-05 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've got an account called MyFirstBot on my local wiki that is a bot and I'd like to know how to set it as a bot account. I created the account via my web browser so it is set, by default as a user account. Thanks for your time, Brenton ___

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Make an account set as a bot

2015-03-05 Thread Brenton Horne
And how do I do this? On 6/03/2015 3:57 PM, Arcane 21 wrote: assign that account the bot user right. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] QuickLink extension not working with MediaWiki 1.24.1

2015-03-05 Thread Brenton Horne
I would if I knew how to; I am fairly illiterate when it comes to JavaScript. On 5/03/2015 11:48 PM, Arcane 21 wrote: I believe WikiEd has similar functionality that conflicts if certain features of WikEd are enabled. Try experimenting to find out what exactly might be the issue. Date:

[MediaWiki-l] QuickLink extension not working with MediaWiki 1.24.1

2015-03-04 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, Extension:QuickLink (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuickLink) isn't working on MediaWiki 1.24.1 for me. When I type [[ brackets no link suggestions appear (in fact I don't see any evidence of it being installed besides its appearance on Special:Version, even though I

[MediaWiki-l] Setting collapsed content (contained in divs) to match the width of the cell it is in

2015-03-03 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I used to include something like: |{{{!}} class = mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable|| || ! {{{content name|}}} || ||{{!}}- || ||{{!}} {{{content|}}} || ||{{!}}}| || in infoboxes where content is too large to include the normal way but this used to cause parsing

[MediaWiki-l] Lua help

2015-03-02 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I have noticed that when I ask Lua templating-related questions here I get little, if any replies so I was wondering if someone knows somewhere I can ask these questions and get fast (within a day) and helpful answers. Thanks for your time, Brenton

[MediaWiki-l] CSS styles for Wikimedia Commons Template:Information

2015-02-25 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I added this: | | |/* Styling the parameter fields in [[Template:Information]] and related templates||| ||| also here (besides on [[MediaWiki:Filepage.css]]) to ensure proper preview||| ||| on other pages than those in the file namespace */||| |||.fileinfo-paramfield

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

2015-02-25 Thread Brenton Horne
No I didn't, I just ran it and now it's working perfectly, thanks. On 26/02/2015 6:45 AM, John wrote: did you run update.php ? On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I downloaded the MediaWiki Language Extension bundle

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

2015-02-25 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I downloaded the MediaWiki Language Extension bundle, MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.01.tar.bz2, extracted its contents (in the internal /extensions directory) and copy-pasted the subfolders within the extensions folder to my MediaWiki installation's extensions folder. Then I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SideBarMenu extension

2015-02-24 Thread Brenton Horne
OK I did that, and received the same error when I loaded a page on my MediaWiki installation. On 24/02/2015 6:53 PM, Stephan Gambke wrote: On 23 February 2015 at 17:54, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: 4. I then downloaded the zip file for ParamProcessor here https

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding Special:PrefixIndex/FULLPAGENAME to tools section of sidebar

2015-02-24 Thread Brenton Horne
This worked perfectly, thanks! Problem solved. On 25/02/2015 12:34 AM, Hydriz Scholz wrote: This is the code that I use to add the link to the toolbox: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-tb', mw.util.getUrl('Special:Prefixindex/' + mw.config.get('wgPageName')), 'Subpages', 'tb-prefixindex');

[MediaWiki-l] Automated downloading all files in a set category or article on a Wikimedia project or Wikia site

2015-02-24 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I suspect this question will not have as elegant an answer as I'd like but I was wondering if anyone in this mailing lists knows an easy (like easy enough for someone with as little programming understand as myself) automated way of downloading all the files in a category or an article

[MediaWiki-l] SideBarMenu extension

2015-02-23 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've tried to install the SideBarMenu extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SideBarMenu). This is how I went about it (note the software/extension links are all download link so if you open them in your browser be prepared to download them): 1. I installed composer by

[MediaWiki-l] Extensions/Gadgets that assist in template field-filling

2015-02-21 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I know that on Wikia sites there's a tool available when editing in the Visual Editor that allows one to choose from all the templates on the Wikia site, and when one selects the template one wishes to use it loads the fields for said template and allows one to edit them all in this pop-up

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extensions/Gadgets that assist in template field-filling

2015-02-21 Thread Brenton Horne
Sounds like it. Any idea when you could manage it? On 22/02/2015 1:01 AM, Ricordisamoa wrote: You mean integrating WikiEditor with TemplateData https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateData, don't you? I have been planning to write some JavaScript for the purpose for a few years...

[MediaWiki-l] Citation templates ISO dates

2015-02-19 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've got a great dislike for ISO dates but I've copied the citation templates of Wikipedia and their Lua modules which allow ISO dates and leave them as is in the final rendering of the template. So I would like to know if there is any way I can edit them such that they automatically

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Correcting errors

2015-02-18 Thread Brenton Horne
You know it would make things a LOT easier if we could access your wiki. OK, ngrok is running again, so the tunnel should be open for you to view. I figured out the problem on the Upload:Chemistry page, it was that |addOnloadHook| was a deprecated JavaScript function that was succeeded by

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Correcting errors

2015-02-18 Thread Brenton Horne
OK, I did that and opened up developer tools but all the info I was given was what I was given before I added this to the URL. Was I supposed to do something else besides opening developer tools in Chrome after I loaded this new page? On 18/02/2015 10:19 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: …the

[MediaWiki-l] Correcting errors

2015-02-17 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I went to Upload:Chemistry on my Wiki and opened up the chrome developer tools and I noticed one error I was hoping to know how to correct. Here is a screenshot showing this error: http://i.imgur.com/b5mPOmQ.png. I have opened up the debugger looking for the errors mentioned but I can't

[MediaWiki-l] Marvin Extension

2015-02-17 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'm trying to create a new extension that enables the embedding of MarvinSketch Java applets (I have a marvin.js file, along with several .jar files that came with one of their free downloads. http://dl.chemaxon.com/marvin/15.2.9.0/marvin-all-15.2.9.0.zip is what I downloaded and extracted)

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Lua-based infoboxes

2015-02-16 Thread Brenton Horne
please do tell me. On 17/02/2015 3:11 PM, Brenton Horne wrote: Hi John OK so for you to see the infobox what do I need to do? Btw where can I find a list of these errors as I'd like to try and fix 'em if I can. Thanks for your time, Brenton On 17/02/2015 1:26 AM, John wrote: Without being able

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Lua-based infoboxes

2015-02-16 Thread Brenton Horne
possible causes including mss-configured parameters, invalid syntax and a bunch more On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any solutions to these errors? On 17 February 2015 at 00:20, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: Went to take a look

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Lua-based infoboxes

2015-02-16 Thread Brenton Horne
Do you have any solutions to these errors? On 17 February 2015 at 00:20, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: Went to take a look and your site is throwing 502 errors On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Just attempted that export/import

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Email confirmation

2015-02-09 Thread Brenton Horne
I figured I needed to configure the server I just don't know how. That's why I'm asking. I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff. On 10 February 2015 at 13:47, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: You need to configure your outbound mail server. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Brenton Horne

[MediaWiki-l] Interwiki linking

2015-02-08 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've heard of the interwiki linking table and suffice it to say that the MediaWiki article on this ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki_table) wasn't exactly helpful to me as a guide as to how to set them up. I would like someone to boil it down into a group of simple steps for

[MediaWiki-l] Collapsing parts of the sidebar in vector skin

2015-02-07 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'd like to know how I can collapse sections in the vector sidebar like they have on SklogWiki (http://www.sklogwiki.org/SklogWiki/index.php/Main_Page). Please remember I am not a programmer or otherwise skilled in technical things so please just give me something to copy-paste (e.g.,

[MediaWiki-l] How do I add tools to the toolbox in vector/monobook skins?

2015-02-07 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'd like to know how to add tools to the toolbox, like for example, I'd like to add Special:MultiUpload to the toolbox. Thanks for your time, Brenton ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Infobox formatting

2015-02-05 Thread Brenton Horne
for this, in most browsers you can right-click on something and select 'Inspect' or similar from the popup menu to open that up). Once you have the class name you can write your own CSS styles to set the blue background etc. -- brion On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Infobox formatting

2015-02-05 Thread Brenton Horne
Did that (not sure if that was meant to be under infobox in MediaWiki:Common.css) and no visually-apparent results. On 6/02/2015 8:04 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: .color1 { background: #3366cc; color: white; } ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Inkscape for SVG thumbnailing

2015-02-05 Thread Brenton Horne
Aha! I found my solution for both thumbnailing problems (SVG and bitmap). I felt I'd share it in case someone else has a similar problem and reads this. Here's a snippet of my |LocalSettings.php| file, namely the image-thumbnailing relevant part: |# Image Converter| |$wgSVGConverter =

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Infobox formatting

2015-02-05 Thread Brenton Horne
to MediaWiki:Common.css don't necessarily affect the rendering of the page immediately. B. On Feb 5, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Did that (not sure if that was meant to be under infobox in MediaWiki:Common.css) and no visually-apparent results. On 6

[MediaWiki-l] Infobox formatting

2015-02-05 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, Currently my Windows 7 installation of MediaWiki creates infoboxes that look like http://imgur.com/g2Tlh4f when I'd like it look more like http://imgur.com/s0UHES4. I'd especially like the blue title background. How do I do this? Thanks for your time, Brenton

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
:53 AM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to but every time I've installed it from the tarballs in the past I end up failing miserably. I installed LAMP, I followed all the instructions online I could find but I failed on Windows and Ubuntu. This is why I used bitnami

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
@Chris for me the prospect of having to pay after the first year is a deterrent I'd like a system that is free and will remain free. On 5 February 2015 at 02:18, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: @ John um where's the URL of this convo? I'd like to chime in but I'm not familiar

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding a drop-down menu for monobook's sidebar

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
Yeah I have and it just contains the non-drop down parts of the sidebar. On 5 February 2015 at 03:44, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote: From: Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com I've love to be able to add a drop-down menu to monobook's sidebar, which I know is possible (see

[MediaWiki-l] Inkscape for SVG thumbnailing

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'd like to know how I can use Inkscape for SVG thumbnailing on my Windows 7 OS with a MediaWiki installation. Inkscape's files are located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape. My efforts to date (mostly based on Manual:$wgSVGConverters and other MediaWiki manual pages) have failed. Currently

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
-counterproductive things. You'll get the best support here if you install MediaWiki directly from one of our tarballs - https://www.mediawiki.org/ - or Git https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm presently

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Inkscape for SVG thumbnailing

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
if your images are large photos because they'll be downloaded at full size to the web browser, but if your images are roughly screen-sized that should get you working for now. -- brion On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Arcane it worked perfectly. Do

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'm presently running Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit and I installed MediaWiki 1.24.1 via bitnami and it worked fine until I restarted my PC and now, even with my servers (Apache MySQL, respectively) running (which I checked were running by running the manager-linux.run file in the MediaWiki directory.

[MediaWiki-l] Adding a drop-down menu for monobook's sidebar

2015-02-03 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'm running a Wiki on Wikia (I have asked a question on the community forums [http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:789971], some six days ago, with no reply, if you're wondering if that would be a better place to ask it) and I've love to be able to add a drop-down menu to monobook's

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Jmol errors

2015-02-03 Thread Brenton Horne
Oh and PS, error 2 also occurs on the hm.orain.org site you set up for me. I just tested out adding jmolPdb3EIG/jmolPdb to User:Fuse809/sandbox at this site and the same error occurred. On 4 February 2015 at 08:41, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, I've seen that page

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Jmol extension

2015-02-03 Thread Brenton Horne
Nvm, I figured out I didn't download the files, just their web pages, rofl. On 4 February 2015 at 06:26, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I installed Jmol via following these instructions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Jmol#Installing_Jmol_extension and the result

[MediaWiki-l] Jmol errors

2015-02-03 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've installed the Jmol extension and I have noticed two major problems: 1. When uploading a pdb file at Special:Upload I receive the error: File extension .pdb does not match the detected MIME type of the file (text/plain). Other chemical file extensions produce similar errors,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Places I can set up my own MediaWiki website

2015-02-02 Thread Brenton Horne
OK, I've left a site proposal for hmwiki, if you have the power to approve it, I'd appreciate it. On 2/02/2015 11:20 PM, Arcane 21 wrote: Hello, Brenton, I'm staff at the Orain wiki farm, which can be found here: https://meta.orain.org We allow a large degree of customization for your wiki

[MediaWiki-l] Places I can set up my own MediaWiki website

2015-02-02 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've installed MediaWiki on my PC and I was wondering how I could turn this installation into a website for free. Is this possible? I have created a Wiki with Wikia but they have far less customization than that allowed by MediaWiki software (e.g., the extensions they have are all

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Cite, refToolbar and infobox

2015-02-01 Thread Brenton Horne
Thanks, cite is working now, how about refToolbar? On 30/01/2015 6:43 PM, Support Simpsonspedia wrote: hi, ref and /ref is ok, but works not alone. you need a references / at the end. best regards M. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- From: Brenton Horne Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 2:03

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SVG thumbnailing

2015-01-30 Thread Brenton Horne
'; As for the borders and such, you probably need to copy some CSS styles from the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page from Wikipedia. -- brion On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that SVG thumbnailing on my new locally-hosted Wiki is thumbnailing svgs

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki namespace editing permissions

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
OK, where's the dashboard area? On 30/01/2015 7:49 AM, Chris Tharp wrote: If you set up the wiki via Bitnami the user password and user admin will be in the bitnami dashboard area. Sent from my iPad On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: How do I login

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki namespace editing permissions

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've just installed MediaWiki via Bitnami on my PC and I'd like to know what I need to do in order to edit pages in the MediaWiki namespace. My PC is secure (no one else uses it) as is my Internet connection so I'm fairly confident my Wiki should be secure enough for editing this namespace

[MediaWiki-l] Parser functions

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've noticed that parser functions are not enabled on my Wiki. For example {{#if:}} is not appropriately rendered and appears unchanged in templates in which it appears. How do I get them to work? Thanks for your time, Brenton ___ MediaWiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki namespace editing permissions

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
How do I login as an admin? When I created this Wiki I was registered as an IP editor. On 30 January 2015 at 06:51, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: If you're logged in as administrator you should be able to edit them. Il 29/01/2015 21:47, Brenton Horne ha scritto: Hi

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki namespace editing permissions

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
Nvm I figured it out. On 30/01/2015 8:03 AM, Brenton Horne wrote: OK, where's the dashboard area? On 30/01/2015 7:49 AM, Chris Tharp wrote: If you set up the wiki via Bitnami the user password and user admin will be in the bitnami dashboard area. Sent from my iPad On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:00

[MediaWiki-l] Cite, refToolbar and infobox

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've added Cite and refToolbar to my Wiki but they aren't being loaded. Cite was automatically in my extension directory immediately after installation, so what I did was I added require_once $IP/extensions/Cite/SpecialCite.php; To near the end of LocalSettings.php and while cite

[MediaWiki-l] SVG thumbnailing

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I've noticed that SVG thumbnailing on my new locally-hosted Wiki is thumbnailing svgs incorrectly. This is what it appears like atm when incorporated into an infobox: http://i.stack.imgur.com/dRWkj.png. Likewise I've also noticed there's no enclosing box around infoboxes in my Wiki,

[MediaWiki-l] Jmol Extensions

2015-01-29 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi For some reason that escapes me after installing the Jmol extension via these instructions (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Jmol#Installing_Jmol_extension) even though Jmol appears in Special:Version whenever I add jmolPdb3EIG/jmolPdb or jmolFile(R)-nicotine.sdf/jmolFile