Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

2011-02-08 Thread Sam.Sexton
In the sidebar, under In anderen Sprachen, you'll find English - works for me! ;-) /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve VanSlyck Sent: 08 February 2011 13:05 To: MediaWiki announcements

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

2011-02-08 Thread Sam.Sexton
It's the section below Werkzeuge, which you didn't include below. /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve VanSlyck Sent: 08 February 2011 13:18 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin

Re: [Mediawiki-l] External Link Opening in New Tab or Window

2011-01-31 Thread Sam.Sexton
Hi Charlie, Could this be the answer: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget ? /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Markwick Sent: 31 January 2011 22:20 To:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wiki editor with highlight, go to closing brace and so on

2010-12-24 Thread Sam.Sexton
Hi - I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28Official%29 /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Juriy Katkov Sent: 24 December 2010 08:45 To:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Show a section of an article into another page

2010-12-10 Thread Sam.Sexton
The http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion will do what you want. /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat Sent: 10 December 2010

[Mediawiki-l] IE 7/8 error

2010-10-26 Thread Sam.Sexton
Hi, This isn't the most critical problem in the world today, but I've just been told that IE7 and 8 are reporting errors on our (1.13) wiki pages. A proper browser (Firefox) reports no problems. The error is reported as being on line 25, which was the one indicated by , before I added the IE8

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Create new wiki pages automatically

2010-10-15 Thread Sam.Sexton
Yanick, the file is just the same as you'd enter via the editor. I've sent you separately a copy of the script and control file I use for the automated import. Cheers, /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Templating text

2010-08-23 Thread Sam.Sexton
You could also just create your text as a template: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Meyer Sent: 23 August 2010 00:49 To:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] lsearchd daemon quitting when I close terminal.

2010-07-27 Thread Sam.Sexton
Use nohup {command} . Any output will be written to nohup.out in the pwd. -Original Message- Subject: [Mediawiki-l] lsearchd daemon quitting when I close terminal. Im running the lsearchd daemon by just running .lsearchd in the terminal - and it all works. But when I close that

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Changing the server IP in Wiki pages

2010-07-14 Thread Sam.Sexton
An alternative for making the global change is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text . Varnit Suri wrote: I have 3 questions: 1. How do I do this? Where is all this text stored? 2. Is a global find-and-replace the best solution, or is there an alternative? 3. Was there a way

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Creating #REDIRECT in a template

2010-06-28 Thread Sam.Sexton
What happens if you have users Stan Smith and Samantha Strange ? ;-) Platonides wrote: nakohdo wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a template which redirects a page with the initials of a user as its title to the corresponding user page like so: Page [[FR]] contains the template

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Profiling information - how many percent make 100?

2010-04-20 Thread Sam.Sexton
I said: Hi - I've just implemented profiling on 1.13.0 to see where the time goes and I'm just a little confused: Here's a clip of what profileinfo.php shows me: -total 100% MediaWiki::initialize [+]62.14% Parser::parse [+] 60.5%

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrade to 1.15.2 question

2010-04-01 Thread Sam.Sexton
Try running php ./update.php...? /Sam sam.sex...@thomsonreuters.com thomsonreuters.com -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tolliver Sent: 01 April 2010 15:29 To: MediaWiki announcements and

[Mediawiki-l] Slow response problem

2010-03-25 Thread Sam.Sexton
Hi all, My 1.13.0 SAMP Mediawiki (PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.67-log) is running far too slowly, although there's precious little going on in the LDOM in which it runs. I've got a Subversion system running in a similar environment, with no such problems, so it's unlikely to be the host or network. I

[Mediawiki-l] Statistics

2010-03-25 Thread Sam.Sexton
Hi again, It's bugged me for a while that the statistics shown in Special:Statistics bear little resemblance to the real situation. I'm on 1.13.0 and wondered whether this situation has been improved in later releases, as I've now been asked to report the stats on a monthly basis. Examples

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Slow response problem

2010-03-25 Thread Sam.Sexton
] On Behalf Of Platonides Sent: 25 March 2010 16:16 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Slow response problem Sam.Sexton wrote: I've looked at the Manual page on cacheing, but we don't have any anonymous users, so that wouldn't help. There are much more caching than caching

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia like tables

2010-01-26 Thread Sam.Sexton
Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Yes - that should answer your questions - especially if you view the source. /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Florent Georges Sent: 26

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia like tables

2010-01-26 Thread Sam.Sexton
Florent, No, you don't have to do anything with the Template namespace - just paste the definition from the Wikipedia source - the following is sufficient: style=background:#90ff90; color:black; class=table-yes | {{{1|Yes}}} I suggest you look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates as

Re: [Mediawiki-l] multiple language wiki

2010-01-12 Thread Sam.Sexton
I suspect Wen means a different language such as Mandarin or Cantonese instead of English, rather than a different flavour of wiki! ;-) If so, there have been various postings on both wiki families and translation recently - I suggest checking the archive. /Sam -Original Message-

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Edit functionality buttons - Standard MediaWiki

2009-10-15 Thread Sam.Sexton
What have you done to apply the toolbar? Did you click Show edit toolbar (JavaScript) in your preferences? Or do you mean that you have the toolbar but the intended action isn't performed - your message isn't too clear. -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] List all the pages with no image

2009-10-09 Thread Sam.Sexton
This is an odd request and there may well be other ways to address it, but assuming Illustration = [[Image:xxx]], I'd take an XML dump (maintenance/dumpBackup.php) and write a perl job to scan it, saving the title line and reporting pages that don't have [[Image: between text and /page. /Sam

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCKEditor extension side-effect.

2009-09-25 Thread Sam.Sexton
Me: I've just installed the FCKeditor extension on 1.15.0 and it works fine (not sure that I'll use it, given that you need to switch to Wikitext to edit templates, but I'm sure the punters will like it), BUT Special:Version now gives me an empty page - the white space ends just below the

[Mediawiki-l] FCKEditor extension side-effect.

2009-09-24 Thread Sam.Sexton
I've just installed the FCKeditor extension on 1.15.0 and it works fine (not sure that I'll use it, given that you need to switch to Wikitext to edit templates, but I'm sure the punters will like it), BUT Special:Version now gives me an empty page - the white space ends just below the title.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Easy creation of page sequences

2009-09-15 Thread Sam.Sexton
Perhaps this is too simplistic, but I create a template for grouped pages and include it in all the pages (often at top and bottom for easy navigation). Then when you need to add a page, you just have the one template file to update. The current page is shown as bold, so it's easy to go through

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How To DB-dump of wiki

2009-09-15 Thread Sam.Sexton
I think maintenance/dumpBackup.php is what you need - but you may also find http://brightbyte.de/page/MediaWiki_backup useful. /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of ?? ?? Sent: 15 September

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Utilisation de MediaWiki sur un ré seau local

2009-08-18 Thread Sam.Sexton
Anna, Malheureusement, je crois que ce n'est pas possible - j'ai aussi des liens comme ca, mais j'ai entendu dire que la probleme n'est pas avec MediaWiki, mais la cause est le browser security. :-( For non French speakers (which may include me - apologies to real francophones for the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki/LDAP Authentication/encryption problem

2009-08-13 Thread Sam.Sexton
Ryan, If you're using wfDebugLog (and not just wfDebug) as per http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_debug#Logging, then I suggest you try changing the log file location to somewhere below htdocs as in the example on that page - my experience in this area is limited, but I'm not sure whether an

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki/LDAP Authentication/encryption problem

2009-08-12 Thread Sam.Sexton
Ive not done exactly this, but in other situations I find that you have to create the file and give it permissions so that it can be updated by httpd. /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Mediawiki-l] REGEXP for wiki tables

2009-08-07 Thread Sam.Sexton
I believe that making the match for } non-greedy as below would match just the one table, but I've not tried it. s/\{\|.+?\|\?}//gs /Sam -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Christensen, Courtney

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Forgot Admin Password

2009-06-30 Thread Sam.Sexton
You could also install this: http://keepass.info/ and then you'll only have one password to remember! /Sam This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender

Re: [Mediawiki-l] 2 instances of Wiki on 1 server

2009-06-17 Thread Sam.Sexton
I've done this recently, although I'm not sure about transclusion between the sites - I haven't tried that. I simpy installed the software in two paths (e.g. htdocs/wiki1 and htdocs/wiki2). You then navigate to each copy of the configuration script and define the appropriate values for each

Re: [Mediawiki-l] List of Talk pages with content?

2009-06-12 Thread Sam.Sexton
Sometimes the obvious is staring me in the face and I can't see it ;-) Tell me about it! I think we've all been there - I certainly have - and it was nice to be able to answer a question rather than just ask them. Cheers, /Sam Sam Sexton Provisioning Team Leader Thomson Reuters Phone:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] empty line before !DOCTYPE causes RSS to fail.

2009-06-09 Thread Sam.Sexton
Thanks, Mathias and Joshua - it wasn't LocalSettings.php, but I found the file eventually - gflash.php was the culprit. I can safely say I doubt I'd ever have sorted the problem without your advice! Cheers, /Sam Sam Sexton Provisioning Team Leader Thomson Reuters Phone: 53372 or +44 24

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with importImages.php

2009-06-09 Thread Sam.Sexton
: resolvepath(/home/sam.sexton/TGSTWiki/includes/WikiError.php, /home/sam.sexton/TGSTWiki/includes/WikiError.php, 10 24) = 48 6203: open(/home/sam.sexton/TGSTWiki/includes/WikiError.php, O_RDONLY) = 6 6203: fstat(6, 0x01219180)= 0 6203: d=0x05240459 i=1527070 m=0100644 l=1 u=324 g

[Mediawiki-l] empty line before !DOCTYPE causes RSS to fail.

2009-06-08 Thread Sam.Sexton
Hi, I've spent rather too much time looking at this and need to ask for assistance. When I look at the source of my wiki pages, I can see that it includes an empty line before the DOCTYPE comment - it is the same for several (probably all) skins in the wiki, so it's unlikely to be due to my