Re: [Mediawiki-l] this page has been consulted ... times

2009-01-07 Thread Steve VanSlyck
A real count is a count done by real people as opposed to counts done by natural, whole, integer, rational, complex, irrational, or imaginary people. Helpful, ain't I?;) colon...@free.fr wrote: Le Wednesday 07 January 2009 21:27:35 Siebrand Mazeland, vous avez écrit : Please define

Re: [Mediawiki-l] how long to make a good MW skin?

2009-01-10 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Jan, If you made a policy decision to write only standards compliant code, you wouldn't need to bother with M$IE at all. Jan Steinman wrote: From: Christensen, Courtney christens...@battelle.org How long does it take to develop a well-rounded skin on average? I have a client who

[Mediawiki-l] On hands help with backup, new installation, and restore

2009-05-13 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I need help exporting a small wiki, setting up the new wiki, and transferring everything. I am not comfortable doing this myself but an experienced person could probably take care of the whole kit-and-kaboodle in an hour, and maybe a further hour for extension checking. Current version is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki release candidate 1.15.0rc1

2009-05-16 Thread Steve VanSlyck
MY gender is he/him/his. Plumbing fittings have genders. Electrical plugs (male) and sockets (female) have genders. Mechanical parts have genders. If the system wants to know something biological, like whether I am male or female, the correct thing to ask would be my SEX. Can we please use

[Mediawiki-l] List passing on spam?

2009-06-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Can we get this user moderated or something? I don't with to report a list message as spam if the message is being validly passed through the list. If it keeps up the user should be considered for ejection from the list. pvo...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Notification Vishwakarma Open University

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Default path settings

2009-10-25 Thread Steve VanSlyck
This is another good point: people tend to get confused about the whole copy the setting from DefaultSettings.php to LocalSettings.php thing. Do you have a link to or a copy of that email? On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: This issue

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any ETA on 1.16?

2009-12-16 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Might one innocently assume, without fear of a nasty surprize later, that before 1.16 is released all of the maintenance scripts will be tested and confirmed to work as advertized? - Original Message - From: Chad Real Soon Now ;-) Actually, Tim's expressed an interest in getting

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Reduce size of main page

2010-02-04 Thread Steve VanSlyck
The main page consists of everything you see on the monitor, including the logo. Are you asking about the dimensions of that p art of the page which is to the right of your logo? - Original Message - From: Dionysia Kontotasiou dko...@iti.gr To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Order of 1st-2nd names of persons in page titles and category list

2010-02-05 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Yes, that's right. Given name used to be called Christian Name. - Original Message - From: Bjorn Kassoe Andersen kas...@direction.dk To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:00:47 +0100 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Order of

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Brion Vibber delete mo. as promised ! Please wake up

2010-02-21 Thread Steve VanSlyck
With respect, you need to contact the people at wikipedia.org. This is nothing but a user-to-user list. No one here can help you, unless by pure luck they happen to be a wikipedia admin. - Original Message - From: Cetateanu Moldovanu cetatean...@gmail.com To: Brion Vibber

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Q: I have sysop but I can't edit stuff

2010-04-16 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I should think so. If you can ::see:: a page you should not have to ::create:: it in order to ::edit:: it. - Original Message - From: £ukasz Garczewski t...@wikia-inc.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:54:13

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Get error while editing

2010-05-03 Thread Steve VanSlyck
LocalSettings.php - Original Message - From: nevio carlos de alarcão nevinhoalar...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 14:22:57 -0300 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Get error while editing changing the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTC, EST, et al.

2010-05-03 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Nope. I've got it set at -5.00 and for NTC, but everything still shows as UTC time and UTC, um, zone. - Original Message - From: Q overlo...@gmail.com User Preferences Date and Time Time Offset. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 5/3/2010 9:44 PM, Steve VanSlyck

[Mediawiki-l] {{cquote}}

2010-05-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
On Wikipedia, is there a way to change the color of the images used in the {{cquote}} template without uploading a new image. I expect this could reasonably start with SUBST:ing the template to get the code, but what about the image or the image color?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{cquote}}

2010-05-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Ohhh, cool. um, how does one (i.e., me) add a quote color parameter? - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 16:19:51 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{cquote}} Steve VanSlyck wrote: On Wikipedia

Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{cquote}}

2010-05-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Replied off list. - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 02:04:27 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{cquote}} Steve VanSlyck wrote: Ohhh, cool. um, how does one (i.e., me) add a quote color parameter

Re: [Mediawiki-l] it sounds strange...

2010-05-09 Thread Steve VanSlyck
It's just short for my wiki installation, unlike my Outlook or my Firefox, which make no sense at all. - Original Message - From: nevio carlos de alarcão nevinhoalar...@gmail.com Many people here refer to the wiki managed by them as my wiki. This is very strange, because a wiki is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wikilink not being parsed

2010-05-10 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Just grabbing at straws here, but I noticed that the page shows a space between ]] and the comma, but there is no such space on the image showing the code. Are you sure the whitespace between OSIM and International is an actual %20? - Original Message - From: Patrick Flaherty

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wikilink not being parsed

2010-05-10 Thread Steve VanSlyck
When viewing the HTML output, there is a p between OSIM and International - Original Message - From: Patrick Flaherty patrick.flahe...@taighde.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:28:56 -0400 Subject: [Mediawiki-l]

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wikilink not being parsed

2010-05-10 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Sorry, withdraw my comment about the p. Eyes not tracking this a.m. - Original Message - From: Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:38:20 -0400 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] wikilink

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wikilink not being parsed

2010-05-10 Thread Steve VanSlyck
that I can see. I also think the mediawiki will parse links that have encoded parts. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.netwrote: Sorry, withdraw my comment about the p. Eyes not tracking this a.m. - Original Message - From: Steve VanSlyck

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Image links don't work on subpages

2010-05-10 Thread Steve VanSlyck
One assumes the image has been uploaded? - Original Message - From: nakohdo frank.r...@gmx.net To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Image links don't work on subpages When I insert an image link on a subpage like

Re: [Mediawiki-l] blogging within MediaWiki

2010-05-14 Thread Steve VanSlyck
User talk page. - Original Message - From: Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:42:23 -0400 Subject: [Mediawiki-l] blogging within MediaWiki Hello listmates, Are there people out

[Mediawiki-l] Logging in

2010-05-14 Thread Steve VanSlyck
No response on village pump technical... so maybe someone here knows the answer: == Return to page logged in from == How do I get login to return me to the page I logged in from, e.g. Main Page, instead of dropping me into a login successful page and forcing me to return manually?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Logging in

2010-05-14 Thread Steve VanSlyck
On Wikipedia, hoping I can drop something into my css page or something. - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 23:35:21 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Logging in Steve VanSlyck wrote: No response

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Logging in

2010-05-14 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Awesome. Thanks! - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 00:35:02 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Logging in Steve VanSlyck wrote: On Wikipedia, hoping I can drop something into my css page or something

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Logging in

2010-05-15 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Why to central auth images need to load at all? - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com OQ wrote: I thought it did this already? It used to automatically redirect you after some seconds, but that was changed a) For usability concerns (automatic redirects are

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct venue?

2010-05-19 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Take a look at what Wikipedia is currently doing with the vector skin. I'm having no problems, and, really, asking people to do their own markup is not something I see as a great issue. It requries people to engage mentally - at least somewhat - with what they're doing and forces them to use

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct venue?

2010-05-19 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Becuase Mediawiki was designed as a replacement for hand coding or learning html, not as a replacement for Word or WordPerfect. - Original Message - WYSIWYG editing is about 15 years old so it is nothing new, so I'm perplexed why it is not available with Mediawiki, which has editing at

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct venue?

2010-05-19 Thread Steve VanSlyck
MOving over to the other side of the argument for a moment, it seems to me that the building could be built one brick at a time. E.g., get the basic features in place first, such as bolding, underscoring, links, and god-forbid tables - and then move on from there. Worry only about the visual

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Talk Pages

2010-05-27 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I left out an important word. - Original Message - One one's own MediaWiki site, is there a way to disable talk pages in userspace other than a talk page for the user's page? In other words, there would be User:Noob and User_talk:Noob, but no other TALK pages in User Noob's

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Talk Pages

2010-05-27 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Never mind. It was right in the first place. No other pages in User:Noobs space would have any TALK pages Gotta wake up here. - Original Message - I left out an important word. - Original Message - One one's own MediaWiki site, is there a way to disable talk pages in

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

2010-05-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I just don't wanna have the discussion here. As a matter of fact, '''most''' of the messages here are not about announcements and site admin, but they are about MediaWiki. - Original Message - Its a meta discussion about the this community

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

2010-05-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
That is a moral standard. Freedom is more important then moral imperative. Freedom is subject to obligations. You have the freedom - read, power - to yell Fire! in a crowded theater. You '''don't''' have a right to do so. I do not have the freedom to vandalise Wikipedia. Sure you do. People

[Mediawiki-l] Script default

2010-05-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
User:PleaseStand/highlight-comments.js is a script on Wikipedia. One has to click a link on the page to activate it. Is there some way to make it activate on page load? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Script default

2010-05-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Where would I find that call? - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 21:19:27 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Script default Steve VanSlyck wrote: User:PleaseStand/highlight-comments.js is a script

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Script default

2010-05-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
: [Mediawiki-l] Script default Steve VanSlyck wrote: User:PleaseStand/highlight-comments.js is a script on Wikipedia. One has to click a link on the page to activate it. Is there some way to make it activate on page load? Replace the call to addPortletLink

Re: [Mediawiki-l] blogging within MediaWiki

2010-05-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
It looks very nice - and your granddaughter is real gem! Keep on with the software - there is so much to learn, and it's all fun! - Original Message - http://abj.jidanni.org/ is a blog I made using MediaWiki. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

2010-05-31 Thread Steve VanSlyck
There is your wish, and from others, to continue in an other newgroup. It is not my personal wish to continue this elsewhere. It is my wish that this topic GO elsewhere. Can you tell me which newsgroup I have to use about the morals standards of the community developing and installing

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

2010-05-31 Thread Steve VanSlyck
(b) doesn't cope very well with the weirdest stuff done on English Wikipedia, where wikitext is tortured horribly to squeeze out every possible emergent side-effect for editor's use. ? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

2010-05-31 Thread Steve VanSlyck
2010 23:37, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: (b) doesn't cope very well with the weirdest stuff done on English Wikipedia, where wikitext is tortured horribly to squeeze out every possible emergent side-effect for editor's use. ? en:wp not only uses ridiculous

Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{cquote}}

2010-06-01 Thread Steve VanSlyck
; valign=top width=20“/td So yes, you can change its color after substing (or even better, add a quote color parameter). Steve VanSlyck wrote: On Wikipedia, is there a way to change the color of the images used in the {{cquote}} template without uploading a new image. I expect this could

[Mediawiki-l] for tim starling

2010-06-14 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Tim would you please contact me backchannel? (apologies to the list) ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Use of testing environment

2010-06-17 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Agreed. - Original Message - From: Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de So please: No reruns. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems with Special Signs in Filenames

2010-06-23 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Everyone, please - The marjority of a message should not be a quote of the previous message! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems with Special Signs in Filenames

2010-06-25 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Polite request to all - the major portion of a message should *not* be quote of the previous message, especially with the resonse is posted at the bottom. **Please.** ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] linking local content

2010-06-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Backspace characters? - Original Message - Problem: all the links to be made will contain space characters, so a path will look like this: file:\\srv1\Resources Databases\WIKI development\used\*.odt. There is no way to replace the backspace characters on the server itself...

Re: [Mediawiki-l] developer

2010-07-14 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Aw heck, I home I'm not inappropriate myself in saying I'm a pretty good programmer after I've got a class or two and few months experience behind me and I'd love to come work for you if you'll pay me and train me. Ah, the things one can do with magical thinking...! Seriously though, best

[Mediawiki-l] Installing on NetWare

2010-07-16 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Hello List, Does anyone have mediawiki installed and working well on a Novell 6.5 NetWare server running alongside GroupWise WebAccess and . . . if you do . . would you be willing to send me your vitual hosts configuration file, specifically the VirtualHost section that enables MediaWiki?

[Mediawiki-l] disable entire namespace

2010-07-26 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Is there a way, on installation of a new wiki, to completely disable the talk namespace? No talk pages, not nowhere, not nohow, as the wizard said. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] disable entire namespace

2010-07-26 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Ideally I would like to not have them appear at all, unless expressly created. - Original Message - From: Frank Ralf frank.r...@gmx.net To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:07:37 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] disable entire namespace Is there a way, on

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki version statistics

2010-07-30 Thread Steve VanSlyck
phone home functionality have a reputation to keep up, when they abuse the trust people put in them, they will lose out. Thanks, GerardM On 30 July 2010 16:24, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: Dial home or phone home is a euphimism from the movie ET. It refers to software

Re: [Mediawiki-l] disable accounts for list of users

2010-08-22 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Putting my on $.20 in here, I offer that approved accounts have a separate entry in the db, or a separate entry in the record not visible or settable except by manual interaction of an an admin or 'crat, and the script would delete everyone else with extreme prejudice. On 8/22/2010 14:26,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] UsabilityInitiative edit bar not showing up.

2010-09-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
What is a slide? I've never heard that term before. - Original Message - Either turn it 'true' for global usage in LocalSettings or have a look at user's preferences at the 'edit' slide. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

[Mediawiki-l] Install on Windows Server 2008

2010-09-13 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Does anyone have any hints/helps/tips/tricks/hacks, and especially lessons learned as we called it in the Navy, on installing Mediawiki on Windows Server 2008 (or whatever Microsoft is selling these days)? Kindly note that I want to avoid enabling IIS if at all possible.

[Mediawiki-l] MOWES

2010-09-16 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I'm looking at MOWES for an install package and I note that the default directory for mediawiki is mediawiki instead of just wiki. Anyone know how complicated in might be to change this? Do I need do anything other than change the directory name and then edit LocalSetting.php?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Name of articles or categories

2010-09-29 Thread Steve VanSlyck
He inputs My Name and it comes out My name - i.e., he doesn't want sentence-style capitalization. - Original Message - From: Scheid, Bernhard bernhard.sch...@oeaw.ac.at To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:26:58 +0200

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Can we tell this guy for the umpteenth time where to take is issue and then moderate him? - Original Message - From: Cetateanu Moldovanu cetatean...@gmail.com Hello everyone, I'd like to remind you that existence of the mo. wikipedia is extremely insulting for us from Moldova. The

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Using content from other sites

2010-10-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Better have good eyesight when you cite to other sites - Original Message - My curiosity is with regard to citing this ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Mediawiki-l] PHP mismatch

2010-10-14 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I've installed mowes. I know this isn't a PHP list but there's lots of smart PHP peeples here. PHPMyAdmin announces the following on its home page. Can someone sort me out on this? Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.67 differs from your MySQL server version 5.1.35. This may cause unpredictable

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Benefits of using wiki in a corporate environment-how to convience?

2010-10-17 Thread Steve VanSlyck
OK - I'm pretty non-tech. What IS the htaccess file all about? - Original Message - From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:23:04 +0100 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Benefits of using wiki

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Possible to block users from using a specific email service?

2010-12-03 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I wouldn't even bother with a message to the user. Just refuse silently. - Original Message - $message = 'No mailinator emails, please'; ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Daddio skin

2011-01-19 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Does this help: http://www.mail-archive.com/mediawiki-cvs@lists.wikimedia.org/msg09973.html ? - Original Message - From: olivier_levillain olivier_levill...@coface.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:10:18 +0100 Subject:

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

2011-01-21 Thread Steve VanSlyck
It's not about the subject, it's about the the message header, which is what the forum software uses to sort messages. I had to be corrected by Tim on this very subject once. - Original Message - From: Charlie Markwick charlie-markw...@southcot.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site

Re: [Mediawiki-l] (no subject)

2011-01-22 Thread Steve VanSlyck
How's that song go? Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, SPAM - Original Message - From: Edgar Poe poe...@yahoo.com ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] (no subject)

2011-01-31 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I did not need to see these medical ads, not did I like the redirect. Why did you send this, Chad? - Original Message - From: Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:34:40 -0500 Subject: Re:

[Mediawiki-l] Chika Reginald Onyiaonaka

2011-02-02 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Please moderate this person. On 2/1/2011 11.16, Chika Reginald Onyiaonaka wrote: [redacted] ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] EDGAR POE

2011-02-02 Thread Steve VanSlyck
@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:09:01 +0100 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] EDGAR POE He is now on moderation. He was removed from the list but added himself again. 2011/2/2 Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net WHY is this person still permitted to post to thie list?! On 1/31

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

2011-02-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Is the content of this page available in English? - Original Message - From: K. Kamhamea kamha...@googlemail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:05:27 +0100 Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted Hello, I created a project Kapuneipu that is a close

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

2011-02-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
- Original Message - From: sam.sex...@thomsonreuters.com In the sidebar, under In anderen Sprachen, you'll find English - works for me! ;-) I will? Which one of these is that under? * Hauptseite * Über Wikipedia * Themenportale * Von A bis Z * Zufälliger Artikel

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

2011-02-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Of Steve VanSlyck Sent: 08 February 2011 13:18 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted - Original Message - From: sam.sex...@thomsonreuters.com In the sidebar, under In anderen Sprachen, you'll find English - works

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

2011-02-08 Thread Steve VanSlyck
It's just that I was pointed in a different direction. - Original Message - From: Sarel Wessels (Agri Wiki) swess...@agriwiki.co.za To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:52:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu -

Re: [Mediawiki-l] mediawiki as combined text/data store?

2011-02-15 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Could we please not quote an entire message just to make a two-line reply, *especially* when the reply is bottom-posted? - Original Message - If you don't mind parsing RDF ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] mediawiki as combined text/data store?

2011-02-15 Thread Steve VanSlyck
It is an issue either way. Only diffeference is that top posting allows me to read the response without having to go hunt for it. The point is that the majority of a message should be new content. - Original Message - On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl

Re: [Mediawiki-l] German wikipedia redirect to English Startpage

2011-02-24 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Someone once asked, Why can't we just have one law making all crimes illegal. A capital idea. I think you've hit on a similar solution for individual wiki installs - so I now suggest that everybody's wiki simply point to en.wikipedia.org! - Original Message - Then I called on the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] German wikipedia redirect to English Startpage

2011-02-24 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I was just being facetious. :( - Original Message - From: Alexander Schuhmann I know no other way to access wikipedia than through the Startpage. But it is a case please tell me. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] mediawiki+security

2011-03-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Hee hee. I just have to say that this reminds me of the old saying, Hey, boss, how about I fix it! I've never worked on a transmission before ;) - Original Message - The threat model is not a malicious intruder, but a well-meaning co-worker - the latter is ten times as damaging.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any ideas why $wgReadOnly doesn't work ?

2011-04-04 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I'm not the most experienced here but I assume $wgReadOnly would require a TRUE/FALSE argument rather than a text string. - Original Message - I want to move my wiki to another server (and upgrade at the same time from 1.14 to 1.16.2). I simply need to make the old wiki readonly,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help - Social Network

2011-06-18 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I'm not gmailed, linked-in, facebooked or my-spaced. I guess I'm not very social. - Original Message - On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Eros wrote: At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good social network anyway!

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Join my network on LinkedIn

2011-08-09 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Please do not post linked-in invitations on maililng lists or forums. - Original Message - From: Eros Phillipe via LinkedIn mem...@linkedin.com To: Karin Rafael Remeikis mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 23:56:12 + (UTC) Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Join my network on

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Join my network on LinkedIn

2011-08-09 Thread Steve VanSlyck
- From: Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:22:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Join my network on LinkedIn On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote

[Mediawiki-l] Fw: Invitation reminder from Ekompute Gmail

2011-08-23 Thread Steve VanSlyck
ekompute, I am not interested. thank you. - Original Message - From: WAYN - Ekompute Gmail reminder invitat...@whereareyounow.net To: Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:55:32 +0100 Subject: Invitation reminder from Ekompute Gmail Hi Steve, Ekompute Gmail

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Join my network on LinkedIn

2011-09-23 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Without objection, so ordered. Not that I can order anything, but it's the thought that counts. Ban *@linkedin.com. Also *@every_social_networking_website.com. - Original Message - From: John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with user page, talk page, other pages, not displaying

2011-10-20 Thread Steve VanSlyck
**Who's** webserver? - Original Message - From: Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com To: analogal...@gmail.com analogal...@gmail.com, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:26:31 + Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with

Re: [Mediawiki-l] 1.18 issues triage

2011-11-30 Thread Steve VanSlyck
17.1 and 18.0 were released on the same day, so if not already part of 18.0, I would suggest that the bug fixes in 17.1 be addressed in 18.1. - Original Message - With the recent release of 1.18, I want to hold a triage to see if there are enough issues to have a point release.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] An Administration Page

2012-02-05 Thread Steve VanSlyck
An excellent question, Greg. Unfortunately the most common reply you will get will probably be write one yourself. Creating GUI's seems for whatever reason to be outside the comfort level of most programmers. Comment? Why would I comment my own code? Help? Why would I need a help file for

Re: [Mediawiki-l] An Administration Page

2012-02-07 Thread Steve VanSlyck
There's no reason that GUI failure need prevent text editor access to a configuration file. - Original Message - From: jida...@jidanni.org To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:43:53 +0800 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] An Administration Page FG == Frederick Grose

Re: [Mediawiki-l] internal link to a specific revision?

2012-03-06 Thread Steve VanSlyck
That is an unreasonable limitation. I want to damn Freudian slips EVERY day, not just today! - Original Message - I clearly meant 'he' there. Damn Freudian slips today. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Page edit timestamps

2012-04-30 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Special:Watchlist? - Original Message - From: Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil To: MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:29:18 -0500 Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Page edit timestamps Is there a way to get a pages

[MediaWiki-l] Special:AllMessages

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Hello everyone, I'm back and lots dumber than the first time around. At one time the word Gender in the user profile preferences page was configurable as a system message. On my wiki I want to change the word to Sex (since it is asking whether the user is male or female) but I cannot

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Special:AllMessages

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Nevermind. Found it. s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: Hello everyone, I'm back and lots dumber than the first time around. At one time the word Gender in the user profile preferences page was configurable as a system message. On my wiki I want to change the word to Sex (since it is asking

[MediaWiki-l] Search like Wikipedia

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
What extensions do I need to install to make search work like en.Wikipedia? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] Permissions - Images directory

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
I seem my permissions on the /wiki/images directory are 755. Should they truly be 644? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] New Wiki - bureaucrat rights

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
OK, so this is a new wiki (somebody please tell me if I'm sending these messages to the wrong list) and although I am a bureacrat I don't see an undo, revert, or other page management links on the history pages. I know there must be something fundamental I have forgotten. Ideas?

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New Wiki - bureaucrat rights

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
Yes, the userrights page shows me as both. On 1/11/2013 21.26, Techman224 wrote: Are you also an administrator? Administrators and Bureaucrats have two separate user groups. Techman224 On 2013-01-11, at 8:23 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: OK, so this is a new wiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New Wiki - bureaucrat rights

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
On 1/11/2013 21.36, Techman224 wrote: If you can't even undo, then either you don't have the permission to edit, or something else is causing the undo button to disappear. Check Special:ListGroupRights to see if the 'edit' permission is assigned. List seems typical, though I don't see a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New Wiki - bureaucrat rights

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
, then either you don't have the permission to edit, or something else is causing the undo button to disappear. Check Special:ListGroupRights to see if the 'edit' permission is assigned. --Techman224 On 2013-01-11, at 8:28 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: Yes, the userrights page

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New Wiki - bureaucrat rights

2013-01-11 Thread Steve VanSlyck
And... never mind again. Found it hiding in a dropdown. Thanks muchly. On 1/11/2013 21.46, Steve VanSlyck wrote: HOLD ON. _It does show up_. But it does not do so until the _second edit_ of the page. This is not something I expected (that the first edit cannot be reverted) but I guess

[MediaWiki-l] Rewrite Rules

2013-01-12 Thread Steve VanSlyck
OK, this is my first attempt to use rewrite rules. I've done the best I can to follow the instructions at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache . I've created an .htaccess file and put it at root at http://www.vanslyck.us as follows: ##

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Rewrite Rules

2013-01-12 Thread Steve VanSlyck
And use it to generate everything you need to do. Tom On Jan 12, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: OK, this is my first attempt to use rewrite rules. I've done the best I can to follow the instructions at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

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