On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM, <y...@seiner.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, <y...@seiner.com> wrote: > > > >> Hmmmm... > >> > >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/GoToShell > >> > >> "No such extension".... > >> > >> I take it I can copy and paste the files off the web page? > >> > >> Also, how difficult would it be to extend it to allow multiple commands > >> (I > >> have 8 commands I need to run right now; that's going to run up to 9 > >> shortly. I can set up 9 special pages by changing the names but that > >> seems like overkill v. just passing an argument to select the command.) > > > > > > Yeah, you can copy and paste the files. I thought that kind of more > > complicated stuff was what MaintenanceShell was designed to do? In what > > way > > was MaintenanceShell too broad? > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > !DSPAM:529f780e87813001916405! > > > > > > Maybe I'm missing something about the maintenance shell. I don't want my > users to see any of the "bones"; I just want them to click on a link and > have things done. > > I thought maintenance shell gives you a terminal type environment you then > can work in with specific commands? > > We're using the wiki to create manuals, and I want my editors to be able > to click a link and create a release version that automatically gets > copied to a download directory. The release version is date stamped and > the script creates a link to the current version of the manual. I don't > want to give them access to the server or have them have to do anything > more. > > I'll look at maintenance shell again, too, while I'm working on this. > > How about just making a special page, and when you click specific links or buttons on it it'll kick off some calls to wfShellExec() or what have you?
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