Re: [Mediawiki-l] status of permissions

2008-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iv Ray wrote: > I spent the last weeks researching lightly on the permissions situation > at MediaWiki and I found out the following - > > a) MediaWiki is not made for permissions, however > > b) MediaWiki starts to enter the corporate world, so ext

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Permissions error uploading image

2008-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bird wrote: > [bump] If nobody responds, reposting the same message twice is unlikely to receive any more response because there's nothing new to respond to. Check your web server error log, your PHP error log, enable the MediaWiki debugging l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deploying MediaWiki the easy way with new ubuntu based live CD

2008-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liraz Siri wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am one of the developers for TurnKey Linux, an opensource project that > aims to develop high-quality software appliances that are easy to use, > easy to deploy, and free. Our motto is "everything that can be easy, >

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Google accesses through Special:RecentchangesLinked

2008-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rene Bakker wrote: > I noticed that the Googlebot does not use the exact article path from > the sitemap files but uses Special:RecentchangesLinked instead to access > the articles. So instead of /www.mysite.com/wiki/My_Article/, Google > uses /www.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CSS not being applied on unix firefox

2008-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Daly wrote: > Schuh, Peter wrote: > >> Clearing firefox's cache and reloading fixes the problem. Has anyone heard >> of this happening? > > I've seen this on rare occasions with Windows Firefox. It appears that > in some instances, the CS

Re: [Mediawiki-l] page abstracts for Yahoo: produced by humans or machine ?

2008-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Platonides wrote: > Farkas, Illes wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Is the dump file containing the page abstracts for Yahoo produced by >> human or machines ? >> >> Thanks > > It's producesd by a machine, extracting the beginning of all articles > (which ar

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Newbie question - Move from Ubuntu to Windows

2008-11-20 Thread Christensen, Courtney
You also need to get your uploaded images from the old one. I don't know where your images directory is on Ubuntu. Any configuration changes or extensions added will also need to be copied. -Courtney -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Newbie question - Move from Ubuntu to Windows

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Daly
Menachem Bazian wrote: > Which is precisely my problem. This has already been installed and used. I > need to move it FROM ubuntu to Windows. Is there any guide on where things > are when installed from the .deb? You only need to move the database contents. The MW code is essentially the same.

[Mediawiki-l] Category Question

2008-11-20 Thread Phillip Baker
Greetings, I have a template that includes a category on the featured page that calls that template but not on the template works great. Now the featured page that calls the template, is called into the Main Page. Now the Mina Page shows the category from the template. I would like to be able

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Newbie question - Move from Ubuntu to Windows

2008-11-20 Thread Menachem Bazian
Which is precisely my problem. This has already been installed and used. I need to move it FROM ubuntu to Windows. Is there any guide on where things are when installed from the .deb? - Original Message - From: "Daniel Friesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Newbie question - Move from Ubuntu to Windows

2008-11-20 Thread Daniel Friesen
Just install MediaWiki from the official source. The .deb package adds no extra benefit, and only makes it harder to understand where things are and what is wrong because the .deb package does not use the standard locations for things in MediaWiki. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) ~Pro

[Mediawiki-l] Newbie question - Move from Ubuntu to Windows

2008-11-20 Thread Menachem Bazian
Hi, I have to move a mediawiki install from an Ubuntu server (which was installed with the .deb package) to a windows server. I saw the how to and it talks about copying all the mediawiki files over but I can't seem to find them in one place on the ubuntu server. I am sure I am missing simple.

[Mediawiki-l] Extension to remove nofollow

2008-11-20 Thread Andrew Miller
Does anybody know of a MW extension that removes the rel="nofollow" attribute from external links after a set number of days? I want to encourage RichmondWiki.org users to contribute content and don't feel that it should be a "walled garden" to hog all of the PageRank. At the same time, I don't wan

[Mediawiki-l] DPL usage: Squelch some headingmode headings?

2008-11-20 Thread Ted Osborne
I am using headingmode with ordermethod=category,title to generate a categorized list of articles: category=Database programming cookbook recipes ordermethod=category,title headingmode=H3 columns=3 But I want to omit some category sections (like "Database programming cookbook recipes", or ut

Re: [Mediawiki-l] TeX with dvipng and Linux

2008-11-20 Thread Javier Bezos
I wrote: > Here is an alternative for the default math using dvipng: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows > Finally, I've got tex+dvipng to work with another method: WikiTeX.php. Javier Javier Bezos | http://www.tex-

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Error message of email setup

2008-11-20 Thread Simon Orr
Try adding this to the bottom of your localsettings.php file: date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London"); Obviously you'll need to change it to the correct location. More info here: http://uk.php.net/date_default_timezone_set Hope this helps :) Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL P

[Mediawiki-l] Error message of email setup

2008-11-20 Thread Mohammad Towfiqul Islam
Hi All,   I am experiencing below error message when I am going to setup/put email address in the MediaWiki Preference (email field) though I get the email:   "Error sending mail: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment va