Re: [Mediawiki-l] How can I specify 'locked to editing' blocks of pages?

2008-12-15 Thread George Herbert
Transcluded pages, and locked transclusion sources, do this just fine. If you control the server you can set up a group security mechanism and put the auto-generated pages in their own namespace, which only a few users can edit, so you don't even have to mess with per-page permission stuff... O

[Mediawiki-l] How can I specify 'locked to editing' blocks of pages?

2008-12-15 Thread John Major
Hello- I have a use case which I am having trouble figuring out how to implement: mediawiki pages are auto generated by a bot which creates a 'base page' containing details about some analysis results. I'd like the auto generated results to appear on an editable page(say as a block of text, or a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki plugin to record screencasts directly from the edit page

2008-12-15 Thread Erik Moeller
2008/12/15 Skoffer.com Team : > the Java screen recorder not, everything else yes (if someone makes a > plugin that uses the "API" then it's up to him). > The screen recorder alone would only be of use when you have a root > server with full access, because a lot of the screencast creation > proces

Re: [Mediawiki-l] snapshots from history file

2008-12-15 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: > Farkas, Illes wrote: >> Hello, > >> A question about http://download.wikimedia.org/*/latest. Is it >> possible to reconstruct a snapshot for a given day from >> pages-meta-history? > > To a certain degree, though there are some difficulties with making an > *exact* snapshot.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Suggestion to add to code: TitleMoveHook

2008-12-15 Thread Eric K
Thanks a lot! I see it was introduced in 1.12. I had'nt checked its existence since a long time. This will save me some work now. I have started using this new hook. thanks --- On Mon, 12/15/08, Alexandre Emsenhuber wrote: From: Alexandre Emsenhuber Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Suggestion to a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki plugin to record screencasts directly from the edit page

2008-12-15 Thread Skoffer.com Team
Hi Erik, the Java screen recorder not, everything else yes (if someone makes a plugin that uses the "API" then it's up to him). The screen recorder alone would only be of use when you have a root server with full access, because a lot of the screencast creation process is done by server-side so

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki plugin to record screencasts directly from the edit page

2008-12-15 Thread Erik Moeller
2008/12/13 Skoffer.com Team : > I contribute to the Skoffer project, and like to point you to my Skoffer > MediaWiki plugin (GPL). > Skoffer is a free uncommercial project which lets you build in a > screencast recorder into your website. Since MediaWiki is great to make > sofware documentations, t

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki plugin to record screencasts directly from the edit page

2008-12-15 Thread Brian
Thank's Stefan, I will upgrade our wiki farm to the latest mediawiki and let you know if that helps. We have 1.12rc1 I believe. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Skoffer.com Team wrote: > Hi Brian, > > thank you very much for the detailed information. > Bad to hear that it did not work for you li

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Suggestion to add to code: TitleMoveHook

2008-12-15 Thread Alexandre Emsenhuber
There's already the AbortMove hook (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/AbortMove). Alexandre Emsenhuber (ialex) Le 15.12.2008 20:06, « Eric K » a écrit : > There's no code that can interrupt a Title Move. I have added a little snippet > into Title.php that does this and allows me t

[Mediawiki-l] Suggestion to add to code: TitleMoveHook

2008-12-15 Thread Eric K
There's no code that can interrupt a Title Move. I have added a little snippet into Title.php that does this and allows me to stop a user from doing a Title Move under many userful conditions. One of them includes monitoring how many title moves they're doing in a certain amount of amount of tim

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect from image pages does not work

2008-12-15 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Uwe Baumbach wrote: > Do I overlook a variable which controls internamespace redirects? If > no - what could be the reason that redirects (which work in 1.9.3) do > not do? You could also try using the Click extension. I'm liking that one for making images into icons. _

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect from image pages does not work

2008-12-15 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Baumbach wrote: > Testing 1.13.3 we are stuck at images redirect: > > For some reasons in our prod environment (1.9.3) we have a number of > image redirects (we didnŽt know LinkedImage in the olden days). > > In our tests 1.13.3 (in contrast to t

Re: [Mediawiki-l] snapshots from history file

2008-12-15 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Farkas, Illes wrote: > Hello, > > A question about http://download.wikimedia.org/*/latest. Is it > possible to reconstruct a snapshot for a given day from > pages-meta-history? To a certain degree, though there are some difficulties with making an *e

[Mediawiki-l] Redirect from image pages does not work

2008-12-15 Thread Uwe Baumbach
Hi around, Testing 1.13.3 we are stuck at images redirect: For some reasons in our prod environment (1.9.3) we have a number of image redirects (we didnŽt know LinkedImage in the olden days). In our tests 1.13.3 (in contrast to the release notes: "* Image redirects are now enabled by default"

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Add HTML text to every page (Uwe Baumbach)

2008-12-15 Thread Uwe Baumbach
Stephane, >> Our first goal is to add HTML text (a horizontal menu bar on top) to all >> pages >> CSS is already added (formatting with another selector may be better, of >> course, but that isn?t my problem - at this moment ;-) ) > may be headerfooter is what you need : > http://www.mediawiki.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki plugin to record screencasts directly from the edit page

2008-12-15 Thread Skoffer.com Team
Hi Brian, thank you very much for the detailed information. Bad to hear that it did not work for you like said. > I tried Skoffer on Windows, Mac and Linux and so far it is only usable on > Windows. This makes it unsuitable for user in our lab, which consists mostly > of Mac and Linux users. Here

Re: [Mediawiki-l] png have stopped working (1.11)

2008-12-15 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/12 David Gerard : > 2008/12/12 Sean McAfee : >> Yes - this happened to me when I accidentally compiled ImageMagick >> without png support. > ooh, that sounds a likely candidate. The ImageMagick on those boxes > *shouldn't* have gotten recompiled or updated at any stage (crusty old > OS we

[Mediawiki-l] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 security update

2008-12-15 Thread Tim Starling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a security release of MediaWiki 1.13.3, 1.12.1 and 1.6.11. Some of the security issues affect *all* versions of MediaWiki except the versions released today, so all site administrators are encouraged to upgrade. Users of the development (trunk

[Mediawiki-l] snapshots from history file

2008-12-15 Thread Farkas, Illes
Hello, A question about http://download.wikimedia.org/*/latest. Is it possible to reconstruct a snapshot for a given day from pages-meta-history? Thanks, Illes ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai