[Mediawiki-l] Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)

2008-12-24 Thread River Tarnell
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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Tweaking Random Articles Button in Monobook

2008-12-24 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi Brion, that was marvellous! I tested it 10 times and yes, it works perfectly. Thank you very much and also to Platonides. The timing is perfect because I just added quite a number of stubs which I want to hide from visitors pressing the Random Page link. Was earlier kind of worried that it will

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Tweaking Random Articles Button in Monobook

2008-12-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On 12/24/08 4:42 AM, Platonides wrote: > My bad, the page_restrictions table is used instead. > You will need to edit the SQL at includes/specials/SpecialRandompage.php > to perform the JOIN :/ If your MySQL server is 4.1 or later you should be able to get away with something like this: $wgExtra

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Tweaking Random Articles Button in Monobook

2008-12-24 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi Platonides, thanks for your kind assistance. As I am quite blur on php, can you please elaborate what you mean by " edit the SQL at includes/specials/ SpecialRandompage.php to perform the JOIN? I suppose the $wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_restrictions <> ""'; must still be added into LocalSetting

Re: [Mediawiki-l] robot editors

2008-12-24 Thread Platonides
Farkas, Illes escribió: > Dear All, > > We work with pages-meta-history files. > Can robots (among the editors) > be identified by their names or any other properties? > Is there a list of known robots? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=bot Or using the API: http

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Tweaking Random Articles Button in Monobook

2008-12-24 Thread Platonides
Ekompute .info wrote: > Hi, thank you for kind response. I tried > > $wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_restrictions <> ""'; > > in LocalSettings.php but I got this message when I click the Random Page > link: > > *There are no pages in this namespace. * > > I tried to modify the command a little to

[Mediawiki-l] robot editors

2008-12-24 Thread Farkas, Illes
Dear All, We work with pages-meta-history files. Can robots (among the editors) be identified by their names or any other properties? Is there a list of known robots? Are there different types of robots? Thanks. Happy Holidays ___ MediaWiki-l mailing