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

2009-02-04 Thread River Tarnell
Welcome to mediawiki-l. This mailing list exists for discussion and questions about the MediaWiki software[0]. Important MediaWiki-related announcements (such as new versions) are also posted to this list. Other resources. If you only wish to receive announcements, you should subscrib

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Repost: Setting default namespace for user other than "Main"

2009-02-04 Thread elc pub
Thanks for your suggestion. Will give it a try. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:13 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:54 PM, elc pub wrote: >> 2. When a logged in user wants to create a new article, I would like to >> place that article in a Namespace of my choice. Is that possible ? > Yo

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Password hashes with or without salt

2009-02-04 Thread Tim Starling
Platonides wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> Then you'll probably want to remove the mediawiki package. >> >> It would be hard to break things more than they're already broken. >> >> -- Tim Starling > > Murphy says: The debian installer could be droping the mediawiki database. It doesn't. It doesn'

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Math error

2009-02-04 Thread Platonides
Philip Beach wrote: > I recently restored my db from a dump to a new server. When I tried to > enable math after the whole ordeal I get this error on any page with > tags in it: > > A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the > software. The last attempted database

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Password hashes with or without salt

2009-02-04 Thread Platonides
Tim Starling wrote: > Then you'll probably want to remove the mediawiki package. > > It would be hard to break things more than they're already broken. > > -- Tim Starling Murphy says: The debian installer could be droping the mediawiki database. ___

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Read Only Group

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Rosenthal
just add them to the bottom. Not all possible variables are in there. and: $wgGroupPermissions is spelled with a small w as all other variables. Greets, Michael Rosenthal aka Wuzur On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Platonides wrote: >> >> Don

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hierarchy of users, employees

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Rosenthal
you may be intrested in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Power_structure On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/2/3 Farkas, Illes : >> Dear All, >> Please, tell me, if other lists would be more appropriate for the following >> question. Thanks. > > wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing message

2009-02-04 Thread ekompute
Hi Tom, I am no expert but I think it is possible if you go to the appropriate php page. But I think you can have a blurred out text in every new text area which disappears when one writes in it. How it is done, I don't know but I have seen it done in Wikipedia... maybe someone can help if you like

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing message

2009-02-04 Thread Tom Moitie
> Try having a look at > for some documentation for Editnotices Is this something that is in the Mediawiki alpha? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing message

2009-02-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Tom Moitie wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm looking for a way to display a message imbetween the Editing {1} >> (MediaWiki:Editing) section and the textarea editbox for a logged in >> user. Is this possible? >> >> Thanks, Tom Try having a look at

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Read Only Group

2009-02-04 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Platonides wrote: > > Don't give it edit right. You will also need to remove the edit right > from * and user, so they don't inherit it from there. Why I can't see those: $WgGroupPermissions ['*] $WgGroupPermissions [user] variable on my LocalSettings.php? Is it

[Mediawiki-l] Editing message

2009-02-04 Thread Tom Moitie
> Hi there, > > I'm looking for a way to display a message imbetween the Editing {1} > (MediaWiki:Editing) section and the textarea editbox for a logged in > user. Is this possible? > > Thanks, Tom ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedi