[Mediawiki-l] Upgrading Mediawiki from version 1.5.6 to 1.15.0

2009-07-01 Thread Francois Piette
Hello, I'm running MediaWiki version 1.5.6 and would like to upgrade to current version (1.15.0). What is the procedure to upgrade ? Is the database compatible ? What about configuration files ? Thanks for any advice. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freewar

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

2009-07-01 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] mwsuggest misses imported articles?

2009-07-01 Thread Brion Vibber
Daniel Barrett wrote: > After using Special:Import to import about 200 articles, I discovered > that none of these articles appear in search results. For example, if > an imported article is titled "Banana milkshake", and you search for > "Banana", the Page Title Matches do NOT include "Banana milk

[Mediawiki-l] mwsuggest misses imported articles?

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Barrett
After using Special:Import to import about 200 articles, I discovered that none of these articles appear in search results. For example, if an imported article is titled "Banana milkshake", and you search for "Banana", the Page Title Matches do NOT include "Banana milkshake." Additionally, the A

Re: [Mediawiki-l] display recentchanges on main page?

2009-07-01 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Hey Philip. No need for an extension. This can be done out of the box. Just add something like "{{Special:RecentChanges/10}}" to your page and the last 10 recent changes will be displayed. More special pages are includable, by the way. I made a tiny test page[1]. Cheers! Siebrand [1] http://tra

[Mediawiki-l] display recentchanges on main page?

2009-07-01 Thread Phillip Rhodes
I would like to display some of the more recent changes on the mediawiki main page that users's first see. I was thinking that I would have to write an extension to do this, and base my code upon whatever the Special:Recentchanges page is doing. Is this a reasonable belief? Would you do it diff

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Forgot my password

2009-07-01 Thread Michael Daly
a...@yawez.com wrote: > I see. So say I decided to use the the maintenance script to get my password, > where would I > enter the "php changePassword.php --user='username' --password='foo'" in > changePassword.php? http://www.mwusers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Running_maintenance_scripts __

[Mediawiki-l] Forgot my password

2009-07-01 Thread alan
I see. So say I decided to use the the maintenance script to get my password, where would I enter the "php changePassword.php --user='username' --password='foo'" in changePassword.php? Thanks, Alan. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How can add a menu?

2009-07-01 Thread Webmaster Casa das Ciências - Guilherme Monteiro
Hi, it's just the navigation. I already see how it's work. Thanks. Regards, -- Guilherme Monteiro 2009/7/1 Jean-Marc van Leerdam > Hi, > > 2009/7/1 Webmaster Casa das Ciências - Guilherme Monteiro > : > > Hello! > > How can I add a menu? > > > > Buy groceries, experiment and invent some new

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How can add a menu?

2009-07-01 Thread Jean-Marc van Leerdam
Hi, 2009/7/1 Webmaster Casa das Ciências - Guilherme Monteiro : > Hello! > How can I add a menu? > Buy groceries, experiment and invent some new recipes and write them on a chart? ;-) No seriously, what menus are you talking about? (in Wiki-speak preferably) If you mean the navigation on the l

[Mediawiki-l] How can add a menu?

2009-07-01 Thread Webmaster Casa das Ciências - Guilherme Monteiro
Hello! How can I add a menu? Thanks, -- Guilherme Monteiro ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[Mediawiki-l] When I try to edit a page, it just prompts me a box to download the index.php file

2009-07-01 Thread sindefinir sindefinir
Hi, I've extensively googling about this error, without been able to find anything related but this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk/Sections/PHP#.5BRESOLVED.5D_Bug_with_parameters_through_index.phpthat neither help me to solve the error. This happens when I am logged in. I'm u

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How best to set up hooks in an extension function ?

2009-07-01 Thread Richard Alan
Thanks Tim, Your advice was exactly what I needed. I'm setting up my code like below. ABC's are replaced with real names and I've removed most of the code to just show the important parts. I took out the line: $wgExtensionFunctions[]= 'wfSetupCSS' and instead create a new class and then ca