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

2009-07-29 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

[Mediawiki-l] Dynamic Pages in a Wiki

2009-07-29 Thread Charlie Markwick
Currently we hold our company procedures and process on a wiki. Our other systems have links to the relevant pages in the wiki. Thus our inventory system might have a link to standard text that needs to be sent out. EG an example is:- http://web01:2003/index.php?title=Our_Standard_Texts#LaptopReb

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Fixing external links across a wiki

2009-07-29 Thread Platonides
Michelle wrote: > A site that we link to from our wiki has been redesigned, so that all of our > links to it are broken. I see how to search for the articles using the links > using Special:LinkSearch. Is there a way to replace an external link string > throughout a wiki? I would do it with and SQ

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Fixing external links across a wiki

2009-07-29 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Michelle wrote: > A site that we link to from our wiki has been redesigned, so that all of our > links to it are broken. I see how to search for the articles using the links > using Special:LinkSearch. Is there a way to replace an external link string > throughout a

[Mediawiki-l] Fixing external links across a wiki

2009-07-29 Thread Michelle
A site that we link to from our wiki has been redesigned, so that all of our links to it are broken. I see how to search for the articles using the links using Special:LinkSearch. Is there a way to replace an external link string throughout a wiki? I would do it with and SQL query, but that data s

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Install Issue - MediaWiki 1.15.1

2009-07-29 Thread Platonides
That's the PHP info. I was enquiring about the web server, in case it was an odd one. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] configure mediawiki to host wikibooks

2009-07-29 Thread Christensen, Courtney
-Original Message-From: Jean Pierre Charalambos Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:03 PM >I just don't know how to twick it: is it an extension? is it a >configuration option? Or is it simply the way pages are edited >(meaning that pages=articles=modules)? Or something else? >-- >Jean Pierre __

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Can maintenance/update.php be run on shared hosting?

2009-07-29 Thread Katharina Wolkwitz
Hi Poon, I've always used the reinstall-technique when upgrading my wiki, but I've never user the /maintenance/update.php but rather the alternative described in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Alternative_2:_Re-run_the_installer I've copied the critical text-passage from the web