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

2009-11-25 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] Usage stats questions

2009-11-25 Thread Platonides
Jon Bartlett wrote: > All, > > I'm trying to gauge the value of my internal company Wiki, and I want to > produce some usage statistics (primarily around pages being read, rather than > edited). Typically, things like number of pages read today, or this week etc. > Can anyone point me to where

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Use MySQL for User Login

2009-11-25 Thread Platonides
Ross Xu wrote: >> yes, that is exactly what it is intended for. it can use pretty much any >> authentication mechanism, on any machine. > Sorry, I still don't get it, acctually am more confusing. > > On the auth plugin page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/AuthPlugin, it tells > two kinds of plugin

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Use MySQL for User Login

2009-11-25 Thread Ross Xu
--- On Wed, 11/25/09, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > yes, that is exactly what it is intended for. it can use pretty much any > authentication mechanism, on any machine. Sorry, I still don't get it, acctually am more confusing.   On the auth plugin page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/AuthPlugin, it tell

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to Add ContactUs (mailto) to Footer

2009-11-25 Thread Ross Xu
Thank you Platonides, but it doesn't work as I expected.   When I click "Contact Us", I am redirected to the Mediawiki:aboutpage PAGE which has the mailto:feedb...@mycompany.com link in the page. So, I have to click the mailto link to again get a mail client open. What I want is that clicking the

[Mediawiki-l] math and PDF

2009-11-25 Thread Günter Gratzer
Hello, I'm using formulas ( ... ) in my wiki like it is explained on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula If I export the page with pfdbook to a pdf file the formulas are missing in the pdf file. Anybody knows how I can fix this? Is there any other extension to export wiki p

[Mediawiki-l] Usage stats questions

2009-11-25 Thread Jon Bartlett
All, I'm trying to gauge the value of my internal company Wiki, and I want to produce some usage statistics (primarily around pages being read, rather than edited). Typically, things like number of pages read today, or this week etc. Can anyone point me to where either the database structures a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Use MySQL for User Login

2009-11-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Ross Xu schrieb: > MachineA is my customer portal website, and is using a mysql database for > user login. > MachineB is my MediaWiki, and its main website does NOT need any > authentication. > What I want is to make use of the user account database on MachineA for my > MW's authentication on Ma