[Mediawiki-l] Categories

2009-12-02 Thread Sarel Wessels (Agri Wiki)
Hey, Let say I have a few articles, some are in category A and B and C, some in all the categories, some in 2 of them, etc. Can I get a list of all the articles in category A and C, in one list? Its easy just the get the articles in one category, but listing all articles that are in certain ca

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

2009-12-02 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] namespaces in relation to initial installation and configuration

2009-12-02 Thread Jim Laurino
On 12/02/2009 02:26:40 PM, William van Zwanenberg - w...@propping-up-the-bar.com wrote: ... snip > However ... > > Having successfully created a "mediawiki.common.css" article page, and > added the following line to it: > > #f-powerbyico { display: none; } > > In order to suppress the displa

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrading to Mediawiki 1.15

2009-12-02 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Thomas Quinet wrote: > I am convinced I use the correct db user & pwd.. > > Have you actually set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in AdminSettings.php (or LocalSettings.php)? These are distinct from $wgDBuser and $wgDBpassword in 1.15. __

Re: [Mediawiki-l] namespaces in relation to initial installation and configuration

2009-12-02 Thread William van Zwanenberg
> >> So, using my example, if there were say 20 pages within the help >> namespace, I'd want to create a "Help:IndexPage" page that listed all 20 >> pages and included internal links to take you to the page in question. >> >> I hope this makes sense. >The easiest way would be putting {{Spe

Re: [Mediawiki-l] namespaces in relation to initialinstallationandconfiguration

2009-12-02 Thread William van Zwanenberg
>One way of doing this would be to manually create the page and include links >to all of the pages. >Another way would be using the Dynamic Page List extension to automatically >generate the list of pages based on the namespace. >Which one is best for you would depend on how often you see the li

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Changing the "System"-Content of the File Pages

2009-12-02 Thread Platonides
To hide the files metadata use: #metadata, .mw-imagepage-section-metadata { display: none; } ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] namespaces in relation to initial installationand configuration

2009-12-02 Thread Platonides
William van Zwanenberg wrote: >>> 3. How can I generate a list of all articles with links to >>> corresponding article page contained within a given namespace and >>> display this in a "special" wiki page (article)? > >> Not sure what you want here. Does Special:WhatLinksHere fits your > ne

Re: [Mediawiki-l] namespaces in relation to initial installationandconfiguration

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Bishop
>Not really. My apologies, I should have explained this in more detail. > >To give one very simple example of what it is I'm trying to achieve, I want to put all "help" related pages, in a >namespace called "help." All articles within this namespace will, as the name suggests, be pages offering gu

[Mediawiki-l] Changing the "System"-Content of the File Pages

2009-12-02 Thread Irene Müller
Hi all, I'd like to change the Texts on the "File-Pages". In fact, I'd like not to show most of it, like Versions and Metadata. Does anyone know how to do this? Because we have several Wikis on the same Mediawiki-Installation, it should be done on the skin-Level... I can do the following: - No

[Mediawiki-l] namespaces in relation to initial installationand configuration

2009-12-02 Thread William van Zwanenberg
>> The current windows based sandbox installation is as follows: >> - PHP 5.30 installed >> - MySQL 5.1.37 installed >> - DB user: r...@localhost >> - PHP's memory limit is 128M >> - Installation directory c:\xampp\htdocs\eurowiki >> - Script

[Mediawiki-l] Upgrading to Mediawiki 1.15

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Quinet
Dear All, I run into a problem when trying to upgrade my mediawiki. I am hosted on a mutualised server with provider OVH (www.ovh.com) When I run the update script (through SSH, located in the maintenance folder), I have the following message: ** ti...@ssh1:~/www/ma

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Comments and Parameters on Templates

2009-12-02 Thread Platonides
Rodney Morris wrote: > I've two issues I've been bashing my head against for the last few days > and finally decided to put it out to the list as a whole. I'm working > on an increasingly complex template and I'm hoping you guys might be > able to provide some easy answers. > > 1) Is it possible

Re: [Mediawiki-l] namespaces in relation to initial installation and configuration

2009-12-02 Thread Platonides
William van Zwanenberg wrote: > I am a completely newcomer to Mediawiki and have an enquiry regarding > its installation and configuration. I hope therefore that subscribers > of this mailing list will make allowances for me if I have inadvertently > mailed the wrong list were my enquiry would be