Re: [Mediawiki-l] Category

2009-12-07 Thread oscar
forwarding a reply which somehow did not come through to this list, from a long-time listmember: >Can I get a list of all the articles in category A and C, in one list? My response is a bit late. What you want is a AND function of categories. That is possible. OR functions are also possible, and

[Mediawiki-l] overriding image page

2009-12-07 Thread Tim Cronin
Hello all, I have the need to override the default action when clicking an image/file. I would like to have the images show either the image on a blank page or have nothing happen onclick. However, when you click on a PDF, it will begin the download. Currently when clicking a file or image yo

[Mediawiki-l] falling back to local database

2009-12-07 Thread asaf
in case the user is not found on LDAP, I'd like to try normal authentication. I tried : $wgLDAPUseLocal = true; but it just writes the debug line : "Allowing the local domain, adding it to the list." and doesn't log in. (when disabling the plugin, I can login using same user/pass) was that the pu

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re-Writing page titles

2009-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 December 2009 10:58:11 ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: > By putting the list into the Help: pages it's made them > more visible somehow... and I also have started announcing new > Extensions using MediaWiki:Sitenotice. > This is the approach we are starting to take. It's become ob

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re-Writing page titles

2009-12-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
>>> By default, MediaWiki's subpage feature is turned off in the main >>> namespace, but can be used on talk pages and user pages. See >>> Help:Namespaces. In namespaces where the feature is switched off, any >>> slashes (/) within a >> page >> >>> name are simply part of the page name and do nothi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re-Writing page titles

2009-12-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
> huh. interesting. But I think it's too bad that users (non-technical and > otherwise) need so much hand-holding when it come to software. > > With a DVD player (or a car or house), a user will press the button or flip > a switch to learn what a thing does. With software, and tools like > MediaWi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re-Writing page titles

2009-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 06 December 2009 19:50:55 Platonides wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 06 December 2009 15:45:00 Platonides wrote: > >> They will only appear if the namespace in which they are, has subpages > >> enabled. Plus, the intermediate pages might need to exist. > > > > My brain hurts ton