Re: [Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Velan
am 11.03.2010 07:48 schrieb Katharina Wolkwitz: > since I'm suffering the same problem I tried your tipp and commented out all > occurrences of "text-transform:lowercase;" in main.css, but to no avail. > All text in the "edit-tabs" and also the words "navigation", "suche" and > "werkzeuge" in the s

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

2010-03-10 Thread Katharina Wolkwitz
Hi Peter, since I'm suffering the same problem I tried your tipp and commented out all occurrences of "text-transform:lowercase;" in main.css, but to no avail. All text in the "edit-tabs" and also the words "navigation", "suche" and "werkzeuge" in the sidebar stay lowercase. Should I replace "tex

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

2010-03-10 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] mediawiki extension for citability

2010-03-10 Thread Silona Bonewald
So I asked around and was told that this should be the appropriate list to post this too... We are looking for a few brave programmers that believe in the battle cry of "citation needed!" We want to create a special easy to install open source tool for citability on mediawiki. We already have te

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

2010-03-10 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi, Platonides wrote: >> So, what I did was change the database and the MySQL system to utf8. But >> then the database also has >> to be converted and this failed miserably for me. I followed these steps: >> >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Convert_latin1_to_UTF-8_in_MySQL >> >> which did no

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Velan
am 10.03.2010 11:37 schrieb wikipax: > Good day everybody, > I'm using mediawiki 1.15.1 with german localisation. > $wgLanguageCode = "de-formal"; > Well, this works messages, navigation, special pages and so on are german. But > after an update from 1.14 to 1.15.1 all the words are written with sm

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

2010-03-10 Thread K. Peachey
They are most likely over riding the defaults using css in either [[Mediawiki:Common.css]] or [[Mediawiki:SKIN-NAME.css]] (example: [[Mediawiki:Monobook.css]]) for the capitalization rules. -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

2010-03-10 Thread Platonides
Javier Bezos wrote: >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-March/88.html >> >> Which was also cross-posted to this list and wikitech-l. > > Thank you, Chad, but what I actually wanted was an explanation of > the bug. If the problem are external images, I presume a link

Re: [Mediawiki-l] run media

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Starling
Tyler wrote: > I run a site on Wikia (which obviously means it uses MediaWiki). I am reliably informed that you do not run any Wikia sites, because you are blocked from all of them. Apparently, they made the judgement that the many childish questions you asked were not asked in good faith, and th

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Writing extensions for MediaWiki

2010-03-10 Thread Tisane .
Sorry, typo, I meant to say you'll need to use global $wgOut; On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Tisane . wrote: > Hi Tech Geek, > Probably you'll want to start with > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensions#Writing_Extensions . There are > several different types of extensions, e.g. special pag

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Writing extensions for MediaWiki

2010-03-10 Thread Tisane .
Hi Tech Geek, Probably you'll want to start with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensions#Writing_Extensions . There are several different types of extensions, e.g. special page extensions; hook extensions; tag extensions; etc. If you're making a special page, for instance, you can find a simple ex

[Mediawiki-l] Texvc Question / Problem

2010-03-10 Thread Charlie Parry
Hi folks, I'm helping someone get their MediaWiki set up, and they need to use the Texvc module to display the mathematical functions that are part of their content. The host provider (SiteGround) has installed the module, and it does work some of the time, but fails other times. The provi

[Mediawiki-l] Writing extensions for MediaWiki

2010-03-10 Thread Tech Geek
Hi all, I have been playing with mediawiki for past 6 months and I am getting more and more comfortable with it and I like it a lot. Now I am thinking to start writing extensions for mediawiki starting from very simple (Hello world types) extensions. I am familiar with PHP and have done some LAMP

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

2010-03-10 Thread T4b
Am 10.03.2010 11:37, schrieb wikipax: > Good day everybody, > I'm using mediawiki 1.15.1 with german localisation. > $wgLanguageCode = "de-formal"; > Well, this works messages, navigation, special pages and so on are german. But > after an update from 1.14 to 1.15.1 all the words are written with s

[Mediawiki-l] LightboxThumbs Extension and Resizing Images

2010-03-10 Thread Henry Hartley
I've recently installed the LightboxThumbs extension on a couple wikis and like it pretty well. One significant problem (or lack of a solution, anyway) is that the full size image is displayed in the image pop-up and if the images you upload are large, it's not really very usable. Of course, it

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

2010-03-10 Thread Javier Bezos
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-March/88.html > > Which was also cross-posted to this list and wikitech-l. Thank you, Chad, but what I actually wanted was an explanation of the bug. If the problem are external images, I presume a link has to be given somehow, but

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

2010-03-10 Thread Chad
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Javier Bezos wrote: >> PS: Update to 1.15.2, you are vulnerable to CSS image inclusion. > > Thank you. Please, could you give a pointer explaining it? > > Cheers > Javier > > ___ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

2010-03-10 Thread Javier Bezos
Thank yoy for your interest and answers. Platonides: > So you shouldn't have tried to convert the content, that would have > broken it. Very likely this is what they did. > Without knowing the exact way your db is broken, it'd be hard to fix it. > What search are you using? The internal one? Ma

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

2010-03-10 Thread Platonides
El 09/03/10 10:20, Raymond Wan wrote: > Javier Bezos wrote: >> CREATE TABLE `wl_archive` ( >>`ar_namespace` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', >>`ar_title` varchar(255) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin NOT >> NULL default '', >> [...] >> ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; >> >> and n

Re: [Mediawiki-l] run media

2010-03-10 Thread Platonides
Tyler wrote: > I run a site on Wikia (which obviously means it uses MediaWiki). What page in > the > MediaWiki namespace contains the PHP source code for MediaWiki? The php source code is not on the mediawiki namespace. If you need to modify the php files, you need to ask wikia to change it for

[Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

2010-03-10 Thread wikipax
Good day everybody, I'm using mediawiki 1.15.1 with german localisation. $wgLanguageCode = "de-formal"; Well, this works messages, navigation, special pages and so on are german. But after an update from 1.14 to 1.15.1 all the words are written with small letters. Normally each word should begin wi