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

2010-04-28 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] Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!

2010-04-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and MediaWiki). The conference is a community gathering, giving the editors, users and developers of Wikimedia projects an op

[Mediawiki-l] Email Extensions - New Page Creation & Emailing to all wiki user

2010-04-28 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, As a Wiki SysOp user, I am looking for extension(s) for the following two requirement: 1. The SysOp user should get an email whenever a new page is created on the wiki 2. The SysOp user can send an email to all the existing wiki users. I am using Mediawiki 1.12 and I don't think these featu

Re: [Mediawiki-l] extension for "user ratings" poll (eg, rated 3 stars) ?

2010-04-28 Thread Tisane .
I guess you could try the WIGO voting extension. http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/User:Nx/Extensions Note that this code is not reviewed or maintained by the MediaWiki community. Then of course there's http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Poll_extensions . On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, MK wrote:

[Mediawiki-l] extension for "user ratings" poll (eg, rated 3 stars) ?

2010-04-28 Thread MK
I'm doing this big transfer of an MVC style site in a wiki. Part of the existing site is a "user rating" for each page/entry, of the sort you see on youtube videos (click to rate). This is not a rating for the page (and we are already using flagged revs), it's a rating for what the page describ

Re: [Mediawiki-l] integrating MediaWiki with Java applets/servlets

2010-04-28 Thread Platonides
Edward Swing wrote: > We're doing something like this already. Specifically, we are using a > Java client to retrieve, query, and update wiki pages. We have written a > Java class that wraps the api.php, and accesses it through web calls > (opening URL connections, parsing XML, etc.). > > Since th

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikiadmin password reset

2010-04-28 Thread Platonides
McHale, Nina wrote: > Hi, all, > > I am going crazy trying to reset the password for my only administrative > user! :( I took the LDAP authentication method that we had in place > off-thanks to Ryan and Christine for their advice on this-and then tried to > use the "email password" option on th

Re: [Mediawiki-l] integrating MediaWiki with Java applets/servlets

2010-04-28 Thread Edward Swing
We're doing something like this already. Specifically, we are using a Java client to retrieve, query, and update wiki pages. We have written a Java class that wraps the api.php, and accesses it through web calls (opening URL connections, parsing XML, etc.). Since the database is on the wiki server