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

2010-06-30 Thread River Tarnell
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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Question about page protection

2010-06-30 Thread Alexis Moinet
You might want to take a look at how it works inside the API : includes/api/ApiProtect.php (see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Protect) Alexis Vadtec wrote : > I've posted this question twice before without so much as a courtesy response > of > "Sorry, we don't know." I'd really

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Question about page protection

2010-06-30 Thread Adam Meyer
I actually used the snoopy class before there was a usable API to do a lot of what the API does. It is propably not the best way to go about it, as it will actually act as a user, login and all, and modify the page in some way. You could actually have it protect the page, and confirm it. I used

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Question about page protection

2010-06-30 Thread Vadtec
Adam, Thanks for the response. I haven't heard of the snoopy class, so I will look into that. Yes, I do agree that if I am editing the page it is easiest to just click protect and move on. The idea is, I want the tag itself to protect the page (probably via an option) so that I can drop it on my

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Question about page protection

2010-06-30 Thread Adam Meyer
Im really not sure. But upi may be able to protect pages through the API. If that is true, you could make an extension. The problem is that the protect page comment requires admin access. So I guess you could have it access the page as you or a bot and protect the page. If you know PHP, you can

[Mediawiki-l] Question about page protection

2010-06-30 Thread Vadtec
I've posted this question twice before without so much as a courtesy response of "Sorry, we don't know." I'd really appreciate some help with this, as I have not been able to track down any information on protecting pages (aside from "click protect at the top of the page") and asking in the IRC cha

[Mediawiki-l] Wildcard search as default search behavior

2010-06-30 Thread nakohdo
Hi, is it possible to set the default search behavior to using wildcards? That is, entering the search term "token" would actually search for "token*" and therefor also find "tokenization". IMO not so tech savvy users might suspect this to be the default behavior. Frank -- View this message i