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

2010-09-22 Thread River Tarnell
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Re: [Mediawiki-l] mobile wiki: connect 2 wikis with the same mediawikiversion to the same database?

2010-09-22 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:14:52 -0700, "trueskew" wrote: > I was planning on trying this: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileSkin > but haven't yet, maybe you can give us a report back if it works as > advertised. Thanks so let me see whether I understand it. The

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sitenotice show only on article pages

2010-09-22 Thread Zak Greant (Foo Associates)
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 00:27, wrote: ... > Nonetheless I'd be interested what you mean by comparing the namespace >  with a parser function. Is there any documentation on this topic? Platonides is talking about the {{#ifeq ...}} parser function (which is provided by the ParserFunctions extensio

Re: [Mediawiki-l] modify search engine

2010-09-22 Thread Zak Greant (Foo Associates)
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:58, Scheid, Bernhard wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible (is there any hook, an extension or a php-hack) to modify the > search engine > in such a way that the search term "example" would find "example" as well as > "ex*ample"? Can you be more specific about what you need

Re: [Mediawiki-l] mobile wiki: connect 2 wikis with the same mediawikiversion to the same database?

2010-09-22 Thread trueskew
I was planning on trying this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileSkin but haven't yet, maybe you can give us a report back if it works as advertised. "MobileSkin automatically detects the computer (device) requesting the page and determines if there is a skin that should be used

[Mediawiki-l] modify search engine

2010-09-22 Thread Scheid, Bernhard
Hi, is it possible (is there any hook, an extension or a php-hack) to modify the search engine in such a way that the search term "example" would find "example" as well as "ex*ample"? Bernhard ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia

[Mediawiki-l] SimpleSecurity

2010-09-22 Thread Hugo Vasques
Hello, good morning! After several unsuccessful desisitndo I'm using the extension acl halo, because the way it works. I then intend to use the extension SimpleSecurity. Could someone pass me a step-by-step configuration of this extension that is functional? Because that is the site did not help

[Mediawiki-l] mobile wiki: connect 2 wikis with the same mediawiki version to the same database?

2010-09-22 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello This is a slightly different question from the one I asked some days ago. I want to have a mobile version of a wiki and is seems that the chick skin of 1.16.0 is a good candidate. So the idea was to have 2 installations: http://localhost/wiki/ (on /var/www/wiki) with the modern skin htt

Re: [Mediawiki-l] connect to wikis to the same database?

2010-09-22 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:52:23 +0200, Platonides > wrote: >> >> Uwe Brauer > You can install mediawiki *files* in a different folder > and then in the installation step: > a) Choose the same database. The latest mediawiki (currently 1.16.0) > will update your databas

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Sites using InstantCommons (was: wikimedia commons slow lately?)

2010-09-22 Thread Chad
> On 22 September 2010 07:49, Erik Moeller wrote: > Unless there's another obvious source of this information > Nope, thanks for doing that :) > If it were an extension, we would have a little [1]. There has been > some talk about implementing optional statistics collection for > MediaWiki insta

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Hiding Images

2010-09-22 Thread Scheid, Bernhard
I wonder whether Extension:Lockdown wouldn't do the job. Thereby you can specify reading rights for specific namespaces, "file" in this case. I do not know what happens at Special Pages, though. Bernhard -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:med

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sitenotice show only on article pages

2010-09-22 Thread orschiro
Hello Plaonides, trying the first method via CSS I use the following hack, /* Sitenotice */ div#SiteNotice { display:none; } .ns-0 div#SiteNotice { display:block; } But I can't see why this doesn't work. Nonetheless I'd be interested what you mean by comparing the namespace with a parser funct