[Mediawiki-l] Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon - 19-20 Nov.

2011-09-20 Thread Lewis Cawte
Greetings all, Been some things floating around about this already, but I'm proud to announce Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011 MediaWiki developers are going to meet in Brighton on the South East coast of the United Kingdom to hack anything to

[Mediawiki-l] Extension:ImportFreeImages & phpFlickr-3.1

2011-09-20 Thread John W. Foster
Anyone got any tips on getting this to work. I,m having a real problem getting the extension to load the phpFlickr.php This is the error message I am getting: phpFlickr can not be found at $IP/extensions/ImportFreeImages/phpFlickr-3.1/phpFlickr.php Backtrace: #0 /home/frosty/mediawiki-1.17.0/ext

[Mediawiki-l] [mediawiki] automatic page creation from database

2011-09-20 Thread Rahul Sharma
Dear all, Is there any way to create pages in mediawiki automatically, as database changes pages will create automatically. -- Rahul, ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki

[Mediawiki-l] "Template:Safesubst" Error

2011-09-20 Thread John W. Foster
I am seeing this error on a Mediawiki 1.17; A call for; "Template:Safesubst" is what the wiki is describing as this instruction set. "{{#ifeq:{{{subst}}}|SUBST" Anyone know what I need to do to get these to not appear as 'template' calls, & of course to work. Thanks -- John W. Foster _

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Where are user options cached?

2011-09-20 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 14:44 +, Daniel Barrett wrote: > After changing the default skin on our wiki from monobook to vector > ($wgDefaultSkin = 'vector'), and deleting all 'skin' preference rows from the > user_options table, a few of our wiki users still see the old skin, monobook. > Where

[Mediawiki-l] DPL help needed

2011-09-20 Thread Anne Wilson
A Manual is in preparation, and to avoid redlinks on the Contents page, we considered creating all pages, adding "ToDo" on the currently empty ones. The idea was that the author could simply have a DPL statement on his user page to see which pages still required content. Unfortunately, we can't g

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems Installing mediawiki

2011-09-20 Thread Chung Kin Mong
Hi Platonides, Thank you very much for your help. I followed your direction and find the "error_log" in /var/log/apache2 where it reveals the permission of the "/w" directory is drwxr-xr-x. After I changed it to "0777" (I don't know if that is the right values, please confirm) and then the "main