On 5 February 2012 10:24, Greg wrote:
> I have been messing with mediawiki 1.18 for a while now. I think what it
> needs is an administration page.
>
> Why is there a reliance on manually editing LocalSettings.php and uploading
> it to the site? Why is there not an Admin page that edits this on
Chad (^demon) did do some work to start supporting a DB based config
setup, although I don't believe he had the time to really work on that
so it has stagnated (If anyone else wants to pick it up and do some
work on it)
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Steve VanSlyck wrote:
> An excellent question, Greg. Unfortunately the most common reply you will
> get will probably be "write one yourself."
>
> Creating GUI's seems for whatever reason to be outside the comfort level
> of most programmers.
>
> "Comment? Why would
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> >Why is there a reliance on manually editing LocalSettings.php and
> uploading it to the site?
> >Why is there not an Admin page that edits this online?
>
> "Config file vs. GUI admin page" is a religious issue for systems in
> general. If y
>Why is there a reliance on manually editing LocalSettings.php and uploading it
>to the site?
>Why is there not an Admin page that edits this online?
"Config file vs. GUI admin page" is a religious issue for systems in general.
If you're running one just one wiki, say, as a hobby, then a GUI wou
An excellent question, Greg. Unfortunately the most common reply you
will get will probably be "write one yourself."
Creating GUI's seems for whatever reason to be outside the comfort
level of most programmers.
"Comment? Why would I comment my own code?"
"Help? Why would I need a help file
Have a look at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads
and then use Special:Upload.
Am 05.02.2012 10:29, schrieb Greg:
More mediawiki difficulty. Just how do I upload files? Like images and ZIP
files, so that I can link to them in my pages?
Yes, there are somethings in L
More mediawiki difficulty. Just how do I upload files? Like images and ZIP
files, so that I can link to them in my pages?
Yes, there are somethings in LocalSettings.php, which I have all enabled, but
where or how do you upload files? Is there a form some where? Do you have to
use FTP? And again
I have been messing with mediawiki 1.18 for a while now. I think what it needs
is an administration page.
Why is there a reliance on manually editing LocalSettings.php and uploading it
to the site? Why is there not an Admin page that edits this online?
I would love to implement this but it migh
