Re: [Mediawiki-l] Add Content to Mediawiki from Script

2012-02-27 Thread badon
That depends on where your content is coming from. If it's external to your wiki, you probably need a bot. You can find info about them here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots Basically, they interact with MediaWiki via the API: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page You can use th

Re: [Mediawiki-l] howto include different page.css into one MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css page for organizing css cascade sheets?

2012-02-27 Thread Krinkle
On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:31 PM, nakohdo wrote: > See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Embed_page for instructions on how to > transclude pages. > That's for wikitext pages only, not for javascript and css pages. JS/CSS can only be included via the native language syntax of javascript and css,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] howto include different page.css into one MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css page for organizing css cascade sheets?

2012-02-27 Thread Krinkle
On Feb 24, 2012, at 5:25 PM, HiddenId wrote: > Hi, > We've created one page called MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css . This page is > supposed to "call" css subpages. > > > Then we've created 5 css subpages, called : > * MediaWiki:Reset.css > * MediaWiki:Layout.css > * MediaWiki:Colors.css > * MediaWiki

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:03:12 -0800, wrote: I now rely on Ms. Nurdsbaum in room B-303, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_creation ^_^ Some of us like to use our wiki as... well, a wiki. You know, one of those websites that anyone can register for and edit.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread jidanni
I now rely on Ms. Nurdsbaum in room B-303, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_creation ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] custom skins not working on upgrade to 1.18.1

2012-02-27 Thread Graham Seaman
On 02/28/12 00:00, Daniel Friesen wrote: > > One possibility why it stopped working on upgrade might be that the > outdated css loading calls may not be loading the stylesheet. > The near-guaranteed reason why copying Vector.php and editing it isn't > working is because like everyone else you are

Re: [Mediawiki-l] custom skins not working on upgrade to 1.18.1

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:36:59 -0800, Graham Seaman wrote: Hi I'm just upgrading from 1.16.2 to 1.18.1. Everything seems to be fine apart from a custom skin (the built-in skins work ok). The skin ('Resources') is a small variation on Vector. When I switch $wgDefaultSkin to my skin, the skin co

[Mediawiki-l] custom skins not working on upgrade to 1.18.1

2012-02-27 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi I'm just upgrading from 1.16.2 to 1.18.1. Everything seems to be fine apart from a custom skin (the built-in skins work ok). The skin ('Resources') is a small variation on Vector. When I switch $wgDefaultSkin to my skin, the skin code gets called but no css is loaded. I've tried starting again

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Benjamin Lees
ReCAPTCHA is so conceptually flawed that it would be a poor solution even if it weren't cracked. FancyCaptcha is good (but still at least sometimes bypassed in practice), but the requirements for setting it up put it out of reach for many wikis. I'm a fan of QuestyCaptcha, but I'm biased. :-) On

Re: [Mediawiki-l] the password encoding hash algorithm

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:45:34 -0800, Hiram Clawson wrote: Good Afternoon MediaWiki Fans: Can someone point me to the password hash encoding bits of code in the MediaWiki ? I would like to transfer my users to a different login system and would like to make their passwords continue to functi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] the password encoding hash algorithm

2012-02-27 Thread OQ
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote: > Good Afternoon MediaWiki Fans: > > Can someone point me to the password hash encoding bits of > code in the MediaWiki ?   I would like to transfer my users > to a different login system and would like to make their > passwords continue to fun

[Mediawiki-l] the password encoding hash algorithm

2012-02-27 Thread Hiram Clawson
Good Afternoon MediaWiki Fans: Can someone point me to the password hash encoding bits of code in the MediaWiki ? I would like to transfer my users to a different login system and would like to make their passwords continue to function. If I implement the same hash mechanism, I suspect this wi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread pinkunderscoregothic
"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart" -Original Message- From: "Daniel Friesen" Sender: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:23:25 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread pinkunderscoregothic
"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart" -Original Message- From: Sumana Harihareswara Sender: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:49:58 To: Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for accoun

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/27/2012 02:17 PM, mediawiki-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:57:14 + > From: Daniel Barrett > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation > bots? > Message-ID: >

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:19:48 -0800, Frank Ralf wrote: Before I experiment with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what people recommend. Hi Dan, I don't have any experience with MediaWiki antispam solutions but with Drupal I use http://drupal.org/project/spamicide: "Spamicide adds

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Frank Ralf
> I shouldn't be to difficult to use the same mechanism in an extension. And here it is: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam ;-) ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Frank Ralf
> Before I experiment with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what > people recommend. Hi Dan, I don't have any experience with MediaWiki antispam solutions but with Drupal I use http://drupal.org/project/spamicide: "Spamicide adds an input field to each form then hides it with css, whe

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Infobox in the sidebar

2012-02-27 Thread Frank Ralf
> I want to provide my users with some permanent information using kind of an > infobox either in the sidebar or in the footer. Come to think of it, the users only need those information when creating or editing pages (e.g. which categories are available). So something like http://www.mediawiki.

[Mediawiki-l] Offline Wikipedia

2012-02-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/27/2012 07:00 AM, mediawiki-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:35:12 -0600 > From: Jonathan Boler > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Command Line Markup Parser > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread david
My experience is that ReCaptcha is broken and the spammers pass it. My best experience is with questy captcha as well. You can ask for something in the interface or some simple question like "How many ears have got tree elephants?" El dl 27 de 02 de 2012 a les 10:35 -0800, en/na 2...@gmaskfx.com v

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread 2...@gmaskfx.com
You can try ReCaptcha but I found that questy captcha works really well. I just ask the user a really dumb question like where is Tokyo? From: Daniel Barrett To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:57 AM Subject: [M

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Erik Luken
I ended up linking accounts on my wiki to the associated SMF forum. Since the account creation there human moderated, I've had zero bot accounts on the wiki since. Now I just need to go through and clean out the bots from the wiki. Erik -Original Message- From: Daniel Barrett Sent:

[Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Barrett
Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki (http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best extension to prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it didn't stop the bots. Before I experiment with the many other options

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Asking for a mysql test: patch submitted: authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-27 Thread Nicolas Brouard
Le 23 févr. 2012 à 02:01, phoebe ayers a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Nicolas Brouard wrote: >> > >> >> Thank you for your support. I just submitted a complete patch entitled >> "Can't authenticate using my mother language username (UNICODE) when I only >> have (a public) acce

Re: [Mediawiki-l] howto include different page.css into one MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css page for organizing css cascade sheets?

2012-02-27 Thread nakohdo
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Embed_page for instructions on how to transclude pages. hth Frank -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/howto-include-different-page-css-into-one-MediaWiki-CentralCSS-css-page-for-organizing-css-cascade-s-tp4503305p4514589.html

[Mediawiki-l] Infobox in the sidebar

2012-02-27 Thread nakohdo
I want to provide my users with some permanent information using kind of an infobox either in the sidebar or in the footer. However, the sidebar seems to render only links. The same goes for the footer AFAIU http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Footer Any ideas or pointers how to achieve this goal