Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi David! It looks fabulous! If I request the sources can I then put them online? - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:42 AM, David Van Winkle dvanwin...@live.com wrote: On the topic of wiki skins: we have created a flavor that adheres nicely to the wiki format but with a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:56:00 -0700, Jason Lewis jason.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm a developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role in the community side of things for a PHP framework called

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Friesen
That namespace is really exclusively for new skins (well and built-in skins) that follow the skins/skinname/skinname.php, etc... pattern outlined in the tutorial. Not skins still using hacks like modifying core files and placing php files directly into skins/ ((Btw, I have a separate

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Jason Lewis
Directly using the internal classes rather than template keys is a hack from the skinning perspective. So I didn't include any documentation on doing stuff like that. Though maybe we should. You do not want to use $wgUser to get the user. That should actually be $this-getSkin()-getUser()

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi Daniel! As far as I can see Skin category+namespace+template is the only good way to describe and promote the skins. I agree however that we should distinguish between clean-written skins and hacking skins. I can create special WARNING template about that but I think that we should describe as

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [MW] How to set Thumbnail for Doc, Docx, etc

2013-05-21 Thread Platonides
On 07/05/13 17:47, Steven Zhong wrote: Dear all, Thumbnail ( icon ) of Doc/Docx can not be displayed which MW installed/configured by default, a blank icon is very ugly, and how to set it ? Thanks! - Steven Do you have a program able to generate a thumbnail from Doc/Docx files?

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Creating links in Title Bar

2013-05-21 Thread Platonides
On 06/05/13 11:40, Raghavendra Achar wrote: Hello All, Is it possible to create links on the top right corner on the Title name bar of the Main Page. I would like to rename the Main Page as my own age and add different links at the same row as main page title bar but at the top right corner.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Email Confirmation Messages

2013-05-21 Thread Platonides
El 03/05/13 17:39, Rowe, Dolores A escribió: Teammates, On a Windows 2008 server, using MediaWiki v1.19.2, we are having troubles getting the Email Confirmation mechanism to work. A message is displayed that the confirmation was sent, however it never comes to the email address it was

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Restoring revision table (mwdumper issue)

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Tsikerdekis
Update on the matter. I've edited pom.xml and changed xerces version which was set to 2.7.1 to 2.9.1, 2.11.0, 2.8.0 and other versions. The out of bound error becomes different on later versions but still the error persists. Also, I tried to use mwdumper with an older version of wikipedia dump:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Restoring revision table (mwdumper issue)

2013-05-21 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
If you can stomach it I would report it upstream, linking to the earlier version of the bug they had with a proposed patch etc. I can give them a test file consisting of the one page with all its revisions, only 170 mb uncompressed :-D It's fine to open a report locally too in mwdumper and link

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Restoring revision table (mwdumper issue)

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Tsikerdekis
Thanks Ariel. One small thing, where exactly can I report it upstream? got a url? Michael On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you can stomach it I would report it upstream, linking to the earlier version of the bug they had with a proposed patch etc.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Restoring revision table (mwdumper issue)

2013-05-21 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
I think this will do it: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/jira.html Ariel Στις 21-05-2013, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 17:53 +0200, ο/η Michael Tsikerdekis έγραψε: Thanks Ariel. One small thing, where exactly can I report it upstream? got a url? Michael On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Ariel

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 21 May 2013 04:36:52 -0700, Jason Lewis jason.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: * The url in $wgExtensionCredits should really just be a url. It's not a link, it's used as a url when turning the 'name' of the extension/skin into a link on Special:Version. So your Special:Version looks a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Alexis Moinet
On 21/05/13 03:12, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: Hello, Jason. Your skin may be good for promotion, but it is not good for presentation of information: the service menu offupy the most of screen, while only small part of the brouser frame is used for the main text. I am not so skillful in

[MediaWiki-l] Request for proposals: MediaWiki release management

2013-05-21 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello all, I'm excited to share that we just opened an RFP for the Release Management of MediaWiki! More information below. The announcement blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/21/request-for-proposals-mediawiki-release-management/ The RFP (PDF):

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Stephan Gambke
Ok, it's probably a bit premature, but I thought while we were all happily bashing each others skins I might as well contribute a bit. As Jason, I do (well, did) not have too much experience regarding skinning, always gave it a wide berth. But since my skin of choice is not very well maintained

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Security Release: 1.20.6 and 1.19.7

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Steipp
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.20.6 and 1.19.7. These releases fix a security related issue that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * MediaWiki user Marco discovered that security checks for file uploads were not being run when

[MediaWiki-l] Had an error upgrading from MW 1.2.05

2013-05-21 Thread Arcane 21
When MW 1.20.6 came out, I decided to upgrade to it from 1.20.5, and I decided to run the web updater afterwards. All I got was a blank screen no matter what I tried, so I reverted back to 1.20.5 and everything was normal again. I'm not sure what happened, but I thought I'd let everyone on the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-21 Thread Dmitrii Kouznetsov
Hello, Alexis. Thank you for your feedback. On Tue, 21 May 2013, Alexis Moinet wrote: I am not so skillful in writing scripts; yet I could not make the ShortURL work, nor even make a workable copy of existing skin Vector. So, I modify Vector; you may look at the result at