Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a Page

2014-01-23 Thread Lee Worden
WorkingWiki [1] is not a lightweight tool, and needs you to be assertively in control of your site's security, but can definitely do this. You would just need to add a one- or two-line make rule to your wiki page. [1] http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projects/index.php/WorkingWiki >From:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a Page

2014-01-23 Thread Lee Worden
WorkingWiki [1] is not a lightweight tool, and needs you to be assertively in control of your site's security, but can definitely do this. You would just need to add a one- or two-line make rule to your wiki page. I can provide more info if wanted. [1] http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/pro

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a Page

2014-01-23 Thread Wjhonson
I don't think there is any script to do exactly what you are asking John. I myself wrote a variety of PHP scripts to strip tables out of Wiki markup pages, and manipulate the contents into other plain HTML tables, with some other tweaks, and a bit of JavaScript thrown in for giggles (OK to sort

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a Page

2014-01-23 Thread John
Writing a basic pywikipedia < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot> bot to convert the flat file to wiki should be fairly easy (less than 30 lines of code) and should be the easiest way of doing it On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:08 PM, john boris wrote: > Jan and the list, > Just to let folk

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to set font size and type for display and not for print

2014-01-23 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:10:23 +0100, Ryan Kaldari wrote: You can override the font settings for print in /skins/common/commonPrint.css. Or [[MediaWiki:Print.css]]… -- Matma Rex ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://li

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 124, Issue 24

2014-01-23 Thread David Leaman
It sounds like you might be using CSS in your SVG. If not please disregard the rest of my post. While CSS is in general a great idea, and has certainly made my life a lot easier, it turns out ImageMagick doesn't support CSS in SVG. As far as I can tell they haven't said anything about supporting i

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a Page

2014-01-23 Thread john boris
Jan and the list, Just to let folks know the Wiki is private, behind a few firewalls and no other person has write access except for me. So this is completely private and is not accessible on the INternet. I have the capability of storing the file in a Database if that makes life easier. Currently

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to set font size and type for display and not for print

2014-01-23 Thread Ryan Kaldari
You can override the font settings for print in /skins/common/commonPrint.css. Ryan Kaldari On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Yan Seiner wrote: > The title pretty much says it all. I have a wiki that's used as a manual; > we both read it on line and print it. > > I need to set the font type an

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a Page

2014-01-23 Thread Jan Steinman
> From: john boris > > I have a Wiki page that holds a table of data. I have the data in an Excel > file and also as a flat ASCI file. I am looking for a way to automate the > updating of the page so when I make a change to the file on my one system I > can run the script and it will make the cha

[MediaWiki-l] How to set font size and type for display and not for print

2014-01-23 Thread Yan Seiner
The title pretty much says it all. I have a wiki that's used as a manual; we both read it on line and print it. I need to set the font type and size for display only, and not for print; the rendering software has its own default settings for printing. I know this has to go somewhere in the c

[MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a Page

2014-01-23 Thread john boris
I have a Wiki page that holds a table of data. I have the data in an Excel file and also as a flat ASCI file. I am looking for a way to automate the updating of the page so when I make a change to the file on my one system I can run the script and it will make the changes on my Wiki. If there is a

[MediaWiki-l] subskin customizations

2014-01-23 Thread Bill Traynor
In an old vector based skin on a 1.16 version of MW, the skin author added custom html and css directly into the skin.php code to add a custom header above the personal tools links. Where do I put that code in a vector subskin in MW 1.22? Do I add it directly to myskin.php again, or to myskin.ski

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki E-Mails; disable ?

2014-01-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
See https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l . -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014/1/23 Yves Malard > Dear amir, > > Thanks for the gadget. > > Another quick ques

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki E-Mails; disable ?

2014-01-23 Thread Yves Malard
Dear amir, Thanks for the gadget. Another quick question: since I subscribed, I get lot's of E-Mail I don't want from MediWiki. -Can I disable this ? -Can I delete my subscription ? (I just subscribed due to this 1 question I had) Thanks in advance. Greetings, Yves

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problem with Encoding only in external links

2014-01-23 Thread Ramm Thomas
I have make some additional tests: This works fine: Preisübersicht (so the problem is not within the mysql Database), the generated code by the page is: Preisübersicht Doesn't work: [file:///folderAB\Preisübersicht\ Preisübersicht] The code generated by the preview function is: Preisübersicht T

[MediaWiki-l] Problem with Encoding only in external links

2014-01-23 Thread Ramm Thomas
Hi, i have the following Problem after Upgrading my Wiki to 1.21: when I add a Link to an external destination containing german “umlaute” then the link doesn’t work if I save the page. In preview-mode everything works correct, only after saving the page the link is broken. The Link showing in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] FW: Wikipedia: Define Languages as Favorites

2014-01-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
There's this gadget in the Hebrew Wikipedia, for example: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-InterwikiOrder.js Unfortunately, I don't have anything that is easier to install. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] FW: Wikipedia: Define Languages as Favorites

2014-01-23 Thread Yves Malard
Dear amir, Thanks for the link...Design/Interlanguage... As I said, I would do it easily in a way that everyone can define its favorites. You talk about a gadget: does it work for Wikipedia ? If yes, how ? Thanks in advance. Greetings, Yves =

Re: [MediaWiki-l] FW: Wikipedia: Define Languages as Favorites

2014-01-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi Yves, Thanks for raising this. There is a long-term plan for having such a feature as a proper extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links In the meantime it can be done (very) manually with a gadget that hides links that don't match a part

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Need help rendering SVG files on my localhost wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Arcane 21
Thanks for the link. It looks like ImageMagick is rather poor for viewing certain SVG files, so I'm glad to know there are some alternatives I can use. Again, thanks for the help. > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:03:13 +0100 > From: sigb...@wiwi.hu-berlin.de > To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Su

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Authorizing Page Translations, Disclaimers

2014-01-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Yes, you can use a template, and you can make that template translatable as well. You can also try to configure and use "workflow states". See the documentation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Quality_assurance https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/M

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Embed JavaScript via an extension

2014-01-23 Thread Sigbert Klinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think the problem is a CSS problem. In the mediawiki theme is a rule "body ..." which simply supersedes the jquery theme rule. However, this can be solved by editing my custom jquery theme CSS. Sigbert Am 22.01.2014 09:52, schrieb Sigbert Klin

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Need help rendering SVG files on my localhost wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Sigbert Klinke
Hi, according to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_administration#SVG you might need to change the rendering software. Sigbert Am 23.01.2014 02:08, schrieb Arcane 21: > SVG files render poorly on my localhost wiki, with the colors often blacked > out. I have ImageMagick installed to ren