[MediaWiki-l] Fwd: Help to understand about Wikidata design

2015-04-01 Thread Nikunj Aadesara
hi there, I recently read some papers/article about wikidata. I am confused at point where it is written that "wikidata is multilingual by design" and at the same time it also written that "wikidata centralized the language links". Then my doubt is that if wikidata is multilingual by design why we

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Need help with VisualEditor under MediaWiki 1.24.1

2015-04-01 Thread James Forrester
On 1 April 2015 at 10:19, Victor Danilchenko wrote: > Yup, that was it, thanks a million! I figured it were a bug, but I had no > idea what to search for in terms of a fix. > > BTW, Can you think of any other fixes I should backport into 1.24 > VisualEditor? > ​We move pretty seriously quickly,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Consistent section and item numbering while documenting policies and procedures

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Silverman
Thanks, Daniel. I've already added some CSS from http://stackoverflow.com/a/26245056 to my Common.css and the inline indentint looks great. What I'm trying to achieve is to have in-line numbering (ala ol>li) prefaced with the section number. Effectively prefixing the ol>li numbering with the most

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Consistent section and item numbering while documenting policies and procedures

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Barrett
You might be able to create nested numbering in your TOC by adding CSS to your MediaWiki:Common.css page. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/956178/html-css-outline-numbering http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#counters DanB ___ MediaWiki-l mailin

[MediaWiki-l] Consistent section and item numbering while documenting policies and procedures

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Silverman
Hi, all, I'm documenting policies and procedures using Mediawiki. Generally, when documenting procedures using something like Word, you'd have a consistent numbering system such as: 1.0 Purpose 2.0 Scope 3.0 Responsibility 3.1 General 3.1.1 Whatever goes here. ...and so on... I'm using the Magic

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Silverman
I'm with you, Martin. I pulled down the 1.23.8 tarball and there is no /tests folder within it. Therefore, even if I'd installed from source as of 1.23.8, I'd be stuck trying to apply the latest patch. Ultimately I hand-edited the patch file to remove all the diffs relating to the tests folder..

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Cookies

2015-04-01 Thread Frank Baxmann
Thx, that' doing the job. It's just a sample that I took to show the cookie. The extension will use own cookies... On 01.04.2015 20:42, Max Semenik wrote: wiki02 is the cookie prefix that's taken into account explicitly so you don't need to set it explicitly when calling getCookie(). However,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Cookies

2015-04-01 Thread Max Semenik
wiki02 is the cookie prefix that's taken into account explicitly so you don't need to set it explicitly when calling getCookie(). However, MediaWiki already uses that cookie to set RequestContext's user, you MUST NOT redo authentication yourself. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Frank Baxmann wro

[MediaWiki-l] Cookies

2015-04-01 Thread Frank Baxmann
Hi all, I tried to get a cookie in an extension like this: $request = RequestContext::getMain()->getRequest(); $cookie = $request->getCookie ( 'wiki02UserName' ); wfDebugLog( "wad", print_r($cookie,true), false ); but $cookie empty, even if print_r of $request shows all Cookies: 2015-04-01 18

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Need help with VisualEditor under MediaWiki 1.24.1

2015-04-01 Thread Victor Danilchenko
Yup, that was it, thanks a million! I figured it were a bug, but I had no idea what to search for in terms of a fix. BTW, Can you think of any other fixes I should backport into 1.24 VisualEditor? From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On

[MediaWiki-l] Announcement: SimpleTooltip and Substitutor Extension

2015-04-01 Thread Simon Heimler
​Hello! I'd like to announce two MediaWiki extensions that I've developed recently and believe they are quite stable now: SimpleTooltip: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleTooltip​ Just a simple ToolTip Extension that has no dependencies and support tooltips over text, images or a too