[MediaWiki-l] User rights

2017-09-14 Thread Elizabete Moraes
Hello I have a private wiki, using LDAP Authentication. When I assign a user to a group. through the special privileges page of users, and this user logs off and logs in, the permission disappears. I tried to add it directly to the database, but so does it. Anyone have an idea of what might be

[MediaWiki-l] User rights

2017-09-14 Thread Elizabete Moraes
Hello I have a private wiki, using LDAP Authentication. When I assign a user to a group. through the specialpage User rights of users, and this user logs off and logs in, the permission disappears. I tried to add it directly to the database, but so does it. Anyone have an idea of what might be

Re: [MediaWiki-l] composer installers: Behavior of type "mediawiki-*"

2017-09-14 Thread Stephan Gambke
Hi Robert. That's because skins used to be stored in folders with lower-case names. E.g. see https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/tree/1.23.17/skins Cheers Stephan > Original Message > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] composer installers: Behavior of type "mediawiki-*" > Local Time:

[MediaWiki-l] composer installers: Behavior of type "mediawiki-*"

2017-09-14 Thread Robert Vogel
Hi! I've stumbled over a strange implementation in the composer installer for MediaWiki related projects: A package with the name "some-cool-extension" and type "mediawiki-extension" will be installed as "/extensions/SomeCoolExtension". --> The name gets translated from "dashed-lowecase"

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Categories in draft articles in user space.

2017-09-14 Thread John
en wiki has a policy about separating mainspace categories and non-mainspace drafts. Not really a software choice, but more of a policy choice. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Gordon Joly wrote: > > > I created a draft page, with categories, in my user space. I was told

[MediaWiki-l] Categories in draft articles in user space.

2017-09-14 Thread Gordon Joly
I created a draft page, with categories, in my user space. I was told to remove the categories, since the document was a draft. Should Mediawiki take care of that for me? That is hide or suppress a category in user space? But there again, I do have have this lot on my user page! Categories: