Re: [MediaWiki-l] Announcing new MediaWiki forum

2017-11-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
It shut down because the owner at the time lost interest in keeping it up and was seemingly unwilling or unable to transfer it to someone else. The forum was pretty popular — not hundreds of posts a day, but it was rarely quiet for long periods of time. Past success is not an indicator of prese

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Announcing new MediaWiki forum

2017-11-09 Thread Chad
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:10 PM Ryan Schmidt wrote: > As such, I have launched a new support forum for MediaWiki[1]. It aims to > make it easier to not only ask for and receive support compared to the > methods I outlined above, but also hopes to serve as a hub where people who > run their own Med

[MediaWiki-l] Page counts in the list of categories

2017-11-09 Thread Stan Pokras
A small group of people in Philadelphia publish http://wikidelphia.org It's primarily an index to Philadelphia web sites. The category system we use is unique so I'm wondering if it might be possible to add a feature to the display of each category at the bottom of each page. I'd like each c

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Announcing new MediaWiki forum

2017-11-09 Thread Quim Gil
Ryan, thank you very much for trying to solve a problem! I agree that building the community is the hardest problem. It's the same problem we have with MediaWiki developers, right? While I don't want to stop you from trying, I wonder whether we wouldn't all save time and energy if we try to come u