[Mediawiki-l] Custom Bots - Bot does not recognize login cookie ?

2011-07-21 Thread Alok Watve
Hello We have a mediawiki installation that we are using to maintain biodiveristy information. I want to write a custom bot which goes through a bunch of pages and makes some trivial changes periodically. I am trying to write a bot to do this and I am using BasicBot class along with Snoopy (descr

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to "activate" a new extension

2010-08-03 Thread Alok Watve
irements for an extension? e.g. > certain variables, functions or methods may be expected to be provided. > > Russell > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: "Alok Watve" > To: "Jon Davis" > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:02:09 +0100 > Su

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with "Hello World" extension

2010-07-31 Thread Alok Watve
and that solved the problem. Thanks a ton for your help and patience. I really appreciate it, Alok On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Alok Watve wrote: > Thanks a lot for the help (And patience). > The page cache is now cleared but even after the refresh, I still see > the original wiki c

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with "Hello World" extension

2010-07-31 Thread Alok Watve
Thanks a lot for the help (And patience). The page cache is now cleared but even after the refresh, I still see the original wiki command as the final result. I don't know what to do. I will try to get permission on the log files (its not my system) Alok On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Ross McKa

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with "Hello World" extension

2010-07-30 Thread Alok Watve
ri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Ross McKay wrote: > Alok Watve wrote: > >>I am trying to write the simplest extension using a parser function >>[...] > > Remove the last two lines: >>return true; >>?> > > You "return" when passing a value back out of

[Mediawiki-l] Help with "Hello World" extension

2010-07-30 Thread Alok Watve
Hi, I am trying to write the simplest extension using a parser function (to get the feel of it). My extension is supposed to greet anyone who uses it. I am using this wikipage ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parser_functions) as the reference However, I am unable to get even this simplest e

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to "activate" a new extension

2010-07-29 Thread Alok Watve
you probably either A) don't > have your LocalSettings.php correct or B) Have a coding error in your > extension. > > -Jon > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 17:30, Alok Watve wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am a total n00b to mediaWiki. I am writing a new extension

[Mediawiki-l] How to "activate" a new extension

2010-07-29 Thread Alok Watve
Hi I am a total n00b to mediaWiki. I am writing a new extension to dynamically generate an SVG file. I have written the extension and copied the files in the right places. But mediaWiki does not seem to pick up my extension. DO I need to restart the apache server or something like that in order to