Looks like the pages updated themselves somehow and its working.
So please ignore the email below. Thanks.
From: Eric K
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 4:23 PM
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Vector skin: Expand all items
The vector skin collapses all the items on the menu so that means a visitor
probably doesn't know there's more stuff hiding in the menus and important
links get hidden from view.
How do I make it so the default view expands all items on the menu? I've tried
the Vector skin extension and it doe
For most of us, our sites are very important to us and we want to make sure
they continue existing. One way is to make sure that data backups exist in
multiple places.
What's the best way to have a publicly downloadable backup, which is simply the
present text in all the pages, and perhaps the u
Hi Ron,
Yea I think right now only one can be selected. That's a good suggestion though
to keep both types of catpchas for account creation. I dont know if another
captcha from another extension can be stacked on top of whats already there, if
not, you could try coding it yourself if you can.
Hi Ron
Yes, see Questy Captcha:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha
You can create your own Q/A.
Also see:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam
This works sometimes also to prevent bots. It can also be altered to block the
bot IP address for a smal
with (, ), :, ' - break all the time
On 10/01/12 22:57, Eric K wrote:
> The only real solution is to not allow these characters in a URL at all:
> - commas, apostrophes, brackets, colons, semicolons and so on.
Just change $wgLegalTitleChars to a subset
Yea I've seen that recommendation to use redirects. Its not a good solution.
For example we have two pages:
mysite.com/wiki/Don't Speak (song)
mysite.com/wiki/Don'Amos
Both of these URL's would break at:
mysite.com/wiki/Don
and a redirect would not work. I could create a "help" page for the "Don"
on how to stop incoming links from being
broken by various characters, let me know.
Erik
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From: Eric K
To: Eric K ; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links with (, ), :, '
I found the question to my own answer in a previous email to this list. The
answer is at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowDisplayTitle.
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Foo}} in the page can be used to set the page title.
From: Eric K
To: "mediaw
If anyone on an external site posts a link to our wiki, the link will often
break if it has spaces, brackets, apostrophes, colons, e.g.:
input, output rendered as:
input: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don't speakoutput: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don
[breaks at the apostrophe]
Or:
input: www.mywi
ould start with checking out what the Vector skin is doing.
From: Petr Bena
To: Eric K ; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] WP Touch skin for 1.18 ?
I would prefer if they com
Has anyone managed to fix the WP Touch mobile skin for MW 1.18? If so, I would
love if you attached a zip file of that skin to this email list.
WP Touch is a great skin that allows a wiki to allow mobile browsers to see the
site much more easily:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Gallery_of_u
01 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Some problems after 1.17 / 1.18:
DatabaseFunctions.php and addMessage()
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:03:38 -0800, Eric K wrote:
> There's two issues I'm having after upgrading from 1.16.5 to 1.18.0:
>
>
> 1. Some people (including me) had
There's two issues I'm having after upgrading from 1.16.5 to 1.18.0:
1. Some people (including me) had included "DatabaseFunctions.php" in their
extensions, for example by doing:
include_once './extensions/DatabaseFunctions.php';
1.17 took that file out (file: History):
=== Configuration chang
I saw there are two tables that have their own
set up in the new version too (hit counter, and search index) so I left them
alone.
From: Eric K
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Medi
When I installed my wiki for the first time a couple of years ago, MyISAM was
chosen as the default option so I went with that. I was looking up the history
of this list for comments on InnoDB vs MyISAM. I've seen people, including
Brion (below), recommending InnoDB. Rob Church also had the same
t all that great till at least 1.18 (though
it is usable).
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
On 11-09-14 02:40 PM, Eric K wrote:
> Sorry if this is a newbie question. I've not done my research.
>
> If I want to drastically change the appearance an
Sorry if this is a newbie question. I've not done my research.
If I want to drastically change the appearance and have new types of navigation
on the site and what not, I think I can do that but I need to update that
template or theme every time there's an update to the Mediawiki software - this
I want to be able to specify a page's own title which may be different from the
URL. For example I could make a page:
/wiki/Apple
I dont want the page's title to be "Apple" but rather something else, for
example: "Apple, the Fruit"
One reason for wanting to do this is that some web interaces (e
dit.
--- On Sat, 6/18/11, Platonides wrote:
From: Platonides
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Simple anti-spam check?
To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 6:05 PM
Eric K wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can detect whether a user has inserted a website link
> i
Does anyone know how I can detect whether a user has inserted a website link in
the revision of the text that was submitted? I know how to check their age.
My idea for this extension it: If a new user submits a link, they'll be asked
to instead use the talk page.
_
Suppose we have a wiki, and we want other websites (blogs and any other sites)
to use our wiki content.
For example say the wiki has different types of random facts about countries.
When someone visits a blog, they can see a box where that random fact is
presented, and that data is drawn from t
Basically I have content that I want other websites (blogs, facebook, other
websites) to use and display. For example a list of our new articles, or
excerpts of news stories that are randomly picked from a pool of content. I'm
guessing exporting stuff into RSS is the best way to provide content
You can try this too:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Recent_Activity_Notify
- An email is sent only for a user who is anonymous or is a registered user
younger than 4 hours.
- you can set a list of people to be emailed
--- On Sun, 9/26/10, gaohu wrote:
From: gaohu
Subject: [Mediawik
I had two questions about database issues. The SQL database for me is now 800MB.
1) On the shared server the wiki is hosted, I have to email support to create a
backup that I can download. I can no longer download it myself from the
PHPMyAdmin interface as its too big and it times out.
There ar
In your case I'd say:
1. (temporarilty) stop all edits (freeze the wiki, disable anonymous edits and
new registrations).
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] =
On many online systems (email interfaces, forums, social networks, CMS's), URLs
with brackets and apostrophes break very often. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin'_Alive
If this URL is posted to Facebook, Facebook will render the URL link as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin
Simil
[sorry, resending, got mistakenly posted in a reply thread earlier]
70% of web traffic on any page of my wiki (I assume the same is true for most
other wikis and sites) comes from a search engine. In search results, people
see two things and use them to decide in a few seconds whether to click
70% of web traffic on any page of my wiki (I assume the same is true for most
other wikis and sites) comes from a search engine. In search results, people
see two things and use them to decide in a few seconds whether to click on the
link or not:
1- page title
2- meta tag description (if define
Thanks to all who've helped me in the past! I'm returning the favour to all of
you by sharing some small extensions:
Personal notepad, accessible only to the owner:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Personal_Notepad
Email to specific users (wiki editable list) for activity by new and ano
Nevermind, the site is back now after a couple of days. Thanks!
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Eric K wrote:
From: Eric K
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Anyone got the extension "SpecialDeleteOldRevisions2"?
To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 5:32 PM
The websi
The website for the extension "SpecialDeleteOldRevisions2" is down. If anyone
has it (v 1.4) and could send it to me, I could have it put online with a
replacement link.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialDeleteOldRevisions2
Download link (down): http://jehy.ru/dload/specialdeleteo
Thanks, it worked!
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Juliano F. Ravasi wrote:
From: Juliano F. Ravasi
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any hook that returns new and old text?
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 2:09 PM
Eric K wrote:
> From the hoo
>From the hook ArticleSave, we can access the new text that is going to be
>saved into the page. Is there a hook that lets us access the new and the old
>text?
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getText( 'table' ) );
$id = htmlentities( $wgRequest->getText( 'id' ) );
if( $action == 'delete' AND ( $table == 'mytable' ) ) $this->delete( $table,
$id );
...
private function delete( $table, $id ) {
$dbw = wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );
$dbw->delete
(sending again, my last message didnt appear in the list)
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In my own special page, I've made a custom query (e.g., DELETE * from table).
I want to display an HTML link, which when clicked by the user viewing that
page executes that SQL query. How can I do that?
In my own special page, I've made a custom query (e.g., DELETE * from table).
I want to display an HTML link, which when clicked by the user viewing that
page executes that SQL query. How can I do that?
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Suppose I have a variable called $Test_int, somewhere in the mediawiki
extension that I'm trying to make. Whats the easiest way to know what value
that variable has been assigned?
I've tried $wgOut but in this case, it probably outputs wgOut but its all gone
in the blink of an eye when the page
Yahoo mail has a great feature of Notepad which I like. Is it possible to have
a private notepad extension where I can save stuff right there on the wiki?
Maybe a User/notepad thing where only the user can see and edit that page. Any
easy way of doing this?
_
than nothing!
thanks
--- On Sat, 7/18/09, Benjamin Lees wrote:
From: Benjamin Lees
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Recent changes clean up extension?
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009, 5:51 PM
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Eric K wr
Suppose a vandal moves a page to an offensive name and I revert it back. Its
still there in the Recent changes. Does any extension exist to clean that up or
do I have to go into myPHPAdmin every time to do that?
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I have to keep checking Recent Changes for my wiki to catch vandalism as it
happens. Is there an extention that would send an alert on my IM, cell phone or
send me an email when an edit happens?
I guess I could edit my current extension to include the email feature but I
was wondering if anyone
On Mediawiki.org and on Wikipedia too, this works:
[[File:Nuvola apps download manager.png|40px|link=http://www.cnn.com/]]
It uses that image and links the image to the URL. On my default MW
(1.13) though, this doesnt work. Can the default MW version also have this
functionality please? Or is th
Hi Tim, thanks a lot.
I assume that for 1.13.4, if we dont have that config directory on the server,
then the installation is safe and I wont need to upgrade, correct?
Eric
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Tim Starling wrote:
From: Tim Starling
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki releases: security update a
on to add to code: TitleMoveHook
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 1:25 PM
There's already the AbortMove hook (see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/AbortMove).
Alexandre Emsenhuber (ialex)
Le 15.12.2008 20:06,
There's no code that can interrupt a Title Move. I have added a little snippet
into Title.php that does this and allows me to stop a user from doing a Title
Move under many userful conditions. One of them includes monitoring how many
title moves they're doing in a certain amount of amount of tim
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