Re: [Mediawiki-l] Showing new articles

2010-09-13 Thread James Lucktaylor
Hi Bruce, I use DynamicPageList[1] on my Main Page to show users a top 10 of recent edits. You could do multiple lists for different categories/namespaces, sort by last edit/create timestamp/etc, all sorts of options. The only thing about it that I'm a little iffy on, is that to get the list to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to install FCKeditor on a Wiki?

2010-09-02 Thread James Lucktaylor
I'm running 1.16, and the FCKEditor extension is working fine. Hugo, do you use the $wgExtensionAssetsPath setting in your LocalSettings? With this setting in use, I still had to create a symlink to the FCKEditor directory, as I don't store extensions underneath /mediawiki/extension

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Templating text

2010-08-22 Thread James Lucktaylor
For my users, I just added another button on the edit toolbar, which adds a skeleton of an article to the editbox, so they can then flesh it out. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_add_more_buttons_on_the_edit_page.3F On the MediaWiki:Common.js page, I added: