[Mediawiki-l] Templating text

2010-08-22 Thread John Meyer
I'm not quite sure how to do this. I'd like to write a section of text and be able to tag it so I can insert it as is in any other area of my wiki. Does this require an extension? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] it sounds strange...

2010-05-09 Thread John Meyer
On 5/9/2010 7:50 AM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: > It's just short for "my wiki installation," unlike "my Outlook" or "my > Firefox," which make no sense at all. Or the actual URI of the wiki itself, assuming that it's on the Internet as opposed to a company intranet. In a sense, it's like this in C

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (3)

2010-01-22 Thread John Meyer
On 1/22/2010 6:20 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Anyway, I bet 99% of software written ends up unused. So one is lucky to > get some users in the first place. And making it Free will make that 99% > into a 98%... I.e., in the end one ends up begging for users before > finally abandoning the proje

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-21 Thread John Meyer
On 1/21/2010 3:03 PM, Madison Kelly wrote: > Domas Mituzas wrote: >> Hi! >> >>>We, as members of the open source community, would do well to wish >>> him luck. Every one of us reflects the community, and snarky remarks >>> make the community look childish. I would have preferred it become open