Re: [MediaWiki-l] Where to publish

2014-05-14 Thread Nathan Larson
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.comwrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Snippets ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Chris Tharp:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Just got bombed by spam bots

2014-03-06 Thread Nathan Larson
willing to send you two of the most useful ones I have. Kind Regards, George Barnick ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- Nathan Larson https://mediawiki.org/wiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Category list within a page

2014-01-19 Thread Nathan Larson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote: I would like to second the recommendation of DPL. This is a versatile extension that can do all sorts of page listing tasks, beyond what simple Categories can do! Indeed. It would seem that I wrote an almost entirely

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Category list within a page

2014-01-18 Thread Nathan Larson
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Bri d...@rlyehable.com wrote: Greetings! Is there a way to list the contents of a category within a non-category page? Example of what I want: Page Foo: A foo is a term that is uses as a stand-in or placeholder for other terms. ==Examples== Dohicki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Preventing a tag extension from rendering twice on save?

2013-12-05 Thread Nathan Larson
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: I've noticed that parser tag extensions render twice when an article is saved from the edit page. All I did was write a parser tag foo that runs error_log('foo'). It prints once when I hit foo/ on a page, but twice when

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: I'd like to be able to run shell commands from a menu. I've looked at the MaintenanceShell extension, but that's not what I am looking for - it's too broad. What I need is a menu option that a user can click on and that executes a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: I'd like to be able to run shell commands from a menu. Would it be acceptable for this to be implemented as a special page that the user would visit, that would then

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, y...@seiner.com wrote: H... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/GoToShell No such extension I take it I can copy and paste the files off the web page? Also, how difficult would it be to extend it to allow multiple commands

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Have Special:AllPages Show All Pages?

2013-12-03 Thread Nathan Larson
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Rob Sporing rspor...@bethpagelibrary.infowrote: Thanks for that Nathan. I know you replied to this a while ago but I only just now got around to installing your extension. Is there anyway to have the titles linkable so it can be used as a replacement for

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Protecting a MediaWiki wiki against spam

2013-11-25 Thread Nathan Larson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.comwrote: Not quite sure what you mean by layered administration though multiple levels of admin so there can be one main admin with admins with lesser privileges below. You mean like a hierarchy?

Re: [MediaWiki-l] private sub-pages in the user ns

2013-11-19 Thread Nathan Larson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Scheid, Bernhard bernhard.sch...@oeaw.ac.at wrote: Hi, I would like to do the following: subpages to a page in the user ns cannot be viewed by anybody else that the respective user. Example: the page user:foo/bar can only be read (and edited) by user foo.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Have Special:AllPages Show All Pages?

2013-11-19 Thread Nathan Larson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Rob Sporing rspor...@bethpagelibrary.infowrote: Hello all, I have a wiki with around 900 entries. I am looking to have Special:AllPages display the titles of all 900 or so entries on the same page. I do not want it split between 3 or 4 pages (A-D, E-N, etc.).

Re: [MediaWiki-l] private sub-pages in the user ns

2013-11-19 Thread Nathan Larson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.comwrote: This list is focused on end users, sysadmins, etc. Not everyone is able to do development themselves or fund someone else. You might as well say any free software wiki engine could have this function; you just have to

Re: [MediaWiki-l] $wgNoFollowLinks

2013-11-18 Thread Nathan Larson
to pass a CAPTCHA to register to get a file allegedly useful in spamming. -- Nathan Larson https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] A class on mediawiki

2013-11-16 Thread Nathan Larson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com wrote: I've been working on a wiki for a company. We are putting all their user manuals in wiki format. Company personnel have been involved with the content and presentation but not with the nuts-and-bolts of the editing. I've

Re: [MediaWiki-l] $wgNoFollowLinks

2013-11-14 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 10/11/13 03:57, Nathan Larson wrote: Also, we have other antispam tools that are way more effective than nofollow at deterring spam. Like what? AbuseFilter is unusable for small wikis, SpamBlacklist is poorly

Re: [MediaWiki-l] $wgNoFollowLinks

2013-11-13 Thread Nathan Larson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm opposed to this change. A site administrator with a big enough community to address spammy links, and wants to enable this feature, is likely savvy enough to change the preference from true to false. I think

Re: [MediaWiki-l] $wgNoFollowLinks

2013-11-10 Thread Nathan Larson
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Please email wikitech-l about this proposal - here is a wrong place to discuss this. My intent was to invite the community of wiki system administrators, not just developers, to weigh in with their arguments in support

[MediaWiki-l] $wgNoFollowLinks

2013-11-09 Thread Nathan Larson
which sites have a bunch of links just for SEO purposes. -- Nathan Larson https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte Distribution of my contributions to this email is hereby authorized pursuant to the CC0 licensehttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 121, Issue 26

2013-10-23 Thread Nathan Larson
I too was recently struggling with Scribuntu on a non-WMF site. We have an old version of the GNU C library and now need to figure out how to upgrade it and otherwise get the environment ready. I'm sure Scribuntu is a wonderful tool whose time has come; I just hope we can get the documentation to