Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to update all links including an anchor that changed

2017-01-14 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Ovidiu Feodorov wrote: > This would be a really useful feature. Currently, the > equivalent manual process is laborious and error-prone. > […] AFAIUI, the feature you are looking for is related to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18561 (I believe there were other, similar RFEs, but I can't fi

[MediaWiki-l] Editing two pages in a transaction/lock (in an extension)?

2015-09-06 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, on Wikipedia, talk pages sections are archived by various bots run by various people on various hosts. Usually, they use a template that adds a category to the talk page, then periodically parse the template to get their parameters (where to archive, how old must a section be, etc.), parse th

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wanted messages

2015-07-27 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Ad Strack van Schijndel wrote: > This page gives the list of all available messages, all pages in the > MediaWiki namespace. > What I need is a list of messages that are referred to but not yet defined. > [...] AFAIUI there cannot be such a list, as messages are only "referred to" at run-time

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Page title different from URL

2011-07-02 Thread Tim Landscheidt
(anonymous) wrote: > 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 thi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Variables on templates

2010-06-18 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat wrote: > The example that I've seen is this: > In this web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_%28franchise%29 at the > end is invoqued the {{Matrix}} template. > This template calls the NavBox template. Is in this las template where we > can read: >

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Use of testing environment

2010-06-17 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Raymond Wan wrote: > [...] > I'm no lawyer and not even a user of WETE, but just thought you'd like > to know. But you can take a look at the above article and others > through Internet searching to see for yourself... I suppose we should > consider carefully before assigning an open source lic

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Variables on templates

2010-06-14 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat wrote: > I was studying the Wikipedia Templates and I have see somes codes like this: > style="{{{bodystyle|}}};{{{style|}}}">... > But "bodystyle" isn't defined anywhere and it isn't invoked but has a value > in the page result. Exists some meaning to define this

[Mediawiki-l] [UI] Revision history for files

2010-06-07 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, "clutter" with both Vector and Monobook :-): If you look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Flag_of_Denmark.svg&action=history>, there are "(undo)" links for all revisions including those "uploaded a new version of ...". If you click (http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.ph

Re: [Mediawiki-l] External watchlist thingy

2010-05-31 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Platonides wrote: > You can add the history page to your RSS reader. But this will result in an RSS entry for every single edit, something which I am not particularly interested in when I haven't visited an article for some time. Tim ___ MediaWiki-l

[Mediawiki-l] External watchlist thingy

2010-05-31 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, I really like MediaWiki's watchlist, but it sucks if you don't have the time to use it every 30 days or x edits or don't like the edits partitioned by day (which is inconve- nient for both inter- and intra-day use). So, the natural idea would be to extract the list of watched pages, feed th

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrading from mediawiki 1.15.1 to 1.15.3

2010-04-30 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Jens Vieler wrote: > is it enough to change the sources by extracting and copying the tarball > over the existing installation, or do i need to run the update.php > script? any changes in the database-schema? Why not just run it? Tim ___ MediaWiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Breaking of URL with ' and ()

2010-03-14 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Eric K wrote: > [Problems of computers (not) parsing human readable text] > So its a very common problem and because there are so many page titles with > these characters, there are likely thousands of links that break every day > from Wikipedia, other wikis and other websites. > We know ofcou

Re: [Mediawiki-l] RSS feeds problem

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Anne Wilson wrote: > Our wiki uses Mediawiki 1.14, soon to be updated to 1.16. From the day we > updated to 1.14 the RSS feed has been problematic, often sending as many as 30 > entries for one new one, resulting in each entry being repeated many times. > The number of false entries appears to b

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Adding to category:people

2009-03-27 Thread Tim Landscheidt
"Christensen, Courtney" wrote: > You could make the Owner page, but make it a redirect to the company. I'm > not certain that categories work on redirect pages though. > [...] They do; cf. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar-Zeichen>. Tim ___ Medi