Re: [Mediawiki-l] Replacing Newline using Extension:StringFunctions

2009-08-31 Thread Waseem Sayegh
Regarding what this would be used for, from my personal experience with running http://www.shawshara.com inexperienced users or non tech-users tend to edit the wiki thinking that a new line will automatically translate into a line break. Some more experienced users with HTML knowledge have modified

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Replacing Newline

2009-08-27 Thread Waseem Sayegh
Thanks for your suggestions. I found an extension called Poem, that does exactly what I was looking for. I'll be using it instead of replace. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Waseem Sayegh wrote: > I have also tried > {{#replace:{{{1}}}| |}} > > Though this code ends up replac

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Replacing Newline

2009-08-26 Thread Waseem Sayegh
I have also tried {{#replace:{{{1}}}| |}} Though this code ends up replacing "spaces" with . Any other suggestions? Thanks. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[Mediawiki-l] Replacing Newline

2009-08-25 Thread Waseem Sayegh
How can you replace a newline with a line break? I tried {{#replace:{{{1}}}|\n|}} but it doesn't seem to be picking up the '\n' at all. Is there a way, or even a workaround? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikime

[Mediawiki-l] Mailing List Integrated with MediaWiki

2009-07-08 Thread Waseem Sayegh
What is the best way to integrate a mailing list with MediaWiki? The aim here is to run a mailing list for a website running MediaWiki where the website subscribers can opt in and out either during registration or afterwards, or register with the mailing list without having an account on the site.