Many web hosting companies will provide the server for a small monthly charge
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From: Daniel Barrett
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Sent: Tue, Oct 18, 2016 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Question
donal...@web.de asks:
>How can I make my o
I can answer this
"what's the point of a wiki if only you can edit it? "
The wiki software has additional intelligence built-in which can be useful when
you are creating a large site of multiple articles inter-linked.
You don't need multiple authors, to take advantage of the features that a
Maybe at the bottom of each message, there could be a link "to Unsubscribe
click here"
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From: Heather Bechtel
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Sent: Fri, Jul 4, 2014 1:36 pm
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Please remove me from your mail list
I don't think there is any script to do exactly what you are asking John.
I myself wrote a variety of PHP scripts to strip tables out of Wiki markup
pages, and manipulate the contents into other plain HTML tables, with some
other tweaks, and a bit of JavaScript thrown in for giggles (OK to sort
I believe you can accomplish this without a knowledge of PHP or JavaScript
either.
But rather only by modifying your local settings copy and inserting a raw HTML
string
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From: go moko
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Sent: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 6:52
Only if we can filter the Id !!
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From: David Barbour
To: MediaWiki-l
Sent: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 10:05 am
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] barbourdavid...@gmail.com
If you can upload folder I would appreciate you uploading minds.
Than You.DEB
_
How about a script that Googles site:www.myurl.com and then walks every page
and copies it ;)
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From: John Foster
To: mediawiki-list
Cc: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Mon, Oct 21, 2013 4:58 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki articla
Why would that be a problem?
Could you not install the software again in a different directory?
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From: Pramod Anugu
To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
Sent: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 9:24 am
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Single server multiple wikis
I have
Two wikis.
That's your best solution.
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From: Fiorenza Meini
To: mediawiki-l
Sent: Mon, Oct 14, 2013 6:15 am
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Public content
Hi there,
I installed MediaWiki version 1.21.2.
Is it possible to publish content based on category type?
I'd li
Where is your localsettings.php file?
MediaWiki 1.21.2
LocalSettings.php not found.
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From: John Foster
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 9:38 am
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
> Does the Mediawiki software using a simple hashing on the passwords?
> Or are they also salted?
>
>
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Does the Mediawiki software using a simple hashing on the passwords?
Or are they also salted?
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osting service?
>
> This would be interesting for my little farm, I have the time to put into
> it but not the needed "know how" to fix issues, install some extensions
> etc, but as Wjhonson states it would have to be adorable to those users.
>
> *
> Mlpearc*
> Fo
iki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki
hosting service?
This would be interesting for my little farm, I have the time to put into
it but not the needed "know how" to fix issues, install some extensions
etc, but as Wjhonson states it would have to be adorable to tho
I would say ... yes... possibly.
My own install has had an indexing issue for some time, and I just don't find
myself with enough time to figure out how to fix it.
So the internal search no longer works.
Probably, or possibly moot for me, as Google seems to still work.
But still.
Make it cheap eno
What is the advantage of that?
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From: Camponez
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Sent: Mon, Sep 23, 2013 7:08 am
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki virtual file system. Call for feedback.
On Sep 22, 2013 11:34 PM, "Tim Starling" wrote:
>
> On
list
Cc: Wikimedia developers ; jmorgan
Sent: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:15 am
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Percolate: Python scripts & modules to create
browsable auto-updated guides onwiki
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Wjhonson wrote:
> I think it would help, would the authors not use so m
Could someone put this in third-grade English?
Cause I don't understand what this does
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From: Sumana Harihareswara
To: Wikimedia developers ; MediaWiki
announcements and site admin list ; jmorgan
Sent: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 12:05 am
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Percola
ate its visual representations.
-
Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
> Could someone put this in third-grade English?
> Cause I don't understand what this does
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Suman
People clicking, changing one word, or punctuation, and then saving it.
Over, and over, and over, and over
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From: roger
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Wed, Sep 4, 2013 10:59 am
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Database size ballooning?
Hi,
Our
nts and site admin list
Sent: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 4:03 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wordpress and Mediawiki Nice URL Problem
Hello Wjhonson:
I like:
mysite.com/wiki/Article
mysite.com/blog
and would like to redirect automatically to mysite.com/blog
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Wjhonso
t; space.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 13-08-14 04:48 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
>
>> I believe Wordpress should *not* be on top of the domain heirarchy
>>
>> I have a Mediawiki install, and I have a Wordpress install, and they both
>> live in their
I believe Wordpress should *not* be on top of the domain heirarchy
I have a Mediawiki install, and I have a Wordpress install, and they both live
in their own separate directories, one level down from the top.
The top page, I had to create myself, not from an install script. It points at
the l
If you have a hosted website already, some website hosters will allow you to
click-to-install the wiki software at your same existing site. For
non-technically savvy, that would be an easier step then trying to go whole hog
and host it inhouse
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From: Rebecca
It would be helpful if someone could link to the IRC log of this
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From: Yury Katkov
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Cc: Wikimedia developers ; mediawiki-announce
Sent: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 9:53 am
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Announcement: Mark y M
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From: Greg Grossmeier
To: Wikimedia developers ; mediawiki-l
; mediawiki-announce
Sent: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 8:41 am
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Announcement: Mark y Markus leading MediaWiki Release
Management
Full announcement on the blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.
When I start ranting you can "teach" me.
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From: Sumana Harihareswara
To: mediawiki-l
Cc: mediawiki-l-request
Sent: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 5:12 am
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] offtopic re behavior onlist
> From: Wjhonson
> To: wjhon...@aol.
91c-35459309
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From: Wjhonson
To: mediawiki-l
Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 1:21 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikisource-l] Proofread extension "extraction" of
OCR text in Djvu
I had to moderate my response out of the belief that I would be banned from yet
another wiki li
I had to moderate my response out of the belief that I would be banned from yet
another wiki list by some tyrant.
By the way Kernal Dev didn't state this, one Intel developer named Sarah Sharp
stated it.
But those against frank speech have to make it extreme in an effort to once
again silence
iaWiki-l] About the wiki-adoption process
How is this related to the MediaWiki software?
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
> I'm strenuously against any "adoption" by the Foundation of these "one of
> many" type sites, no matter if they claim the
I'm strenuously against any "adoption" by the Foundation of these "one of many"
type sites, no matter if they claim they are "the biggest" or not. Once we put
our clout behind a site, we are destroying the natural competition engine.
I would further note, that 115,000 pages from "uploaded GEDCO
Where is this public policy discussion going to be archived for those who
cannot attend
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From: Greg Grossmeier
To: mediawiki-l ; Wikimedia developers
; mediawiki-enterprise
Sent: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 1:33 pm
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] IRC Office Hour (was Re: RFP Su
It's possible that you're wrong :)
My Mediawiki install has always been this way.
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From: Bartosz Dziewoński
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:25 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Changes on specific date
Well, then this is
, Wjhonson wrote:
> I can demonstrate that this is false
>
> http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&from=
> http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=90&from=
> http://www.countyh
I can demonstrate that this is false
http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&from=
http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=90&from=
http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges
] Changes on specific date
I tried that, but the 'from' argument doesn't seem to do anything. I can put
anything there and I always get the most recent changes.
On 5 jun. 2013, at 18:19, Wjhonson wrote:
> http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:
13 1:58 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Changes on specific date
I tried that, but the 'from' argument doesn't seem to do anything. I can put
anything there and I always get the most recent changes.
On 5 jun. 2013, at 18:19, Wjhonson wrote:
> http://www.countyhistorian.
http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&from=20130605161824&days=30
The "from" argument is year, month, day, hour, minute, second
Will "banned from twelve wiki lists and counting" Johnson
-Original Message-
From: Ad Strack van Schijndel
To:
Explain more clearly why you can't tell us what the name of the site is.
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From: Dan Fisher
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 10:40 pm
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Need advice on attracting more editors to my wiki
I have had a
blocked?
Most likely, as the OP's email got flagged as spam by yahoo. I would put money
on "natural enhancement of your" and "you gain" being the culprits.
:0)
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To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wednesday,
Use a synonym of "enhancement" and you should be fine.
"Enhancement" is keyed in tons of spam blockers
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From: John
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 2:02 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Certain terms blocked?
If mediawiki
Does it have to be an extension? And does it have to print it in PDF format?
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Clark
To: mediawiki-l
Sent: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 1:34 pm
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Printing an entire wiki / entire namespace
I'd like to print an entire wiki / entire namesp
I got it! ( I think)
I set the allow external links to true in my localsettings, even though it
wasn't even present there.
It seems to be working now, even though some of my jpg links are apparently
dead, others are alive
-Original Message-
From: Wjhonson
To: mediawiki-l
I have my own copy of the MediaWiki software running my own website.
Do I *need* to upload images in order to have a jpg appear on a page in my
wiki, or can I link to a remote image and have it appear? If I can link to a
remote image, how do I do that? Does someone have an example syntax?
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You can enter the ip number and get your home page
But if you enter the domain name you get an error
That's DNS
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From: Andrew Jablonski
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 2:34 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can editing the localset
Do you mean you want to make your install a single-user install?
You asked "How do I stop ANYONE else from registering."
If so, this is how I setup my own install recently. Single user. Myself.
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From: Luis Dantas
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
everyone on wiki directory under htdocs
still the same :(
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From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]
On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:52 PM
To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re
Users trying to point at a directory to which they have not Read and Execute
access.
-Original Message-
From: Saikat Sengupta
To: mediawiki-l
Sent: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 10:10 am
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Help : Wiki pages are not displayed properly
Hi
I am using Mediawiki on my loca
I can teach you where the manuals are, for free :)
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From: John
To: whitten ; Wikimedia developers
Cc: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Sun, Aug 26, 2012 6:27 pm
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] CentralAuth API access
if i knew php (may i
Your English is at least as good as Arianna Huffington's
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From: Lorena W. Baruch Armenta
To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
Sent: Thu, Jun 7, 2012 9:54 am
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] about email configuration
Thanks a lot Jeremy!
had been last five d
I have no solution for you, but I gotta love that Spanglish:
<>
I guess the guys in the head office didn't get that memo to translate all error
messages.
So after a few years in I.T. every foreign national can read English.
"Why are you trying to get the computer to understand you? Understand
hrieb Wjhonson:
> Ahhh
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete
>
> So I can merge the hundreds of poopey users into PoopeyUser ?
>
>
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete
So I can merge the hundreds of poopey users into PoopeyUser ?
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From: Wjhonson
To: mediawiki-l
Sent: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Delete user?
So you're saying there
So you're saying there is an extension to add delete user ?
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From: Jeremy Baron
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Sent: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 12:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Delete user?
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
I run m
I run my own wiki using the mediawiki software. I have the latest version (as
far as I know).
I have often blocked users, but now I see one of the special pages is to "View
Deleted User Contributions"
It's blank because I never knew before that I could "delete" a user. I've just
been blockin
Mailto is already supported without any change to the code
This page is copyright 2007-2008 by Will Johnson, [mailto:wjhon...@aol.com
wjhon...@aol.com].
Placing this line in your wiki page will translate the email address into a
clickable link which launces your mail client.
-Orig
u have in the page.
We do batch the link existance.
Wjhonson wrote:
Does anyone see any problem with modding the code to do this?
ou don't change the core code. You create an extension that does what
ou want.
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Right now the logic is that if you have a link using the [[ ]] the code will
check that there is a page with that name.
What I want to do is add to that, that if there is NOT, then it checks to see
if there is a page with that name at En.Wikipedia
Is there already an extension that does that?
Yes and no.
LinkedIn has the "feature" that it allows sending invitations to everyone in
your address book or something like that.
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From: Steve VanSlyck
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Tue, Aug 9, 2011 5:29 am
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Jo
Yes and no.
LinkedIn has the "feature" that it allows sending invitations to everyone in
your address book or something like that.
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Sent: Tue, Aug 9, 2011 5:29 am
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Jo
In a message dated 4/28/2011 10:34:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jida...@jidanni.org writes:
> Interesting how Facebook has lots of things that connect to Wikipedia,
> but Wikipedia doesn't have the reverse... but then Wikipedia is supposed
> to be neutral. Anyway, at least a 'share this page via
I like that send to a friend idea. I'll have to play around with how to
implement that on my site. Hmm how about also a "post a link to this on my
facebook page" ?
=
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In a message dated 4/14/2011 2:11:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
s.mazel...@xs4all.nl writes:
> I would suggest to set a percentage of worldwide usage as reported by
> some
> "trusted" statistics reported, or possibly a percentage of Wikimedia
> pageviews. 3% or 4%?
>
That's high. I would like
In a message dated 3/30/2011 9:23:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
overlo...@gmail.com writes:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading
>
Shades of past conversations. Being "Does mirroring *an* article, or even
a hundred make your site a *mirror*" ?
Personally
In a message dated 3/30/2011 8:45:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
overlo...@gmail.com writes:
> No, because remote loading is an unacceptable use of the website and
> likely to get you blocked. >>
>
I disagree with this opinion. Cite your source.
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I get my best ideas when I can't do anything about them.
I was thinking about what happens on my wiki when a user clicks on a Red
Link now. On my drive back from my office I realized that I could write a
PHP, that queries for that page on en:Wikipedia and if it exists, pulls the
contents over
I always thought that with Google being the 800-lb gorilla, that Meta tags
were worthless.
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In a message dated 3/11/2011 6:14:32 AM Pacific Standard Time,
lari...@gmail.com writes:
> Thanks for your answer.
> We going to search other way to store our passwords.
>
>
There are collaboratively edited sites which allow private storage and
sharing, such as Knol.google.com and Sites.go
I... Am... Brilliant!
yes I am
http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Main_Page
Adsense as a banner on every page :)
No extensions were loaded, I just hacked the code to pieces.
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htt
I've almost figured out how to do it. I've managed to move my Adsense ad to
the top of each page
See for example
http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Current_events
But I think that Adsense has this Slot Id I have to tell it now, that the ad
should be a banner, not a box.
I think
Huib your extension, adds Adsense to the side bar, I'm already doing that, if
you look at my example page that I sent in my last email.
What I want to do is add Adsense into the content section of a page, or as a
banner across the top of the page.
Will
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Where do I modify the PHP so I can show Adsense ads, for example a banner
across the top of each page, or a box ad at the upper right or something?
I've already hacked it so I can show Adsense in the Toolbox in the left
margin, see my example here
http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.p
In a message dated 3/1/2011 11:53:38 AM Pacific Standard Time,
overlo...@gmail.com writes:
> Not when the accusation comes from a biased source.
>
Which is why you lay out in plain view, all the known facts.
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In a message dated 3/1/2011 10:02:36 AM Pacific Standard Time,
lewisca...@googlemail.com writes:
> But Anne was not saying "oh, Siebrand should be moderator", Anne was
> stating that Siebrand or Nikerabbit could be used as witnesses or
> references to help their application... there would not be
In a message dated 3/1/2011 9:44:12 AM Pacific Standard Time,
lewisca...@googlemail.com writes:
> And I've had the opposite, Siebrand has helped me a lot, and continues
> to help open source communities with his work on translatewiki.net.
> Where in that email did anyone ask you to attack Siebra
Please post the full section of code that you currently have
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In a message dated 11/29/2010 7:28:45 AM Pacific Standard Time,
platoni...@gmail.com writes:
> That behavior only works if the wiki is configured with
> $wgAllowExternalImages = true; in LocalSettings.php
>
Is this not the default setting? Or perhaps it was in an earlier release
and then cha
You are putting brackets around the url, don't. Just the URL itself by
itself on it's own line.
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Just the URL to the image naked.
"Here is an image of something
_http://www.whatever.com/image/this.jpg_
(http://www.whatever.com/image/this.jpg)
"That was an image of something"
In a message dated 11/28/2010 8:00:03 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
grou...@earthlink.net writes:
I a
In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:52:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
2...@gmaskfx.com writes:
> < was able to clean up the mess but it still took a good days worth of work.
>
> There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created
> conflicts unless you did them in the right order. I r
In a message dated 11/23/2010 9:06:07 AM Pacific Standard Time,
grou...@earthlink.net writes:
> I know. That is why it was such a surprise to me. On the Control
> Panel under Scripting and Add ons it clearly says "MS SQL Database"
> and the way you set up the database is different than with
In a message dated 11/23/2010 8:19:16 AM Pacific Standard Time,
2...@gmaskfx.com writes:
> My wiki was vandalized recently and there is a huge amount of edits and
> new pages that I need to remove. Is there a way to do this without doing
> them all at once?
>
What is your MediaWiki version
In a message dated 11/23/2010 7:31:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
grou...@earthlink.net writes:
> I am trying to install my first Mediawiki site and have a
> problem. My system settings on ReadyHosting.com indicates that it is
> running MySQL version 4.1.22 which meets Mediawiki requirements;
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