Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct venue?

2010-05-20 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 05/19/10 17:12, David Gerard wrote: > On 19 May 2010 16:08, Chad wrote: > >> So to answer the original question of "Why don't we have WYSIWYG >> when it's been around for 15 years?" It's because we need a lossless >> conversion between raw wikitext and wikitext output by the visual >> editor. L

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Resolving or fixing Wiki page names with a leading colon or invalid namespaces?

2010-03-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/30/10 01:37 AM, Platonides wrote: >>> Try running /maintance/namespaceDupes.php. >> That didn't help. >> >> Maybe some additional information re: namespace use on the OOoWiki will >> clarify. There are no language namespaces in use. The Wiki was set up >> to use only the default namespace

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Resolving or fixing Wiki page names with a leading colon or invalid namespaces?

2010-03-29 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/29/10 02:41 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > Try running /maintance/namespaceDupes.php. That didn't help. Maybe some additional information re: namespace use on the OOoWiki will clarify. There are no language namespaces in use. The Wiki was set up to use only the default namespaces. The pages i

[Mediawiki-l] Resolving or fixing Wiki page names with a leading colon or invalid namespaces?

2010-03-29 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Somehow, there is a page on the OpenOffice.org Wiki that has a leading colon. See this Category: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:PDL_License The page in question is the first page in that category list: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/:Calc_Error_Codes Of course when

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re-Writing page titles

2009-12-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
>>> By default, MediaWiki's subpage feature is turned off in the main >>> namespace, but can be used on talk pages and user pages. See >>> Help:Namespaces. In namespaces where the feature is switched off, any >>> slashes (/) within a >> page >> >>> name are simply part of the page name and do nothi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re-Writing page titles

2009-12-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
> huh. interesting. But I think it's too bad that users (non-technical and > otherwise) need so much hand-holding when it come to software. > > With a DVD player (or a car or house), a user will press the button or flip > a switch to learn what a thing does. With software, and tools like > MediaWi

[Mediawiki-l] Positioning floated divs in MediaWiki

2009-11-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this one... I've just installed FlaggedRevs in the OOoWiki. It's working OK so far... but one little thing has come up and I'd like to fix it. Take a look at a random page like this one: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administra

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Translating wiki articles

2009-11-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 11/18/09 14:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2009 09:23:11 Clayton wrote: >> What I'm looking to do is to make the process more... obvious I guess... >> thus my "dream" extension that adds a "Translate this page" link at the >> top next to the Edit link. >> > It does that - and

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Customize edit article text

2009-11-19 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 11/19/09 14:46, Christensen, Courtney wrote: > Hi C, > > Have you looked at Special:Allmessages? You can often search for the text in > your wiki installation that you want to replace and find it there with a > helpful link to the page to replace it on. This will be true for almost any > c

[Mediawiki-l] Translating wiki articles

2009-11-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Does anyone here work with multilanguage Wiki content? Are there any extensions that ease the pain of translating Wiki articles? On the OpenOffice.org Wiki we have a lot of languages in use. Various community members pop in, see a favorite page they want in their language, and they start tran

[Mediawiki-l] Customize edit article text

2009-11-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
A couple of questions about MediaWiki customizations Is there an "easy" way to customize the edit article text in MediaWiki? I've found MediaWiki:Newarticletext and this allow me to change the text shown when someone wants to edit a new article... but I've not yet found any secret trick to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] PDF Version on Wikipedia

2009-09-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
>> If I'm logged on to wikipedia.org I see an option PDF Version. >> I don't see this option at mediawiki.org or if I logged off from >> wikipedia.org. >> >> Is there an extension implementing this feature? The same extension (Collections from Pediapress) is being used on the OpenOffice.org Wik

[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki and Mimetypes problems

2009-09-08 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I've been trying to fix this one on the OpenOffice.org Wiki for a while, but am getting nowhere... maybe someone here has an idea? I've defined these mime types in both the apache2/conf/mime.types file and in the wiki/includes/mime.types file: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart

Re: [Mediawiki-l] List of Talk pages with content?

2009-06-12 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 06/12/09 09:30, sam.sex...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: > Go to Special:AllPages and select the Talk namespace - it's that easy! > ;-) Sometimes the obvious is staring me in the face and I can't see it ;-) Yes , this works exactly as I want.. Talk namespace, and type in the subpage search start

[Mediawiki-l] List of Talk pages with content?

2009-06-12 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Is there a way to find/show a list of Wiki pages (or sub-pages) that have Talk pages with content? I've been poking around in the Extensions and doing some searching but haven't come up with anything yet. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project

[Mediawiki-l] Purging *unused* user accounts

2009-06-12 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
We have been discussing purging unused user accounts on the OpenOffice.org Wiki. I can run the removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenanace script, and it will happily remove all unused accounts (that have zero edits)... the patch suggested on the Discussion page for http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Man

[Mediawiki-l] Redirect fixer problems?

2009-05-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
An interesting problem has recently cropped up on the OpenOffice.org Wiki that I am not sure how to resolve... the Redirect Fixer user is redirecting pages incorrectly. For example, the page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Base_Guide/Planning w

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Fwd: wiki versus Word

2009-05-04 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 05/02/09 00:37, Evelyn Yoder wrote: > Followup: the Sun Wiki Publisher didn't connect to MW as expected. I'd be interested in what didn't work. Maybe you or I can provide that feedback to the developers and get that extension fixed up so that it works properly with MediaWiki. :-) C -- Cla

Re: [Mediawiki-l] A couple minor issues after upgrading to MW 1.13.3

2009-01-16 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
>> I just upgraded the OpenOffice.org Wiki from MW 1.11.0 to MW 1.13.3, >> [...] >> - The sub-page breadcrumbs are "missing". ... since 1.11.0. >> > > Should work. Have you tried disabling other extensions one by one to see > if any of them are intrefering with the parser? Yes. I've had

[Mediawiki-l] A couple minor issues after upgrading to MW 1.13.3

2009-01-16 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I just upgraded the OpenOffice.org Wiki from MW 1.11.0 to MW 1.13.3, and I'm having a few minor issues. I'm hoping someone here can provide some insight for me - The sub-page breadcrumbs are "missing". This Wiki makes fairly heavy use of Sub-pages, and the breadcrumbs that we had in 1.