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

On Monday 07 December 2009 10:58:11 ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: > By putting the list into the Help: pages it's made them > more visible somehow... and I also have started announcing new > Extensions using MediaWiki:Sitenotice. > This is the approach we are starting to take. It's become ob

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

>>> 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

> 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

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

On Sunday 06 December 2009 19:50:55 Platonides wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 06 December 2009 15:45:00 Platonides wrote: > >> They will only appear if the namespace in which they are, has subpages > >> enabled. Plus, the intermediate pages might need to exist. > > > > My brain hurts ton

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

Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 06 December 2009 15:45:00 Platonides wrote: >> They will only appear if the namespace in which they are, has subpages >> enabled. Plus, the intermediate pages might need to exist. >> > My brain hurts tonight :-) > > I have a page .Applications, a page ..Appli

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

On Sunday 06 December 2009 15:45:00 Platonides wrote: > > They will only appear if the namespace in which they are, has subpages > enabled. Plus, the intermediate pages might need to exist. > My brain hurts tonight :-) I have a page .Applications, a page ..Applications/Office and a page

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Anne Wilson wrote: >>> Can I ask which breadcrumbs extension you use with it? We haven't yet >>> made a decision on that, so would be interested to hear your experience. >> The Breadcrumbs show up automatically when you use subpages as long as >> your subpages below the current page have content/e

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

On Sunday 06 December 2009 13:57:20 Evelyn Yoder wrote: > 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 wh

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

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 MediaWiki, there is

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

Hallo, Clayton, Du meintest am 05.12.09: > If you want to see a detailed list of installed extensions on the > OOoWiki, I've documented them here: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Help:Extensions I've seen there "PasswordReset" - that might be helpful with my problem (spamming users)

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

On Saturday 05 December 2009 20:15:22 Clayton wrote: > > > > Haha.. it was a bit long winded :-) > Oops - sorry about that :-) > I think it was with 1.1.15 that DISPLAYTITLE was finally allowed to > rewrite the entire title - prior to that we were using an extension that > did the same thing. >

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Evelyn Yoder wrote: > Hi - > > I noticed that you took the time to build a page to describe the extensions > you installed, but you might be interested to know that MW includes such a > page as part of the special pages: > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Version Yes, I'm awar

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

Hi - I noticed that you took the time to build a page to describe the extensions you installed, but you might be interested to know that MW includes such a page as part of the special pages: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Version

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> Haha.. it was a bit long winded :-) > Thanks. That certainly explains your setup clearly, and it does help to be > able to see those example pages. After reading the Help page I got the > impression that we couldn't use {{DISPLAYTITLE:DesiredTitle}} for this > purpose, so it's great to s

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

On Saturday 05 December 2009 15:50:36 Clayton wrote: > It's an imperfect solution... but it's working the breadcrumbs work > correctly (keeping the reader withing the selected language group if > they use the breadcrumb links)... in most cases it's also quite easy to > discover the translated

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

> While considering what we can do to make translated pages more accessible we > come up against the fact that by default page names remain in English, with > only the langcode appended. This makes things difficult for, for instance, > readers of Cyrillic or Chinese scripts. [snip] > There is

[Mediawiki-l] Re-Writing page titles

While considering what we can do to make translated pages more accessible we come up against the fact that by default page names remain in English, with only the langcode appended. This makes things difficult for, for instance, readers of Cyrillic or Chinese scripts. One experiment has been to