Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-09 Thread Aran
You might need to set $wgUseDatabaseMessages to true for that to take effect: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseDatabaseMessages Peter Adams wrote: > Thanks. That is what i thought. however editing that page under my > MediaWiki install doesn't seem to make the change show up. I'm runn

Re: [Wikitech-l] [pmwx-dev] Purple MediaWiki (PMWX) Extension now released into beta - 2008.12.09

2008-12-09 Thread Mohamed Magdy
This is a great extension. but hiding the links by default is better IMO and putting the show link in the sidebar. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:18 PM, viral gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 9-Dec-1968 NLS > demo[1], we take pleasure in announcing the rele

Re: [Wikitech-l] The never-dying topic: category intersection

2008-12-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
Aerik Sylvan schreef: > Hey Roan, does your code use the a new table for the category search (with > fulltext index) Yes > and do you have the hooks for maintaining that table? Yes. I even have a maintenance script to populate it. > Do > you display the the results on a new search results page,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Adams
Thanks. That is what i thought. however editing that page under my MediaWiki install doesn't seem to make the change show up. I'm running 1.13.1 . Also, MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpagedoesn't seem to be listed under: http://recyclepedia.org/index.php?title=Special:AllMessages . is that

[Wikitech-l] [pmwx-dev] Purple MediaWiki (PMWX) Extension now released into beta - 2008.12.09

2008-12-09 Thread viral gupta
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 9-Dec-1968 NLS demo[1], we take pleasure in announcing the release of the Purple MediaWiki (PMWX) Extension into beta today (9-Dec-2008) as free and open source software (under the GNU GPL v2 license.) "Purple Numbers" have their root in the NLS system. T

Re: [Wikitech-l] The never-dying topic: category intersection

2008-12-09 Thread Aerik Sylvan
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:48:39 +0100, Roan Kattouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > We had a pretty lengthy discussion about this before the summer, and the > consensus seemed to be that a fulltext-based approach looked most > viable. I actually wrote an extension that does that, and promised to > re

Re: [Wikitech-l] User Interface Documents for MediaWiki / Wikipedia?

2008-12-09 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 howard chen wrote: > Hello, > > Are there any User Interface documents related to MediaWiki / Wikipedia? > > Such as the one in WordPress > > E.g. > > http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wf-dashboard_v002_093008jw.pdf Not currently, though

Re: [Wikitech-l] User Interface Documents for MediaWiki / Wikipedia?

2008-12-09 Thread Christensen, Courtney
-Original Message- From: howard chen Are there any User Interface documents related to MediaWiki / Wikipedia? --- This may have been a good candidate for a post to the Mediawiki-l list instead of the developer list, but I'm not always spot on on those jud

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bring your language to Commons

2008-12-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I do not object. There is a prerequisite, get it out of the way. Then get at the Internationalisation, the Localisation. Thanks, GerardM 2008/12/9 Aryeh Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Gerard Meijssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bring your language to Commons

2008-12-09 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As long as the user preferences do not allow people to enter their gender in > order to have improve the Internationalisation and the following > Localisation, the other things that do not have a prerequisite have priority

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bring your language to Commons

2008-12-09 Thread Eugene Zelenko
Hi! Gender was used as feature example similar to extracting user-preferred language. Sure, for Commons user-preferred language is much more critical since it'll exclude admins guess game when using templates on particular user talk page. I think categories translation and their usage in search

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bring your language to Commons

2008-12-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As long as the user preferences do not allow people to enter their gender in order to have improve the Internationalisation and the following Localisation, the other things that do not have a prerequisite have priority for the people who Internationalise or Localise. Once this prerequisite is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code update status?

2008-12-09 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Simon Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's goodnice to see such flippant responses when a simple "It could be > a while yet" would do. It really helps the idea of bringing people on > board to help out and feel welcome... What's the difference between "When it's re

Re: [Wikitech-l] Math crash

2008-12-09 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Mohamed Magdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Dan Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Seems to be fixed, if you still see a problem add ?action=purge to the >> end of the URL, that should fix it >> > > It's not fixed yet. on any artic

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bring your language to Commons

2008-12-09 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > When we are to support genders or other personal aspect that can be > reflected in the user interface, we can ask everyone for this information. > Dependent on the answer people will be treated as per the provided >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code update status?

2008-12-09 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
History has shown that Wikimedia updates the code on their farm quite often, somewhere between 5 minutes and a month or so, with 'every few days' on average. A few weeks ago Brion dropped somewhere that he's planning to move to a weekly update for Wikimedia's MediaWiki version. Given the track reco

[Wikitech-l] User Interface Documents for MediaWiki / Wikipedia?

2008-12-09 Thread howard chen
Hello, Are there any User Interface documents related to MediaWiki / Wikipedia? Such as the one in WordPress E.g. http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wf-dashboard_v002_093008jw.pdf Thanks ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Math crash

2008-12-09 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Dan Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to be fixed, if you still see a problem add ?action=purge to the > end of the URL, that should fix it > It's not fixed yet. on any article using (or fixed then happened again). -- --alnokta _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code update status?

2008-12-09 Thread Simon Orr
>Remember the dot wrote: >> Hey, >> >> The code on Wikimedia sites hasn't been updated in about 3 weeks...any >> idea on when the next update will be? > >When it's ready. It's goodnice to see such flippant responses when a simple "It could be a while yet" would do. It really helps the idea of bri