Re: [Wikitech-l] Would anyone be interested in a tech talk about how to make a mw skin?

2015-09-28 Thread Christopher Wilson
I'd be interested as well. My employer is going to be rolling out a new site design soon, and it'd be great to have our Wikis match everything else with regard to look and feel. On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedziel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I would be interested as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linux distros or Solaris for MediaWiki

2014-07-20 Thread Christopher Wilson
I think that's referring to the package distributed by Ubuntu/Canonical, not support for running the app if you install it via some other method. -Chris On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu

Re: [Wikitech-l] File cache + HTTPS question

2013-10-01 Thread Christopher Wilson
I'm usually just an observer on these lists, but I'll weigh in as a user who runs MediaWiki on a shared host. The host *is* a VPS, but our wiki is used by the environmental department of a large international non-profit. As such it lives on the enviro server along with some WordPress sites and

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to create account by API?

2012-08-07 Thread Christopher Wilson
It seems like it would make more sense to just use a central authentication system to support both the Wiki and the other services. There are extensions and plugins for LDAP and other authentication methods. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:58 PM, wangfeng wangfeng wangfeng.v1.1...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make the life of extension developers easier?

2011-09-07 Thread Christopher Wilson
Putting my sysadmin hat on, I would prefer that extensions be coded against the current stable release. I realize that there's a great temptation to code ahead and use new features/interfaces, but I almost always encounter pushback when the only way to do something is to use a beta version. Lots