Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Brollo
On 11 May 2010 17:23, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i seem to have a problem with my wiki. Everytime i bold or italise a text and save it, it keeps adding more ' ' '. Has anyone ever come across this problem? This question gives me the opportunity for a question

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Alex Brollo wrote: On 11 May 2010 17:23, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i seem to have a problem with my wiki. Everytime i bold or italise a text and save it, it keeps adding more ' ' '. Has anyone ever come across this problem? Do you have magic quotes or another

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Svip
On 12 May 2010 13:33, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Alex Brollo wrote: This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like b, /b, i,/i instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? The former have a

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:33, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Alex Brollo wrote: This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like b, /b, i,/i instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? The

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Svip
On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. Using b and i where what you really want is to make it bold and italic isn't deprecated. Incorrect, they are deprecated

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 05/12/2010 01:11 PM, Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. It's foul HTML... The whole point is that you say what you mean, not what it

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. Using b and i where what you really want is to make it bold and italic isn't deprecated. Incorrect,

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Svip
On 12 May 2010 14:24, Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/12/2010 01:11 PM, Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. It's foul HTML...

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like b, /b, i,/i instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? No, it's much easier. b

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Brollo
Well, as some of you told before, wiki software converts bold and italic markup into b and i tags; my suggestion is to use them as largely as possible if they don't overload the server, and if particular use of apostrophes into a particular language (as Italian) raises any trouble. If they are

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu
Media Wiki Version 1.15.1 Extensions installed - Wikilog, External Data, Parser Functions and Custom Title. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Ryan Bies r...@yaauie.com wrote: Could you please also provide what version of MediaWiki you are running? Please also include any extensions you've

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu
Thanks everyone i used the html tags b and i and it seems to have solved the problem for now. Great discussion though on the use of quotes and tags. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com wrote: Media Wiki Version 1.15.1 Extensions installed - Wikilog,

[Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-11 Thread Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu
Hi i seem to have a problem with my wiki. Everytime i bold or italise a text and save it, it keeps adding more ' ' '. Has anyone ever come across this problem? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-11 Thread Ryan Bies
Could you please also provide what version of MediaWiki you are running? Please also include any extensions you've recently installed, as they could be contributing factors. You may find better luck finding help in an interactive format, like #mediawiki on IRC: