MediaWiki-l February 2005

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by James Gardiner 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Morning! I am building a web site for a family member who is in the process of completing a PhD and MediaWiki looks like the ideal CMS to use as they will be able to update their own web site (delegation is always important :-) Two questions: 1) There may be a need to have certain pages in multiple languages. Is the best way to do this for a small site is to add a language identifier to the page title eg: here is the CV in [[CV.en|English]] or in [[CV.nl|Dutch]]. Is there a way to do this and still have a more readable title eg "English CV" rathern than "CV.en"? 2) I see from the LocalSettings.php that it is possible to prevent access to certain pages for users who are not logged in. Do I need to list all the pages I want blocked or is it possible to do wildcards eg internal* TIA James

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How to secure new wiki?
by Rusty Shackleford 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

I've read this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Security but I'd like to know how to require editors to log in first, and how to disable account creation. Also, I'm not sure how to disable running PHP scripts in any directories except the script directories. Can I just copy this ato the end of my httpd.conf file and then reboot the server: <Location "/wiki/images"> php_admin_flag engine off AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml </Location> All related comments on how to secure a wiki are welcome. TIA

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html meta tag
by John Yu 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

I notice the html <meta keyword=""> tags of my wiki pages are populated with not only my page titles, but also the title of any linked wiki pages, images and templates. But I checked wikipedia.org, only the page title is used in the <meta keyword="">. 1. Where is it configured? 2. Having the linked pages aded to the meta tag is ok, I think. But adding the template and image titles to it is not right. Is it possible to just exclude templates and images? Thanks -- John

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blog extension
by FxParlant 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Hello all, I've made a little clumsy extension to help aggregating quotes: so that a quote appears in all the pages it links to. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fxparlant/Blog Please do use of the discussion page to comment and help me correct it :-) To see a first version of its use : http://www.fxparlant.net/Lacan_S1 Scroll down after the dates list, and you'll see an aggregation of notes, with links for pages and comments (some of these pages are themself aggregations) François

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captcha ??
by FxParlant 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hello, I would like to know if someone has ever installed a captcha on her/his mediawiki pages (pages/accounts/talkpages) Thanks for any hint François

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XHTML generation
by NSK 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

<a href="http://portal.wikinerds.org/canada-flag" class='external' title="http://portal.wikinerds.org/canada-flag" rel="nofollow">link</a> The XHTML above is generated by Wikipedia, but in my opinion MW should use only " and not ' i.e. it should be class="external" instead of 'external' -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org

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Special Pages - Restrict Access
by skill2die4＠secguru.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

List: I would like to restrict the Special Pages ( such as /index.php/Special:Recentchanges) to only to logged in users. Any suggestions on implementing this ? Thanks in Advance :-) -skillz

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Allow good bots to index private pages
by Plamen Gradinarov 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

There is a private project for sysop-registered members only. I'd like to allow Google to index the pages without caching them. How to do that? Thanks, P.

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Block User Name Only
by Plamen Gradinarov 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

How to do this? The return message is: Error: could not submit form Invalid IP address Well, neither do I know the changing IPs of the User, nor would I want to ban the IP which might be shared by other users. The only way I see is to delete the user registration from DB. P.

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Weird Update of System Messages
by Plamen Gradinarov 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Hello, Updated several wikies to rc1, and got everywhere one and the same problem. Default text and Current text of Special:Allmessages is after the update identical. AND when you click the link under the Name, the WikiMedia page shows the old value, before the update. My question is: How to make the old values replace the Current text and continue serving as my actual system messages. Thank you, Plamen

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MediaWiki-l February 2005