MediaWiki-l October 2006

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Multiple languages
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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Re: Never delete users !
by Rob Church 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell out of the software. MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will. Rob Church

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how to manage "in other languages"
by Šerých Jakub 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

I have two problems with functionality of "in other languages" box on my MW server. I would like to point from my articles to related articles on Wikipedia using standard interwikis. In this context I would like to: 1) Change the text from "in other languages" to something like "in other wikis" 2) My MW is localized as Czech (CS) and so when I add [[cs:something]] interwiki to an article, it is hiding it from in other languages box. I would like to switch off this language filtering. Does anybody know how to solve point 1) or 2)? (MW 1.7.1) Thanks in advance Jakub

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Inputbox: Directly create
by Ingmar Heinrich 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hi there! With the inputbox extension, is there a way to directly create a page without having to submit the edit form that is displayed after clicking inputbox's create button? Cheers, Ingmar

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Still can't get rid of "privacy" policy link at bottom of page.
by Ken McDonald 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Thanks to the helpful comment of another group user, I tried placing the following in the "main.css" file of the monobook skin folder: #privacy { display: none; } My skin is definitely set to monobook, and my browser is Firefox 1.5.0.4 on OS X. From viewing the page source and reading my CSS book, I've concluded that this should indeed hide the "display" link--but it doesn't. Anyone know what might be going wrong? Thanks, Ken

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Uploading files
by Green, Chris 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

I've been able to enable uploading of files and set the $wgFileExtensions[] line in LocalSettings.php to enable me to upload pdf files. My problem is how to set this to enable different types of files to be uploaded e.g. pdf's and word docs and Powerpoint etc. Does anyone know the correct syntax for specifying multiple file extensions for files that can be uploaded. Thank Chris This e-mail (and any attachments) may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please do not disclose, copy, distribute, disseminate or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please reply and tell us and then delete it. Should you wish to communicate with us by e-mail we cannot guarantee the security of any data outside our own computer systems. For the protection of Legal & General's systems and staff, incoming emails will be automatically scanned. Any information contained in this message may be subject to applicable terms and conditions and must not be construed as giving investment advice within or outside the United Kingdom. The following companies are subsidiary companies of the Legal & General Group Plc which are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for advising and arranging the products shown: Legal & General Partnership Services Limited (insurance and mortgages), Legal & General Insurance Limited (insurance), Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (life assurance, pensions and investments), Legal & General Unit Trust Managers Limited and Legal & General Portfolio Management Services Limited (investments). They are registered in England under numbers shown. The registered office is Temple Court, 11 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4N 4TP. Legal & General Partnership Services Limited: 5045000 Legal & General Assurance Society Limited: 166055 Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) Limited: 1009418 Legal & General (Portfolio Management Services) Limited: 2457525 Legal & General Insurance Limited: 423930 They are registered with the Financial Services Authority under numbers shown. You can check this at www.fsa.gov.uk/register Legal & General Partnership Services Limited: 300792 Legal & General Assurance Society Limited: 117659 Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) Limited: 119273 Legal & General (Portfolio Management Services) Limited: 146786 Legal & General Insurance Limited: 202050

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Automatic creation of wikilinks
by Thomas 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Is it possible to let the wikisoftware create wikilinks in articles (to other articles on the wiki). Example: I write an article named automobile. It contains the word engine many places. Later I write an article named engine. Do I have to create links (in the automobile article and other articles containing the word engine) to the engine article manually ? Or can it be done automatically ?

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Site mirror or copy
by ApostateAmish＠aol.com 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

In a message dated 10/20/2006 5:00:46 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, mauro(a)carmo.info writes: Thanks Kasimir Gabert, Anyone could assure me that this would work? Or perhaps, there is another way I could set my phpMyAdmin to generate a db_domain with another name when I dump it. Thanks mauro. You can never be sure until you try. It sounds right to me. The dump likely includes database names from the database being dumped. Even if you change a name readily visible at the top of the dump, their could be other instances further down. "Find and replace" (ctrl + H in Windows) can be used to replace every instance of the original database name in only one operation.

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Users can not 'talk'
by asselarain-mediawikil＠yahoo.com 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi, I run a website based on Mediawiki. After I have upgraded from 1.5 to 1.7.1, users on my wiki can no longer talk on the pages! Local settings have the following $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['talk'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['move'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['talk'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true; # // Implicit group for all visitors $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = true; $wgDisableAnonTalk = true; # and also $wgEmailAuthentication = true; I know this is very limited information. If somebody can at least point in the right direction for checking for what is causing this .... Thanks in advance

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Database clean up
by Dennis Heinzen 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Hi Folks I want to clean up my Database. 1. Is there a way to delete all "deleted" artikles? When the artikles are deleted I stillcan restore them. Ergo the artikles and there versions are still in the Database. But I will delete them forever. 2. And is there a easyer way to delete Versions as delete the Artikel and restore just the Versions you need? May Be an extension or something... Regards Dennis

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