I'm not going to get into a tit for tat. If you've read this thread you
will see that I've both offered lots of help to newbies (other than
just telling them to read the wiki), and I've thanked people for the
help I received. I also solved some problems that other people offered
partial solutions to, and I explained why the full solution worked
better than the partial solution. I was just asking for someone to
point me the direction as to where to get started: i.e. where to look
in the code. Instead, I was told that I was in the wrong for asking
such a question. This is not the kind of attitude I came to this forum
with, and it is isn't the kind of attitude I expect from others.
Go ahead and defend your friends, but don't do so out of context.
kerim
On Aug 4, 2004, at 9:18 AM, Shimmie wrote:
P. Kerim friedman wrote:
But now I seem to be getting a Micro$oft type of
reply
That isn't why I use open source software!
That is totally uncalled for. Open source software is not about
getting
free support. Its about giving you the code so you can change it to
your
hearts content. If you can't do that yourself, then either pay someone
to do
it for you or buy commercial software instead.
The people who devote hours and years of their time to provide you
with free
things work very hard for nothing, don't owe you anthing, and certainly
don't need your bitching.
By looking at the list below you certainly take advantage of free
software,
I hope you give back.
Simon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "P. Kerim friedman" <kerim.mail(a)oxus.net>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
<mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How does MediaWiki submit edits?
On Aug 4, 2004, at 2:50 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
The crappy forwarding scheme is your problem
Every other software I've installed on my system:
Pagetool
TikiWiki
ActivePHPBookmarks
Nucleus
MovableType
WordPress
Have ALL been able to handle this "crappy forwarding scheme" just
fine.
Media Wiki is the only one that hasn't. The forwarding system is
actually quite robust, it is simply a frame, nothing else. It can
handle metatags. The reason I use it is too complex to explain, but
many people use such systems, whether because they share hosting with
other people, use subdomains, wish to remain able to easily change
hosts, etc. That is why all the above software have provisions to
allow
people to do just that.
But all I'm asking is for some help understanding WHY it isn't
working.
You've been very helpful so far, but obviously you don't wish to help
any more. That's fine. But maybe someone else might know why the forms
aren't working. Absolute URLs, with the proper domain will all work as
if they were on the host domain. I like MediaWiki, and you have all
been very helpful up to now. But now I seem to be getting a Micro$oft
type of reply: if the software doesn't work the way you want, change
how you do things. That isn't why I use open source software!
I'm not much of a programmer, so if hacking the forms is truly too
complicated, I may just have to give up. But I'd like to give it a
try.
Thanks again!
kerim
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