Mediawiki script is used for different kind of sites.
It could be a good idea to study a way to let links to have all characters including special characters.
This because could be necessary to create a link includind chars as +, #, etc. as discussed in a previous post.
Personally I use Mediawiki for a site about programming anda often happen that I need creating a ling as [[C++]], [[C#]] and other.
Is this a featur requested also by other people?
What do you think about?
Thanks.
Giovanni Putignano
Italy
Hello, I am new to the list - I have a question I hope you can help me with.
I have installed a wiki where users cannot sign up themselves (I assign
usernames) I want to restrict users on my installation to only editing
specific sections of the wiki. I think the file to edit is
includes\EditPage.php
I want it to work so that if a person's username contains a colon (e.g.
FOO:Bob) then they can only edit and create pages that are in the form
FOO:Page_Name, FOO:Main_Page etc. I want it to treat users with usernames
that don't contain a colon normally. E.g.
1) Someone with the username FOO:Bob can edit FOO:Page_Name but not
BAR:Main_Page.
2) Someone with the username Bob can edit FOO:Page_Name and BAR:Main_Page
and Main_Page
I'm happy for this edit to take the form of an edit converting "you must
login to edit this page" to "you must login and have the right permissions
to edit this page". I think that EditPage.php would need to be edited twice
in the areas containing the text:
if ( !$wgUser->getID() && $wgWhitelistEdit ) {
$this->userNotLoggedInPage();
return;
}
I have sought an answer to this question for a while and posted in various
other forua without success.
Hope you can help.
Many thanks,
Robert Jones
> It might be faster to generate that list using a sql query directly
> on one of wikimedia database server, additionaly tt will save some bandwith.
That's a great idea, IMO, for exactly the reasons you cite. The page
need not be updated frequently.
The query does take over 12 hours to run, albeit on a machine of limited
resources. While I am not an expert on query optimization, I doubt that
much can be done to speed it up.
FWIW there is presently a three month backlog of queries to be run, on
the list on the meta.
UninvitedCompany
Recently I downloaded the old table for en. I would like to keep a
reasonably up-to-date copy of it around for history queries. You can
see [[Wikipedia:Another list of Wikipedians by date of arrival]] for
the sort of stuff that interests me. I think it helps the project.
Anyway, I know the subject of incremental updates has come up in the
past, and has been ignored because it's fiddly to do and no one cares
much.
It would, however, be extremely helpful to me if even the minor measure
of splitting the files before compression rather than after were taken.
That way I could download the last file or two, and cut and paste the
files based on oldid. Please....
Thanks
UninvitedCompany
Hi everyone,
I'm pretty annoyed about the limited possibilities of typesetting
mathematical formulas within the <math>-tag. It is not possible to
create any more complicated formulas which, I think, is essential for
further developing the maths section and not only giving definitions but
also proofs. How come so many commands are disabled? Also, where can I
find a list of all commands currently availibe? \setminus works but isn't
mentioned on any of the formula help-pages.
Ncik
On the main documentation page http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif , I
opened a section "Reference list ..." where users, who actually use my
patch, ***can place their comments and their name as references for my
patch***.
Please take note, that there are more pages such as one for reporting
bugs. This should not go to the main page.
Moreover - and this as a suggestion to all developers - my pages (at
least) try to show a framework, how a good documentation can look like
from the very beginning (Enotif is still in the beginning phase): a
bugzilla listing for tracking, _and_ a meta-wiki documentation for
reading and shameless editing for improvements.
Tom
> http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikitex#Music
I looked through it and the related documentation.
The one page limitation is bound to become a problem sooner or later.
But then, even with the one-page limit, having lilypond markup at all
would be a cause for celebration among the music editors.
http://www.mutopiaproject.org is a repository for full-length scores,
and those are better suited to their mission than ours. Some
orchestral works, because of the number of parts, could break over one
page just for an excerpt of the main theme, though.
Another concern is that Wikitex appears to be using a two-year old
version of Lilypond (an experimental 2.0 version). This is
particularly a problem because the Lilypond maintainers have not
maintained backwards compatability in the input grammar. Therefore,
input written for 2.0 can fail with syntax errors in 2.4. I suspect
(hope?) that the grammar will begin to stabilize, at least as far as
the more commonly used features are concerned.
IIRC, 2.0 had some security holes in it (includes from an arbitrary path
for example) that, at best, would require a chroot jail to run on a
server of any consequence.
UninvitedCompany
Hi there
I've coded a calendar which I can include in any wikipage. Now there's just
one problem: the calendar has a function, that allows to "change date". So
I can click on an arrow, to go to the next month. Really cool I thought..
but the problem is, that it won't change as long as I don't do a
shift-reload (the informations are passed by 2 GET-variables and I catch
them with $wgRequest->getVars). I suppose that's the caching-function :/.
Now is there a way, to force a refresh of the cache? Or even deactivate it
for a wikipage?
I'm using the latest stable mediawiki out of the box - I did no special
configuration to the caching feature. I've implemented the calendar the
same way, as the TOC or CURRENTMONTH were implemented.
Regards
Joel
Hi
When will SQL queries be enabled again? I've only started trying to use
them, so I don't know how long they've been disabled or if they're
semi-permenantly off.
Cheers
Ludraman
Hello
May be the question has already been raised, but when do wikimedia start
to migrate to 4.1 ?
May be you'll wait until 5.0 will become certified ?
Xmlizer