On 17/12/06, Jax <cybercorecentre(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So I made a test post in wikipedia which demonstrate
my problem (I hope
they don't delete it):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thisisatest
Someone deleted it.
As you see if you copy text files to the mediawiki
then some line will
overruns the border and after you got thousands of pages in your wiki it
can't be fix by hand. This wiki is not public, I need to maintain it for
my company so I can't just ask someone to setup a bot to fix it even if
that's a solution.
The problem seems to be that some lines prefixed with spaces are
creeping in from the source text. MediaWiki treats this as a cue to
enter <pre> mode, which means that formatting and line breaks are up
to the user. To correct this, delete the preceding spaces at the start
of each line.
To fix this in bulk, you could write a quickie maintenance script
which whizzes through all pages in the database (or just those you
specify) and performs this edit for you, saving the page if changes
were made.
Rob Church