mediawiki

MediaWiki Beautifier PHP package location

Does anybody happen to know where I can download the Beautifier PHP package for use with MediaWiki for syntax highlighting? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Syntax_Highlighting - The MediaWiki syntax highlighter installation article (apparently) has a link to two mirrors with the files, but they don't seem to have them all. Any...

How can you graphically represent the number of authors per page in MediaWiki?

We have a MediaWiki wiki. I'd like to be able to report how much collaboration is going on and I thought of the following graph: number of authors per page. So the data would be like this: #Pages #Authors 20 1 10 2 25 3 etc. This would show that 20 pages have only 1 author, 10 have 2, 25 have 3, ... Does anyone know of a ...

import docs to mediawiki

I wish to import a bunch of documents (100's) into a wiki on our company intranet (mediawiki). Lots have embedded images as well. I am wondering if there is a way to import them (images included)? Can't seem to find an offline mediawiki editor, I would be willing to pay for this functionality. --Kevin ...

MediaWiki Local Extension Link

Hi, I installed MediaWiki locally. Everything worked but I needed a functionality to link files from our file server. I stumbled upon an extension called Extension:NetworkLink which provides this functionality. You just have to add filepath in your wikipage and it should work. My problem is that I the path of my local wiki installation "...

Obtaining images using mediawiki apis

Im trying to follow the tutorials from mediawiki One of the examples they used is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Albert%20Einstein&prop=images So I am wondering how would i convert File:1919 eclipse positive.jpg into the actual link to the file? ...

Is it possible to have a wiki inside a site?

Hey guys Lets say I have a site with many pages..One of them is a page called projects where say students will write about their projects. Can I have a wiki JUST for this page which will have the same theme as the rest of the pages? Can I put the whole thing in a frame? ...

Can i add Google Moderator to MediaWiki ?

Is there a Widget for it ? is it possible some how to add it to my MediaWiki ? or I need to create a new Widget for it ? ...

Help theming media wiki

Hey guys Ive installed media wiki as a part of my website. How do i theme media wiki so that it looks like my site? The guide refers to a common.css. Where is this file? How do i go about editing it? I cant just use my site css file rite? ...

How to move most cms content from mediawiki to django-cms?

I'm planning to move a site from mediawiki to django-cms. It has around 150 pages and a similar number of embedded images. The question is how to do it with minimal effort. There are several issues: django-cms does not support mw wiki sintax, should I export html? how can I dump all the the wiki pages as plain html how to automate the...

determine the type of name using mediawiki?

If the article is about Lebron_James, then i would know it's about an athelete. ...

Getting the infobox section of wikipedia

If I have the url to the page, how would I get obtain the infobox on the right using mediawiki webservices? ...

MediaWiki: getting content only

HI all, I'm building web applications with Python/Pylons/jQuery and I've got a help system implemented, but not populated. Each application "page" has a Help link in the footer than open a ColorBox popup with a specific URL to populate it. I'd like to use MediaWiki to supply the Help content, but I don't want the whole MediaWiki interfa...

mediawiki common css

Hi, I installed Mediawiki on our web server and at the moment the design is lacking a bit. I am not satisfied with the layout of my tables. In short they are ugly. I took a look a wikipedia tables and they are using the class="wikitable" in the table declaration. After some research I found the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media...

How can I hide the sidebar in MediaWiki?

I would like to be able to hide the whole sidebar (navigation, search, toolbox) and reclaim the space. In other words, the page should widen to fill the space used by the sidebar. I don't want to do this for every page but only for specific pages, so preferably using a template. I have got a template which hides the sidebar but, crucia...

Mediawiki Database Error 1205

I just installed a fresh copy of mediawiki on http://konton.us/wiki I was all happy playing around with my wiki, filling up the place with information and suddently, when I created an article by the name of Gameplay_Mechanics, it all went dead. http://konton.us/wiki/Gameplay_Mechanics I got this error: A database query syntax error h...

How could I update a wiki page from a formated txt file?

I need to update info in a template on a wiki page with info from a specially formatted text file. I have access to the actual wiki database if that is necessary. Basically, how do I update a wiki page programatically? What tools do I need? etc. EDIT1:Wiki is running on VMS so things like .NET (and anything windows/microsoft oriented)...

default location of MediaWiki extensions directory

I recently install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.04 using all the default settings. I'm looking to install an extension. Where is the extensions directory located by default? Thanks! ...

Embed Flex app into Mediawiki

I have a flex app, which I want to embed into a Mediawiki, preferably. in the form of an extension. Can anybody give some links or tell me, how to start. ...

Parsing a Wikipedia dump

For example using this Wikipedia dump: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=lebron%20james&rvprop=content&redirects=true&format=xmlfm Is there an existing library for Python that I can use to create an array with the mapping of subjects and values? For example: {height_ft,6},{nation...

String functions in MediaWiki template?

One of the more interesting "programming languages" I've been stuck with lately is MediaWiki templates. You can do a surprising amount of stuff with the limited syntax they give you, but recently I've run into a problem that stumps me: using string functions on template arguments. What I'd like to do (somewhat simplified) is: {{myTemp...