In MediaWiki, how can a user be given permission to edit only certain pages? This way, the administrator can create a page for the user and the user will be able to edit this particular page only. ...
I'm writing a template that will be used like this: {{templatename |var1=foo |var4=bar |var14=toot }} There will be many variables in the definition, but no article will ever use all variables. I want the template definition to only display the row if the variable was given when the template is used in an article. Here is what my tem...
In the minutes of a meeting we want to be able to place action points in the text. Then we want easily to be able to print a list of action points, e.g. via another page. So the minutes will be: blah blah blah #AP1 ... blah blah blah #AP2... blah And then we want a list like this: #AP1 #AP2 How would we do this? Is there e.g. a s...
I want to add "tags" like in delicious to mediawiki pages and then show a tag cloud on the front page using this. How do I do this? ...
I am building an iPhone Wikipeida game app, that requires modifying the default Wiki HTML a little bit (mostly simplifying the page). So far I am directly downloading the HTML output from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Foo to a python Google App Engine, and then modify its CSS and HTML structure, cache it, and finally output to iPhone. I...
Note: where you will see "xttp" actualy is "http" but stackoverflow rules do not allow me to use more than 1 hyperlink in one post because I do not have enough "credit" to do that :) INTRODUCTION Hi, I have installed a MediaWiki 1.15.3 software on a private LAN on a Linux box (CentOS 5), with: Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.6, MySQL 5.0....
I'm currently developing an extension to mediawiki for a class at my college. I'm tailoring a tabbed box for use on the main page, so we can categorize the portals within the wiki. I would like to use transclusion as an argument for my extension so that I may be able to get a remote page's contents to update within the html of tabbed b...
How doe i go about removing other mediawiki languages from a standard installation? is it enough to delete the folder? does that cause harm?? ...
Is there any way to group the edit buttons displayed above the edit dialog in MediaWiki? By grouping, I mean like Word does (and even this editor) - you can add dividing lines to group them so that e.g. Bold and Italic are in one group, numbered list and bullet points in another. We've added lots of new buttons (in EditPage.php) and th...
We've got MediaWiki 1.13.2 and we'll soon be upgrading to the latest & greatest version (probably 1.16). We've got lots of extensions installed (for which we'll probably also need to get the latest versions) and we've done some minor configuring (e.g. adding new edit buttons). What should we watch out for during the upgrade? And what ...
Hi, I'm running Drupal and Mediawiki on my server under the same domain. They are connected to each other with extensions/modules. Meaning if I log in to Mediawiki, it automatically logs into Drupal also. Mediawiki has some extensions that filter the information shown on the page. What I want to do is to show that filtered information...
Is there any way to list pages that have not been updated for a long time in MediaWiki? Is there an extension or other functionality to do this? Ideally I'd like to be able to e.g. list all pages that have not been updated for 12 months (ie based on last edit). They are then by default considered old (could even add a tag - an {{Old}}...
Hi, I'm trying to add FCKeditor extension in mediaWiki and I followed all the instructions that are written in their documentation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_(Official) but it throws me this error. Strict Standards: Declaration of FCKeditorParser::makeImage() should be compatible with that of FCKeditorParserWr...
Hi All, I'm just installing MediaWiki (loving it). I'm lookin at this for adding images. I can se the logic of [[File:MediaWiki:Image sample|50px]] but where so I set the filepath for "File" (nothing obvious in LocalSettings.php) ... or is there some other logic at work? I'd appreciate any help Thanks ...
Hi, I've been Googling a lot, but I just can't figure out how to add a couple fields to user registration. By default Mediawiki only asks for username, password and real name. I noticed that form is a template under /includes/templates/UserLogin.php, but I don't want to modify that file to make the changes. What is the correct way to d...
How do I export a word document to media wiki markup style I have been trying to do it by following the steps given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:WordToWiki but all in vain, not getting it. Any help please. ...
I need to find the main function in MediaWiki where wiki text is converted to html. Does someone know where that is? ...
The following javascript code gives me ">success-<", i.e. empty data. Pasting the url in my browser gives me the expected content. $.get("http://company.tld/wiki/api.php?action=query&titles=Page%20Title&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content", function (data, status) { alert(">" + status + "-" + data + "<"); }); ...
at the moment i have a column "user_id" in the "threads" table cause one thread belongs to an user. i want to make it like Stackoverflow that one thread can be editable by many users and you can see when they edited, what they edited, roll back changes and so on. im using symfony, is there a plugin for this? if no, are there any 3rd p...
We're looking to give pages in a specific category a specific background colour. Since every page in this category makes use of a specific template, we're ideally looking for a template change. Can this be done? ...