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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? ...

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? ...

Test cases for string inputs

What are all test cases (and test test case brainstorming questions) related to string inputs? Individual answers may contain questions specific to certain domains (eg email address) but should probably point to a separate wiki-question. Please add your answer BOTH to the question and to the list of answers so that individual items may...

http://wiki.jqueryui.com/browse/#view=ViewAllObjects source code

Hi all, I am looking for the http://wiki.jqueryui.com/browse/#view=ViewAllObjects source code. any idea where i can find it ? -Aruna ...

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? ...

Advice for starting own wiki?

My friends and I were thinking of starting our own wiki. Given how widespread they have become recently, we heard it isn't that hard. We want to keep the site as simple as possible - we have some experience with web design, but not a whole lot with system administration. What are some things that we should keep in mind going forward (suc...

How do I use jQuery in google code's wiki

I have a jQuery plugin up on google code http://code.google.com/p/jquery-html5upload/. I want to have a running example of the plugin on the project home page. How can I go about doing this? I can't figure out to include/use javascript in the wiki pages. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...

i want to host a wiki site for an internal company project

I don't have much experience with this. are there any free or low-cost solutions I can deploy? We have a relatively low-powered server running windows NT (ouch, i know). Preferably something that allows multi-user access though something light-weight is the main consideration. ...

wiki with markdown and syntax highlighting

Hello, What lightweight wiki engine would you recommend for a project wiki? I need to manage project conventions, coding style, some tutorial like things for new developers, global practices for the team and so on. My basic requirements are: Markdown (we use it in all the projects) syntax highlighting (I have already read all the p...

Google gears a good solution for online/offline wiki?

Hi there we need an online offline wiki type app that is basically a number of pages with documentation in, but that also would need to link to a number of files .. words docs/ pdfs/ ppts etc that are on a synched mapped drive on the users laptop.. could anyone suggest whether or not google gears would be a reasonable solution to this,...

How does a wiki handle multiple simultaneous edits?

This has always lingered in the back of my mind, so I figure I might as well go ahead and ask. How does a wiki handle multiple edits on the same content? Here's a simplistic example of what I'm asking. Let's say that a page has the following content: I'm a page! And now let's say that two go to edit that page. Each person adds a ...

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)...

Migrating WIKI from one WSS site to another

I need to migrate a WIKI site from one site collection in Server A to another site collection in Server B. Both are running WSS 3.0 How would I do it if I'd like to migrate the pages, links, documents in libraries and the history? ...

How to Traverse SharePoint Wiki to Print Hierarchical Pages into One PDF or to a Printer?

I am not a Sharepoint programmer, I'll admit up front. But I'm a user, and I know if I find a solution online it'll be a lot faster than waiting for my I/S team to find it.... I am building a wiki with a main page and one level deep of subsidiary pages. (I don't want to debate if it should be a wiki or not... I'm looking for shared acce...

Java library for wiki format strings? [b] to <strong>, [url] to <a href>

Hey. I need a lightweight, easy and customizable (i can control which tags to be enabled/disabled) library to identify and replace "wiki-ish" markup language to HTML in Strings. For example: [b]hello[/b] would be <strong>hello</strong> [url]hello[/url] would be <a href="hello">hello</a> ...

Create a Wordpress plugin that finds text in a post/page and replaces it with links

wordpress , plugins : hi , I want to create website by wordpress but I want to make speacial plugins .. and I made it but there are problem .. _ I have a website and I using it with wiki for contries in the world .. I want from the plugins 'when the visitor open the page for example 'United State' , I want from the plugins to search ab...

convert excel into wiki markup

Hi, Is it possible to convert EXCEL spreadsheets into MEDIAWIKI markup? Stumpled upon strange recommendations exporting to HTML and convert it into markup? Is there a solution maybe exporting to XML first or directly converting it? regards, UP ...

Parsing a Wikipedia dump

For example using this Wikipedia dump: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=lebron%20james&amp;rvprop=content&amp;redirects=true&amp;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...