Jean Pierre Charalambos -- http://disi.unal.edu.co/profesores/pierre/
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Jean Pierre Charalambos<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Taja Anand<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm an enthusiast in MediaWiki Development and I'm having some troubles >> starting off. I have been administering MediaWiki installation on my website >> for quite some time >> but for the past 4 days I'm struggling to get a hack. Please help me out. >> >> I've read the material given in the Manual, How to Become a MediaWiki >> Hacker, how to Debug and all the other relevant pages related to >> development. >> >> Till now, I've tried the following, but the wiki on my localhost functions >> as though no changes have taken place (I've not tried all this on my website >> yet) : >> >> 1) Applied the first hack given on >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customizing_edit_toolbar [not even the table >> icon appears] > > I'm also a newbie enthusiastic mediawikier, having exactly the same > issue which I couldn't solve yet :) > I found the following possible solutions: > > 1. low-level (didn't try it yet): > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_add_more_buttons_on_the_edit_page.3F > 2. high level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Extra_edit_buttons > 3. Simply edit common.js to customise the tool bar (didn't remember > where I read it). I basically add code like this: > http://www.skoffer.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&oldid=250 > to the newly created page named Common.js which I created as admin > (something called sysop -- or something like this --in mediawiki > language). Editing MediaWiki:Common.js finally worked for me: http://disi.unal.edu.co/wikiapuntes/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.js The problem was that I was editing WikiApuntes:Common.js instead. Best regards, Jean Pierre > 4. I succesfully installed wikEd using Greasemonkey (a firefox add-on) > which has nice editing tools. The good news is that It works for any > wiki. The bad news is that it only works locally (i.e., for users that > have enabled the wikEd script in their firefox configuration) which > means it didn't solve my problem. > > Hope it helps a bit. Hope to hear better ideas. Cheers, > > Jean Pierre > >> 2) Set the predicate (preg_match) to zero in Parser.php (689) [it still >> parses it as a table] >> 3) removed all the content of index.php !! [it runs] >> >> and a lot of things were tried out, but no success. However, wiki does >> respond when I switch off the MySql service or move a file (such as >> WebStart.php). >> >> I've not had any progress due to this unexpectedly weird stuff going on. >> Please give a hint or a pointer in the right direction. >> >> >> Thanks >> Taja >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
