Cool, but I don't see it on our pages. Does it appear only on protected pages? Is there some variable to set to enable this feature? I didn't see a guide for this feature, nor did I see an appropriate variable to set. Our versions are:
- mediawiki -- 1.15.1 - PHP -- 5.1.6 (apache2handler) - MySQL -- 5.0.95-log - Linux distribution -- CentOS release 5.8 (Final) Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev) On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Haim (Howard) Roman <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Is there a way to see the wikitext of an article in read-only mode, > i.e., > > > such that I cannot accidentally change it? This can be useful, of > > course, > > > for copying wikitext to another article. > > > > > > > You could get it via the API. What you're looking for is prop=revisions > > with > > rvprop=content[0]. An example query for [[API]] on MediaWiki.org[1]. > > > > -Chad > > > > [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#revisions_.2F_rv > > [1] > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=API&rvprop=content > > > > > Another way is to click "View source". Which, even in read-only mode, will > bring up action=edit. The Edit page will show a protected text area with > the wikitext source (but no edit toolbar). The text is not editable but it > is selectable and you can copy it to use in another example, as you > describe. > > For example: > > http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=Sandbox/sysop&action=edit > > -- Krinkle > _______________________________________________ > 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
