[Mediawiki-l] How to allow user registration ?

2012-04-04 Thread Jan Steinman
From: Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com Also how do I sign up new users on a restricted access wiki with no user self registration ? Perhaps there is a better way, but we use phpMyAdmin to insert a new record in the mw_user table, then tell the user to type in their name and click send

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to allow user registration ?

2012-04-04 Thread Chad
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote: From: Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com Also how do I sign up new users on a restricted access wiki with no user self registration ? Perhaps there is a better way, but we use phpMyAdmin to insert a new record in

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to allow user registration ?

2012-04-04 Thread Aaron Gray
On 4 April 2012 01:13, Support Simpsonspedia supp...@simpsonspedia.netwrote: hi, .../index.php?title=Special:**UserLogintype=signup you can create new accounts with a temporary password. every new registrated user should change this password. Thanks, that is useful ! Aaron

[Mediawiki-l] rss feed extension with basic auth ?

2012-04-04 Thread chris
Wondering if anyone knows how to request rss feed with basic auth ? I'm using the RSS extension. I've tried using http://user:p...@myserver.com/wiki/feed; but it doesn't work. Chris ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] New Extension: AllTimeZones

2012-04-04 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, I had a quick look at this extension and have some suggestions: * Escape ALL variables in HTML you are building. You can use htmlspecialchars, the methods of MediaWikis HTML class, and in this case probably want to just construct the whole thing with XmlSelect. * You are not fully

Re: [Mediawiki-l] New Extension: AllTimeZones

2012-04-04 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
There already is such unit conversion code. In parserFunctions extension IIRC :) Sent from my Android phone. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] New Extension: AllTimeZones

2012-04-04 Thread nischay nahata
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: There already is such unit conversion code. In parserFunctions extension IIRC :) Thanks for pointing that out. I wonder if such unit conversion should also be displayed with an option to convert by the user who is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] New Extension: AllTimeZones

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:12:57 -0700, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have made an extension called AllTimeZones [1] that lets anyone put up dates in a page in all Timezone formats. I think it will be especially useful for admins when announcing a meeting rather than the