[MediaWiki-l] Re: How to add a custom Magic Word in LocalSettings.php?

LocalSettings.php is probably not the right place for doing that. Magic words are added using extensions. However, magic words are really necessary only when the custom content that you want to add is so complicated that it can be generated only by complicated PHP code or when you need a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Special:Translate

Hi, Thanks for the compliment :) This can be achieved by installing the Translate extension on your MediaWiki instance. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate . The page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle may be helpful, too. -- Amir Elisha

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New Wikipedia interface, is it the right place to ask?

Yes, it's kind of OK to talk about it here, although this list is usually more about MediaWiki in general, and not necessarily about how it's used on Wikimedia projects. The French Wikipedia is indeed one of the few Wikimedia wikis in which the new skin is enabled by default (and it can be

[MediaWiki-l] Translatable modules

Hi, *Crossposting to Wikimedia-L, Wikitech-L, MediaWiki-L, and Wikitech-Ambassadors. You can reply to the mailing list, but the ideal place for further discussion is the talk pages of the wiki pages to which I link below.* There's a new proposal to localize Lua modules in a more modern, safe,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New episode of Between the Brackets: Bryan Davis

This one, and the two before that, with Derick Alangi and Airy Magnien, are among the best. Thanks for doing this. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 11 ביולי 2019

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting modifications to the CSS standards

You can try reporting an issue at w3c's GitHub repository: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts In the past w3c used Bugzilla. I reported some things there, and I remember that at least one got resolved ( https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18490 ). That site appears to be still

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Between the Brackets" podcast episode 2: Niklas Laxström

I wouldn't call it "spamming". It's a new thing, and it's OK to ping people here a few times until some people subscribe to the proper podcast RSS feed. בתאריך 20 בפבר׳ 2018 18:30,‏ "יגאל חיטרון" כתב: > Hi. If you want to avoid spamming, you can open a newspaper on >

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki podcast: "Between the Brackets"

Nicey, congratulations! Consider adding it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_podcasts :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2018-02-06 17:51 GMT+02:00 Yaron Koren

Re: [MediaWiki-l] No central repository for templates?

More precisely, there is a bit of a technical reason: very simply, such a repository would be itself a piece of software, and it was never completely developed. There were some attempts to do it, with names such as "scary transclusion", "shadow namespaces", and maybe others, but they were never

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Where are the Web fonts loaded?

They can be enabled by clicking the gear icon near the Languages list, then clicking "Fonts", and checking "Download fonts when needed". This was on by default for some time in 2013, but it turned out to cause severe performance problems and was made opt-in. By 2017 the issues are quite

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Error saving translation: Unknown , error: "TPT-unknown-page"

Mmm, this arrived to my spam folder for some reason, so I'm not sure that other people saw it. I suggest asking at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Translate . -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live

Re: [MediaWiki-l] ContentTranslation on non-Wikipedia sites

Obviously not high priority, but can any please try helping him? Thanks. בתאריך 18 בפבר׳ 2016 20:09,‏ "Andrew Geary" כתב: > I have done my best to follow the directions and install cxserver. I > believe I am doing everything correctly, though I continue to get the error >

Re: [MediaWiki-l] ContentTranslation on non-Wikipedia sites

Hi Andrew, Did you setup cxserver? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2016-02-11 1:25 GMT+02:00 Andrew Geary : > I have been working on adding ContentTranslation to

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Lietuviu

Oct 5 2015 19:03,‏ "Jurij Byrda" wrote: > > Kur Lieuviu kalba? Laba diena, I can read a little bit of Lithuanian, though I don't write it well. Are you looking for information about MediaWiki or Wikipedia in Lithuanian? ___

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Translate page

You should be seeing a list of languages on the top of the page if translation to any languages started. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-01-30 7:06 GMT-08:00 Dandridge, Charles

Re: [MediaWiki-l] iOS client

Hi, You have two options: 1. MobileFrontend - an extension that gives your site a convenient mobile web interface. Easy to install and works well on all modern mobile platforms. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend 2. The Wikipedia app. This one is made for Wikipedia, so you

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Authorizing Page Translations, Disclaimers

Yes, you can use a template, and you can make that template translatable as well. You can also try to configure and use workflow states. See the documentation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Quality_assurance

Re: [MediaWiki-l] FW: Wikipedia: Define Languages as Favorites

Hi Yves, Thanks for raising this. There is a long-term plan for having such a feature as a proper extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links In the meantime it can be done (very) manually with a gadget that hides links that don't match a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] FW: Wikipedia: Define Languages as Favorites

There's this gadget in the Hebrew Wikipedia, for example: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-InterwikiOrder.js Unfortunately, I don't have anything that is easier to install. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki E-Mails; disable ?

See https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l . -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014/1/23 Yves Malard yvesmal...@hotmail.com Dear amir, Thanks for the gadget.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Translation Services do not start

Hi Simon, Thanks for the question. Can you please try enabling translation services log with $wgDebugLogGroups['translationservices'] = '/some/file'; See if any errors come up there. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.07 release‏‏‏

are below. Amir E. Aharoni == Babel == Only localization updates. == cldr == No changes. == CleanChanges == Only localization updates. == LocalisationUpdate == Only localization updates. == Translate == ===Noteworthy changes=== Groups are sorted alphabetically in the export tab

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Language dependant page parts

Sounds like something that can be done with the help of the Translate extension. The MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) is an easy way to install it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.06 release‏‏

are below. Amir E. Aharoni == Babel == Only localization updates. == cldr == Initial support for CLDR currency was added. == CleanChanges == Only localization updates. == LocalisationUpdate == The default values for $wgLocalisationUpdateCoreURL and $wgLocalisationUpdateExtensionURL were

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.05 release‏

are below. Amir E. Aharoni == Babel == Only localization updates. == cldr == CLDR was updated to version 23.1. == CleanChanges == Only localization updates. == LocalisationUpdate == No changes. == Translate == The new translation editor in Translate is now considered stable. The last month saw

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.04 release

are below. Amir E. Aharoni == Babel == Only localisation updates. == cldr == * Update CLDR to 23 and rewrite parser == CleanChanges == No changes. == LocalisationUpdate == No changes. == Translate == === Highlights === Work continued on stabilizing the new Translate UX (TUX) interface

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Question mark after every link?

Hi Nicola, You probably got the highlightbroken preference changed somehow. When set to 0, it shows red links with a question mark. It was not very useful, so support for it was removed in MediaWiki 1.20 if I'm not mistaken. If you have an older version, you need to get it set to 1 by default.

[MediaWiki-l] Announcement: release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.03

@ freenode Release notes for each extension are below. Amir E. Aharoni == Babel == Only localization updates. == cldr == === Highlights === * Adding support for time units === Noteworthy changes === * (bug 38209) Remove duplicate array keys == CleanChanges == Only localization updates

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Langcom-l] Resign

Thank you very much for your work, Huib. I sincerely hope to work with you again! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2013/2/8 Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com: Dear List(s),

Re: [MediaWiki-l] utf-8

2013/1/27 Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net: Hi. If MediaWiki prefers utf-8. My server admint installed mediawiki and didn't follow the instructions precisely so I now have # MySQL table options to use during installation or update $wgDBTableOptions = ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Gender

Masculine and Feminine are indeed more correct, since this is about nothing but grammar. I submitted this change some time ago to try to address it as neutrally as possible: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30756 -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title?

Moving a page creates a redirect from the old name by default, so the old URL still works. You can also use the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, but it's less robust and should only be used in special cases. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words . -- Amir 2012/12/10 Al Johnson

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title?

to be addressable by a unique id that does not change for back-end applications reasons. Are redirects my only option? From: Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il To: Al Johnson alj62...@yahoo.com; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title?

and store it's page id in another DB. The app needs to be able to fetch the page and edit, etc, and needs an unchanging unique id to do this. It's got to handle when someone changes the page title which is also a requirement. Al From: Amir E. Aharoni

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title?

From: Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il To: Al Johnson alj62...@yahoo.com; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title? The MediaWiki API can handle

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Sections in a lemma

Not really. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Limiting_access . -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2012/11/22 Bruno Kiste bruno.ki...@gmail.com Hello, is there a way in a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Math extension

How did you try to install it? Did you get any errors in the log? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2012/11/21 Ivan Sarvak rmaster...@gmail.com: Hey. How do i get the Math extension

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Getting Cite to work

2012/10/30 Steve Stevenson st...@clemson.edu: I installed the svn Cite files and added the require_once command in the LocalSettings.php file. I tried a simple reference in Sandbox, but nothing seemed to happen. The ref tags are still there and references / is empty. What do I need to do?

Re: [MediaWiki-l] imp

2012/8/22 Sujani Vutukuri suj...@velocitynetworks.in: Hai I am working on mediawiki,i want change my main page its like looks good,and in main page i want to remove the statics .how i can remove. What do you mean by statics? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי

Re: [MediaWiki-l] imp

2012/8/22 Sujani Vutukuri suj...@velocitynetworks.in: static means ,in main page i don't need to the logo how to removie https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ#Changing_the_interface -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want

Re: [MediaWiki-l] imp

2012/8/22 Sujani Vutukuri suj...@velocitynetworks.in: how to i get the different main pages Jוust edit it by pressing Edit at the top and write whatever looks nice to you. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [mwmediawiki] How to create Extension

2012/8/8 Rahul Sharma cseb...@gmail.com: Dear all, Is there any document available which can help us in creating new extensions for media wiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_extensions for image upload with advanced option. also suggest me if any extension available smiler

Re: [MediaWiki-l] spam users

2012/8/1 Scheid, Bernhard bernhard.sch...@oeaw.ac.at: Hi, I am running a couple of relatively small academic Wikis mainly for educational uses at university. Thus there is relatively little traffic apart from course time. Nevertheless, some two years ago I noticed more and more spam and

Re: [MediaWiki-l] query

2012/7/18 Abhishek Patil abhishek.atwor...@gmail.com: I needed to know the steps needed to setup the offline wikipedia using mediawiki. I couldn't quickly find a guide to creating an offline Wikipeda, but these pages may help: *

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Install Fonts

I'll reply about the technical part without getting into the copyright issues. (I'll only say that a non-free font like Wingdings will definitely not be added to the official Wikimedia version.) And yes, it's certainly possible to add a font, though a bit complicated. That is, to add a custom

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Support wiki

2012/6/1 David Morais davidmorai...@hotmail.com My name is David, I installed the wiki little time in the company. But I'm sure to add images. I add and they do appear, they get an x ... however appear to address them. How do I make them appear? Eu não entendi a pergunta, mas você pode tentar

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Support wiki

2012/6/1 Stip stipen.treubl...@gmx.net: Am 01.06.2012 15:26, schrieb David Morais: My name is David, I installed the wiki little time in the company. But I'm sure to add images. I add and they do appear, they get an x ... however appear to address them. How do I make them appear? I dont

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Signs in Mediawiki

2012/5/8 Isabell Alcott uv22ealc...@googlemail.com: Hello, I would like to include special signs in my new 1.19 Mediawiki installation, but they are showing not right. I have 200 *.doc files which need to be indexed all into one MW Installation.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Signs in Mediawiki

Isabel wrote: I dont use an import tool. I just did copy and paste the documents. What do you actually see? What do you mean by showing not right? Do you see question marks, squares, gibberish, other letters or just nothing? Which import tool do you recommend? You might find

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Signs in Mediawiki

2012/5/8 Isabell Alcott uv22ealc...@googlemail.com: Hello and thank you! But when I change the Wordpress file into a *.txt File, the many signs go away and change to other signs. Which signs? If you can give an example like the smiley changes to the letter X, it will be easier to solve. --

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Signs in Mediawiki

2012/5/8 Isabell Alcott uv22ealc...@googlemail.com: here is an example: Open Office normal: http://s7.directupload.net/images/120508/ok3l4icb.jpg Open Office with TXT File: http://s14.directupload.net/images/120508/98iddlfw.jpg Hmm, it looks like the characters are corrupted by Word or

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Signs in Mediawiki

2012/5/8 Isabell Alcott uv22ealc...@googlemail.com: well, mediawiki does not even add the simpliest arrows or signs when i delete any kind of formatting or fonts. here a result when i use a TXT Version of my text. http://s1.directupload.net/images/120508/pttzm4ph.jpg They are simple only

Re: [Mediawiki-l] why can't I copy-paste the Template:Citation Needed onto my own wiki?

Because you also need to copy to your wiki all the templates that this template uses. You can see a list of them under the editing window. This is one of the most unfortunate limitations of MediaWiki - the templates are very powerful, but very hard to maintain and to migrate from wiki to wiki.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [[mw]] how mediawiki secure over public domain

2012/2/22 Rahul Sharma cseb...@gmail.com: Dear all I have small discussion on how we can secure our mediawiki setup over public domain means internet.plz share your ideas with all of us... I guess that by public domain you mean open public access. If that is what you meant, try these

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multilingual wiki

2012/2/9 Svip svi...@gmail.com: On 9 February 2012 08:51, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2012/2/8 Erik Luken elu...@pentarch.org: Hi, What is the best way to set up multilingual capabilities on an existing wiki? I administer a wiki that has gained some international

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multilingual wiki

2012/2/8 Erik Luken elu...@pentarch.org: Hi, What is the best way to set up multilingual capabilities on an existing wiki? I administer a wiki that has gained some international followers, and they’d like to translate it into their own language to help promote it. Searching the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] New page in Wikipedia/Wikimedia

I'll reply off-list. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2012/1/28 katherine watson bizarriss...@gmail.com: Hello Wikists, Thank you for permitting me to participate. Please help:

[Mediawiki-l] importing from SharePoint to MediaWiki

I was asked whether there is a tool for importing information from Microsoft SharePoint to MediaWiki. Trying to Google for it yielded surprising, and slightly disappointing results - apparently, many people are looking for tools that do it in the opposite direction. So, is anybody familiar with