[Mediawiki-l] restricting file downloads

2010-09-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I run an internal wiki which is protected with $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; $wgWhitelistRead = array (Special:Userlogin, MediaWiki:Common.css, MediaWiki:Common.js, MediaWiki:Monobook.css, MediaWiki:Monobook.js, -); $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

Re: [Mediawiki-l] usabilityinitiative extension

2010-09-12 Thread orschiro
If I were you I would try the development version of UsabilityExtension. If it works flawlessly I wouldn't upgrade mediawiki so far. Of course if it doesn't work with 1.15 yet you can look at the manual [1] how to upgrade your version to the latest 1.16.0 [1]

Re: [Mediawiki-l] restricting file downloads

2010-09-12 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any mod_rewrite rule that requires MediaWiki authentication before offering file downloads (from the images directory), or an extension that does not let users download files directly, but rather uses a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] usabilityinitiative extension

2010-09-12 Thread Nevio
Thank you very much. I'll weigh one thing against another. Best regards Enviado de meu iPhone Em 12/09/2010, às 08:09, orsch...@googlemail.com escreveu: If I were you I would try the development version of UsabilityExtension. If it works flawlessly I wouldn't upgrade mediawiki so far. Of

Re: [Mediawiki-l] usabilityinitiative extension

2010-09-12 Thread Huib Laurens
most of those extensions doesn't work on 1.15 you should update to 1.16 2010/9/12 Nevio nevinhoalar...@gmail.com Thank you very much. I'll weigh one thing against another. Best regards Enviado de meu iPhone Em 12/09/2010, às 08:09, orsch...@googlemail.com escreveu: If I were you I

Re: [Mediawiki-l] usabilityinitiative extension

2010-09-12 Thread Nevio
Tx ;-) Enviado de meu iPhone Em 12/09/2010, às 14:12, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com escreveu: most of those extensions doesn't work on 1.15 you should update to 1.16 2010/9/12 Nevio nevinhoalar...@gmail.com Thank you very much. I'll weigh one thing against another. Best regards

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links to special pages not working after 1.16 update

2010-09-12 Thread Platonides
Kenneth Porter wrote: I updated our wiki from 1.6.8 to 1.16.0 and I'm finding that the main login link at top right of the main page isn't working. I can get to the login page by going to Special Pages in the side menu and selecting the login link from there. The bad link looks like this:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links to special pages not working after 1.16 update

2010-09-12 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, September 13, 2010 1:55 AM +0200 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You have $wgScript set to /w/ It should be /w/index.php Just removing $wgScript from LocalSettings should give you the default and fix it. Aha! One of my colleagues got it working and I went back and

[Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
Hello all, I had a somewhat small wiki with not a lot of content in it, so when things went wrong with my mediawiki 1.15.x installation upgrade to mediawiki 1.16.0, I just started with a fresh install. At about the time that I figured out that mediawiki 1.16 was the latest version and

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Function: add page to social networks

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
Robert, Are you talking about sharing the article on the social networks? Or do you mean creating something like a facebook page that pulls in content from your wiki? I've seen that done with Content Management Systems Drupal and Joomla, but that might be a different topic. There is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Halo ACL

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
Hugo Vasques wrote: Hello, I am having trouble installing the extension HALO ACL 1.2 on my 1.15.5. Follow the step by step installation manual but to go to Pages and click on Specials HaloAcl the page appears blank no nothing. I no longer know what must be done to make this extension

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

2010-09-12 Thread Henny Savenije
You may try to import the file in MySQL and use the update script to update the database. Make a backup before you try this. At 09:50 ¿ÀÀü 2010-09-13, you wrote: Hello all, I had a somewhat small wiki with not a lot of content in it, so when things went wrong with my mediawiki 1.15.x

[Mediawiki-l] Semantic Media Wiki Questions

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
Hello all, I wonder how popular the SemanticMediaWiki extension is for members of this list. Are there other lists like this one that deal with different extensions or uses of Mediawiki or enhancements to a Mediawiki? Anyway, I had a couple questions. I installed

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
I would only want to import a couple tables and any tables they reference. For example, I'd want whatever table holds the reference to the articles which might then link to a table that actually links to the binary data source of the article. I don't want to break things again :-) lol. Bruce

[Mediawiki-l] FOAF and SMW

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
Hello, So, I have been learning and studying aspects of the Semantic Web. I have created FOAF files. My questions ar... The foaf is an rdf/xml file. How might a SemanticMediaWiki link to or incorporate that information? Would you use that in any annotations? Related to that,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

2010-09-12 Thread Henny Savenije
Alright but you can't since the backup is obviously in tar or zip format. So the only thing you can do is either unzip the backup and copy and paste from there or import the whole bunch and import from the backup the tables you didn't want to be updated. At 10:32 ¿ÀÀü 2010-09-13, you wrote: I

[Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
Hello all, I added the Cite extension. However, on wikipedia there are ways that you can use formatting that tells it to cite a book or cite webpage. For example, I can start with ref{{cite book | last1 = Whealton | first1 = Bruce | title = test | editors = smith, mary; jones, jean;

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread Jutta von Dincklage
Have you set up the required template on your wiki? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book Useful links: Wikipedia help menu - Templates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template Wikipedia help menu - citation templates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread Haim (Howard) Roman
Sorry if this is insulting, but just to make sure: You write references/ at some point to display the footnotes, don't you? ~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev)

[Mediawiki-l] Embed page in article

2010-09-12 Thread Brett's GMAIL
Afternoon all, I've got a desire to embed a visio diagram into my wiki after saving the diagram as a webpage. How do I embed HTML into a wiki article? Thanks, Brett ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
Jutta von Dincklage wrote: Have you set up the required template on your wiki? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book No, I was missing that. So, I go there and it tells me how to use that particular template. I have an idea from the next link how a template works. However,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread B. M. Whealton
I looked at the source code on the second link and I might be missing something. I guess I'll just have to test it out but the page itself isn't so readable. bruce B. M. Whealton wrote: Jutta von Dincklage wrote: Have you set up the required template on your wiki? See

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread Jutta von Dincklage
If you click on 'view source' (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cite_bookaction=edit ), you can see the wiki markup of this template. Wikipedia's wiki markup for the template is {{Citation/core |Citation class=book |AuthorMask = {{{authormask|{{{author-mask|}}

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread K. Peachey
Eww, Use [[special:export]] and [[special:import]] instead of copying pasting... -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l