[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Template that loads catagory into a table

2017-12-31 Thread John Lewis
Hello Everyone, I am trying to make or find a MediaWiki template that will take a category and fill in a table on the main page of a site in one column. The table will have a second column that will contain external urls. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Template that loads catagory into a table

2017-12-31 Thread John Lewis
On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 11:08 -0500, John Lewis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am trying to make or find a MediaWiki template that will take a > category and fill in a table on the main page of a site in one > column. > The table will have a second column that will contain externa

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Template that loads catagory into a table

2018-01-03 Thread John Lewis
t; > -Yaron > > On Dec 31, 2017 11:59 PM, "John Lewis" > wrote: > I read your book, "Working with MediaWiki: 2nd edition". I don't need the exact template. What I figured out that I could get what looks pretty much what I wanted with a simple table.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Template that loads catagory into a table

2018-01-04 Thread John Lewis
What I am going to do is continue with the standard table until I meet my initial content goals.  Then I will make a development version of the main page in the project namespace so I can know how to make a cargo table without confusing anyone visiting the site. I can make a more informed decision

[MediaWiki-l] Using MediaWiki to front-end a log server?

2018-01-12 Thread John Lewis
Hello everyone, Has anyone use MediaWiki plus Cargo or SMW to act as a fronted-end to a SQL based log aggregation sever? It would be trivial to access and mix historical data and notes about servers with that kind of setup. If someone has already made this as a product or a project, this is your

[MediaWiki-l] No central repository for templates?

2018-01-12 Thread John Lewis
Hello everyone, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates Help:Templates says that there is no central repository for templates. Is there a technical reason for that? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

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

2018-01-14 Thread John Lewis
On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 12:59 +, Chad wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:35 PM Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > > 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 > > co

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Using MediaWiki to front-end a log server?

2018-01-20 Thread John Lewis
//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data > > -Yaron > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 7:46 PM, John Lewis com> > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Has anyone use MediaWiki plus Cargo or SMW to act as a fronted-end > > to a > > SQL based log

[MediaWiki-l] Purging MediaWiki Spam Raider accounts

2018-02-03 Thread John Lewis
Is there an efficient way to purge hundreds accounts on a MediaWiki instance? I had a wiki get spam raided. I installed SpamBlacklist but the spam boots seem to still able to register accounts. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https:/

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

2018-02-09 Thread John Lewis
Cool! I'll be subscribing. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] Automated Wiki Bootstrapping

2018-02-26 Thread John Lewis
I am thinking of ways to bootstrap https://www.cyanpages.info The Local Politician and Bureaucrat Directory in a way I can maintain it myself because I couldn't get any community organizers to give me the time of day when I asked them what they wanted to see in a directory. I am just going to move

[MediaWiki-l] How do Wiki Farms work?

2018-03-19 Thread John Lewis
How do Wiki Farms work?  I want to build and sell a product that is a private MediaWiki site that can ingest logs and display them in templates and still have room for people to add notes about the device or service being logged using the Cargo and probably the ExternalData extensions. The proble

[MediaWiki-l] Integrate MediaWiki and ELK Stack together?

2018-05-18 Thread John Lewis
I saw WikiMedia's ELK Stack presentation and discussion video https://w ikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_Kibana4_to_read_logs_at_Wikimedia _Tech_Talk_2016-11-14.pdf  One thing I was hoping to see was some MediaWiki integrations with Kibana so I can get the logs about servers and the comments