[Wikitech-l] cite/ref error

2010-09-17 Thread Brent Palmer
Hi, We are creating an off-line version of the wikipedia, but we continue to have problems getting some citation items to render correctly. When using the cite template and citing a paper or journal and the URL tag is missing, you get an error in the citation list at the bottom with error

[Wikitech-l] pagesize function problem

2010-09-14 Thread Brent Palmer
Hi, We are having a problem with the front page of our wikipedia mirror. The function {{#ifexpr:{{formatnum:{{PAGESIZE:Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y|R}}150|{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y|{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y|-1

[Wikitech-l] template rendering problems

2010-09-14 Thread Brent Palmer
Hi, We are creating an off-line version of the wikipedia, but we continue to have problems getting templates to render correctly. So far, we've tracked down two sources of the problem. Here is one example: One is when tags are not closed properly. Here is an example from

[Wikitech-l] template rendering problems-#switch

2010-09-14 Thread Brent Palmer
Hi, We are creating an off-line version of the wikipedia, but we continue to have problems getting templates to render correctly. So far, we've tracked down several sources of the problem. Here is another example: In several templates I've tracked down the problem to a call to the #switch

Re: [Wikitech-l] template rendering problems

2010-09-14 Thread Brent Palmer
Ahh, good question. But yes, we did install Tidy. It's the windows version though if that makes a difference. We are reasonably sure that it's working (it definitely works independently of MW) because a few small rendering problems were fixed, but the major ones described here weren't

[Wikitech-l] disable image link check

2010-07-07 Thread Brent Palmer
Hello, We would like some help in figuring out the quickest and easiest way to disable link checking in the mediawiki software. By this I mean that when rendering a page, there is a check to see if the original image exists. If it's found, a link is constructed to the appropriate thumbnail