User talk:IAlex/archive

New settings
You are adding new pages in the manual namespace about configuration settings like Manual:$wgImportTargetNamespace, Manual:$wgExportMaxHistory, etc; but please also add them to Manual:Configuration settings and Manual:Configuration settings (alphabetical). Thanks, SPQRobin 21:38, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It's what I'm doing, I'm editing Manual:Configuration settings at the moment and adding in it new settings each time I create one, I'll save it when I'll finish. i Alex  21:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok (I have just edited that page, I don't know if you'll have any problems) SPQRobin 21:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I added that one in a other section named 'Special pages' that I just created, maybe Localization section is better. i Alex  21:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!
Thank you for all your fantastic work on tidying, categorising and checking all the MediaWiki configuration settings. I fell way behind in my self-appointed task of checking the version numbers and filling in the gaps (I got up to about 1.5.0), and it's great to have someone inspire me to carry on and finish the job (although I suspect that you've already covered a lot of the work I planned to do... in which case thank you again!!). I just wanted to let you know that all your hard work is really appreciated. --HappyDog 20:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you, but I thinks this is not finished, I only did the new settings for 1.7 (not 1.6), and deprecated settings up to the version 1.4. i Alex  20:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've been working from v1.1.0 upwards and have added details about all modifications, additions and deletions up to 1.6.0, which I'm working on at the moment, and which I've done everything except for about 25 settings that aren't on the wiki yet (i.e. all the changes for settings that were already on the wiki have been documented), so you don't need to worry about any versions lower than that. --HappyDog 00:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Your deleting my image before I was even done was the last straw for me. I'm quitting wiki
From User talk:CAlan Wikis are getting just too darn hard and too darn legalistic for average users like me to use anymore. What you just did to me is a perfect example of this For example -- I'm trying to set up a album page for a singer I like (Michelle Shocked). I see that -- all over -- people are uploading small images of the covers. Fine -- so I tried to EXACTLY COPY what others have done and while I'm uploading, my image gets deleted before I'm even done! Probably I violated some sort of copyright for about fifteen seconds as I was uploading it. That's just too much! At least let me create the file and rationalize it's use before deleting it! Cripes. I give up.
 * ''This wiki is only about the MediaWiki software, if you want to create an article about a singer you like, you can create it on Wikipedia, not here, see About this site. iAlex 16:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

''
 * I WAS creating it on Wikipedia (until I gave up.) I was posting the cover here in Wikimedia because I saw that a another album cover said "powered by Wikimedia."
 * OK, I got it wrong. Obvisously.
 * What was so frustrating was you deleting my image WHILE I WAS STILL WORKING ON IT. This kind of heavy handed policing is all over the wikis and, I suspect, will be the end of the golden age of wikis. At least it is for me. The way you dealt with me is the so typical in the wikis and I'm giving up on contributing to wikis. Bye.

Thanks
… for quick handling of Kaganer's request on my talk page :-) And a late "welcome aboard"! -- :Bdk: 22:51, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Importer les historiques des pages m:Help:Inputbox et m:Help talk:Inputbox
Salut IAlex,

Les pages Extension:Inputbox (hist) et Extension talk:Inputbox (hist) n'ont pas été correctement importées : ce sont des copier-coller des pages m:Help:Inputbox (hist) et m:Help talk:Inputbox (hist). Pourrais-tu importer leurs historiques ? Merci d'avance, Korg 18:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Fait pour l'extension, en revanche la page de discussion et son historique sont trop grand pour être importé, j'ai laissé une note sur la page de meta à ce propos. i Alex  20:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Merci ! Je serais curieux de connaître la cause de l'erreur lors de l'importation ; le nombre de révisions et la taille de la page (ou de sa dernière version) ne semblant pas poser de problème, est-ce la somme de la taille de chaque révision qui est prise en compte ?
 * Autre chose, est-ce qu'il existe une page pour demander d'importer une page, ou faut-il simplement s'adresser à un administrateur ? Merci encore, Korg 01:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ça me met que "le fichier n'a pas pu être ouvert" (la fonction import utilise Special:Export de meta et ouvre ce fichier pour l'importer en faisant une requête http si je ne me trompe pas). Le texte complet de chaque révision est sauvé dans ce fichier ce qui fait qu'il peut vite devenir très grand, mais il également possible de n'importer que la dernière version sans l'historique complet.
 * Sinon pour les demandes d'import, je crois qu'il n'y a pas de page pour les requêtes aux admins ici donc il faut demander à un admin. i Alex  11:45, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Merci pour ces précisions. Korg 15:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

OnWikimedia
I didn't use the old category because it lacks capital in Wikimedia, So I intended to delete it and use another correct one, What do you think?--41.232.105.209 09:27, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, don't forget the subcategories. i Alex  10:34, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Milipedia
Hey don't revert my edits because I only invited people to the Milipedia a website that is abandoned for all these years. Also leave my talkpage and edits alone because the talkpage is mine not yours. 76.247.222.101 21:16, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * You can add your site in Sites using MediaWiki if it's not already done, but imagine if evry site who wants to have more users come here and add link in user talk pages, it'll be a mess, this is not the purpose of this site. Also the talkpage is mine not yours : this site does not belong to you. i Alex  21:31, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Project:Support desk/Support team
Hello I have noticed that you have begun helping out at the support desk, any interest in joining the ? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  15:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Did you get this message? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  23:23, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, but I think I won't join it, sorry. i Alex  10:59, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Extension:Configure
Very nice work on this! I haven't tested it out yet, but I noticed a $wgGroupPermissions editor was on your to-do list, so I just want to point you to Extension:GroupPermissions Manager for some code you can look at so you don't have to do it all from scratch. Best of luck! --Skizzerz talk - contribs 00:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, i'll look at it. But don't you want to add it in SVN ? <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  20:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Extension:Configure
Hey!

I just downloaded your extension for evaluation...nice work! I was planning out an extension to undertake this very thing about 3 weeks ago, then I saw yours this weekend.

One little bit of constructive criticism from a user perspective....some of the tabbed pages are a bit cluttered and could benefit from some additional splitting, I think. Have you looked at the adminsitrative portal on phpBB? It's something from a visual perspective that might be worth looking into, plus it seems to be a little more user friendly. Also, on phpBB you can delegate certain administrative tasks to other admin users, so you can distribute responsibility for managing certain settings, like those that pertain to user access ($wgGroupPermissions, etc.) without giving the ability to modify all configuration settings.

Just something to noodle over.

I look forward to your continued revisions on this extension -- looks pretty good so far. Let me know if you'd like some help with this one...it's a pretty big undertaking.

Sincerely,

Lisa Ridley -Hoggwild5 21:50, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Extension:SkinPerNamespace
Hi Alex,

your SkinPerNamespace-plugin is exactly what was looking for, so I installed It on my testing wiki (1.12.0) and tried it. The main drawback is. it simply does not work...I traced it to the point that the callback-function (efSkinPerPageSetSkin) is called and the $wgSkinPerNamespace[x]is properly evaluated so that $user->mSkin is set to what I configured $wgSkinPerNamespace[x] to ... but the appearance of the corresponding Pages does not change. And when I look into the source then all the javascript-variables are still set to "monobook" (which is the default skin)... Do you have any idea, what might be wrong?

Greetings, Lars <bartosch@mpdl.mpg.de>
 * Can i see what's the value of $wgSkinPerNamespace? <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  14:21, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * here we Go:


 * 14:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC) Lars <bartosch@mpdl.mpg.de>
 * $wgSkinPerNamespace is correctly set (even if the declaration of $wgSkinPerNamespace[0] seems to be useless), the only thing i can notice is that the skin twr doesn't exist by default, but this can be an extenion. If this skin doesn't exist, it will fall back to the monobook skin, be sure that skin is correctly installed. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  15:06, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * thx for quick answer...twr is in fact a copy of monobook with lots of changes (background-images, etc.) but if I choose "twr" by preferences it works fine...also with


 * it works neither :-?

Nope, also with it does not work. Any other idea?


 * 17:24, 21 May 2008 (UTC) Lars <bartosch@mpdl.mpg.de>
 * Classic is not a default skin (unless you have another custom skin), you can try with "standard" instead. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  15:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, also by using "standard" I can see no effect. It's still monobook that is taken, despite the fact that $user->mSkin is "standard".
 * This is really stange, but i have no idea how to solve it, sorry. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  16:09, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * to make sure that there is no disturbance from other plugins I set up a blank wiki from scratch(1.12.0) with only 1 extension: SkinPerNamespace
 * but it still does not work
 * here the lines I added to the LocalSettings.php:


 * but still everything is shown with monobook (monobook being the default)...Do you have a working installation of SkinPerNamespace for demonstration?
 * Any ideas would be very welcome...
 * 14:44, 26 May 2008 (UTC) Lars <bartosch@mpdl.mpg.de>
 * Ok, I think I found the problem. Try to edit includes/Wiki.php and modify line 376 (near the bottom), it should be like this:


 * and replace it by


 * It should work now. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  12:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * sorry to disappoint you, but it's all the same, though I changed the PerformAction-hook, everything rendered with monobook...
 * 15:14, 26 May 2008 (UTC) Lars <bartosch@mpdl.mpg.de>
 * Sorry, but it works on my installation, so I don't see where's the problem. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  17:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

hook1=ParserFirstCallInit
On a few extensions, such as Extension:Poem and Extension:Inputbox, you added in a little "hook1=ParserFirstCallInit". I assume this is some new 1.13 hook. Will I have to re-download these extensions when I upgrade from 1.11 to 1.13, or will they continue to work as normal? Thanks. <font color="#006500">Smaug  16:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I think this hook is also present in 1.12, but old code will continue to work with newer versions of MediaWiki. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  18:42, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. <font color="#006500">Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 23:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Wanted to make a Mainpage like the one on this site !
I am fascinated by Mediawiki's Main page. can you pls. suggest/guide me to make a similar one on my Wiki ? --Yantra 74 20:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This page is generated by Main page and all its subpages. Take a look a that page and that ones. If you want to use it on your own wiki, you'll need Extension:ParserFunctions and some templates such as Click. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  20:06, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank You !! I think i should be able to get that work.
 * --Yantra 74 20:30, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Question regarding Namespace manager
You have added this extension, but I dont understand how to add this function to 1.12. Is thus possible at all?

The note about SVN (a version manager?) - but how does this work?

Is this the correct way to request support - sorry for my ignorance. :)
 * I didn't write Namespace manager or modified it and I don't know this extension, so i think you asked the wrong person. Concerning SVN, you can read Subversion. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  20:10, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Dont understand this because I see that you moved the stuff:[Revision history of "Extension:Namespace manager"] Asset
 * I just renamed the page and updated 2 or 3 things, that's all what I did, this doesn't mean that i know this feature. But as i see on that page, this feature is out of date and won't work in that version. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  15:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

General talk ideas and concepts
Alex in general, as a newcommer to MediaWiki it seems extreemly professional but also at bit technical. Especially I get the sense that some fatures are "left out" to fit with the concept.

When I add a comment like this it would - in many cases - be very usefull with a time/date, and perhaps a direct reference to the Wiki version, Extension version, and if possibel an option to delete/arcive a "talk topic" when solved or outdated.

While the original concept is that Wiki is for information of rather permannet value, "talk" is concpetually differnt and should be processes and (re)move/moved to wikistatus? By making this "the norm for talk" we could enrich the Wiki faster.

Sugestion
I suggest that one could pre-mark "wiki:talk" topics for processin in categories.... say like this:
 * FAQ topic
 * For improving help/documentation/understanding
 * Ideas and new options for existing usage/extensions

Thus stuf that are added to some of the talk pages, are "pre disposed" to enrich the Wiki information... Asset

Kyanapress
I created some wiki pages using this wiki site to post some screencast and video. How ever they all deleted by the admin. Can I have a copy of my content back? Can you please post it one more day that I can copy it to my local disk? How can I use your wiki site, if I want to use this for videos ?
 * First, this is not my site, I'm just an admin. Secondly, this wiki is about MediaWiki, and only about it, please see About this site, so your videos do not belong to this site. And you don't have a copy of your texts? <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  19:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * No, I don't have a copy because I didn't know that my pages would be removed.

problèmes d'encodage avec la 1.13
Salut IAlex, si tu peux aller jeter un oeil à Discussion Upgrade 1.13 et m'aider, ca serait cool.

Bonne journée, Rmatt

Edit : ca a avancé, mais c'est pas résolu...

Extension:FlowPlayerExtension
Hi Alex, I've been trying for days to get the FlowPlayer Extension to work for me. I would like to ask you a few questions, but decided to ask if you would even be willing to answer them if I asked. I don't see where I can contact the original developer. So, if I asked you a few questions, would you be willing to consider an answer or two? Thanks
 * I made some modifications to the extension, so see if that version works and come back if not. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  09:18, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Whos online extension
Hi, as i can see you develop a whos online extension (online status). I think you should look on this ajax one: http://www.gizmogarden.com/index.php/Ajax_whos_online Look the todo list. Maybe you could help in development. What do you think? Any chance?

User:PoliceUSA
Hello, may I know why do you think this username is unacceptable? --אדמוןד ואודס自分の投稿記録 07:33, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Because this name may be confusing with "Police". <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  08:24, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh? There is no user called "Police". --אדמוןד ואודס自分の投稿記録 19:27, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Not the user, but en:Police. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  20:40, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Extension page
Why did you delete it?? --Obamaunited1132 13:17, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Because it's not a real extension. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  13:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been paid by Michelle Obama to do this. And you should know it. Does your stomach hurt now?? --Obamaunited1132 13:20, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  13:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I dare you to tell people at en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents about this. Michelle Obama has no idea of what her hubby's up to, but insert it in the English Wikipedia article anyway. --Obamaunited1132 13:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know why you speak about en:WP:AN/I, this wiki is about MediaWiki, and nothing else, read Project:About. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  13:32, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

PhpMathPublisherExtension
Sorry for bothering you; but this might be a question of other users as well.

In your description PhpMathPublisher alternative you are giving an example for a file called phpmathpublisher.php. In the bottom of the php-code

there is a line saying:

Could you please clarify the meaning of rendermaths.php?message=<m>".$input."</m>"

A file called rendermaths.php does not exist in my PhpMathPublisher-Installation. Zip has created an installation directory phpmathpublisher, where I can find a file called mathpublisher.php; this php-file contains the function mathfilter that would be required for a manual rendering (when including the mathpublisher.php manually and then asking for "echo mathfilter (..)"

However, using

does not work, neither

I wonder, how the function mathfilter ist triggered in your example and how the parameter $input can be transferred to the function. Probably you can explain the the usage and meaning of the subject line if the line actually is correct.

Thank you in advance, Mr.Ron, 27-August-2008, 15.22 UTC
 * I didn't wrote that page, I just added Category:TeX and some . It'd be better to ask Mooncrater. But this should work if you put the phpmathpublisher dir in your document root (otherwise fix the paths):


 * <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  15:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanx, works perfectly! (however, the original code of PhpMathPublisher alternative contains some mysteries) <font color="#0000FF">Mr.Ron, 27-August-2008, 16.08 UTC

transwiki
Hehe, thanks, I just forgot to remove that bit again ;-) -- :bdk: 00:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Deleted hook cats
Hi IAlex. You deleted some empty hook cats that were previously populated by FlaggedRevs. Somehow Aaron thought it a good idea to remove all used hooks from the FlaggedRevs documentation. I reverted the removal, meaning that the deleted cats are populated again... Can you restore the pages? Cheers! Siebrand 21:28, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  12:03, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Liebenau.jens
I’ve tried it before to let delete my user page through an administrator who read the deletion proposals (deletion template, category, special lists and so on). Now I’ve found you, so I like to ask you whether you could delete my user page and then restore the version before last (13:03, 19. Okt. 2008) of my userpage, because it shall have more anonymity. Thank you very much. Jens Liebenau 18:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  18:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

deleted page
Je suis vraiment desolé, J'ai créé la page Незаменимые_аминокислоты dans la publique palce (MediaWiki) sans regarder le bôite de l'adresse (e.g. http://mediawiki.org ) et j'ai cru que c'été mon MediaWiki dans le localhost. Et je l'ai perdu :'(, la page. Si vous me la pourriez rentrer (le texte source de la page)? mon e-mail est: rex lux gmail com Merci!
 * Je le mets ici :
 * [snip]
 * <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  17:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Grand merci!

Help
Hi, i'm Aldrich. I'm an Bureaucrat at a wikisite called Wikicars. Anyway, I've been needing some help with writing templates and infoboxes. Do you know anyone that might be able to help me? -Red marquis 11:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You can read Help:Templates. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  16:12, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

German MediaWiki.de
Hi Alex

What do you think about this idea: German MediaWiki-Wiki? Who can I contact to push/start this project? Thanks! Bruno --BRotondi 09:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know why we should have a specific site for german speaking articles, mediawiki.org is not that big to require another site. I think it would be even more diffcult to make links to german pages from this site since we have Languages that makes these links automatically if the page exists. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  11:08, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Message from User:Marcelelima
Alex,

We're students from UERJ, a public university in Brazil and we're at the moment in class writing a text with our colleagues about Teaching and Learning. Is it possible that you allow us to work on our collaborative text for 60 more minutes?
 * Why here? The purpose of this wiki is to document MediaWiki, nothing else, read Project:About. If you want to have your MediaWiki, you can download and install it. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  14:36, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Extension:Configure's JavaScript - display issue in IE7
Hi iAlex,

have you tested Configure under Internet Explorer 7? All of the three special pages (Special:Configure, Special:Extensions and Special:ViewConfig) display only the text "No old version of the configuration available." when viewed in Internet Explorer 7, but not the actual menu to configure different settings. Everything works well in Firefox 2 though. I've tested this on a MediaWiki 1.14alpha (r42941) instance running on a server with PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0 and revision 43425 of Configure extension. It'd be very much appreciated if you could fix this bug. :-)

Regards,

-- Sayuri 22:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed this bug yesterday, but other bugs remaining. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  22:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Translations
Thanks for your prompt reaction. Could you please create MediaWiki:Mainpage-text/pl and MediaWiki:Support/pl as well? --Yecril 22:34, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  06:54, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Can you also add MediaWiki talk:Mediawiki/pl? Leinad 20:01, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  20:27, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for adding sk to Template:Languages
Thank you for adding Slovak language to Template:Languages. I planned to request this after translating all Help namespace. --Viktorc 09:02, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that (OFlash)
Thanks, I wasn't sure if parser hooks counted or were in any way relevant. Thankfully you cleaned up.

Yiihaa Productions
hello, I don´t see the connections of what the problems is with our site? Can you even understand swedish? I don´t see connections about how the contens could look like an encyclopedia. What I have written is about our company Yiihaa Productions. What should we otherwise write? Thanks. Tobias/ Yiihaa Productions
 * The point is that this wiki is for for documentation about MediaWiki and its extensions, nothing else, read Project:About. So Yiihaa Productions has nothing to do on this wiki and I informed you about that. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  17:15, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Farmer
Has anyone here got it to work? --84.45.219.185 11:16, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I use it on my local test wiki, but there are some features that don't work properly. I made a lot of changes on it and I will publish them soon. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  11:36, 2 February 2009 (UTC)