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suggested wiki ideas
As suggested, just come from project|current (syntax?) issues on this page, and supporting the idea that there be more usage suggestions. If more experienced editors want to paste links to, say, half a dozen suggested usages, then I would be happy to draft an overview --User:Avaiki 20070410

CAN SOMEONE PLEASEEE TELL ME HOW TO UPLOAD SOME VIDEOS ON AHHAWIKII. IT IS POWERED BY MEDIAWIKI SO IM THINKING IT SHOULD UPLOAD. ?- MELISA

add contact info
Add how to get contact mediawiki.org by email, to e.g. mention that mediawiki makes invalid xhtml: http://zh.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:%E6%96%B0%E9%97%BB%E6%8A%95%E7%A8%BF has one href= without quotes. Use href="...". --User:Jidanni 2006-07-27


 * Hello Jidanni, I've looked at it; you mean for example the following line at the bottom of this page:
 * 版权信息
 * I'll tell our devs about this case (see bug 6829). In general, please see Communication. Such things could be reported on MediaZilla/Bugzilla, or on IRC #wikimedia-tech, because it's not a MediaWiki specific problem, but a Wikimedia specific one afaik. Greetings -- :Bdk: 00:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Por favor, traduzcan este artículo al Español.
Por favor, traduzcan este artículo al Español, yo no hablo inglés. --Titogonzalez23 16:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Unclear/slang use
The first line of the first paragraph following the TOC currently reads: "MediaWiki.org, what is domain and site name at the same time, has only one topic: the homonymous wiki engine MediaWiki." The section between the first and second commas seems unecessary as well as rather cryptic. I'd remove it myself but the page is locked. -Jarsyl 09:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Done. --HappyDog 16:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Work in progress sentence
"All the content still is and, of course, will be work in progress." There should probaably be an "a" between "be" and "work". --Brian 08:51, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Not necessarily. "It is work in progress" or "It is a work in progress" - either is fine, and I personally prefer the former. --HappyDog 16:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Link correction
In "You can also install wiki software on your server;"(in the "what MediaWiki is not" section) the link should be changed to this wiki at Manual:Installation--Brian 03:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Blocking Policy
Where is the blocking policy? Every site needs one to let users know why admins can block people.(76.247.222.101 13:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC))
 * common sense is generally enough for small sites: you will be blocked if you disrupt the sites operation. A written policy is imho only needed if some major disagreement arises, and needs to be sorted out. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 10:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Q
Do we really want to use the word homonymous in this? --BozMo 09:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Protection
I realize this is a high-visibility page, but couldn't it be semi-protected instead of fully protected? —Emufarmers(T 08:59, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I've lowered the protection here because this is a high profile page, and therefore, people should be able to edit it in the spirit of the wiki. &mdash; Anonymous Dissident  Talk 09:14, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Who's in charge?
What I would like to see is a little something on who's in charge of the Wikimedia project. Who are the most active contributors? Who is in charge of scope / release calendar etc? Is there some sort of Mediawiki foundation? So far the only reference is that hosting for the website is donated by wikimedia, but there is no information whatsoever on who is responsible for this project. -- Michiel Beijen 10:24, 8 December 2008 (UTC) I also would like to seea little something on who's in charge of the Wikimedia project.

greek translation
i have translated this page to the greek language but i cant see GREEK on the LANGUAGE toolbar. Why this?
 * You had the page at About this site/el; I have moved it to Project:About/el. —Emufarmers(T

commercial use
Is it allowed to use the MediaWiki Software in a company interial? (A. Richter (andre.hf@web.de))


 * Yes. —Emufarmers(T 06:38, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

1.16 beta - vector skin
I'm trying to convert to 1.16 beta using the new Vector Skin. A few problems issues which may or may not be me:

1. The 'News' extension doesn't work. My system shows it is installed OK but placing ANY tags on a page causes the page to be rendered blank. This appears to be a version issue.

2. The __NOTITLE__ magic word no longer works. This is a version, rather than a skin issue. I've notice it is no longer in the help pages but it DOES work with 1.15.3 and it's a real pain because I do NOT want it the title to appear on my main page (Use a graphic instead).

3. The standard fixed-width font employed when a space is used at the start of a line is about half the size of the one used on the MonoBook skin. I cannot seem to find the CSS code to change in 'main-ltr.css'

4. I've figured out how to use an alternative body background colour without having it appear only below 160px from the top. A new 'page-fade.png' image is needed, fading from the chosen background colour to white over 44px. I suggest some help be provided on this because it makes upgrading quite a task when the detail of the issue has to be rooted out - for non-techies anyway.

Info provided in good faith FWIW

--Sabretache 11:11, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Oops - last post
On item 1 above. I've just tried the latest versions of the News Extension components and all is well again. It was 'NewsRenderer.php' that was causing the problem.

Item 2. Oops again - it's the 'No Title' extension. I've tried all the variants on the extension page but none of them work. --Sabretache 14:50, 5 May 2010 (UTC)