User talk:HappyDog

Category in Configuration settings
Hiho HappyDog, have you thought about adding a category to all these files? Would be nice for further usage. You can look up Category:Fundamental and create a new one, perhaps Category:MediaWiki foo.

Thanks and greetings from :Bdk: 03:28, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi Bdk. Good idea about the category - I shall add it to the template included at the top of each page.  Any suggestions?  If not, I'll make something up.
 * Yes, that will be fine. Hm, dunno, what would be the main phrase for all that stuff? So take this word then ;-) with MediaWiki in front of the category name. Thanks again for your work. --:Bdk: 03:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * All the settings seem to be MW 1.5 related, right? So what about Category:MediaWiki 1.5 settings or something close? --:Bdk: 03:44, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Ahhh, fast communication ;-) Well, do what you like, you probably better know than I do, what is best fitting. But if you add a category to the template, pages may first appear in this category after they where edited again ... just to note, so better be quick. *g* --:Bdk: 03:53, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Category:MediaWiki configuration settings :-) --:Bdk: 04:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

A "MediaWiki" prefix on any category in MediaWiki.org is redundant and makes the category name more complicated than it should be. The site is about nothing but MediaWiki already. Particularly top level navigational labels, such as Category:Manual and category Category:Help, should be well chosen short labels. For example, it would be easy for people to type Category:MediaWiki Manual incorrectly as Category:Mediawiki Manual, Category:Mediawiki manual, Category:WikiMedia Manual, Category:Wikimedia Manual and Category:Wikimedia manual and people will. So simply, clearly and unbreakably Category:Manual will work better for the large and varied community this site enjoys. Simplicity doesn't break as easily -- Category:Manual, Category:manual, category:manual, category:Manual all just work. I don't have the power to arbitrate this but I feel it is important that this kind of robust simplicity be part of Mediawiki.org's labeling and navigational structure. Hope this helps :-) --Rogerhc 05:17, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hiho HappyDog, just a little thank you for filling this wiki with useful and well structured pages. I really hope you'll stay active here :-) And I got the impression that input from you on the future structure of mediawiki.org (namespaces, clear sorting of contents ... needs and other suggestions) may be helpful ... got an idea, but no final draft yet. Perhaps we could meet on IRC in the next time? Greetings -- :Bdk: 04:20, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

;-)
...Just checked the history - I guess you want to keep this for some reason... – Yes, I did, but deletion was ok now, I've just forgotten those pages. To store them a while was just the best method to get rid of that funny vandal ... showing him, that it's not annoying me at all *g* ... some kind of self-mockery like the move comments in december. -- :Bdk: 11:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * lol - well I hope it worked! --HappyDog 11:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

*dumdidum*
Heyho. You're welcome :-) -- :Bdk: 21:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Starting a new page
Hi HappyDog, thanx for correcting my english and reordering the text at Help:Starting a new page.. You did great job! ;-) Have fun, --Produnis 20:05, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Help ...
Hoi, could you please check this to find out which version is really correct? I got confused today ;-) -- :Bdk: 05:44, 23 May 2006 (UTC)


 * To be honest, I'm not sure! I know the original version had "SMTP Server", but I don't know if the original version is correct, as it came from the page on meta.  These are not the default settings, just an example, so I have no way of checking (it is not something I am familiar with).  I've filled it with the default values from Mail::factory (linked to on the page), which may or may not be the correct thing to do! --HappyDog 06:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey Happydog, about my enabling file uploads
I'm not sure if you are understanding what I am writing. I have not been able to enable file uploading on my wiki. I have yet to even try to upload a file because it tells me that Uploads are disabled on this wiki.

I've followed countless tutorials and pages of documentation to fix the issue and I am at a loss. Everytime I see a post about this issue, it's fixed within a matter of minutes but my issue continues to go unresolved. I have never run into someone that was unable to make the "Upload File" link appear under the Toolbox. BrianZ 18:18, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Signing up
Hi HappyDog. Thanks for your response. I would like to create an account but the 'captcha' images are not displaying... do you know anything about fixing that? Thanks! -- 220.253.106.23 02:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC) -- Barrylb on Meta
 * It is fixed now. I asked some people on the IRC channel. -- Barrylb 16:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Request on a protected page
Hi, can you add the template &#123;{Languages|About this site}} on the page About this site. There is three other languages of the page. Thank you :) ~ Seb35 19:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Preview
Hi HappyDog, Please comment or suggest on this section of my talk page about preview button if you could. I need some further guidance on this. Thanks! --Rogerhc 18:16, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Manual:MediaWiki hooks/ArticleSave/1.5
See Project:Current issues. In case you were wondering, I wasn't planning to do dozens of pages just yet ;). Waiting for your thoughts. Thanks. —dto 04:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Template:PD Help Page
Thanks for your tip about the Template:PD Help Page. :-) Rogerhc 06:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

$wgSVGConverters
Moved to Project:Support desk.

Interested in MedaiWiki Parser
Hi! I am intersted to parsing MedaiWiki in Java (see last entry on ). I have found your page, is MediaWiki still working so strange? Would the MediaWiki syntax be so (like different tags for &lt;nowiki&gt;) for ever? I don't know if i am here on the right plase to ask thes questions, sorry if i am wrong. But i guess you are interested in parsing MediaWiki, too. Peter --85.180.112.45 16:38, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Peter. The MediaWiki parser is indeed a strange beast, and unfortunately it is unlikely to change radically in the near future - or at least Brion (the lead developer) is adamant that any changes will retain backwards compatibility.  There is a move to try and document the parser at Markup spec, which you may find useful.  In the meantime you might want to try asking on the MediaWiki irc channel, or perhaps post your question in a more public place, such as Project:Support desk. --HappyDog 23:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

about creating
Till now, i still do not know how to start a wiki. I had download the mediawikiu, but i do not understand the instruction. can you email your instruction to ragnaroknike@yahoo.co.uk? thanks


 * No. If you have specific questions then please ask them in one of the appropriate forums. --HappyDog 20:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

got any ideas?
I posted a question, which you answered, but it's still not working. Got any ideas? Here's my question. Davecotter 17:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

:-)
Yay! Thank you for this valuable input. -- :Bdk: 02:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi admin
Moved to Project:Support desk.

mirroring help files
I thought it might be useful to post my experimental help file mirroring script, so it's at User:Sanbeg/mirrorhelp.py. It amy be useful for some context, since it illustrates workaround for some of the shortcoming in the help project. It's not quite ready for primte time, though; mostly because the template & image issues still need more work. -Steve Sanbeg 21:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

How to help with PD help?
I have some experience writing php code and needed some help content for a wiki I am putting together, so got directed here. Is there someone heading up the project that I should talk to?


 * I am not sure what you mean. This wiki is about the MediaWiki software.  If you need help with PHP you should contact a dedicated PHP forum or mailing list. If, on the other hand, you ARE looking for help about the MediaWiki software then you have come to the right place.  Perhaps if you asked a more concrete question I would be able to direct you to the right source of answers... --HappyDog 15:52, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Gah.... Sorry... was trying to write on the the way out the door. Actually, I am looking to help. I was looking for some help content for my wiki and got directed to PD Help for some source, but it looks like there is still some work to be done in getting the exports to work (or I cannot find them.) So I was offering to help, but don't know who is heading up the PD Help work. Any ideas?


 * No probs :) - There is nobody in charge of the PD help page project, just a bunch of volunteers who do what they have the time and inclination to do. I am in as good a position as any to answer any questions you might have, so feel free to ask.  The export process is being worked out at automating help page export, but is not yet live.  I think we probably need a bit more content before exports will be useful, and in the meantime both the content creation and export process are moving (slowly) along in tandem.  Any help you can offer us would be greatly appreciated.  --HappyDog 16:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Gracias por el aviso
¡Hola, Happy Dog¡ Muchas gracias por el aviso de que acá no se permiten paginas de usuario extensivo, solo quise poner mi tarjeta de presentación, para que los que aun no me conocen acá, sepan quien soy, ¿y como usted que tiene página de usuario y nadie le dice n'a?. A proposito, yo soy chileno y no hablo english (inglés). --Titogonzalez23 16:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Respondo sin ser HappyDog (I answer without being HappyDog). Tito, lo que ocurre es que puedes poner cosas sobre tí en tu pagina pero si estan relacionadas con el desarrollo o mantenimiento o casi cualquier cosa sobre el programa MediaWiki. Por eso no puedes hablar mucho sobre tu vida, trabajos, o aficiones, si no hay conexion. Digamos que este es un lugar de trabajo sobre MediaWiki. Pablo2garcia 13:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you. No pablo español! :-) --HappyDog 14:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Move from Meta to MW.org
Hi, I noticed the MetaProject on Meta and have left some comments on the talk page. I would like to participate in the project if that is OK with you. Thanks. Lcarsdata (Talk) 09:12, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

+10 points
Again, you made me smile :D -- :Bdk:  10:54, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Branch/release level
Hi Rob,

You modified Template:MW quick download and replaced   with the hard-coded string 1.8. I understand your reasons for doing this - the upgrade is for the branch, not the individual release. However it now means that this is another page that needs updating whenever a new release comes out.

I don't see the problem with listing a point release here. If someone is upgrading to 1.8, they should always upgrade to the latest 1.8.x, so the text makes sense. The link itself always goes to the most recent upgrade page, so they click on the 1.8.2 link and go to Manual:Upgrading to 1.8, which is what they want. Do you object strongly to my changing it back?

--HappyDog 00:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


 * No, go ahead. robchurch | talk 05:56, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

URL params
Thanks for restoring that page. I fully agree it needed to be moved to a new title. I have further commented on robchurch's talk page. Tizio 13:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Re-uploaded Image:Google-coop-extension-1.JPG
HI, I re-uploaded Image:Google-coop-extension-1.JPG, and tagged its copyright as PD —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BiGreat (talk • contribs).

Fairly new here, please check my edit
Saw that it was missing so I added Manual:$wgDebugLogGroups. Also clarified Manual:$wgDebugComments. Let me know if my contribution was in any way misplaced or misguided. I've been configuring a small wiki farm of my own over the past several weeks, so it's a case of documenting for others as I learn my way around. MaxEnt 11:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)


 * No - that's fantastic. Please add more! --HappyDog 16:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Import
Hi, I've been tagging applicable pages that I've come across on Meta to be moved here. But, glancing at the import log over here, there has been almost no activity. Any administrator may now import pages from Meta; do you know if there are any plans to do so? Is there any use in tagging the pages on Meta to be moved? Thanks. Dmcdevit 20:05, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Dmcdevit. The transwiki functionality has only just been enabled, so you're right there has not been much activity yet.  Personally, I am waiting for the 'Extension' namespace to be created so that we can organise things a bit better before receiving a bunch of new stuff, but other admins may step up to the bat a bit sooner.  Once that namespace is in place I will start transferring items - hopefully that will happen fairly soon (there is an open bug for it). --HappyDog 15:26, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Aha. Well then, the new extension namespace is now created. :-) Dmcdevit 04:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey!
Hey man, there's no need to keep telling me how to edit a wiki: Default value is an array, but an array of false values or true? I suspect the former. Either way, the documentation could perhaps be improved. --Kingboyk 18:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The standard method is to hit the 'edit' button, make the improvement, click save. --HappyDog 00:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Isn't it obvious from the above that I don't know the answer and am highlighting it for somebody who does to improve it? (Or for me myself to improve it when I've acquired the knowledge? :)) --Kingboyk 11:32, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


 * You made several posts such as this, which to be honest are not very constructive. They imply that someone out there knows all the answers and just hasn't bothered to write them up properly. Unfortunately, the few people who do know all the answers are not likely to respond here as they are busy making MediaWiki better, so it's up to the rest of us to fill in the gaps.
 * To answer your question, someone needs to do the research. Presumably, having not found the answer here you went on to look at other sources of help and eventually managed to get an answer and solve whatever problem you were stuck on, therefore you have already done this research and are in the best position to add the information.
 * Unfortunately, it is all too rare that people return to fill in the gaps once they have found the answer elsewhere.
 * I'm sorry if you found my response harsh, but we are all too aware that 'the documentation could perhaps be improved' and having it pointed out to us is not going to get as good a response as, say, improving it. --HappyDog 15:26, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "They imply that someone out there knows all the answers and just hasn't bothered to write them up properly". Of course! Mediawiki is written by some brilliantly clever people but is (as is often the case when it comes to brilliant programmers) terribly documented. Somebody out there does know these things and hasn't written them up; not necessarily because they can't be bothered, perhaps because they don't realise us lesser mortals wouldn't understand.
 * Or perhaps because they are busy working on the code. Not everything needs to be documented by the developers.  For example, the answer to your question above is available by clicking a link that is on the page! --HappyDog 16:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * There's roles for all sorts of people on a wiki. Not everyone can contribute material, but they can point out deficiencies for other folk to fix or for themselves to fix when they've found an answer. I'll be doing that but I'm still getting my head back round PHP having been working with VB.NET for the last few months (see w:User:Kingbotk/Plugin). If you think that comments pointing out deficiencies aren't constructive we'll have to agree to differ I'm afraid. What's the alternative? I spot a gap in the docs and just keep my mouth shut because I don't know the answer?! I don't think so! --Kingboyk 15:54, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * OK - I agree with you, up to a point. So long as there are more people adding useful content than there are pointing out the omissions then we're OK (although I'm not sure whether that is the case yet...) --HappyDog 16:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

good morning :-)
Hiho HappyDog, your recent moves motivated me to fill the new namespace a bit. Works fine. And Kate has fixed "your" bug 8050 (for the case you haven't seen it already). Cheers! -- :Bdk: 02:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Enotif
Thanks for moving.

If (when) the Wikipedia Admins enable Enotif there (I mean, as suggested, in the German and English Wikipedia), I will be more motivated to update my whole documentation. --Wikinaut 19:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, this would be great. Could you enable email-noitificantions on changes of watched pages ... like on meta.wikimedia.org and many others wikis? --Nyks 12:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You will need to make a request at Bugzilla for that kind of change. I don't know what the response will be. --HappyDog 14:43, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Admin powers
I haven't edited here before, but was a major admin on Wikipedia, and would like to try vandal reverting here. I was "Curps" on Wikipedia, further information will not be given.

I no longer edit on Wikipedia, and any user called "Curps" on other wikis is an impostor.


 * So? I am HappyDog. Further information will not be given. --HappyDog 19:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I've taken a break from Wikipedia, and I would like for now to edit somewhere else. You can see the history of the account "Curps" on Wikipedia. (anonymous) 19:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)


 * OK - edit away! --HappyDog 19:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Copying Help Help Page
So where should it go if not in help? I spent a good deal of time on the page itself Help:Copying, making sure it didn't break things, that the steps were simple enough for even the 14 year old installing his/her first wiki. I'd hate for it to go unseen, and help is where it would be found and useful. --Alderin 05:15, 1 December, 2006 (UTC)


 * OK - I see what you've done here, and it makes sense to add that to the help pages. I was expecting a MW.org specific set of instructions, as we are working (very slowly) towards a centralised solution (see automating help page export).  Of course, those kind of instructions would be inappropriate to be included within the help docs themselves, but your approach is absolutely fine, and incredibly useful as an interim measure (and I expect that interim to be quite long...).  Sorry about my hasty reversion - please add the link back, and thanks for your contribution. --HappyDog 05:32, 1 December 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem. I can understand that the open link could be thought to point to just about any type of copying going on.  I tried to give the link a more concise text this time. --Alderin 05:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

move tag on labeled section transclusion
I reverted the move tag on Labeled_Section_Transclusion, since that's mostly just a pointer to mw anyway, so it doesn't make sense to move it. -Steve Sanbeg 19:23, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Moving from Meta
Ah, didn't realise. Well, I saw some sort of tag, but couldn't remember what it was. Thanks, robchurch | talk 10:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from Yedidia
Thanks for helping in making order of Extension:whatsDown images.

--Yedidia 08:31, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Location of the PageSecurity extension
I created this extension on my personal page because there were several pages to build and I didn't want to publish them before they were ready. Today I'm moving the finished version to the right namespace. Thanks! --Fernando Correia 15:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

broken search results
It looks like the search results are pretty bad now, since the search index doesn't know that the extensions were moved, and there's no redirect at the old location anymore. I've filed a bug at 8325, but it hasn't gotten a response yet. -Steve Sanbeg 16:45, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Don't delete redirects
Please don't delete redirects; it leaves broken links on local sites, foreign sites, documentation, source code comments, etc. I've restored a bunch you deleted on December 12. --Brion VIBBER 22:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I wish you had mentioned this beforehand! There was a bold red notice on the front page for two weeks, plus messages on various forum/portal pages indicating that these pages would be deleted after a fortnight, including details about where and how to lodge any objections.  That was about 45 minutes of my life wasted - are there really that many external links to these pages, particularly given the brief length of time some of them have been in existence for?  The main namespace is just becoming a mess.
 * Sorry Brion - I don't mean to rant so much, when most of what you do is so brilliant, but I can't believe that you didn't see the notices (though checking your contributions, you may only have been to the site once during that time...). Anyway &lt;/rant&gt;.  --HappyDog 02:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Context-dependent navigation bar
Tried to implement your recommendations regarding Context-dependent navigation bar and both portlet entries are displaying on all namespace pages. Initially had no success using MediaWiki:common.css, so tried editing the common.css file on the server (still with no success). Any guidance would be greatly appreciated...S3Indiana 20:18, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Are you using monobook.css? This was broken in the other skins until a recent update to MW.  Also, old versions may not have the class defined (I don't know when it was introduced) - check this by looking at the source.  Finally, some browsers are broken in their handling of multiple class names, e.g. earlier versions of IE.  Try it in a modern browser such as Firefox. --HappyDog 23:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Resolved by editing MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Is there another browser except Firefox :)S3Indiana 00:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Extension:Simple_namespaces
Is the Extension:Simple namespaces relevant (or even usable) on versions of MediaWiki 1.6 or newer? Couldn't edit language/Languages.php. S3Indiana 01:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know anything about that. Contact the extension's author. --HappyDog 01:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

ISO 8601
maybe you can have a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABdk&diff=66747&oldid=65149

Tobias Conradi 13:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

created ISO 8601. Tobias Conradi 13:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

"Well, anyway, that seems a good enough place for it, whatever it is " - that's the most important to begin with :-) I tried to clarify the article. Esp. "Users can set individually set their preferred date format, but the WikiSysop cannot easily control the default for all." Tobias Conradi 14:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Editing LocalSettings.php remotely
How do you access the LocalSettings.php file if your site is on another Wiki Server?


 * If you don't have access to the server then you cannot edit the file. If you have access then please see the FAQ for further help on this matter. --HappyDog 17:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Question about main page
Hi HappyDog. I'm somewhat new to wiki's and I'm trying to emulate what you have done on the mediawiki main page. All I'm really looking for is recreating the look you have with the boxes ( divs ). For the life of me I cant figure out what } is in some of the wiki code you have. IF I simply wanted a blank page that had 2 boxes such as the News and current versions box, and in that format how would i implement that. I understand templates, but the embedded htm l and that reference to } is killin me! any help would be appreciated.

bugs
I am VERY unhappy with the treatment of bug reporting. I take this VERY personal. I am VERY willing to help. But this is developper arrogance to simply delete it. I was among the 85 main contributors in en:WP - but I left there, because of repeated policy violations and arrogance by the Sysops. I hoped here it is different. On what basis Bugs gets simply deleted away? And even if there is a basis ... it's VERY bad to delete these useful contributions. Tobias Conradi 14:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Tobias. Please don't take things personally.  I'm not the person who deleted that page, but I understand the reasoning.  It is important that Bugzilla is used for all bug reports, otherwise there is absolutely no way to keep track of them.  When 1.3 was released there was a page on meta used to log bugs and discuss changes (see MediaWiki_1.3_comments_and_bug_reports/Archive).  As you can see it was pretty unusable and ultimately ignored by developers because it took far too much of their time to even figure out what was a 'bug', what was a 'feature request', what was 'vague opinion' and what was just junk.  It is not arrogance - it is the only sane way to keep track of a product used by millions of people world-wide.
 * The bottom line is that if you want a developer to see your bugs, let alone act on them, they need to be entered into Bugzilla. The Bugs page was deleted because its presence gives a false sense of security that a bug has been 'reported'.  Unless someone (you?) wants to take responsibility for adding all entries on that page into Bugzilla then it is a waste of time. --HappyDog 17:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * thanks for you replying. It were my contributions that were deleted away, it's like putting tape on my mouth. That's why I took it personal. ;-) I added If you report bugs here, developpers may never see them! to the page. I do not see how my contribs are waste of time. They are only so, if the get deleted right away. The contribs can actually save time to some people. Because they are warned before installation about some bugs. Additionally someone might enter the bugs. I am unwilling to report bugs on bugzilla, because do not want to reveal my emailadress. Tobias Conradi 20:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Try gmail.google.com. To be honest, if you don't want to report a bug then you don't have to report a bug.  However, if you do want to report one there seems little sense just shouting it into the void.  I have updated the page to give a lot more info and background about how to use Bugzilla and why it should be used.  --HappyDog 01:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * have gmail, thanks :-). Little sense - maybe it is limited to write it there, I agree. Tobias Conradi 01:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

feature request, hacks, etc
is there a page for them? Where should I put them. With ISO 8601 I am happy. But where to put other things. E.g. if SkipSkins is activated after some users already selected a then skipped skin, one needs to code around it. Where to put this? First as a hack, later as something that could becaome a feature request, or maybe the hack is good enough to be integrated in SVN. Tobias Conradi 20:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Feature requests - Bugzilla.
 * Hacks - no fixed place yet. They are lightly discouraged as they are generally tied to a small set of software versions, are not widely tested or portable and may cause unanticipated problems.  Hacks that may be genuinely useful to a number of users should go on either (a) the talk page of the related issue (e.g. if it is an installation hack you might want to put it at Talk:Installation), (b) on the talk page of the related configuration setting (e.g. a hack dealing with compressed revisions might be appropriate at Manual talk:$wgCompressRevisions) or (c) on a new page discussing the issue and offering a workaround - however it is only worth doing this if the hack is presented with full context in a way that would be useful to someone experiencing the same problem.  In your example Manual talk:$wgSkipSkins seems appropriate.
 * Fixes/patches - submit to Bugzilla for review.
 * --HappyDog 01:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it's best to create articles for what you wrote. I'll do so. Tobias Conradi 02:01, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

now there is Can this be fixed? Tobias Conradi 02:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Skins
 * http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Skins -> http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skins
 * Manual talk:$wgSkipSkins


 * I'm not sure what you mean. --HappyDog 02:22, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * merging. content is duplicated. if the metastuff comes here I could do the rest. Tobias Conradi 18:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Adding a notice on new page creation page
Hello there. :)

Could we add something like what they have on Meta when you try to create a new page? The default text is "You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. To create the page, start typing in the box below (see the help page for more info)." but on Meta they've added a box that you cannot pass without reading. Could this be added on MediaWiki too? And do we have that multilingual function (can't remember the correct name, just check my user page on Meta to see what I mean) on MW? That same message could be translated on as many as possible languages. At least spamming users couldn't say that they didn't see a notice!

Here's the code from Meta-Wiki anyway: You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. To create the page, start typing in the box below (see the help page for more info).  Attention visitors!  '''THIS MEANS YOU! READ THIS!''' This site is for documentation and discussion on Wikimedia projects. If you are trying to add a page to your company's internal wiki site, you're in the wrong place. Just hit "back" in your browser until you find yourself back home. This is not the place for information pertaining to the MediaWiki software. The software has its own wiki at http://www.mediawiki.org. '''OFFTOPIC PAGES WILL BE DELETED. THIS IS NOT YOUR TEST WIKI.'''

I hope that made some sense. :)

And is the procect to transfer MediaWiki content from Meta stopped 'cause of attribution problems? I just think that it's funny that I find the info about MediaWiki I need on Meta, not on MediaWiki.org.

Thank you for your time. :)

-- Sayuri 10:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Sayuri. We already have a notice (see MediaWiki:newarticletext).  Or did you mean that this isn't good enough?  Suggestions are welcome - please comment on the talk page.
 * Regarding the transfer of content, I personally have stopped any importing due to the attribution problem, on the grounds that single-user sign-on is "just around the corner". Hopefully it won't be long now... --HappyDog 01:07, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

false claims, mark reverts as minor
why do you make false claims and mark reverts as minor?

http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Bugs&diff=67747&oldid=67741

Tobias Conradi 20:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Reverts are normally minor - I marked this one out of habit, sorry. Please explain what 'false claims' I have made.  Also, please re-read Bugzilla carefully before continuing this conversation.  --HappyDog 00:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * your IMO false claim "Revert - this is a redirect to Bugzilla, which clearly explains why bugs should not be reported on wiki!" - this is IMO wrong. Maybe you should re-read Bugzilla. I did so. Can we not have the bug page and yes let's mark it in BIG letters that devs will not read them. And put in big letters that it would be nice to report them. But IMO MW needs the input. The permalink bug is very old - I always used classic skin in WP and never had this Permalink. Putting more workload on me in discussions in WP when trying to quote. IIRC I also reported a bug more than a year ago here, and then had some talk with a dev and I at the end provided a patch. He put it in SVN/CVS so no contrib for me - but just want to tell that I think this wiki input can be good. Maybe stuff there can accumulate and then once in a year one can check whats up, whats right, whats wrong. Of course we should make sure that overall the page is more good than harm. best regards Tobias Conradi 00:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * So are you volunteering to actively maintain an up-to-date list of 'current issues in MediaWiki'? --HappyDog 13:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I've suggested Bug reports as a title for such a page, and tried to explain some stuff ( in German *g*). Hope this helps a bit. -- :Bdk: 00:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Peter Blaise responds:
 * I also vote for keeping all histories and links rather than deleting or reverting, and at most, also moving and linking any discussion-type contributions to appropriate discussion pages, rather than merely deleting them.
 * I think the goal at MediaWiki.org is NOT a clean but empty site, but a site where visitors can quickly find what we are looking for. It hardly matters to me how "messy" and redundant the site is if the computer does the searching for me and quickly brings up answers that are responsive to my search terms.  For me, that may require following a thread of links that lead to the answer.  Without those links intact, I'd never find the answers I do find.  So, I vote for more information, more redundancy, more links, more disambiguation pages, not less (not fewer?).
 * Remember, organization in one person's mind, especially a deeply experienced person, may not be what the novice needs. Suggesting at the Bugzilla page here that:
 * "...All bugs in the MediaWiki software should be reported at bugzilla.wikimedia.org..."
 * is naive - how does a newbie know what is the resolution to their problem until AFTER it's solved? Is it a bug, or is it just me?  When it's resolved, LEAVE it intact as a thread, AND link it to a relevant Bugzilla post.  Note that on the Bugzilla page on this site, there's the final line:
 * "... if you want a developer to act on it then you need to put it somewhere they are likely to see it, namely Bugzilla ..."
 * WITH NO LINK on the word "... Bugzilla ..."! I'm sure that if I touch that page and make the reference into a LINK, then someone will revert it back to kill the link, and claim that because they do not feel they need the link, that my offering to help newbies was a waste of energy.
 * Anyone's contributions here are a waste of time only if someone ERASES them! Argh!
 * -- Peter Blaise peterblaise 17:38, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Please, Peter, try not to be so incendiary. Why would anyone revert the addition of a sensible link?  If you have valid contributions to a page, then please add them.  If you have questions about a page, please add them to the appropriate talk page (NOT to the page itself).  If you have questions about the site, go to the Forum and ask them there.  But please don't use every available space as a sounding board for your personal agenda.  Bugzilla says that bugs should be reported at Bugzilla, because bugs should be reported at Bugzilla.  If they are not then developers will not see them and they will not be fixed - simple as that.  You will not persuade the developers to come and check the wiki as well, particularly as wiki is such an inferior method for dealing with bugs.  --HappyDog 17:54, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

No PAGETITLE displayed on MainPage
Hi! Can you please tell me, how you got the PAGETITLE not displayed on the Mainpage? I'm searching for this for days and don't find an answer, also I can't find anything in the MainPage Source that explains me how you did it. You would really help me by giving me the answer or showing me where I can get it. Thanks a lot! Fabian —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.247.21.173 (talk • contribs) 12:55, 16 February 2007.
 * There's a trick which have been done in the MediaWiki:Common.js. As current, only 2 letter language code are supported, and it's need some modification to supporting the 3 letter language code, or other languages having the dash char. --Shinjiman 06:12, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Spam
Hiho HappyDog, thanks for your help and the neat hints on the spam protection stuff. Could you have a look at this page now? It might need some copyediting :-) -- :Bdk: 12:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Sidebar
No, nothing more to add for the moment. I'm confident that what we've got there is a much more intuitive arrangement, and I don't think we'll have problems if we want to make small changes to it in the future, provided we minimise the disruption of sweeping changes. robchurch | talk 21:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: LDAP page import
Hm, that's odd. While it's true that the first import failed, I was under the impression the software had imported fine the second time. If it didn't, I do apologise. robchurch | talk 21:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Project:Categories
Hey Happy Dog,

I see that you've decided to reorganise from scratch the category tree. Before you go ahead too rapidly in this process, have you seen my suggestion about including a default root category directly in the MediaWiki sidebar?
 * Talk:MediaWiki or
 * User:Robchurch/Sidebar

The idea is basically that by adopting a standard designation for the root category, it could in turn be included directly in the MediaWiki release and added to the localisation files for proper translation in the sidebar.

Whatever is decided, don't hesitate to drop me a line if you need help for specific tasks in the categorisation process. I usually drop by the Special:Uncategorizedcategories and the Special:Wantedcategories for my contribution to this website but the Project:Categories has just been added to my list : )

Stéphane Thibault 22:38, 6 April 2007 (UTC) Talk

ca project
OK, thanks! Allman

Special:Contributions/Macv
Hi, I noticed you seem to be active cleaning stuff up here, this guy seems to be importing stuff more or less wholesale from Wikipedia, which is probably not appropriate. I especially fail to see the utility of Template:ImportToMediaWiki at this site. :) cheers, pfctdayelise 16:17, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

CrudeProtection
I have put a note on the discussion of CrudeProtection extension page. If you could please take a look at it and see if you have any ideas .. thanks --Dtsig 19:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Qs on CrudeProtection
I have posted a note on the discussion page for CrudeProtection. If you get a chance could you look at it. Give some ideas on why i am having the problems .. thanks --Dtsig 17:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Would like to help moving extensions from meta
I've noticed it's taking a very long time to move all the extensions over and I'd be happy to help with that but would need to be able to use the special:import. --Nad 12:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Broken image
Sure, no problem. Glad to help. :) Titoxd (?!?) 01:46, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi.
Thank you for the kind welcome. I get a nice fuzzy feeling translating the help and other site pages into finnish, because that means I have been able to give back just a little bit of the enormous labour the developer community has been doing to build this wonderful software. I am not able to code, so it has been my part to help with localisations, even if only in a minor way, very much subservient to the efforts of User:Nikerabbit. -- Cimon Avaro 06:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

help with wiki php programming
HappyDog: We are a Beijing based, US funded 3 person start up and need help with the wiki part of our site (rest in asp.net). Can we give you a call? Saw your work, which is excellent, and we could use the help. Thanks-- my email is jeffbrauer@gmail.com  tx. Jeff

Error
Hi, I'm Jacklab72 from the it:wiki, when I login on my media wiki it give me

Can you help me? You can answer here --87.5.125.201 12:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Templates "MediaWiki Welcome/**"
After removing of template "Template:MediaWiki Welcome, possibly, should be removed all other child templates - /de, /es, /fr, /ja, /ru ?

/pt, /sq and /zh is still used on these versions of main page. --Kaganer 19:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. --HappyDog 00:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

i need a plugin
i need a plugin or module, to change the control user register. i mean, i need more fields in the page that the user is register, i've been looking up hardly, but i dont find anything! could you help me please?
 * Is that some kind of haiku or something? --HappyDog 22:56, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

A question concerning your extension
Hello, your work seems interesting and could possibly be helpful on my page.

Is there a way to somehow alias Infobox -> data. What I mean is I have lots of pages in category and each page has a Infobox. I want to add all of these into table and I don't want to go manually through all the pages. Any solutions?


 * Hi - I have given a preliminary response to this question where you posted it at my own wiki: http://www.kennel17.co.uk/testwiki/Talk:WikiDB/Features. We can continue the discussion there. --HappyDog 14:31, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'm looking for a little help
I just created the Google sitemap extension but I then I read the tag at the top of the Extension:Google Sitemap article and got confused. If I have mediawiki 1.8, does it mean I already have a sitemap generator? I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out how to create a sitemap for google for my site http://www.pop-cult.org/Wikitainment/index.php/Main_Page. I'd appreciate any help.

I didn't understand how to do the following either: You must create the file sitemap.xml in your root directory, and chmod it (change permissions) to 777 before running Special:GoogleSitemap

I supose I'll just have to create an empty file "sitemap.xml" and then fill it, just like I did with the extensions...but fill it with what? I also don't have a clue of what does change premissions mean.

I'm kinda desperated for help and I placed this same question at Extension talk:Google Sitemap, but then I realised few people actually post there, so I went with you, a user that seem to use his talk page on a regular basis. If you don't have the anwers I so desperately need, maybe you can redirect me to someone who does. Thanks beforehand. --Pop-Cult 22:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Have responded on your talk page. --HappyDog 17:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Extension categories
Gday HappyDog I'm pretty keen to get started categorizing the extensions, I think they require a much needed sorting out in definable groups. Is there any progress on the template yet? as soon as you set it up I'll gladly follow the ruleset you make. Cheers Bouncingmolar 23:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)