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Proposal: better notices
I humbly ask to improve some system messages. First, simple check in the big and annoying MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning could decrease it's size in half: ∴ AlexSm 16:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * for «Help» namespace it would say "… Help: namespace … public domain … check Project:Copyrights",
 * for other namespaces it would say " … GFDL … check Project:Copyrights"

Since we have an established system of subpages for translations (Project:Language policy), at least for «Help» namespace, MediaWiki:Newarticletext should check (with #titleparts) whether it a subpage, and then display something like "This translation is not available yet, please see English help page at …". Otherwise, when I translate something, I have to avoid red links to other future translations, and simply use links to English versions for now ∴ AlexSm 16:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Another note: any user who switched interface language will not see some important warnings (for example, will see standart GFDL notice) even on PD Help pages. These warnings need to be translated to appropriate interface subpages MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning/fr, MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning/de, etc. ∴ AlexSm 16:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Nobody against? Then i replaced english msg to following version... --Kaganer 10:33, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Requested articles?
Both Wikipedia and (English) Wiktionary have places where anybody can request an article to be added. Does MediaWiki.org have such a place?

At Wiktionary we're setting up a dev wiki to work on extensions etc and learning how to set up and use MediaWiki as we go. We just noticed that  doesn't have an article here - so I'd like to request one please. &mdash; Hippietrail 13:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

PHPXref of MediaWiki
Hi, I used PHPXref on MediaWiki and put the results at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~erwin85/mediawiki. Might be interesting for you. --Erwin 22:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions page
It seems to me that a single "Suggestions page" on this site would be useful. E.g. I was thinking it would be useful to redirect from pages ending in /, and make it impossible to create pages ending in a slash, but I wasn't sure the best place to put it. --Chriswaterguy 01:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * What about the page we are on now? If not, howabout Project:Current_issues? Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 01:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * That sounds like a MW software request, rather than a site request, in which case it see Bugzilla for details about requesting enhancements. If not, and it was a site request, here is the right place to discuss it.  (Current issues is for wider-reaching or ongoing concerns.) --HappyDog 14:36, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Directories
Hi, do we have any list that explains what which directory (includes, images, config, t, locale, ...) contains? --Flominator 11:30, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Today I received an answer by User:Raymond who told me at least some.

/bin ? /config - used for initial configuration during installation /docs - documentation /images - location for uploaded files /includes - general program files /includes/api - API program files /includes/cbt ? /includes/filrepo - program files for file management /includes/media - media handler, mainly for creating thumbs /includes/normal ? /includes/templates ? /includes/zhtabel ? /languages - language files /languages/classes - language specific conversion rountines (grammar, plurals, ...) /languages/messages - system messages /locale ? /maintenance - maintenance tools (normal have to be executed from a shell) /maintenance/archives - sql patches for changes in the database layout /maintenance/dtrace ? /maintenance/language - working with languages files /maintenance/mssql ? /maintenance/ora ? /maintenance/postgres ? /maintenance/sqlite ? /maintenance/storage ? /math - TeX module /serialized ? /skins - skins like monobook /t ? /tests ? Does anyone know some more? --Flominator 18:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Meanwhile I've found the readme files in the directories ;) --Flominator 17:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Installation related pages
I recommend that Manual:Newcomers guide to installing on Windows, Manual:Simple Windows Apache Installation, and Manual:Streamlined Windows Install Guide be merged into one page. All the detail about specific versions of stuff should be pulled out. This would also prevent the instructions from going out of date every other month when a new version of something comes out. This new page and associated Windows installation pages should be renamed so the title describes the type of installation. For example, "...installing on Apache, PHP, and MySQL", "...installing on IIS and SQLServer", or "...installing on XAMPP". Manual:Simple Windows Apache Installation is probably the cleanest of these pages so we should start with it.

Also, the various pages associated with old versions of MediaWiki should be archived somehow or deleted. This includes Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP - MediaWiki 1.5, Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP - MediaWiki 1.7.1, and Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP - MediaWiki 1.9.2. --Cneubauer 18:58, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Archived perhaps - not deleted. Some people may still be running older versions (e.g. for MySQL compatibility reasons) --HappyDog 20:05, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

My site cant seen with explorer 6 or firefox
Explorer 6 / Firefox / or even Opera users use to have a lot of problems during the visit in my site. this is my site: as you can see i changed the skin and may be its the problem but i want to know from you if theres any extension which can help me in this case or please explain me whats worng... Thank you. --Goan 18:34, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * What are the problems? I can view the main page in Firefox 3.0.
 * BTW, you probably want Project:Support desk; this page is only about the MediaWiki site. – rotemliss – Talk 11:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

User JS
Does this site enable user js? I'd like to write a script so that when I click on a link such as "Help:Navigation/vi", it will bring me to title=Help:Navigation/vi&action=edit&preload=Help:Navigation so that I can translate quicker. --Cumeo89 19:34, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Confirm edit
I would really like anonymous submissions on my wiki but the confirm edit extension suddenly stopped working. I thought it had something to do with a conflicting extensions so I disabled most of extensions and still it doesn't work. I posted a comment on the confirm edit discussion and would really like to hear some suggestions. Thanks, Extension_talk:ConfirmEdit

Will --Willjermuk 15:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Post here Project:Support desk, as this question has nothing to do with the MediaWiki website. -- Dr DBW |  talk  00:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Local use with EasyPHP?
Hi all. Is there a way to install and use MediaWiki on my computer with EasyPHP?... Klow 17:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Editing toolbox
We have a rather incomplete editing toolbox. If we could port a piece of wikimarkup from another wiki like en.wp to MediaWiki:Edittools, it would probably prove useful. Any suggestions as to what code to include? -- Anon  Diss  09:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * See, above. Or have I misunderstood your question? --HappyDog 20:08, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Stats

 * See the Page Traffic toplist for this documentation wiki --- Best regards, Melancholie 20:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki: edits request
Could some admin create these translations of the interface items? Thanks, --Mormegil 08:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki:Bugtracker/cs: Hlášení chyb
 * MediaWiki:Downloadfromsvn/cs: Stažení ze SVN
 * ✅ i Alex  17:07, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Stewards
I started a discussion regarding stewards using their admin rights on this project here. --MZMcBride 18:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Babel equivalents?
Hi guys, does mw: have any equivalents of the Babel templates used in other sites (e.g. Wikipedia:en:Wikipedia:Babel) to put on your userpage? Thanks! It Is Me Here 13:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)