Project:Forum/archive/2008

Wiki Wrapper
Is there a way to pull a website into one of Wiki's window? More clearly, I'd like to use Wiki to overlay onto a webpage, kind of like Joomla or Mambo does with it's "wrappers". I want to keep the navigation of Wiki, but pull up an external website into one of Wiki's frames. Does this make sense? Is it possible?

Enabling "all" Mode in CategoryTree
Is there any drawback to enabling "all" mode in CategoryTree for this site as described here Extension:CategoryTree? It would allow pages to show up as leaves in a category tree as well as subcategories which would help with browsing large categories like Category:Extensions by hook usage. --Cneubauer 20:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Looks like you can already do this at Special:CategoryTree. --Cneubauer 16:50, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Brief description of $wgNamespaceAliases
Hi. Recently I posted a question about accuracy of the description, which caused confusion in translation. What do you think about this? Mulukhiyya 10:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I responded. Smaug 00:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Archived --Kaganer 18:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

request unprotect Download page
See    :Download. --Ans 04:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * done -- :Bdk: 09:03, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Archived --Kaganer 18:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki: edits request
Could some sysop please make the following changes?


 * Change MediaWiki:Phpdoc/cs containing currently “Dokumenatce kódu” to “Dokumentace kódu” (just a typo).
 * Create MediaWiki:Site/cs containing “Tento web”
 * Create MediaWiki:Mailing lists/cs containing “E-mailové konference”.
 * Create MediaWiki:Bug tracker/cs containing “Sledování chyb”.
 * Fix MediaWiki:Sidebar so that “Download from SVN” is localizable, then change the corresponding MediaWiki: pages for /cs translation so that the link reads “Stažení ze SVN” and links to Download from SVN/cs.
 * Fix the sidebar once again, so that “Support desk” is localizable, then change the corresponding /cs translation page to “Žádost o podporu”.

Thanks, --Mormegil 10:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done (captions only). --Kaganer 21:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Archived --Kaganer 18:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Special:Popularpages
I notice that MW.org doesn't have a Special:Popularpages page. Is this because the administrators specifically removed it for this wiki, or because it is removed from the software in 1.13? Smaug 00:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It is disabled in all Wikimedia wikis, like all the features of the built-in hits counter. – rotemliss – Talk 17:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Archived --Kaganer 18:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Delete history
Hello! Is there a way to delete the history of an article in my wiki? So often I change an article so longer will be the list of the versions. Isn't it space on my disc, if there are so many versions to an article in my wiki? So I want to delete the history time to time, but how? Thank you for your replies, Doc Taxon 05:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You should ask this question in the Support Desk; this page is not the place to ask about the software. I think what you want is possible, though I do not know how either. Smaug  21:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Archived --Kaganer 18:23, 12 May 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)

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)

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 #Edittools are worked, 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)