MediaWiki 1.3 comments and bug reports/Resolved

This page contains some posts with issues that were resolved and moved here to keep the other page as short as possible. Feel free to move it back if you think the issue is still unresolved.

Meta subpages
Please turn subpages back on for Meta's content pages please. See: Wikimedia PayPal donations for 2003. --mav 09:38, 22 May 2004 (UTC)


 * They seem to have been enabled. Dori | Talk 05:07, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

Where did the copyright notice go?
What happened to the copyright notice at the bottom of every page? --mav 10:03, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
 * It wasn't yet enabled. -- Gwicke 11:59, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

No skin selected in prefs
I went to change a few of my preferences; in the Skins section none of the four options were selected. When I saved my preferences I appeared to be using a null skin with no styles at all. I assume it should default to Monobook if none of the choices are selected Matthewmayer 10:57, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
 * This should be fixed. -- Gwicke 14:12, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Community Portal
Under the "nagivation" heading, there is a link to "community portal" even on wikis that don't have a community portal, such as meta (a community portal on meta would be redundant). Perl 13:48, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Setting MediaWiki:portal to '-' removes that link, same with MediaWiki:currentevents. -- Gwicke 14:21, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

timelines, but not chemistry or chess or music
I remember requesting inclusion of the en:Wikitex code to allow for creation of chemical diagrams with PPCHTeX, music with Lilypond and chessboards with... whatever. I was told that it needed security testing, that it wouldn't be included. Out of left field comes this &lt;timeline&gt; syntax, which is suddenly getting stuck in 1.3. What gives here? Chemistry diagrams are made with a huge variety of drawing packages, and uploaded as images, which means that they lose the wiki-nature. I was unaware of a burning need for image-maps to replace enumerated lists---why are we getting &lt;timeline&gt;, but not &lt;chem&gt;, &lt;music&gt; or &lt;chess&gt;? &lt;chem&gt;, at the very least, should be trivial to implement---it'll work fine with a whitelist of exactly one command! Grendelkhan 23:49, 22 May 2004 (UTC)


 * We have timelines because somebody volunteered to do the work to implement them. -- Cyrius 00:20, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

MediaWiki vs. Template: The Insubordination
MediaWiki 1.3 seems to be insubordinating: I made a page MediaWiki:GOOToc as a Table Of Contents header to be used in the Wikibook on Genealogy. However, when I put in into the page, it insisted on Template:GOOToc when it's a MediaWiki: page! 24.184.225.245 03:10, 23 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Custom messages now go in the Template: namespace. MediaWiki: is just for interface pages, and the custom messages will be moved to the Template: namespace. Dori | Talk 04:32, 23 May 2004 (UTC)


 * And use not  . -- Tim Starling 04:49, 23 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help. 24.184.225.245 14:09, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Portal
I changed the content in MediaWiki:Portal from - to Goings-on so that Goings-on could be linked in the sidebar, but the result is that it points to Community Portal (which does not exist). How can this be fixed? --mav 12:52, 23 May 2004 (UTC)
 * You need to edit MediaWiki:Portal-url. I did it so the Goings-on text now links to Goings-on. Perl 13:04, 23 May 2004 (UTC)
 * For future reference, in such cases, do a search in Special:Allmessages for what you're looking to change in the interface. Dori | Talk 13:05, 23 May 2004 (UTC)