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Previous discussion was archived at Project talk:Support desk/Archive 1 on 2016-09-21.

Is there anyway to link an internal link where it bring me straight to the pdf file, instead of the page that contains the link of the pdf file? i have tried: file:MynewFile.pdf

But it brings me to the page that has the MynewFile.pdf.

Use [[Media:]] instead. This is mentioned on Help:Links.

I am struggling in letting the non admin users to see and manage their watchlists.

If I log on with non admin users, I can see only two buttons on the upper right corner, one is the username and another is Log out. There is no My Watchlist and other buttons. If I click the username, it will display a page showing Permission Error. Accessing https://puls.calamp.com/wiki/special:watchlist directly also display Permission Error.

Admin users don't have this issue.

How can I fix the problem? Thanks.

What are the settings for wgGroupPermissions?

If you add

 $wgGroupPermissions['user']['editmywatchlist']= true;

to your LocalSettings.php does that help?

we have to migrate 1000 files from sharepint to mediawiki as content(like wiki page) not as link.

Is there any way to do this?

Moreover file format may be pdf,ppt,excel and docx.

So need to do migration in bulk in mediawiki as automated process.

If you want to upload all those files I recommend using the ImportImages.php maintenance script of MediaWiki. Be aware that MediaWiki does not allow the creation of sub directories within its file repo. In a first step you will need to fetch the files from SharePoint and put them all into one directory. You might have to resolve naming conflicts, e.g. "sharepoint/Website1/Lib/Some_File.docx" --> "mediawiki/Website1_Lib_Some_File.docx", "sharepoint/Website2/Lib/Some_File.docx" --> "mediawiki/Website2_Lib_Some_File.docx"

If you want to actually convert the files to wiki pages you might want to hire someone. See Professional_development_and_consulting.

Hello community, I was hoping to solve this issue: I am writing a custom skin and I need to style the mw-body-content to be a fixed width, however I only want to apply this fixed width style on one page.

I have tried searching for the page via ftp in my server files however I cannot find the .php file containing the template html with the classname "mw-body-content" I figure if I can find it in the source code, I can add a unique identifier (i.e. a CSS "id") and then style it in my skins style.css file.

If someone could provide some help it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

jake

If by "page" you mean wiki page, body tag has class "page-TITLE" so you can use rules like .page-How_to_contribute #column-content.

1) is there any way to search topics that have been question in project talk: support desk?

2) Is there any way to find where is my post that i have posted?

1) Unfortunately not.. Which is rather problematic indeed.

2) Yes, At the top right of the page, you will find your account name and to the right of it a link contributions. This will allow you to find everything that you ever contributed to the website.

Hi! This is my first day in Wiki. I tried to edit a page, and add a logo for that page. As I'm not one of the autoconfirmed users, administrators or confirmed users, I don't have the permission to achieve that. I'd like to know who can help with this? Thank you!

If the page is protected, you can request an edit on the talk page. A user that sees it can update the article with your indications.

This page is not protected. Can I invite an user to help with that?

If the page is not protected, I fail to understand why you said "I don't have the permission to achieve that"

I tried to upload a logo bu clicking organization logo upload form, but I was told that "You do not have permission to upload this file, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Autoconfirmed users, Administrators, Confirmed users.".

You need to wait a few days.

Am I right to upload a logo through organization logo upload form?  

> Am I right to upload a logo

Yes, if the file meets all the conditions described on the upload form.

As Tropicalkitty said, you need to wait a few days. As the autoconfirmed users page says: most English Wikipedia user accounts that are more than four days old and have made at least 10 edits (including deleted ones) are considered autoconfirmed

Okay. That makes sense. Thank you!

MarkAHershberger:

It isn't clear what you mean, but on the off chance that you mean you want something done with MediaWiki, you can file a Phabricator ticket.

how to enter a services ticket

It isn't clear what you mean, but on the off chance that you mean you want something done with MediaWiki, you can file a Phabricator ticket.

Please post an unblock request on your user talk page at the wiki you were blocked.

please unblock me

We have partnered with various other companies who sells our product by their own name for example our actual product name is ABC, but our one partner is selling it with name XYZ and another is selling it with name MNO.

What we are looking for is to show site logo depending on the person who is signing in. So if person signing is from partner 1 then we show logo of XYZ and so on.

If you want to change it depending on the person who _is_ logged in, and not who currently is _logging in_, you could to that diretly in LocalSettings.php:

if ( RequestContext::getMain()->getUser()->isLoggedIn() ) {
  $wgLogo = 'the/one/logo.png';
} else {
  $wgLogo = 'another/logo.png';
}

However, I would strongly suggest to not use that, as the wiki configuration shouldn't be user/request dependant as this could result in problems, e.g. with caching or something else. This is also not guaranteed to work or will still work in future versions of MediaWiki. You also need to have a way to distinguish users by the company or whatever you want, so you need to group users, and from your question you don't say how you plan to do that. It's also more complicated if one user can be associated with two companies, what do you do then?

You probably should setup a wiki for each brand you want to create. Probably you can explore a way to share _all_ contents with Manual:$wgSharedTable?

Hi,

Thanks for reply!

On how we will distinguish users, our plan was to have user names such that we can know to which partner that user belongs too. For example if user name is Partner1_Peter then we will show logo of partner1. In our case one user will be associated with one company only always.

Can you please elaborate on "This is also not guaranteed to work or will still work in future versions of MediaWiki", in what scenarios it is not guaranteed to work?.

"You probably should setup a wiki for each brand you want to create. Probably you can explore a way to share _all_ contents with Manual:$wgSharedTable?"

Yes! That is one option but in that too there is an issue. As our product name is different for every brand the content of every brand will have different brand name. I read that it is possible to substitute variables in Mediawiki, can that be done on basis of site where the page is hosted? For example if page is hosted on brand1 site then in content we should use brand 1.

> Can you please elaborate on "This is also not guaranteed to work or will still work in future versions of MediaWiki", in what scenarios it is not guaranteed to work?.

The problem is, that the LocalSettings.php file is evaluated while MediaWiki is setup, so even if the User object is already available and fully working in the current version of MediaWiki, no one can guarantee, that it will work in a future release of MediaWiki, because, maybe, the initialization process changed or something else. That's why I wouldn't suggest to rely on this.

Btw.: From what you write, I would think it will be better to have different wikis for each of your brand. I'm not sure, how you want to substitute variables in MediaWiki, and even if it's possible I'm pretty sure, it will not work as you expect because of the internal caching of parsed wikitext, which is integrated in MediaWiki for performance reasons. I also would say: Different site logo + different content = different site, so you should use one MediaWiki installation for each wiki.

Our content is same, just some keywords will change. For example, one site will say "Product 1 offers an easy integration of tools" while another site will say "Product 2 offers an easy integration of tools"

It will be error prone and too much maintenance to keep multiple sites and make any change in document at all the sites manually.

Having two different sites with the same content (except some little keywords) is, just for the record, probably the worst idea you can do, but it sounds you don't want to deliver to "different" sites, just one site with different flavours, if I can say it in this way. I can say, that you'll probably have some problems with implementing this with MediaWiki. Firstly, the Parser Cache is not built to be dependant on the request or user basis, just on the wikitext (if wikitext changes -> re-parse, if user or request changes -> deliver pre-parsed text). Turning off the parser cache is, in general, a very bad idea from a performance point of view. The same with the site logo: The MediaWiki infrastructure is, as far as I know, not built to provide a different site-logo depending on the user. What you could do is to have a copy of your skin for each company and "hard-code" the skin in it and set the skin setting for the user, or something in this way.

Also, Mediawiki document says that sharing pages across wikis is not recommended :(

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Can i get some support to login in my account? I have serious problems with editing.

Greetings, Peters01

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