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This page is a place for you to '''tell the Wikimedia developers what issues you encounter''' when using the [[Special:VisualEditorSandbox|visual editor sandbox]]. Please note that this is still an early prototype which '''cannot yet edit or save existing pages''' and has many known issues. We do welcome your feedback and ideas, especially on some of the early user interface decisions we're making!

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== This is the greatest editor ever made! ==

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Trevor should get a raise. [[User:Trevor Parscal|Trevor Parscal]] 20:02, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link editing should work when cursor is on the link ==

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When on top of an existing link using the link interface should be able to manipulate the link. Currently you get a visible but not really working interface until you manually select the entire link. [[User:Dantman|Daniel Friesen (Dantman)]] 20:38, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

:Yes, the little down-arrow with B/F/Link should be visible if the cursor is at a link and no text is selected. You should also be able to format the whole link with the menu if the cursor is on a link. -- [[User:JakobVoss|JakobVoss]] 22:16, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Incorrect behavior when typing [[]]'s into the editor ==

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When typing <nowiki>[[asdf]]</nowiki> into the visual editor the editor leaves it as "<nowiki>[[asdf]]</nowiki>" the WikiText mode lists "<nowiki>[[asdf]]</nowiki>", and the preview displays a literal "<nowiki>[[asdf]]</nowiki>". Naturally this is not correct since either the preview is wrong and it will end up as a link, or the WikiText is wrong and needs nowiki tags. [[User:Dantman|Daniel Friesen (Dantman)]] 20:41, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Collapse same text links ==

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When selecting the text "asdf" and linking it to "asdf" or "Asdf" the visual editor should collapse this to <nowiki>[[asdf]]</nowiki> instead of outputting <nowiki>[[asdf|asdf]]</nowiki> as the wikitext. [[User:Dantman|Daniel Friesen (Dantman)]] 20:43, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
:But <nowiki>[[foo|foo]]</nowiki> should always collapse to <nowiki>[[foo]]</nowiki> for every "foo". If you link "Asdf" to "asdf", the editor does not collapse, so everything is right. -- [[User:JakobVoss|JakobVoss]] 22:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
:: This can be done intelligently; if the markup is [[foo1|foo2]] and [[foo2]] would resolve to the same page as [[foo1]] (typically foo1=foo2 if 1st characters uppercased), then replace [[foo1|foo2]] by [[foo2]].

== Wow. ==

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This is great, just as it is now it would make a big difference to users.

Minor issues:
I'm using Firefox 8.01 on a Mac with OSX 10.6.8
I scrolled down the page then tried to use the scroll bar to get back to the top but it kept jumping back to where the cursor was.

I notice you can only edit in the wysiwig window. For more complicated formatting it could be useful to be able to edit in the wikiformat window and see the results in the wysywig window.

Having HTML and JSON windows may seem like a waste or a confusion but I think it is cool - there could be a settings option to hide show these if editors react badly to these.

Editing tables and templates will be the big deal - these are a bastard to edit now - code soup. Don't feel that every single thing has to be supported - some stuff can be deprecated if there is another way of doing it which works better or even left to be editted in wikicode until the next version.

MediaWiki version 2.0; bring it on, the sooner the better. [[User:Filceolaire|Filceolaire]] 21:09, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

:There are a lot of preview modes right now, and even a peek at the transaction history. But that's mostly for us developers. [[User:NeilK|NeilK]] 21:37, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Keyboard shortcut to clear formatting ==

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Please add a keyboard shortcut to clear formatting, that would be very handy. [[User:Jean-Frédéric|Jean-Fred]] 21:11, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Feedback ==

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Interesting start! Finally something to show for all that WYSIWG talk...

1) When highlighting text & choosing to insert a link, the link text should default to the highlighted text. I.e. if I select "Gene Mosher" and want to insert a link to "Gene Mosher", I should not be required to re-type "Gene Mosher".

2) In toggle wiki-markup, I see that some links are formatted with _ instead of spaces (like [Gene_Mosher]), which would make a bunch of AWB users very unhappy...

3) It's my understanding this does not yet work for templates, right?

4) How do I save? Or see what changes I made? Confused. [[User:Renata3|Renata3]] 21:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

:(1-2) thanks for the feedback. (3) we are still working on a template interface. (4) right now, you can't save. [[User:NeilK|NeilK]] 21:38, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link editing ==

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By default, editing a link should probably edit the *whole* link.
Currently you only get the little arrow when you select some text in the link - should probably show anytime cursoring over a link.
Currently allows trailing spaces in links (which aren't shown normally, iirc)

Toolbar icons are excellent. Everything else feels pretty good (especially compared to wysiftw). Not sure how much is happening behind the scenes though.

-- Steve Bennett (stevage) [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] 21:45, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

** Also it is easy to select part of a link and edit it, while not editing the whole thing, resulting in two adjacent links (which aren't discernibly separate until one mouses over them). [[Special:Contributions/75.101.56.74|75.101.56.74]] 23:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Fantastic! A few points. ==

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1. Un-toggling the views (via the buttons on the right) is confusingly slow (i.e., multiple key presses) on Google Chrome 15.0.874.121-r109964 .
2. There's a citation needed tag, but it's not clear how one would edit that...? [[Special:Contributions/98.216.238.148|98.216.238.148]] 21:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

:That un-toggling slowness is puzzling us right now too. Trevor was trying to fix that until like, seconds before I deployed. [[User:NeilK|NeilK]] 21:51, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

:Oddly, I don't see this with Firefox, and it comes down to Webkit taking a ridiculous (like 10x) amount of time to give a result for domElement.clientWidth (which measures the size of an element on screen). But yes, we are looking into it for sure. --[[User:Trevor Parscal|Trevor Parscal]] 22:08, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link button ==

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Would be nice if you could position the cursor anywhere on an existing link and hit the link button to edit the destination: it seems that you have to drag and select at least one character within the link for the link button to do anything?

Similarly, when adding a new link, it would be nice if after selecting a span of text and hitting the link button, the edit link popup came up with the destination defaulting to the text you have selected, so if you need to change it, you can, but in many cases you won't. [[Special:Contributions/134.159.142.130|134.159.142.130]] 22:12, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

: See bugs https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33049 and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33053

== Excellent starting point! ==

A few feedbacks:

# Dropdown/popup dialogs for formating are not clear enough - they don't stand out enough against the text. Dimming the rest seems to be a common way to do it.
# The "toggle XYZ view" icons look good, and having them separate makes them more accessible. I like this. However:
#:* "Toggle preview" is redundant, as the left pane is preview anyway
#:* When a view is shown, its icon should change, to make it clearer. (And clicking the icon again should remove the split view)
# Selecting text then clicking escape to de-select whatever options pop up, causes the text to change format
# Cut/paste/drag/drop obviously aren't there right now, though partly shown in help. I assume they will be at some point.
# Adding wikilinks will be a major activity and one of the most used functions. But finding the correct link isn't easy. An "Advanced>" or "Search>" option would be important.
#:* Bonus points if it can also explain "this isn't usually the best link" and show a list of possible links, if someone selects a disambiguation or redirect page (identified via template or page title).
# In some rich text processing software, clicking in the margin next to a paragraph, selects the entire paragraph. An easy way to select a paragraph, section, or entire containing section might be worth considering.
# When multiple editors work on a page, how will we avoid mayhem, or have meaningful attribution of edits? Or will it be local editing only, up to the point where the user presses "save"?
# If typing automatically edits the text, Readers could fear unintentionally changing or editing articles. For reassurance, users should choose "editing mode/reading mode" or have an "enable editing" button or icon, perhaps with editing tools and a subtle background color change (very pale cream?). If the user starts to do editing actions when it isn't enabled they should get a popup "You have started editing this page" or something. If this isn't considered then many editors not ''au fait'' with technology may panic the first time they get something unexpected when reading, and some may not access pages in future for fear of accidentally "doing something wrong" or typing into them.
[[user:FT2|FT2]] <sup><span style="font-style:italic">([[User_talk:FT2|Talk]] | [[Special:Emailuser/FT2|email]])</span></sup> 22:18, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Templates cannot be accessed or edited ==

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They can, however, be deleted. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

: There's a couple of examples of a template being rendered (and being treated as a single character) in the demo. We do not have a template editor yet, and the user interface for editing templates, images and hooks is going to be different than editing text. This isn't included in the demo because it's not done yet. --[[User:Trevor Parscal|Trevor Parscal]] 22:43, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== A step in the right direction ==

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First off, great work team. This is one of the best WYSYWIG editors I have seen on the web. Visually, I have very few gripes with it. The layout is clean, minimal and works very well with the existing mediaWiki look. The icon set works well and most things are where you expect them to be.

There does seem to be some functionality lacking, but I'm sure this will be coming in the future (this is just a first pass, afterall).

One thing of note, though. It would be super awesome if you could directly edit the source pane and see this changes in the preview. That way you could do simple editing tasks quickly on the preview (left) pane, and then switch over to the source (right) pane to do tasks that require more complexity than the GUI allows while still having the benefit of seeing exactly what changes you are making. [[Special:Contributions/38.127.199.123|38.127.199.123]] 22:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

: Agree with the last point, that was something I thought too. [[user:FT2|FT2]] <sup><span style="font-style:italic">([[User_talk:FT2|Talk]] | [[Special:Emailuser/FT2|email]])</span></sup> 22:30, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

: The editor uses a data structure called Wikidom, which is based on Wikitext. We are working on a parser which can convert between Wikitext to Wikidom, but the parser isn't ready yet, so we can't convert from Wikitext to Wikidom - which means we can't make the right-pane editable. --[[User:Trevor Parscal|Trevor Parscal]] 22:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
:: "Yet" was the key word there. Thanks Trevor! [[user:FT2|FT2]] <sup><span style="font-style:italic">([[User_talk:FT2|Talk]] | [[Special:Emailuser/FT2|email]])</span></sup> 22:56, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== List un-/remarking ==

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Turning a bullet point or numbered list item into a normal paragraph inserts an additional blank line before the paragraph. Re-applying a list style will break the list order due to that blank line, resetting numbering to start at 1 again. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:27, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Cannot insert new link ==

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Clicking on the link icon or pressing Command-K while in normal text should open the link dialog, either blank or pre-selecting the word the cursor is currently in. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:29, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Closing preview is strangely slow ==

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Opening it is fast, though. Affects all types of preview. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

: See bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33051

== Inserting HTML tags will keep them "as is" ==

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Typing "<i>dd</i>" will add the exact same text to the wiki markup preview. However, if saved that way, they would render as italics, which is different from the Visual Editor display while editing. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:36, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

: Both the Wikitext and HTML serializers could use a lot of attention, this is known and should be improving soon. --[[User:Trevor Parscal|Trevor Parscal]] 22:49, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Pre-formatting text breaks in lists ==

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In new document, write some characters, click on list, then change to "Preformatted". The wiki markup preview will show the leading "pre"-space after the list star, which will obviously not work in later rendering. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:39, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== A space typed at the beginning of a paragraph... ==

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...will be rendered into a normal wikitext space, which would create a "pre"-line in the next rendering. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:42, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== "Double linking" ==

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Pages such as [[computer science]] are being linked as <nowiki>[[computer science|computer science]]</nowiki>, required. Current best practice is to only link that sort of thing once. Is that a necessary technical change? [[User:Izno|Izno]] 22:43, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
:Looks like Dantman commented on this at [[#Collapse same text links]]. On a side note, there might be more than a few duplicate posts with the way this is currently set up... :3 --[[User:Izno|Izno]] 22:45, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link removal cannot be undone ==

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Also, removing part of a linked text works, but can leave trailing spaces within the link. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:47, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Pages accessible under multiple names ==

Although early stages, if we are redesigning the editor I would like to suggest an area of improvement to include within it.

A lot of pages can (and should) be accessible under multiple names. For example, project and community pages accessed under [[w:WP:SHORTCUT|WP:SHORTCUT]] redirects, and articles with common alternate names that users might look for them under.

Redirect management (managing alternate names and ensuring likely alternate names are created) is hard. It's hard to ensure consistent coverage, especially for topics with multiple or non-English alternate names, and often significant alternate names aren't found when one searches. For example the [[w:Mustafa Abdul Jalil|article on the Chairman of the Libyan Transitional Council]] commences:

<div style="border:black solid 1px;padding:3px;margin-left:30px">"'''Mustafa Abdul Jalil''' or '''Abdul-Jalil''' ([[W:Arabic|Arabic]]:مصطفى عبد الجليل, also transcribed '''Abdul-Jelil''', '''Abd-al-Jalil''', '''Abdel-Jalil''', '''Abdeljalil''' or '''Abdu Al Jeleil''')..."</div>

All 8 of these names including the Arabic, and possibly uncased or major familial-name variants, are possible valid redirects or expected page titles. There is no easy way for a non-expert editor to check that common "lookup terms" or alternate names are accounted for, or indeed to identify and remove "crufty" alternate names.

I would like to suggest a changed approach for alternate names, that would fit in well with the visual editor. What I'd like to see is that in the same way you will be able to visually add and edit a list of interwiki language links, or a list of categories, you can also add and edit a list of alternate page titles. That would replace (or act as a visual editing approach for) redirects.

The idea is that when you edit a page, you can simply edit a list of all other names that should redirect to this page, and mark one of them as the default page name. Conflicts where the same name appears on 2+ articles then naturally lead to a "this name is already used for XYZ article" and a request to disambiguate, or refusal to accept until it's resolved (ie the proposed name is unused elsewhere). I think this would help newcomers to enter and manage alternate page names and redirects in an easy visual manner. [[user:FT2|FT2]] <sup><span style="font-style:italic">([[User_talk:FT2|Talk]] | [[Special:Emailuser/FT2|email]])</span></sup> 22:54, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== New document: List breaks editing completely ==

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If, in the new document, the first action is "bullet list", the cursor is "trapped" before the bullet and cannot be moved anymore. [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:53, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
: I can't reproduce this one, can you try to describe it more specific? --[[User:Inez|Inez]] 01:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== No button for definition list ==

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Also, opening this feedback form adds a "#" to the URL. Missing "return false", anyone? ;-) [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] 22:54, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Tables are missing! ==

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I don't see how to enter a table or a mathematical formula! [[User:WiseWoman|WiseWoman]] 23:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Broken links still show up blue ==

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[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] 23:28, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Linking tool allows broken page names ==

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...resulting in things like <tt><nowiki>[[{}][|foo]]</nowiki></tt>. [[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] 23:30, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Linking tool ==

Small comment on current linking implementation: when clicking hyperlink button, the selected text should be provided as the default hyperlink, similar to current editing practice (many many links are simple the display text itself). Furthermore, the editor should not create wikitext like <nowiki>"[[Computer_science|computer science]], ... is a [[Human-computer interaction|human-computer interaction]]"</nowiki> - I believe this will provoke bad reactions from the current Wikipedia editors. It should be trivial to simplify links where possible to: <nowiki>"[[computer science]], ... is a [[human-computer interaction]]"</nowiki>.

PS: Very nice editor. Almost irritating whether the text is editable - some hint like a border may be desirable -- [[User:G.Hagedorn|G.Hagedorn]] 23:32, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Thank for your hard work on the new veditor! ==

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I'm impressed by how far you have gotten. Hopefully we will soon be able to opt-in on using the new editor in wikipedia and perhaps even install the extension on our own wikis?
I love what I see and can't wait to use it in action. I especially like how you don't have to enter a new edit-mode where you have to find the part your interested in to edit it.
Can't wait to see how saving and transactions will work. [[User:John Ericson|John Ericson]] 23:38, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Love it ==

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Can we have it yesterday?
Also, if you could come up with something clever to support tables that would ne nice [[User:Milliped|Milliped]] 00:02, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== H1 ==

does not exist on normal Wikipedia (and in fact most mediawiki) pages, since h1 is always the page title on mediawiki. Although it is possible to markup H1, it needs to be communicated to newby users that this is not desirable. I would be happy enough to have the option entirely removed from the editing toolbar, so that the h1 headings can be exclusively created in wiki text mode. [[User:G.Hagedorn|G.Hagedorn]] 00:14, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Amazing work ==

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This is definitely something we've needed for a long long time. My finest compliments, if only in "beta beta" form, WMF team. [[User:Blurpeace|Blurpeace]] 00:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Internal links and when pipes aren't needed ==

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Currently, it looks as if links are being piped when they don't need to be. [[Computer science|Computer science]] can be reduced to [[computer science]], but I can't see a way to do this in the visual editor as it doesn't convert the square brackets into a link (typing "[[computer science]]" does nothing, but I don't know if that's intentional or will change when the page is saved.)

Other than that, no complaints from me. A visual editor is something that newcomers and veterans alike could be very thankful for. [[Special:Contributions/188.29.53.2|188.29.53.2]] 00:27, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Great work ==

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Looks great! Good luck, not an easy task, but should be worthwhile in the long run. [[Special:Contributions/65.110.28.92|65.110.28.92]] 01:11, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Lovely clean interface ==

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I like it! The undo/redo was a nice touch. Curious as to how references and images will work with it. I'd certainly use this, if only for tables (if it works for these how I assume it should.) Great work.

(The article: The citation needed didn't appear in the wikitext at all? Wasn't manipulable.) [[User:Sonia|Sonia]] 01:55, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Editing existing links ==

{{Tracked|33049|fixed}}
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We shouldn't need to select the whole link to be able to edit its target. Only having the cursor on it and clicking the link icon should bring up the edit dialog. [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] 02:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

: Fixed in trunk.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 03:34, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Some weirdness in the view modes ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

The wiki mode should allow editing as well.

And the toggle preview button seems useless, since we already have the preview on the left. Besides, it behaves in a strange way: try toggling the wikicode view (or anything that makes the second pane show up) and then toggle preview several times. Result: the right pane becomes a preview (identical to the left one) then subsequent clicks only display or hide this second preview. It seems like as it's currently implemented, it's serving no useful purpose. [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] 02:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

: Note that this is a developer prototype, and the primary purpose of the toggles is debugging (with the exception of the wikitext one). As a tester, you may find the preview panel useful to test link behavior.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 03:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== link to feedback page ==

This feedback page should be linked from the testing page. [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] 02:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:It is. Click "Leave feedback" and then "Visual editor/Feedback". --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 13:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
::Oh, right. Though it still feels kind of small-printey – I know that it was my distraction, but the fact that I missed it might mean something. [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] 13:21, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Brilliant work (Also: entering citations) ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

Probably the best WSIWYG editor I've ever seen. What'd I really like to see, though, is a simple system for adding citations. Often, I'm more than willing to add text, but adding citations is such rigmarole that I leave it to more experienced editors. [[Special:Contributions/24.126.201.119|24.126.201.119]] 03:04, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

: Agree, even as an experienced editor filling in sources is a real pain. A lot of the time it could be automated.

:What I would ''ideally'' like is to note that Firefox "citation" extensions exist for online sources, where much of the cite template (especially for common sites) is auto-filled once a citation page URL is known. I'd like this taken further, where a citation popup requires entering a URL and clicking a "next" button, and the software itself autofills as much as possible of the template, then presents it to the user for final editing before acceptance. Presumably this would require some kind of rules-base identifying data extractable from popular website pages given a URL, and localized substitutions to translate between textual information + template name, and wiki-markup:

:# User enters a URL (eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16157835 or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21978001) and clicks "next"
:# Mediawiki looks up the domain (bbc.co.uk/nature/ or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/*) via its localized community-maintained list of known sources. It also checks via regex that the full URL matches the expected format of a BBC News or Pubmed page. If so, then it now "knows":
:#:* The usual citation template for that source on the wiki (eg: '''<tt>cite news</tt>''' for BBC News)
:#:* The formatting and arguments for the template {{nowrap|1=(eg: '''<tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>$TEMPLATE {{!}} url=$URL {{!}} date=$PUBDATE {{!}} ...}}</tt>''')}}.
:#:* It can also rely upon standard page layout for BBC News or Pubmed abstracts, to read typical citation data from the page such as the source name ("BBC News" or "Pubmed"), publication date, date accessed, page/paper title, journal title and volume if applicable, authors, etc.
:# Mediawiki checks the cite template to use with the user, then presents the user with a panel showing side-by-side the source page in-frame and next to it a list of template fields and their estimated contents, for the user to fine tune.
:# User can easily compare source to template, edit the fields, and click OK.
:# Mediawiki takes the field contents as edited ($AUTHORS, $URL, $PUBDATE, ... etc) and the applicable substitution syntax to create markup/JSON for the user.

: This is also reversible, when a user clicks on an existing citation they can quickly be taken back to the double pane and list of fields in step 3 for further editing.

: Technically this should be possible. The URL gives the domain, the domain and a single regex check on URL confirms the page interpretation rules are correct and allows lookup of the correct template and the rules used to pull data from that page, there are perhaps no more than 10 - 15 standard fields which we need to extract and the lookup rules assign these to standard placeholders ready to check contents with the user, and to substitute the final values into the template.

: [[user:FT2|FT2]] <sup><span style="font-style:italic">([[User_talk:FT2|Talk]] | [[Special:Emailuser/FT2|email]])</span></sup> 10:32, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Opinion ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Good work so far! Perhaps some tutorials should be run so that the community becomes comfortable with this new way of editing. Only thing I noticed which could be better is when I wikilinked a word (eg metaphor) instead of [[metaphor]] the wikitext format showed it as [[metaphor|metaphor]] which is a little redundant. [[User:DaGizza|DaGizza]] 03:22, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

:Also as an aside, I suggest you make the Wikipedia article on a more interesting topic. Something perhaps easier to read or more basic. Maybe an animal? You don't want people falling asleep while experimenting with the modern way of Wiki-editing! :P [[User:DaGizza|DaGizza]] 03:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

:: Good point. Nominations welcome in this thread. We'll have to simplify it a bit while we can't do the fancy stuff (images etc.) yet.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 03:35, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
::: [[:en:Love]]?--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] 12:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link activation ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

I vote for:
1) one click = manipulation of link's text.
2) double click = link activation [[User:Synagonism|Synagonism]] 04:32, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Select and overwrite ==

{{Tracked|33078}}
Impressive work, everybody. I think I spotted a bug that occurs when selecting a word via the keyboard and overwriting it: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33078 --[[User:DarTar|DarTar]] 04:56, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Looking good. :D Tracking bug for i18n issues coming... ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

I've started a tracking bug for internationalization & multilingual issues: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=33077&hide_resolved=1

With more people involved in testing, we should have more opportunities to get these worked out... IME support may be tricky but is really required for some languages; bidi will be ... interesting but should be doable. :) [[User:Brion VIBBER|brion]] 04:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Toggle vs Tab ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

Using "toggles" leaves few space for editing AND there is no one to one correspondence between markup and visual-text.
In my HtmlMgr [1] try, I used 3 tabs.
* A "browser-tab" for the readers where with one click they activate the links and there is no toolbar.
* A "wysiwyg(visual)-tab" for editors where with double-clicks they follow the links.
* A "source-tab" for authors who prefer markup.
Also with a splitter on the left with the table-of-contents the readers and the editors where able to go to the same position of the text following any of the above tabs.
<br/>My synagonism-mediawiki-skin [2] has a similar splitter as the above.
<br/>[1] http://htmlmgr.sourceforge.net/
<br/>[2] http://synagonism-mw.sourceforge.net/ [[User:Synagonism|Synagonism]] 05:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== How to make reference and citations? ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.942.0 Safari/535.8</small>

It would be much helpful if the edit tool bar have reference, citations and all available wiki operation tools to enhance the editing experience by the user rather than make him/her memorize the syntax for everything. [[User:Bala8vijay|Bala8vijay]] 05:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Kudoz ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Way to goo.. But great work. Kudoz to all behind this. This will defenitely improve the wiki editing.. [[User:Anoopan|Anoopan]] 05:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== References ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Nice start! I'm hoping the final version will have both basic and advanced citation/reference functionality. [[User:Ocaasi|Ocaasi]] 05:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Scrolling weirdness ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

After loading the page, if I try to scroll down, it jumps back to the first header on the page where the cursor is rather than leaving me wherever I scrolled to. [[User:Kaldari|Kaldari]] 06:13, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:I can confirm this, very weird. (Firefox 8.0) --[[Special:Contributions/92.225.25.202|92.225.25.202]] 10:31, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Handling of elements out of context ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

In wikicode there can be templates that opens boxes somewhere else on the page. This isn't easy to grasp in a WYSIWYG environment. How will you handle this? Through some small marker in the editable text? [[User:Jeblad|Jeblad]] 06:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Handling of selections crossing element boundaries ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

A selection can start in ordinary text and extend into another element, for example into a link. ([[User:Jeblad/visual editor test|example]]) A simplistic handling of this will leave the generated code in an erroneous state. How do you plan to handle this, an easy approach is either to extend the selection to include the whole element or to not select inside additional elements. The fist is probably a valid approach for inline elements, while the latter is probably a valid approach for block elements that is removed from the ordinary document flow. And then there is all the other cases with inline-block and run-ins and … all sorts of problems creep out! [[User:Jeblad|Jeblad]] 06:49, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Input Method ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1</small>

In Firefox 7.0.1 @ Mac OS X, input methods don't work. [[User:Hat600|Hat600]] 08:45, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Brion rules ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Congratulations Brion! You showed before year end a prototype of a visual editor. Awesome!

Ad Huikeshoven [[User:Dedalus|Dedalus]] 08:45, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Real good ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111103 Firefox/3.6.24</small>

It looks nice, it is fast, it has parallel views, it is good. I really like it, can't wait for new features.
I expirience some "view glich" when I was typing in parrallel view and both views where visual editor (not JSON, HTML). I was typing some order list and a paragraph after that (maybe it can help). [[Special:Contributions/213.137.114.142|213.137.114.142]] 08:51, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Keyboard shortcuts for Paragraph / Heading 1... ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.598.0 Safari/534.13</small>

Very nice editor !
I wonder if it would be possible to add shortcuts for the formatting.
Like ctrl+P (Paragraph), ctrl+H (toggle Heading 1, Heading 2...), ctrl+* (List item)

This would be really cool, as it would allow to type all on the keyboard, and not needing the mouse to adjust titles. [[Special:Contributions/148.177.129.211|148.177.129.211]] 08:55, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Bold and Italics ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/534.50.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.6 Safari/533.22.3</small>

they don't work for me.
[[User:Xaura|Xaura]] 09:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Lack of "advanced" tools ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/15.0.874.106 Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2</small>

Hello, I really like this new interface, but I think it lacks an "advanced" button, or a panel like the one on the right side of this page http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/index.php?title=Ysgramor&action=edit : Here I cannot see a way to add a category, a table or an image, I can not see the list of the templates... [[User:Ash Crow|Ash Crow]] 09:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Heading 1, keyboard shortcuts ==

<small>Some Linux, Firefox 8</small>

Hi,

That's really awesome!

I suggest hiding the “Heading 1” from the dropdown menu, as it will most likely confuse new users because it shouldn't be used.
Having “standard” keyboard shortcuts for bold (<kbd>ctrl+b</kbd> in English, <kbd>ctrl+g</kbd> in French…), italic (<kbd>ctrl+i</kbd>), headings (<kbd>ctrl+1/2/3/4/5/6</kbd>) would be cool too.

Can't wait to see how it'll look with templates, math formulas and images ;)

Best regards — [[User:Arkanosis|Arkanosis]] <sup>[[User talk:Arkanosis|✉]]</sup> 09:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Cool stuff ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.120 Safari/535.2</small>

That might lower the entry threshold. [[Special:Contributions/193.108.184.61|193.108.184.61]] 09:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Incompatible with Opera 10.60 ==
<small>User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60</small>

Edition is broken as the cursor position is off, no headlines can be created, bulleting things does work but the text is not associated with the bullet, etc pp. I stopped testing as the first 10 seconds were ugly [[Special:Contributions/217.86.203.29|217.86.203.29]] 09:58, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:No problem for me. I'm using the same version. Please check if you are using extensions. I had to disable my ad blocker extension. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 13:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== cool but links editing isnt great ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7</small>

Hey,

very cool feature!

But you can improve linking: Add a little searchfield for other wikipedia artikel and make it possible to click on a link for test purposes.

Tx. [[Special:Contributions/194.76.29.2|194.76.29.2]] 10:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== No input possible in Opera/Linux ==
<small>User agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; nb) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60</small>

With Opera on
Version 11.60 (1185 ). Platform Linux , System x86_64, 2.6.32-30-generic
I can't input or delete text. Line breaks and changing layout via the menu or the context-menu is possible though. Works in Firefox on the same machine. [[Special:Contributions/80.65.54.242|80.65.54.242]] 10:16, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:No problem with Opera (same build) on Windows. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 12:56, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Great work, some hints (that probably have been mentioned) ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Dear Wiki Devs,

first of all, great work! That will make it a whole lot easier for new users to edit articles. While testing the editor I noticted some things:

# While inserting a link, propose articles to the user (Google style) as he/she types.
# When you activate preview mode, the space between p's is smaller than the one between the div's in the editor. I would like the space to be equal, so the editor mode looks even more like the preview.
# When changing the format (Heading 1 / Heading 2 / Paragraph) give the user a chance to get outta there with ESC.

Thanks for your great work.
David [[Special:Contributions/194.114.62.72|194.114.62.72]] 10:24, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Nice ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Missing table editing

[[Special:Contributions/194.127.8.27|194.127.8.27]] 10:24, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Bullet lists - no feedback possibilty ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

It is not possibel for me to give you feedback, until there is only this small rubbish window.

I found a problem, made a screenshot and you wil see the problem with one look on it.

I'm not willing to write a description about a few pages and afterwards the problem isn't clear.

Just a hint to solve the communication problem. Use a Wiki.

Best Robert [[User:Robert Radke|Robert Radke]] 10:34, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Context menus ==

Some discussion needed later, on what context-menu options should be shown to the user, when they right click a link or other specialized formatting, some selected text, a section header, etc (or equivalent on a mac or handheld device). [[user:FT2|FT2]] <sup><span style="font-style:italic">([[User_talk:FT2|Talk]] | [[Special:Emailuser/FT2|email]])</span></sup> 10:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Tables ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Hello great Wikipedia-Team.
I think the visual-editor is a nice feature.
Whats about tables? I think this will be a great feature (like tables in other inline editors).

Kind Regards

[[Special:Contributions/62.152.161.149|62.152.161.149]] 10:37, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== How do you add citation references? ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET4.0C)</small>

Its not clear if there is any help for editors who wish to cite their sources. How do you insert references and refrerence lists? Do you still have to write HTML code ("<nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki>") in order to cite your sources?
Hopefully this process can be made easier for editors using some sort of drop down template. [[User:Gavin.collins|Gavin.collins]] 10:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== oh wow! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

guys I must say I love this. It is sleek, stylish and smooth, reminds me of the iphone UI... the only thing is when can we have the product. I have lots of clients for whom this is *THE* topmost concern and I know they will love this UI to death.

I specifically like that you can type directly on the screen and not in an editor box, which is much more compelling to users.

Absolutely fantastic. Testing this on FF/Win XP btw... [[Special:Contributions/77.10.73.34|77.10.73.34]] 10:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== CJK characters ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

CJK characters are not able to display under Windows XP with Google Chrome [[User:Tomchiukc|Tomchiukc]] 10:48, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== really cool ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

at first it is a little bit irritating to write to the plain page (without 'editing-box'), but after some try's it is really good.
One problem occured:
the undo/redo of increasing/reducing the indentation of a normal list does nothing (in the editor), and after that the list-item can't made bold,italic, inc/decr intendation. Too, the wiki-code-preview displays only the first two lines, and no lists.
it would be good to grey out the 2 buttons, if there is nothing to undo/redo.
And maybe there could be a bit more color (i.e. the link-dialog: green/red accept/cancel pic)
[[Special:Contributions/88.74.251.29|88.74.251.29]] 10:50, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== math formula ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/15.0.874.106 Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2</small>

it would be nice to have a math-environement. it would suffice to have a small textfield inside the text where one could write latex code.
best would be if it would be rendered while typing (see LyX-Editor) [[Special:Contributions/129.70.15.60|129.70.15.60]] 10:54, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== the input support for Chinese isn't very well ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Only input the characters one by one though I have make a word or sentence in my chinese IME
IME:google pinyin IME 3
PS:It's glad to hear that the VisualEditor have done for test.I hope it
can support more function.
[[User:Cwek|Cwek]] 11:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link remove ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

1. Mark a text
2. Add a link to the text
3. Move the cursor after the last character in the link, before the space.
4. add a space and start typing more text.
5. realize that you didn't want the added text to be in the link
6. try to remove the link from the text :-( -> don't work [[Special:Contributions/217.225.103.152|217.225.103.152]] 11:08, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== What I really miss ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

What I really miss is not text editing (that was already pretty straight forward before), but a tool for creating tables, making references, adding citations and so on.
[[Special:Contributions/92.231.117.89|92.231.117.89]] 11:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Scrollbar not working ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Use Firefox 8.0 on Fedora 16,
Go to the Page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special%3AVisualEditorSandbox#
Scroll down to the end of the page, add some text.
Try to go to the top of the page to give feedback using the scrollbar:
click on the bar and move it to the top, it jumps back where the edit toolbar is.
Other Way: click on the space over the bar, it jumps back too. [[Special:Contributions/217.225.103.152|217.225.103.152]] 11:12, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Edit link ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

When "Page title"-field is left blank and "Enter" is pressed, the before marked term should be chosen automatically as the link-goal.

1) Mark "X Window System"
2) Choose "Edit Link" in Dropdown-Menu
3) Leave "Page title" blank
4) Press Enter
5) "X Window System" is chosen as link automatically [[User:Denis Barthel|Denis Barthel]] 11:13, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== This is awesome! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

First contenteditable editor I actually like! Well, besides Google's. [[Special:Contributions/209.6.49.177|209.6.49.177]] 11:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Does not work on Konqueror ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/14.0.835.202 Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1</small>

HTML5 and Javascripts are a MESS. [[Special:Contributions/91.183.59.105|91.183.59.105]] 11:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Problem in undo history ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

When removing a link from a text (marking the text, selecting link, remove icon), this action is not part of the undo history and can not be undone [[Special:Contributions/213.214.23.220|213.214.23.220]] 11:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Page history ==

Should it be a page history available somewhere? (Obviously it does not have much sense without the save option).--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] 12:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

If I make a change (e.g. boldface), I get the button in the right bottow side of the area I changed. If I click on the button, I get the menu (boldface, italic, smth else). While I am in the menu, the hot keys (Ctrl-Z & Ctrl-Y) do not seem to work. FF7 if it matters.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] 12:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Overlay scrolling panel ==

I would immenselly prefer that instead of the overlay panel (containing bold, heading , etc), there was the same options in the "down arrow" appearing when i select a text. In this way there won't be anything in the screen other than the plain text. If one wants to have a heading he'll type some text, select it and select the heading from the "down arrow" options.

Also to able to type without using the mouse at all, a shortcut to open the "down arrow" options and then type lets say type "1" for heading 1 or "b" for bold would be very welcome.

:If you don't want / don't need the top toolbar, you want an option to make it go away. But leave it as an option. I prefer having the toolbar, and computing-beginner people obviously need it bright and visible. Your way needs more playing with the mouse : if the button is already visible in the toolbar, I can operate it in only one click.
:
:--[[User:Nnemo|Nnemo]] 22:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== The most amazing thing ever! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

Simply put? Fucking awesome. [[Special:Contributions/65.254.29.194|65.254.29.194]] 12:23, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link's suggestion ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

I think it may be very useful to suggest a destination when adding a link. For example if I select "computer science" and add a link, the system may automatically suggest "computer science" for the destination.

And it's a ery very nice tool!! [[User:Binabik155|Binabik155]] 12:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Great Work! And: Some questions : ) ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

Great work guys - makes editing easier than ever!

I got some questions for the future development of the editor:

1. How do you plan to implement templates, which are used quite often at the Wikipedia and are most of the time even nested into other templates.

2. Do you plan to support the Semantic MediaWiki and its Attributes?

3. How are you going to implement the selection and inclusion of Categories? [[User:Cagey83|Cagey83]] 12:28, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Typing does not replace hilighted text. ==
<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

If you select some text, I would expect any subsequent typing to replace the selected text. This does not occur.

Other than that... Wow! [[Special:Contributions/93.89.130.2|93.89.130.2]] 12:29, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:I can't reproduce this in the current Firefox 8. Selected text is replaced. Please try to disable all add-ons. It would be good to know what causes this issue for you. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 13:12, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Toggle wiki,json, html ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.6 Safari/535.11</small>

extremely slow [[Special:Contributions/24.136.38.184|24.136.38.184]] 12:49, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Saving ==
<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111108 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)</small>

I t is not intuitively clear when a change is saved. [[Special:Contributions/131.188.30.89|131.188.30.89]] 12:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:Currently, it's never saved. It's a sandbox only. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 13:09, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Opera ==
<small>User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; de) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60</small>

Its not possible to add text. Newest version of Opera (Win 7 prof.). [[User:Yoursmile|Yoursmile]] 13:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:No problem for me. Do you use extensions? I had to disable my ad blocker extension first. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 13:14, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Slow ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

I used Chrome 15 and it is just Slow... Scrolling down the page is slow, toggle preview... everything ist just slow... [[Special:Contributions/81.7.222.41|81.7.222.41]] 13:14, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Direct Paste of Images ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

Would like to paste images from Clipboard to Text. [[Special:Contributions/212.21.84.250|212.21.84.250]] 13:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Cut and paste ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

The current prototype extracts the text only when doing cut and paste inside the editor. Is the planned behaviour? [[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 13:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Respekt :-) ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)</small>

Coole Sache :-) [[Special:Contributions/194.149.241.3|194.149.241.3]] 13:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== It's very CPU intensive ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; el-GR; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24</small>

on an 2code atom notebook it easily hits more than 70% cpu usage even on _very_ simple tasks (e.g. marking text) [[Special:Contributions/87.202.183.123|87.202.183.123]] 13:33, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Well done ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Hi, this preview is really well done. I think it's a good start to help newbies. I hope there will be an option for including templates and categories. Greetings from Germany, [[User:Inkowik|Inkowik]] 13:40, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== AJAX meets MediaWiki! And there was much rejoicing!! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

As another comment mentioned, [[ doesn't create links. I was expecting to use wiki syntax in the dynamic editor and see a link appear, or bold text ('''..''' instead of by <b>..</b>), indents, etc. Bring back wiki-syntax and I'll love you forever.
dan [[Special:Contributions/138.162.0.42|138.162.0.42]] 13:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== preset text in links and link testing ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12</small>

1. I would have thought that most links are identical to their text, as in [[metaphor]]. But when I clicked on 'metaphor' to add a link, it didn't default to this assumption.
2. Are links such edited checked in any way?
3. I miss tables...
4. Good work, thanks.
Feedback to my feedback: daniel@agac.de
[[User:Dcutter|Dcutter]] 14:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)dcutter

== incomplete undo function ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

the undo function doesn't undo the "clear formatting" command [[Special:Contributions/141.84.69.20|141.84.69.20]] 14:02, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Great! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

Sleek, easy to use and very comfortable. Very nice ;D [[Special:Contributions/132.230.140.151|132.230.140.151]] 14:07, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== scrolling getting stuck within pointer "view" ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

I cannot scroll past a point where the pointer is not visible, meaning that if the pointer for text insertion is at line 20, I cannot scroll the window to a position where line 20 is not visible.
using Firefox 8 [[Special:Contributions/93.97.40.6|93.97.40.6]] 14:11, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Wrong code generation :) ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a2) Gecko/20111030 Firefox/9.0a2 SeaMonkey/2.6a2</small>

I could easily generate such code with the new editor:

# ==In point of sale graphic interfaces==
# In point of sale graphic interfaces

But the normal wiki2html code cannot render it correctly :) [[Special:Contributions/84.147.74.142|84.147.74.142]] 14:19, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Undo ==

<small>User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60</small>

Hi,
the undo does not work for the "clear formatting" feature.

Cheers,
Jens [[Special:Contributions/134.2.241.90|134.2.241.90]] 14:31, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== mouse pointer vanishes ==

<small>User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60</small>

sometimes after selecting some text. it comes back only after moving the pointer further away from the selection (at least 4 cm or so).
i use the newest opera version under win7. [[Special:Contributions/134.2.241.90|134.2.241.90]] 14:34, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Keyboard bindings not working ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rv:2.0) Gecko/20110101 Firefox/4.0</small>

Some of the keyboard bindings like "move one word left/right" (ALT + Arrow_Left/Right) is not working on Mac. [[Special:Contributions/129.132.244.151|129.132.244.151]] 14:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== There is not carret which show the insert point ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

[[User:Xavier Combelle|Xavier Combelle]] 15:08, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Feedback by users that see no feedback link ==

[[File:Screenshot_Visual_Editor_Sanbox_MediaWiki.PNG|thumb|a beautiful minimalist design, but ...]]
Some feedback by German users here: [[:de:Wikipedia Diskussion:Kurier#What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)]]

== undo problem ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Apparently when you remove a link it can't be undone [[User:Xavier Combelle|Xavier Combelle]] 15:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Keyboard Shortcuts for Selection use Ctl, not Alt in Chrome ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.970.1 Safari/535.13</small>

Visual Editor sandox help states:

Selection

⇧ + Arrow Adjust selection

Alt + Arrow Move cursor by words or blocks

Alt + ⇧ + Arrow Adjust selection by words or blocks

But for me the keyboard shortcuts are:

Selection

⇧ + Arrow Adjust selection

Ctl + Arrow Move cursor by words or blocks

Ctl + ⇧ + Arrow Adjust selection by words or blocks

[[User:Apa|Apa]] 15:33, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Minor bug ==

<small>User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60</small>

I like this, it's very impressive. Good work. One thing I've notice: If I type [[abc|abc]] it doesn't convert to a link, however it shows as one in the wikitext preview. [[Special:Contributions/81.171.248.170|81.171.248.170]] 15:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Can't stop editing a number list ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7</small>

Most text editors "stop" the number list if you press RETURN in an empty line. [[Special:Contributions/213.193.83.74|213.193.83.74]] 15:37, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Wiki Templates ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

How I would envision the insertion of a template: a drop down search box that has all (and only) available templates indexed (basically a "Template:" namespace search), and works similarly to the standard Wikipedia search box in that it has a drop-down, automatically-updating listing of "guesses" based on what characters the user has typed in so far, each of which can be clicked on (or arrowed-down to) to be selected.

Upon selection, a titled box (the title will be the title of the template) will be inserted into the editor...article...space (whatever you're calling it) and it will contain what basically looks like a simple web form comprised of labels and expandable text boxes (much like the one I am typing into at this very moment), each corresponding to one of the parameters in the template. A basic web form is something that the average internet user is very used to.

I can also envision the possibility of features such as bolding the labels of each parameter that is considered mandatory (a parameter that, if not filled in, leaves you with a broken template or wiki-code all over the place in the actual article), or the ability to restrict the type of input into a text box based on possible restrictions coded into the template on its corresponding parameter (it wouldn't make a lot of sense to let people insert the value "David Bowie" into a parameter named "percentage"). [[User:Cogniac|Cogniac]] 15:37, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Undo/redo broken ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7</small>

When I undo changes, I sometimes have to click several times. Redo works just once.

To repeat: Select the bullet list at the end of the sample. Click "Number list". Convert the whole list to a numbered list. Try undo/redo. [[Special:Contributions/213.193.83.74|213.193.83.74]] 15:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== View Toggles ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7</small>

I have noticed that when I un-toggle any of the "views" at the right end of the toolbar so as to not be in any view at all (return to the un-split screen just featuring the article), there is a fairly bad delay that somewhat freezes the current tab in the browser.

For reference, this is in Chrome 16.0.912.63 m [[Special:Contributions/140.90.80.65|140.90.80.65]] 15:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== WYSIWYG editor, (X)HTML markup... ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1</small>

Great to see progress on this oh so hard challenge ! :-) And oh so much needed ! I am impatient to be able to make a little change on some word without having to swim in all the wikisoup surrounding it.

Please make the easy buttons mark up content as (X)HTML elements “strong” — strong emphasis — and “em” — emphasis —. These are the accessible and semantic elements that are almost always the correct ones when insisting on some content. A contrario, the elements “b” — bold — and “i” — italic — are very rarely the correct ones, they are not semantic, not accessible, they are presentation only, i.e. style, and so their right place is CSS rather than (X)HTML, and so XHTML plans to phase them out.

Thanks, and keep up the good work !

Nnemo
[[User:Nnemo|Nnemo]] 15:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== LaTex and Table Editing ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

There is no Support for TeX and Table editing. [[User:MovGP0|MovGP0]] 15:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Source Editing ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

It should be possible to edit the Source on the left side and get a live-preview on the right side. [[User:MovGP0|MovGP0]] 15:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== References ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

a method for adding references seems to be missing. [[User:MovGP0|MovGP0]] 16:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Visual editor sandbox ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

format changing is not Undo-able.
[[User:Reinstall|Reinstall]] 16:07, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== WYSIWYG editor ; deleting a link text... ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1</small>

Hello again,

This WYSIWYG editor is already brilliant, and yet there is so much to improve !

I edit a link. The validating tick is disabled.

I delete the link text.

The validating tick gets enabled.

So far, so good.

I click on the validating tick.

Expected behaviour :

The formerly link is not a link anymore.

Actual behaviour :

The link is still a link, and has its old target. As if my edit operation had been cancelled.

Thanks for improving that !

Nnemo
[[User:Nnemo|Nnemo]] 16:24, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Visual Editor feedback ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

You should add a button for making a reference. And one for including images. [[Special:Contributions/216.65.151.102|216.65.151.102]] 16:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Firefox 8.0 Firefox ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Looks cool guys!! [[Special:Contributions/217.158.182.186|217.158.182.186]] 16:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== nice! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

I like that a lot [[Special:Contributions/192.124.26.250|192.124.26.250]] 16:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

looks really nice! [[Special:Contributions/222.185.238.204|222.185.238.204]] 16:51, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Link ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

You could add to the "edit Link"-box - similar to the search box - the autocomplete-function. [[Special:Contributions/92.204.95.32|92.204.95.32]] 17:02, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Great ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

I think this goes in the right direction! Keep up the great work!!! [[User:SmartK|SmartK]] 17:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Exciting! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

This is the beginning of a new era for Mediawiki!

More freedom and more ease will imply more attention to cope with easier vandalism :-( [[User:OrbiliusMagister|OrbiliusMagister]] 18:02, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Citations ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

I miss the possibility to add citations to the text I write. I think the possibility should be implemented and be accessible as prominent as possible in order to make people cite their sources. [[Special:Contributions/140.181.75.41|140.181.75.41]] 18:04, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Why I can't modify the source code ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1</small>

I think it is very nice to have this, but how can I see the source code?
Some stuff cannot be typed with only the Wysiwyg.

Like to fill a template. How does this works. [[Special:Contributions/199.243.65.6|199.243.65.6]] 18:09, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Great Idea - Missing Wiki Syntax source/Document view ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Hi there,

nice tool so far. What I'm missing is the wiki source or source document view. Otherwise great idea for the interface. [[Special:Contributions/78.43.186.92|78.43.186.92]] 18:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Looks promising! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-pl) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/531.2+ Debian/squeeze (2.30.6-1) Epiphany/2.30.6</small>

Need more functions, and I think that people are more similar to Google Docs, so it could look more like that one :] [[Special:Contributions/87.199.33.76|87.199.33.76]] 18:34, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Shift+Backspace/Shift+Delete ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

The key combinations Shift+Backspace and Shift+Delete (for delete last word and delete next word respectively) are non-functional in the new visual editor, but are functional in standard browser text fields. [[Special:Contributions/82.20.117.42|82.20.117.42]] 19:08, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:I can confirm that. It's Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Delete on Windows, but the same problem, it does not work. Moving the cursor with Ctrl+cursor keys does work. Kind of. It's jumping to the beginning ''and'' end of all words but should jump to the beginning of words only (this is what I expect in Windows). --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 20:41, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Transaction history view? ==
<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

The JSON puzzled me but the "Transaction history view" was ??? Hard to believe it would be useful to anyone.

Overall, very nice. [[Special:Contributions/202.164.30.65|202.164.30.65]] 19:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:It's a test page. All of the technical stuff is for the test only, obviously. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 20:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Bold text ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/17.0.950.0 Chrome/17.0.950.0 Safari/535.10</small>

If I write a text in bold (Ctrl+B), after that, i can't change the bolding of the typed text. [[Special:Contributions/82.227.229.141|82.227.229.141]] 19:22, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Arrow keys overshoot top of article ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:10.0a2) Gecko/20111201 Firefox/10.0a2</small>

When I stick the insertion point deep in the article, then hit up-arrow until it's on the top line (with the H1), the toolbar expands, and the insertion point ends up inside it instead of on the first line of the article. [[Special:Contributions/76.126.244.82|76.126.244.82]] 19:27, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== micro ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

Robustness seems sufficient. [[Special:Contributions/31.18.129.76|31.18.129.76]] 19:40, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Nothing happens ==
Hi all,
I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009091912 Mandriva/1.9.0.14-0.1mdv2009.0 (2009.0) Firefox/3.0.14.
But I've tried to see [[Special:VisualEditorSandbox|VisualEditorSandbox]] but I don't see anything there, only a blank page with the title on top. --[[User:Marcos Antônio Nunes de Moura|Marcos Antônio Nunes de Moura]] 19:49, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:Please check your extensions. I had to disable my ad blocking extension first. Also, it's possible this does not work with such an outdated version of Firefox. Compatibility may be improved later. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 20:35, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Useless toy ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1</small>

That it is possible to produce wiki syntax from formatted text: I did not doubt that. As long as it is not possible to edit both the rich text and the wiki source and to switch between both, this is just a quite useless toy. [[Special:Contributions/88.64.12.225|88.64.12.225]] 19:51, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Great work! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7</small>

Just a quick message to say thanks for the great work. I hope this will help bring more editor and contributors in to the fold. [[Special:Contributions/70.65.237.119|70.65.237.119]] 20:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Image Upload ==
<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

Dear team:
1. This is exceptional
2. How can we integrate this into our website
3. How can we enable the ability to upload images
Please email me at: [email removed]
Thank you. [[Special:Contributions/99.224.228.203|99.224.228.203]] 20:23, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
:This is a very early test only. Nobody can use it in the moment. --[[User:TMg|TMg]] 20:32, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== toggle between wiki markup language and wysiwyg editor ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

it must be possible to write articles also in wiki markup language [[Special:Contributions/80.187.102.44|80.187.102.44]] 20:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Default link page title ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0</small>

When clicking on the "add link" button, the default page title should be the selected text. So if I select on "state" and click on "add link", the text field should have the text "state". [[Special:Contributions/190.64.65.144|190.64.65.144]] 20:53, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Enabling and disabling basic text-modifying buttons ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0</small>

The basic text-modifying buttons ("bold", "italic", "add link" and "clear formatting") should be enabled when a range of text is selected, and disabled when there is no selected text. [[Special:Contributions/190.64.65.144|190.64.65.144]] 20:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== A question about js scripts as Regex Menu Framework ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2</small>

Extraordinary interface. Absolutely excellent for human edits. But - what about scripts like RegexMenuFramework, which edit so easily and effectively a normal, plain text box? I see a rather complex html structure; is there somewhere an active, raw wikitext that can be edited by js?

:it:s:User:Alex brollo [[User:Alex brollo|Alex brollo]] 21:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Display dialog box arrow with no selection ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0</small>

When there is no selected text and the cursor is on formatted text, the dialog box arrow should be displayed. When the user clicks on it, there should be the same four buttons as in the dialog for a selected range of text. "Bold", "italic" and "clear formatting" would act on the selected word (delimited by whitespace). "Add/modify link" whould add a link to the selected word if it doesn't have one, or modify the link if the word has one. [[Special:Contributions/190.64.65.144|190.64.65.144]] 21:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== firefox mobile heading ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:8.0) Gecko/ Firefox/8.0 Fennec/8.0</small>

firefox mobile with tablet
i cannot even create a heading :-( [[Special:Contributions/176.2.203.184|176.2.203.184]] 21:07, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Deleting a list entry ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0</small>

When the pointer is at the beginning of a list entry and the user hits the keyboard backspace. the list entry should be removed and the text should be put in a simple paragraph, not pasted at the end of the previous entry list. This would split the list in two. [[Special:Contributions/190.64.65.144|190.64.65.144]] 21:11, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Deeper and shallower lists ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0</small>

Rather than two onn/off buttons to create and modify lists, there should be three. The current two would add deeper and deeper lists. The third one would remove the deepest list, just like hitting the keyboard backspace.

So, if the cursor is at the begeinning of bb and the user hits "add numered list", this:

*a
*bb
*ccc

would turn into:

*a
*#bb
*ccc

If the user has selected rows "bb" and "cc", after pressing "add bulleted list" would turn this:

*a
*bb
*ccc

into this:

*a
**bb
**ccc

If the user has selected rows "bb" and "cc", after pressing "remove list" would turn this:

*a
*#bb
*#ccc

into this:

*a
*bb
*ccc
[[Special:Contributions/190.64.65.144|190.64.65.144]] 21:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== iPad editing ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3</small>

Possible bug in how the text area is being reported - When editing on the iPad - the visual editor does not bring up the keyboard unless a new document is started [[Special:Contributions/86.66.128.189|86.66.128.189]] 21:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== nice idea ==

<small>User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.52</small>

[[Special:Contributions/85.126.85.56|85.126.85.56]] 21:49, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Editor on iPad 1 ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8J3</small>

The Editor is to Slow for the iPad 1 maybe you have to much JavaScript integrated. Maybe you integrate a iPad friendly version.
Best regards
Peter [[Special:Contributions/85.216.63.185|85.216.63.185]] 22:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Well done! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7</small>

This looks very promising. Here are a few minor suggestions:

- it looks like the visual editor currently allows overlapping hyperlinks. If you embed a link in a piece of text, and then select both a part of that text along with an adjoining word or letters that that are not currently linked, you are able to create a second, overlapping hyperlink on top of the first. I can see this getting messy.

- on the inline "add/edit hyperlink" sub-menu, the three option icons in the top right currently lack tooltips (which are present for all other icons on the inline editor). I can also see these icons being somewhat confusing--particularly the one on the far left (circle with a line through it) which deletes the link and the one on the far right (an X) which closes the window.

I'm looking forward to tracking progress on this. A great tool! [[User:Jtmorgan|Jtmorgan]] 22:41, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Formatting toolbar ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

I like the fact that it moves as I scroll. It improves usability. <b><span style="border:2px solid;font-variant:small-caps">[[User:Hazard-SJ|<span style="background:#00008B;color:white"> Hazard-SJ </span>]][[User talk:Hazard-SJ|<span style="color:#00008B;background:red;"> ± </span>]]</span></b> 22:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Shift for selection ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12</small>

After pressing Shift to start selecting a text with the arrow keys the selection mode does properly terminated after releasing Shift.

For more details contact http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Secular_mind [[Special:Contributions/79.159.10.39|79.159.10.39]] 22:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Excessive whitespace ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12</small>

If multiple spaces or line breaks are entered none of interactive editor, wikitext view, and preview corresponds to any of the other two. A possible solution is not to accept such input as Lyx does.

For more details please contact http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Secular_mind. [[Special:Contributions/79.159.10.39|79.159.10.39]] 23:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Additional features ==

Additional features that this could use that strike me as relatively simple:

*Filled in references like Reftoolbar has
*Sub and superscripts
*List of special characters

I use those a fair bit, and again, shouldn't be difficult for the visual editor. [[User:Chris857|Chris857]] 23:35, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Length of divider ==

The divider between the two panes of the visual editor is only as long as the left-pane content. However, if the right-panel content is longer, the divider ends awkwardly significantly before the bottom of the page. It should span the distance of whichever is longer. [[User:Chris857|Chris857]] 23:48, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== no fallback? ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

the fallback button should be the most prominent one.

think about all the people you will be turning away if this does not work for them as you think it will. [[Special:Contributions/209.131.61.1|209.131.61.1]] 00:05, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== Used for translation? ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Can you use the side-by-side view while working on translations? For example, while taking an English article into Japanese, you could see the two versions side by side. It would be awesome if it used colors to show the corresponding sections with a granularity slider for the size of the matching words and phrases... [[User:Shanen|Shanen]] 00:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== Very good. ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100406 CentOS/3.6.3-2 Firefox/3.6.3</small>

It is amazingly easy to edit an article using visual editor. The buttons on the Right Hand Side are confusing. I could not get any meaning out of them.

Thanks for the good work.

--
Senthil [[User:Phoe6|Phoe6]] 02:37, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== We do not use underscores in page titles ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1</small>

For the first linked article in the example, the actual page title is "Computer science", not "Computer_science". We don't use underscores in titles, though computers do when providing a link to article titles with internal spaces.

So what is displaying as article titles in this sandbox is either *wrong* or was written in a misleading way. [[Special:Contributions/69.143.207.215|69.143.207.215]] 03:03, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== Markup ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

Why can't you edit the markup directly? Hopefully, this will be possible in the final version. [[Special:Contributions/76.124.48.149|76.124.48.149]] 03:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== great! ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

I looks very good, it's clean, simple and efficient. Would it be possible to edit in the wiki syntax as well, or to quicly switch between the 2 modes? [[Special:Contributions/83.206.38.117|83.206.38.117]] 08:26, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== No Cursor ==

<small>User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0</small>

I can't see any text cursor using Firefox 8.0 on Windows 7 Pro SP1 when I try to type.

This might be a problem for most people.... :)

[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 08:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Extension talk:Check Spambots

2010-11-24T15:02:37Z

Quatermass:

A question for the author of this extension...

I don't need the edit check of a user because my wiki is log-in to edit, what do I have to remove to make this extension only check for spammers on the initial user signup?

Thanks much!

[[User:TeraS|TeraS]]

Removing this line <source lang="php">$wgHooks['GetBlockedStatus'][] = 'CheckSpambots::check_edit'; </source>should cause the extension to check new user creation only. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 01:19, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you kindly for the solution!!

[[User:TeraS|TeraS]]

That line of code can be found in the file CheckSpambots.php --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 15:02, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

== File needs to be added to the install list ==

There is a whitelist.sample.txt file in the latest versions of this software (0.49 and higher) if you do not copy that file you will break your wiki...

FYI

[[User:TeraS|TeraS]] 14:52, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

== MySQL information needed? ==

is it necessary to put the mysql database username und password in the config.php? I think this is insecure, or? --[[Special:Contributions/85.127.217.168|85.127.217.168]] 11:54, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
::No it's not needed. You need to enter that if you want a new database on your server to store the information on the spammers the check catches and rejects.[[User:TeraSuccubi|TeraSuccubi]] 00:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

== What? I who am the sysop turn out to be a spammer? ==

So I created a wiki recently and I was having a spam problem, so I install this Check Spambots extension and it looks great and all, I get it up and working... And a few days later I begin getting all these internal 500 errors on my wiki. Can't figure what is going on. Until I go back to Checkspambots, click on "View Spammers", and among the ones that have detected and blocked is my own ip address! It says that botscout detected it as a spamming address. What is going on here?
--[[User:Lwangaman|Lwangaman]] 09:50, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

== Suggested modification for shared hosting ==

Since most shared hosting services do not give permissions for database creation, I would suggest taking into account those cases where a database already exists but the "tblspammers" table doesn't... Here is what I did:

* In "functions.php", within the "IsSpammerInDB()" function, add a table exists check after the database exists check, just so:
<pre>
// Check our database exists shall we?
$ret = mysql_select_db($dbname);
if($ret == "0"){
// Okay, lets try and create it then ....
$ret = CreateDatabase($host, $username, $password, $dbname);
$ret = mysql_select_db($dbname);
if($ret == "0"){
mysql_close($conSBST);
return false;
}
}
$tbl_tst_SQL = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM information_schema.tables ".
"WHERE table_schema = '$dbname' AND table_name = 'tblspammers'";
$ret = mysql_query($tbl_tst_SQL);
if($ret == "0"){
// Database already exists but we still have to create the table ...
$ret = CreateTable($host, $username, $password, $dbname);
$ret = mysql_query($tbl_tst_SQL);
if($ret == "0"){
mysql_close($conSBST);
return false;
}
}
</pre>
* Do the same in the "LogSpammerToDB()" function
* Create a new function called "CreateTable()" right after the "CreateDatabase()" function, just so:

<pre>
function CreateTable($host, $username, $password, $dbname){
$conSBST = mysql_connect($host,$username,$password);
if(!$conSBST){
return false;
}else{
// Create table if it doesn't exist
mysql_select_db($dbname, $conSBST);
$sSQL = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tblspammers
(
fldspammer_id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
PRIMARY KEY(fldspammer_id),
fldspammer_name varchar(255),
fldspammer_ip varchar(15),
fldspammer_mail varchar(255),
flddb_matched varchar(255),
fldadded DATE,
fldspammer_count int
)";
// Execute query
if(!mysql_query($sSQL,$conSBST)){
return mysql_error();
}

// ********************************
// Not currently required
// ********************************
// Create counter table
//mysql_select_db($dbname, $conSBST);
//$sSQL = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tblspamcount(fldspam_count int)";
// Execute query
//if(!mysql_query($sSQL,$conSBST)){
// return mysql_error();
//}

// Cleanup
if(!mysql_close($conSBST)){
return mysql_error();
}
// Finish
return true;
}
}
</pre>
--[[User:Lwangaman|Lwangaman]] 09:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Extension talk:InputBox/Archive 1

2009-02-21T17:05:25Z

Quatermass: No longer works

For the page history, see also [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:Inputbox&limit=250&action=history].
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__TOC__
{{TalkFromMeta}}

<center><h1> Is it possible to use this input box on other wiki's because i've tried it and the raw syntax displays as text, any idea's/help plese?<h1></center>

==Installation==
Download the file [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/inputbox/ inputbox.php] to the folder ''extensions'' of your MediaWiki installation.
Add the line
<font face="Courier New" size="2">require_once("extensions/inputbox.php");</font> to ''LocalSettings.php''.

== I HOPE INPUTBOX can preload any word ==
such as<nowiki> [[Category:xxx]] {{xxxx}} [[xxxx]].....</nowiki>

== It would be good if ... ==

the button label "create article" can be customized, like "create city article".--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 6 July 2005 10:22 (UTC)

:Yes, that idea is good! I'd also like to be able to define a prefix for the created page. That way, I could place it on, say, [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] and only need to enter "Alpha" to create [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Alpha]]. As it is I'd have to manually enter the prefix each and every time I wanted to add a page. [[User:Master Thief Garrett|Master Thief Garrett]] 7 July 2005 21:10 (UTC)

:: Yup that is definitely a nice way to go, and furthermore you could customize the prefix at will, so you can create, for instance, a category by only putting the name, and the page Category:name would be created. [[User:82.242.132.211|82.242.132.211]] 21:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

''Copied from [[Talk:Inputbox]]''

::: '''''Yes''''', I would like to have an input box to create a page in a specific namespace, so the prefix idea would be really useful. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

In [[w:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#User talk inputbox]], [[User:Angela|Angela]] proposes using this extension to add messages to user talk pages, with the note that it only works for previously blank talk pages. To make this truly effective, it would seem expedient to add a third type, corresponding to the new section "+" functionality of talk pages. Arguably, such a type should insert " talk" into the namespace if not already present.

And would it be hard to add the facility to use an explicit message string rather than just a reference to a template?

[[User:Bovlb|Bovlb]] 04:55, 6 Jul 2005 (UTC)

== bugzilla references ==

# <s>[[bugzilla:02805]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow to set predefined titles"
# [[bugzilla:02847]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> usage of template constructs to generate the "default" option"
# [[bugzilla:02842]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow alternatively to place the header *between* the inputbox and the button not only above the inputbox"
# <s>[[bugzilla:02844]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow allow to label a button differently then [[MediaWiki:Createarticle]]"
: "''Amike''" [[User:Gangleri|Gangleri]] | [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:User talk:Gangleri|action=history}} Th] | [[{{ns:User_talk}}:Gangleri|T]] 18:32, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

== undefined function: wfmsghtml() ==

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wfmsghtml() in /var/www/.../extensions/inputbox.php on line 124

Where this wfMsgHtml come from ?

Which MediaWiki version is required ? I've 1.4.4, I'll try to upgrade.

[[User:Iubito|Iubito]] 07:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

:I found that said function is only present since version 1.5alpha2. For 1.4.x, you'll need inputbox.php version 1.3 (this is the last one without the wfMsgHtml() call)

:Have fun!

:Wolfram. [[User:217.5.190.74|217.5.190.74]] 06:56, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

== Preload Function does not work. ==

I have Mediawiki version 1.4.7. I use version 1.3 of the extension. Any suggestions on what could be a problem?
Oh, and the "default" option is not working either. But create new page and search work fine. Also, the button text is enclosed between < > brackets. Such as "<searchfulltext>". Any idea how to get rid of the brackets? Thank you. Your help is appreciated.

: You won't be able to use preload without MediaWiki 1.5, as this part of the code resides in MediaWiki itself and does not exist in 1.4. However, you should be able to get the correct messages by editing (creating) [[MediaWiki:text in brackets]], e.g. [[MediaWiki:Searchfulltext]]. In 1.5, these already exist.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 01:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

:: I have sort of a similar problem, except the angle brackets are displaying as raw HTML. I already made sure the MediaWiki messages (Searchfulltext, tryexact, createarticle) exist and have the proper messages; they do (and the messages are just text, with no brackets), but the buttons won't change. Any idea? I'm running 1.11.0. Also, my site is [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific here], for reference's sake. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 23:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

==Integration with Multiple Starting Text Hack==
<u>(Or: how I got the same functionality with 1.4)</u>
<br>Well, I really wanted this and I'm scared @#$%less of upgrading, so I downloaded and tried it. As noted in the previous comment, preload doesn't work. However, if you add a couple lines to the inputbox.php files in the right places, you can use the [[meta:Multiple starting text hack|multiple starting text hack]] to do your preloading for you.

This is somewhat dependent on how you have that particular hack installed, but for me it was the following:

# Add a getBoxOption. Not too difficult, just add it where the others are.
getBoxOption($inputbox->starttext,$input,"starttext");
# In Class InputBox, where the variables are given, just add $starttext in one of the lines.
# Where the HTML to be rendered for the CreateBox is given, just add this in the input box stuff.
<input type="hidden" name="starttext" value="{$this->starttext}_StartText">

Note that on my Wiki, I use many namespaces and thus have a <nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}_StartText</nowiki> theme going. See the Multiple Starting Text Hack discussion for more information.

So that's what works for me. Not sure, but there might be a way to implement the editintro parameter in a similar way. It doesn't really fit my needs, though, so I haven't mucked with it.

I hope that helps someone, and (as per usual) I am extremely hopeful that I didn't just point out something that's extremely obvious.

== Umvalid! ==
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHelp%3AInputbox --[[User:Paddy|Paddy]] 10:42, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
:The code created by the extension isn't invalid, but when you place more than one box of the same type on a page, all that boxes have got the same id --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 13:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

::The code outputted isn't valid in general. I'm getting errors.
<pre>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeff">
<p><form name="createbox" action="/index.php" method="get" class="createbox">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="StoryTemplate" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="" />
</p><p> <input class="createboxInput" name="title" type="text"
value="Enter Title Here" size="50"/><br />
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="Create Story With Title Above"/>
</form>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table></pre>

== Inputbox on Meta ==

I found this extension on the very day I started looking for such a feature -- ''but only thanks to luck'' -- it'd be very neat if the page showed up in the search results for 'forms' or 'html forms' or 'HTML forms'!!! -- yet I don't know if it's possible?

== type=comment ==
It would be great if you could choose to add the comment at the top instead of the bottom to get a list with the most reasent comments at the head.
--[[User:213.115.0.20|213.115.0.20]] 13:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
: +1! --[[User:80.109.61.51|80.109.61.51]] 10:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

== Namespace Specific Searches ==

Does/could this extension support a parameter listing a set of specific namespaces to be searched? The URL for such searches appears to be in the form: ".../index.php/Special:Search?ns110=1&search=SEARCHTERM&searchx=Search"

[[User:Tdoyle|Tdoyle]] 14:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

: I second this! We would specifically like it for the [[b:Cookbook]] (namespace 102!). Also, we would like a FULLTEXT-only search box (like search2, but reversed) since searching for an article name in the cookbook is rather pointless. [[b:User:Kellen|Kellen]] <sup>[[b:User_talk:Kellen|T]]</sup> [[User:80.229.36.69|80.229.36.69]] 18:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== define namespace (type=create) ==
I added a couple of lines that allow to define the namespace the article will be created in. Could it also be included in regulary versions? I added a "namespace" parameter and changed the HTML-Code in getCreateForm() as follows:
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox" onsubmit="if (document.createbox.pagename.value.substring(0,'{$this->namespace}:'.length) != '{$this->namespace}:') {document.createbox.title.value = '{$this->namespace}:' + document.createbox.pagename.value;} else {document.createbox.title.value = document.createbox.pagename.value;}">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="{$this->preload}" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="{$this->editintro}" />
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="" />
{$comment}
<input class="createboxInput" name="pagename" type="text"
value="{$this->defaulttext}" size="{$this->width}"/>{$this->br}
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="{$this->buttonlabel}"/>
</form>
(maybe, you might be able to realize that function easier ;) --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 21:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

:by removing the colon the subpage-function could be integrated and other prefixes, too --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 18:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki v1.5: Output error ==

I'm getting a strange error running Inputbox with MediaWiki v1.5 ...

when i add a text inputbox to a page using the syntax described on the Help page i get the following output instead of a textbox when the page is rendered:<br />
<code>NaodW29-inputbox319e48674cc47cb700000001</code>

I'm very new to all of this but haven't any trouble installing extensions in the past. Unfortunately i don't even know where to begin looking for a solution.
[[User:72.139.230.29|72.139.230.29]] 22:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I had the same problem. I solved it by moving the InputBox code to a template. The problem occured when the
InputBox code was on the same page as a call to a template with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MenuTabs code.
Now both MenuTabs code and InputBox code are in templates and I can use them on the same page.
Michiel.[[User:82.170.134.93|82.170.134.93]] 20:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

==editintro==
Could this box be modified, so that the 'editintro' ''does'' work on existing articles? Currently, when editing existing articles, no header text appears, but I'd like for it to be possible for editors to specify that text ''should'' appear in special cases. For example, on the Wikipedia Reference Desk, it would be possible to include a reminder of the rules in a header above each edit window, so that newbies can be gently guided.

Is there a reason the editintro is ignored by default when editing existing pages? -- [[User:Ec5618|Ec5618]] 00:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

This is something that we at the Vietnamese Wikipedia would much like, because there's obviously a lot more you can do in wikitext than in HTML comments to make editing a page more user-friendly. – [[User:Mxn|Minh Nguyễn]] <small>([[User talk:Mxn|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/Mxn|contribs]])</small> 06:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== Add to a defined category ==

'''who use this? in my mediawii,1.82 i can't find this $text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);'''

I wanted the extension to work from a category page and make a new page within the category from which it is created. I made the following changes and thought they may be useful to others. This is very much a hack, but feel free to incorporate it properly into the software if it's seen to be a good feature.

First, change the inputbox extension to include the following lines:
In the function "renderinputbox" add this line near the others:
getBoxOption($inputbox->catname,$input,'catname');
This allows you to pass the variable 'catname', which you define when you write the extension.

Under "class InputBox', add $catname to the variable listing.

Then, near the bottom of the file, add this line near the others for the form creation:
<input type="hidden" name="catname" value="{$this->catname}" />

Then, in article.php (in the includes folder), add in the following:
Under "function getContent" add in:
$catname = $wgRequest->getText( 'catname' );
So it reads in the variable.

Then, change:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);
to:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload,$catname);
And another version about 15 lines down, to pass the variable to the function.

In function getPreloaded text, change the function call from:
getPreloadedText($preload)
to
getPreloadedText($preload,$catname)

And finally, change:
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText();
}
}
to this:
if($catname) {
$cattext = "\n\n<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:" . $catname . "]]";
}
else {
$cattext = "";
}
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText() . $cattext;
}
}

That's it, you should be able to pass a category now. Change as you see fit to pass another variable to the page you're creating. Good luck!

== Pre-box label ==

Can we get a label before the input box? [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 01:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

: Take a look at the code - you should easily be able to hack that yourself, even without understanding PHP.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 02:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

:: Curiously enough, the most recent code already has a "labeltext" option for boxes of type "search2":
::: <inputbox>
type=search2
break=no
labeltext=A pre-box label:
</inputbox>
:: This made my job a lot easier. :) [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 20:12, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== bug? inputbox interrupts a numbered list ==

The inputbox is great but it seems to interrupt a numbered list:

<pre><nowiki>
# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange
</nowiki></pre>

# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange

Any idea on how to fix? [[User:Arghman|Arghman]] 22:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

:The InputBox is wrapped in a '''<nowiki><div></nowiki>''' element, forcing it to be block level. The sanitiser is probably cleaning up what it sees as a still-open '''<nowiki><ol></nowiki>''' container; or the browser is ignoring the invalid XHTML. This isn't an InputBox-specific problem. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

==error message==

Hi I'm *very* new to MediaWiki and installing an inputbox is my first ever extension, but I get the following warnings when I try to save the page (I've followed the instructions on uploading inputbox.php and edited LocalSettings.php),

Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderInputbox() in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 42

Fatal error: Call to a member function getText() on a non-object in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 60

Any pointers would be much appreciated

Hello,
I get the exact same error and to be honest I have no idea where to look to solve it. Please help. jrleonard@gmail.com

--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I also get the same error message. Are you two using EasyPHP? This is the only thing I can see that may be affecting the functioning of the extension.

PHP Version: 4.3.10

: I've got the same message too with easyphph AND on my distant website with Mw 1.5.6 (PHP: 4.4.0 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.1.10a-log ), thanks for help. --[[User:Henrique|Henrique]] 01:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[ 3/3/2006 ] Same error here, using php on Solaris:

PHP 5.0.4 (cli) (built: Jun 28 2005 22:24:45)<br>
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group<br>
Zend Engine v2.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

:Getting the same error on RHEL 3, Apache 2, PHP 4.3.2. I am ''not'' using EasyPHP. --[[User:Bradley Holt|Bradley Holt]] 18:09, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Same error here, PHP 5.0.5/Netware - this file needs to be rewritten to be compatible with the latest versions of PHP.
:See http://www.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/thread/2109/ and http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5733 for some hints to fix it

Same here - I tried php 4.4.2 and 5.0.4 ... [[User:63.229.127.222|63.229.127.222]]

===Quick Fix===
After some browsing around and quick hashing of the code I found that the following addressed the issue. However, please note that this has not yet been tested fully. Please add any issues you encounter.

Line 40: Delete variable '''&$parser''' so the function now looks like this
<pre>
function renderInputbox($input, $params)
</pre>

Line 60: Comment out the entire line starting '''$boxhtml=str_replace...''':
<pre>
# Maybe support other useful magic words here
# $boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->mTitle->getText(),$boxhtml);
</pre>
--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

::Does this disable the parser? Because that could be dangerous (allowing sql injection, html tags, etc)

Extensions don't have the power to totally disable the parser; this is just ignoring the reference to the parser passed to all parser hooks. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

That fixes the problem. Thanks. Looks like lots of people are having this same issue, trying to perform a non-object operation on that variable.

== MediaWiki 1.5: inputbox is not working==

MediaWiki v1.5

I'm sure i followed the instructions, but when i added the inbox code into a page, the browser just hung up at
.....wiki/index.php?title=Test&action=submit

Doesn't work with any other browser. Can someone give me a hand? I don't know whereelse to put this. Thanks.

:First of all, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download upgrade from 1.5.0 to 1.5.7]; your version of MediaWiki contains about four largish bugs or security issues. Next; we'll need more information in order to diagnose the problem. What you actually did; what your Apache/other HTTPD/PHP error logs state (if at all, if not, turn them on and see what comes up) etc. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.5.7: inputbox.php 1.20 hangs up while 1.19 works ==

MediaWiki 1.5.7 on Red Hat Enterprise 4 WS: With inputbox.php 1.20 version you can observe on ''/var/log/httpd/error_log''

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderinputbox() in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 42

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 60</nowiki>

I downloaded version 1.9 from MediaWiki's SourceForge CVS and it seems to work alright.

--[[User:Canne|Canne]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Exactly like you said. Thanks Canne! It's working now.

--[[User:Ming|Ming]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

==Windows?==

I have a windows installation, with IIS, which otherwise works fine. I installed Inputbox.php etc, no errors, but it just doesn't work. It seems to be running the script ok, it just doesn't render the box or translate the tags. Any ideas?

:What version of MediaWiki? Confirm that the extension is installed; check [[Special:Version]] and see what extensions are registered. Consider adding a line like

echo( "Hook run!\n" );

:to the parser hook function, to prove that's being executed. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== Inputbox on the sidebar? ==

I just installed this extension, and it's working great.

My question is; is it possible to put a "Create Article" inputbox on the sidebar? I tried to just add one beneath the last link, but the sidebar doesn't seem to recognize it. When viewed as an article, the MediaWiki:Sidebar page displays the inputbox fine.

Is there something different I have to do, or is this just not possible. If it's not possible, is there another way to have some kind of "create article" link on the sidebar?

:The sidebar doesn't interpret wiki text quite as you seem to expect. You could add such a box via edits to the skin file. Another semi-solution might be to set <code>$wgGoToEdit = true;</code> in LocalSettings.php, which causes the user to be taken to an edit form if entering a nonexisting title and clicking Go. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] ([[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]]) 12:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::“You could add such a box via edits to the skin file”
:: can you elaborate for those who are new users...

== noinclude and includeonly ==

I created a fairly simply set up to add creatures to a [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Creature_database database] on [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page SporeWiki.com]. The section [http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Creature_database&action=edit&section=16" Create a creature portal page"] preloads [http://www.sporewiki.com/MediaWiki:Content_base/creature_portal MediaWiki:Content base/creature portal] as I wanted it to, when setting it up I was really hoping that includeonly would work so that it didn't sort the mediawiki pages (since the portal template has a cat tag in it) and I found out that it does work (as you can see if you test the inputbox on the creature database page yourself). Then I wanted to be able to keep all of the messages related to adding creatures in the same place, so I figured I'd just categorize them with noinclude, but if you test out the inputbox you'll see that that portion of the code doesn't do what I thought it might... Is there any reason why that would happen, is it a mediawiki bug or an inputbox bug? Is there any temporary fix to get around it (I already set up an [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Qif if template] if that could be useful) for now until noinclude works in that manner? It'd be appreciated, thanks! [[User:69.183.38.170|69.183.38.170]] 17:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

:All I can say is "interesting problem". Apparently the includeonly tags are stripped keeping the content, but noinclude tags + content are kept as is (?). Maybe an oddity in the inputbox extension, you could report it as "bug" / missing feature / oddity at [[mediazilla:]] (component "extensions" "inputbox").
:And / or try a workaround based on [[m:ParserFunctions#.23ifeq:|#ifeq:]] MediaWiki | {{NAMESPACE}}. But I've never seen a category for system messages, better test first if that's possible at all. If not you could use an ordinary template message instead of a system message for your inputbox - the help page only uses MediaWiki examples because they are guaranteed to exist and can't be vandalized. -- [[w:User:Omniplex|Omniplex]] [[w:User talk:Omniplex|(w:t)]] 20:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know how to report bugs, and I'm not sure what you mean by a a workaround with that, but I moved it to a template and preloaded the template again and it did the same that it did earlier, loading the noinclude tag and it's text also. [[User:69.183.39.72|69.183.39.72]] 05:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::I updated the page after trying it out with {{tim|Preload demo}}.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 14:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

:::See [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5210 Bug #5210].
:::--[[User:99.236.115.46|99.236.115.46]] 05:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

== using an <s>image</s>TEMPLATE with parameters as the 'preloaded' thing ==

Is it possible? All this subst and includeonly is starting to get to me, along with nested templates...

I'm trying to simplify the process of nominating an image for FPC. see here: [[commons:User:Pfctdayelise/test]]. Any tips welcome. This is a really handy extension BTW. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 12:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

:I do not think that is possible. As a minor typing aid you can preload {{tim|T image preload}}, that is all I can think of.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:You can also preload {{tim|T image preload 2}} containing subst of {{tim|T image preload 3}}. Here you fill in the image name as parameter of the latter. There is still some duplication: the Subject/headline probably has to contain the image name too, but this is not automated.
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload 2
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

==Using inputbox to subscribe to a mailing list?==
I'm looking for an extension which will allow a user to enter his/her email adress and submit the value to an external http address. I already got the HTML code for this from the mailing list service, but have trouble building it into MW properly. Could inputbox (currently or potentially) be used for this? --[[User:Morten Blaabjerg|MortenB]] 21:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
:make a modifies version of inputbox.php that will post the input boxes contents to the php page you wish, then have the php page do whatever with the email then redirect them wherever. ;) --[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

== downloading problems? ==

I've been trying to download the inputbox.php from the links here, but it never loads for me. Is anyone else getting this problem? Or is there a different link someone can show me to get this file?

== Editintro does not work for comments ==

Even the example fails. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 15:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

==Target =new==
Is there a way to add a parameter to the inputbox so when doing page creation, the form gets posted to a new window?

This is useful for creating a page that's been populated with a list of inputboxes preloaded with titles of new pages to create.

So this way, I can go down the list and create new pages and not loose the page I'm on. You see, this is the script I'm using; so you know why this is useful for me.

This handy script will be useful for anyone who needs to create lots of these inputboxes preloaded with their topic titles so they can add a bunch of pages all at once, easily. Just edit wherever you see "TOPIC TITLE" with the respective text you need.

<pre><html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$script = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
echo "<font face=verdana>Enter a list of TOPIC TITLES to generate code to mass create pages<br>
<form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<textarea cols='80' rows='20' name='names'></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type='submit' value=' Do It ' name='submit'>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form></font>
";
}
else
{
$namelist=explode("\n",$_POST['names']);
echo " <form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'><textarea name='textarea' cols='80' rows='20'>";
for($i = 0;$i < sizeof($namelist);$i++)
{
echo "<inputbox>
type=create
preload=Template:TOPICTEMPLATE
default=".str_replace("\r","",$namelist[$i])."
buttonlabel=Add New TOPICTITLE
</inputbox>
";

}
echo " </textarea><br><input type='button' value='Highlight Text' onClick='javascript:this.form.textarea.focus();this.form.textarea.select();'></form><br><a href=/index.php?title=Template:TopicTitle&action=edit>Go to TOPICTITLE to add this code!</a>";
}
?>
</body>
</html></pre>
Maybe somebody will have fun with this code...
Anyway, I would like each inputbox thats created to open the page to be created in a new window. Is there a way to specify a target for the inputbox form?
Thanks, [[User:MediaHound|MediaHound]] 15:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

== default target ==

I think it would be useful to be able to specify a default page that it goes to if the user clicks the button when the text field is blank. Currently, it goes to Main_Page, but I think project:sandbox would be more useful. -[[User:Sanbeg|Sanbeg]] 23:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

== Full text search in input=search does not work ==

In the below box, press either button, and you get back to this page. Full text search does not work, and I don't know why. The input name is "searchx" for this button, but "fulltext" for the search button in the sidebar - which still works.

<inputbox>
type=search
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

The reason for the problem is probably easy to fix.

--[[User:Barklund|Barklund]] 19:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.8.2: Unable to install ==
I am unable to install the extension (inputbox.php 0.1.1) as well as the hack from Algorithm. I'm pretty new to mediawiki. Any clue?

Currently using:
* MediaWiki 1.8.2
* PHP 5.2
* MySQL 5.0.27

== Hiding the input box, or having only the button ==

It would be extremely nice to be able to hide the input box somehow, and default it to a certain value in the form. The reason for this would be if I wanted to comment, and I wanted to hard code where the user could comment to. Understandably, it wouldn't be secure (javascript overwriting) but still, it would be a nice addition! -- Silivrenion Jan 1 2006
:See [[#Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch]] below. [[Special:Contributions/69.138.163.138|69.138.163.138]] 01:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

==Mediawiki 1.9.0: Positioning the create box==
I am using Mediawiki 1.9.0 and this wonderfull extansion. I have noticed that by default, the extansion put itself centered on a page. I found that nice for the seach function or when you put it in a tab but I wanted that the create function and box be left positioned on the page.

To acheive this, located in the code the section (At the botom):
<pre>
<td align="center" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>

And replace by :
<pre>
<td align="left" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>
Or replace '''left''' by whatever you want ('''center''' is the default).

--[[User:Romainp|Romainp]] 16:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki: 1.6.8: ERROR On Line 67 ==

it says Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/codev/public_html/en/w/extensions/inputbox.php on line 67
please help--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

:heres my version info:
:MediaWiki: 1.6.8
:PHP: 4.4.2 (cgi)
:MySQL: 5.0.27-standard
:--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
:I got my host to set me up an account on their PHP5 server, and i just finished moving all the data to all my sites over and just upgraded the wiki to 1.9.2 and re-downloaded inputbox.php and all appears to be working fine now.--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 23:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Reason for the above given error is PHP Version 4. You need V5 - then the error will not appear on line 67.

:I fixed this error pretty easily, by unchaining the -> operators on that line, using a temp variable instead; i.e. I replaced
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->getTitle()->getText(),$boxhtml);
with:
$title = $parser->getTitle();
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$title->getText(),$boxhtml);
:I haven't tested thoroughly for any other PHP4 incompatibilities, but it seems to work, so it's probably worth putting that fix into SVN for those of us still running PHP4 (it's not that much uglier <tt>:)</tt>).
: - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 17:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

*I am also under PHP vers.4 and have the same syntax error, but showing on line 77. I could not find the line indicated by IMSoP to try his workaround, any idea of what might be the issue? Did the inputbox extension change since Feb. 2007?
:[[Special:Contributions/80.80.162.148|80.80.162.148]] 14:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== MediaWiki: 1.6.9: inputbox "breaking" script ==

I am having problems with the inputbox extension. When I add it and the entry to LocalSettings, no pages will load. I just get a blank page. I have been able to add other extensions without problems.

I am using version 1.6.9 with Linux and a MySQL backend.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

:I'm guessing this is the PHP4 compatibility problem (see section above, including fix) - if you can find your PHP error log, it's probably logging the same parse error that others have reported, it's just suppressing it from display on your live host. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 09:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

== Borders ==

Is there any way to have a border around the input box without putting the whole thing into a table?

== Defining Alignment ==

I have found the need to define the alignment for the inputbox on my wikipages, so i hae made a small modification that allows you to specify the alignment as a paramater, see [[Help:Inputbox#Define_Alignment|this]].--[[User:RyanB88|RyanB88]] 01:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== Followed all the instructions, so why is it still just code? ==

I followed all the instructions for installing the Inputbox and altering the ActionCreate (from Algorithm), but [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/index.php?title=Template:Card_Article_Creators the page] still appears as code. Did I forget something somewhere? I don't get an error; it's just that the inputboxes don't show up. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 01:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

== dynamic default text ==
hi, I want to have as default text the current date, so <inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=[[YEAR-MONTH-DAY]] my item
</inputbox>

how to implement?

--08:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:Variables and parser functions are not supported in inputbox parameters. A cumbersome workaround is to make a big switch with for every day the full wikitext of an inputbox:

{{#switch:{{CURRENTDAY}}
|16=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-16 my item
</inputbox>
|17=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-17 my item
</inputbox>
}}

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 10:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:: Right. Thanks. So that would mean 365 different inputboxes for a year, maybe not then :/. --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== combining several small fields ==
I want to make a field similar to http://wikimaas.org/AddEvent. So how to connect several small boxes, to add them together to form one page title, eg. [[YYYY-MM-DD The launch of the new inputbox]]. And can I apply a maxwidth?

For filling in it is easier to type a number - <tab> - next, instead of replacing already formatted numbers in one line. Oh, and they should also have a connected tab-order :)

<inputbox>
type=create
width=4
default=YYYY
break=no
buttonlabel= get rid of the button
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=2
default=MM
break=no
buttonlabel=month
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
default=DD
type=create
width=2
break=no
buttonlabel=year
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=24
break=no
buttonlabel=Add event
align=left
</inputbox>

--[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:MediaWiki does not allow variables in the computer programming sense, so the inputbox cannot be applied to assign a value to a variable.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 11:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
::What about a sort of redirecting to a template-page which receives these different variables, and then redirects to the to-be created page? --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 13:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:::You may be interested in [[mw:Simple Forms|Simple Forms]] (though I can't get it to work with MW 1.9.3) and/or [[mw:Semantic Forms|Semantic Forms]] (but it requires the cumbersome [[mw:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]). -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:57, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

== Background color? ==

Is there any way to to put background color on the inputbox? I'm using it on a table that has a background, and it' kind of strange to see only the inputbox with a white background. --[[User:219.121.89.169|219.121.89.169]] 11:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

'''Yes you can change the background color:'''
It is a parameter that you can set, just like "type" or "buttonlabel" - you would add the phrase bgcolor= and then add a color code

see below

<nowiki><inputbox>
type=create
'''bgcolor=#eeeeff'''
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox></nowiki>

Looks Like This:

<inputbox>
type=create
bgcolor=#0000FF
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox>

To figure out a color code, you just add in the hex numbers - as described here: http://html-color-codes.com/

==Idea for easy extension==

To make a button which runs a PHP script, eg. for sending a message using a textarea:

Add to "function render()" another type "php":

''elseif($this->type=='php') {return $this->runPHP() ...''

Add a function "runPHP" like this:

''function runPHP() {''<br />
''$createform=<<<ENDFORM''<br />
''<form name="runPHP" action="xxx.php" method="post">''<br />
''<textarea rows="3" name="textareaPHP"></textarea><br />''
''<input type='submit' value="xxx" />''<br />
''</form>''<br />
''ENDFORM;''<br />
''return $createform;''<br />
}

Perhaps ''action="xxx.php"'' must be sth. like this: ''action="http://xxx/xxx.php"'', because otherwise, a new Wiki page will be opened.

== Preload ''Upload File'' ==

I wanted to try and preload a template into the upload page, much like commons dose. I tried the commons irc and they couldn't tell me how they are doing it. So I tried at test.W with no results as you can find out yourself:

http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?action=edit&preload=Template:Dead

Any ideas? --[[:is:Notandi:Steinninn]] [[User:194.144.110.1|194.144.110.1]] 15:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:Adding text into Summary field on [[:commons:Special:Upload]] is done with Javascript and has nothing to do with Input box. See [[:commons:MediaWiki:Upload.js]] which is called from [[:commons:MediaWiki:Common.js]] ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 15:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::I can't tough JS, every time I do I break more then I fix. Maybe you, or someone els want's to do this on en:? It has been suggested at least [[:en:Wikipedia_talk:Upload#Fill_in_some_info_into_the_upload_description_box|once]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 16:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:::I'm not sure where to start, [[:en:MediaWiki talk:Common.js]] or [[:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)‎]], but in any case you need consensus first. Coding is the easy part ;) Also, I would suggest that the script doesn't insert the text ''automatically'' (like on Commons) but rather provide a link in [[:en:MediaWiki:Fileuploadsummary]] that would insert it ''when user wants'' it ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 20:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::::I made a propossal at [[:en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Make_.22Upload_file.22_more_like_on_Commons|The Village Pump]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 00:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

== Mediawiki 1.9.3 and 1.10: Namespace Searching not working ==

I have not used Inputbox before with the namespace attribute and have been unsuccessful to get it working. I have tried some of the tips posted here still with no success. I have tried using it on a couple different installs and of recent versions of Mediawiki (1.9.3 and 1.10) (PHP 5.2.2 and MySQL 5.0.24a) but with no success. It looks like it runs successfully on Wikimedia? So what am I doing wrong?! Related extensions I need to install to get it working? Ideas? Is this due to custom namespaces? <br>
Example of what I am adding:<br>
<pre>
<nowiki>
<inputbox>
type=search
namespaces=Winner,Nomination
</inputbox>
</nowiki>
</pre>

--[[User:Myotus|Myotus]] 13:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

:I experienced the same issue and found the solution. Open inputbox.php and goto line 132

<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
:and change it to
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>

:Works for me!
:--[[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]] 20:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

--[[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 00:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

:I needed this fix as well for Mediawiki 1.11, which brings up some questions:
:* Did the search interface change in some version of Mediawiki?
:* Is anyone maintaining this extension, that could make this fix permanent, or add a check for MW version?
:* Note: Search2, which doesn't seem to be documented doesn't do anything with name spaces, so that is a little trap for anyone trying to search specific name spaces.

Worked for me too, but:
* in the most current version, the suspect line is 138,
* had to close my browser and come back for changes to work.
--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

== Multiply fields ==
I'd like the function to have multiple input fields on the same submit button and the content of these fields to be applied to a pre-set template. This way it becomes like a 'wizard' for creating pages that has basic set content but with only say a few parameters of the subject being different.

For example fish profiles, these pages are often 95% identical expect for the species name, common name, colour, etc.

Can this extension do this?

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 11:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

== Suggestions from ''CreateArticle'' ==

''CreateArticle'' is based off ''Inputbox'' but [[mw:Extension talk:CreateArticle#Basic error checking|my suggestions]] for it apply to ''Inputbox'' (and other extensions based off it, like [[mw:Extension:CreateBox|CreateBox]]) as well. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:49, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

== Transparent ==

Hi!, I want to know how can I configure the inputbox to match with the background color without using the parameter '''''bgcolor''''', like, '''make it transparent'''. Also, I want to know if it's possible <u>'''put it under the search bar'''</u> in the sidebar. This is an example of what I'm talking about:

{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
</inputbox>
|}
And it should look like:
{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
bgcolor=black
</inputbox>
|}
Without using bgcolor

As you can see, the background color of the box (black) does not affect the input box background color and this gives me problems when I try to put it in the sidebar. Thank you very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 00:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

:I would try global CSS: give your table some id and then use something like <code>table.yourid form {background:color:transparent}</code>. As for sidebar, do you mean editing [[Mediawiki:Sidebar]]? I don't think it will accept inputbox. Note that if you type something in the usual search field and press Go, and the phrase is not found, then there are two links to create an article, you could make on of those links to really stand out ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 02:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

::Thank yo very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 05:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

:::If you add $wgGoToEdit = true; to your LocalSettings.php, typing a nonexistent article name in the search box and clicking "Go" will create that article. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

{{EndTalkFromMeta}}

== please add 'summary='-Option ==

Hey guys, wouldn't it be usefull if you would add an option, witch sets the summary-text of the created edit. I'd need it for german WP, for example. Thanks for ths tool. Greetings, Michi <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:88.217.29.241|88.217.29.241]] ([[User talk:88.217.29.241|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/88.217.29.241|contribs]]) 14:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC). Please sign your posts!</small>

== Bug report Inputbox revision 27198 ==

I am using PHP version 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi) on a Windows machine.
Inputbox (search) seems to be working ok, but I do see the following note
in a small font at the bottom of the wiki page on which I use the Inputbox:

PHP Notice: Undefined property: Inputbox::$labeltext in C:\iWiki\extensions\Inputbox\inputbox.php on line 153

If you need more info, let me know.
[[User:80.127.78.73|80.127.78.73]] 01:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

== Another namespace issue ==

I have tried following the above guidelines about changing line 132 but it did not work, the extension won't search in a specific namespace for me, here is an example: [http://bahaikipedia.org/User:David/sandbox3 here] Does anyone know what could be the cause? Thanks very much [[User:60.50.173.98|60.50.173.98]] 00:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki 1.11.0: Create Article issue==
I have recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11.0 and although the inputbox function still works, the button labels are labeled as &lt;createarticle&gt; and &lt;searchfulltext&gt; - where should that be fixed? --[[Special:Contributions/90.200.52.95|90.200.52.95]] 14:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
:Hi. I had the same problem at http://www.appropedia.org. I fixed it by uploading the newest code (liked on extension page) and adding the inputbox directory to the include code. I.e. I changed <code>require_once(/extensions/inputbox.php');</code> to <code>require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php');</code>. If that does not work, you could always just add the extension markup to label the buttons as you like. Good luck, --[[User:LRG|LRG]] 22:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

== Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line==
Installation Issue with mediawiki 1.9.3

I am trying to add this extension to MediaWiki 1.9.3 with no success.

I have downloaded inputbox.php and InputBox.i18n.php and placed them in /extensions/inputbox.

At the bottom of LocalSettings.php I have added <source lang="php">require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php'); .</source>

In MediaWiki I now receive:

:<code>'Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfLoadExtensionMessages() in C:\webdocs\pitawiki\extensions\inputbox\inputbox.php on line 38.</code>

I have been doing quite a bit of research on Google to find the answer myself, but it is beginning to look like I am either the only one or nobody has documented this problem before. Can someone please help?
[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 22:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

:I still am not sure what the problem was, but I have upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11 and now all works fine. --[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 17:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
::Same problem, a year later:
:::# MediaWiki: 1.7.1
:::# PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
:::# MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
:For me the problem is on line 40. Line 40 is:
<source lang="php">wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );</source>
::Line 38 is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {</source>
::Line 58 (next section) is:
<source lang="php">),</source>
::The entire section which is having problems is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),</source>
::[[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:17, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
=== Extension Inputbox fault ===

*MediaWiki: 1.9.3
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log

I am trying to install [[extension:Inputbox]] but I am getting this error while using it:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in /home/gidelimm/public_html/wiki/extensions/Inputbox/inputbox.php on line 58

Is there anybody whop can help me to sort out this problem? Thanks in advance --[[User:Plenumchamber|Plenumchamber]] 11:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

:See below for a reply. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

=== undefined function wfloadextensionmessages ===

I'm also getting the undefined function wfloadextensionmessages error.

* MediaWiki: 1.9.3
* PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 5.0.41-log

The php error log entry:
[23-Apr-2008 19:35:31] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function
wfloadextensionmessages() in .../mediawiki/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php
on line 58

:You're trying to use too up-to-date version of InputBox with a legacy version of MediaWiki; function wfLoadExtensionMessages() didn't exist prior to MW 1.11. You'll either need to upgrade your MediaWiki to a newer version, which is the preferred solution, or to use an older version of the extension. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Version history ==
I suppose the latest version of [[extension:InputBox]] is not compatible with older versions of MediaWiki.
It seems that only the latest version of InputBox is available on the Mediawiki SVN.
For example [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox#Installation] and [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox] refer to the SourceForce CVS, which doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Is there any public repository of older versions of this extension?
--Samuel <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:213.28.6.132|213.28.6.132]] ([[User talk:213.28.6.132|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/213.28.6.132|contribs]]) . Please sign your posts with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>!</small>

:That is exactly what [http://svn.wikimedia.org svn.wikimedia.org] is for. It's there so that you can download older versions of files. Extensions have been branched since [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/ MediaWiki 1.10 (REL1_10)]. The [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php?revision=21730&view=markup 1.10 branched version of Inputbox] is supposed to work with MediaWiki 1.10.

:In any case, I just can't understand why you are using old and outdated pages like Wikiquote's and test.wikipedia's pages as a reference when it comes to MediaWiki extensions. In most cases if an extension can be found at svn.wikimedia.org, its documentation can be found at MediaWiki.org — this is especially true when it comes to extensions that are [[:Extensions used on Wikimedia|used on Wikimedia sites]]. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Adding NameSpace when creating articles ==

I'd like to combine the functionalities of search and create article...<br>
I mean there should be an input box, radiobuttons with my predefined namespaces and a button.
Is there allready someone who did this?<br>
Because I tried it and for some reason it doesn't work.<br>
Can someone please help me?<br>

== Version number please ==

It would be helpful if the developers of this extension assigned a version number to this extension. This could be in both the code (so it shows up in [[special:version]]) and the {{tl|extension}} infobox on this extension page. This way at a glance we can know if our MediaWiki installations are up to to date. --[[User:Maxelrod|Maxelrod]] 22:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

== Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch ==

I needed to search specific namespace for particular pages, so I didn't want the checkbox to show, or give the user the opportunity to uncheck the box which would cause the search to fail. Here is a patch (context diff) against Version 0.1.1 that adds a parameter ''namespacehide'' which will prevent the checkboxes from being displayed.

-- [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 15:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

<pre>
*** inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:19:05 1.3
--- inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:27:06
***************
*** 103,108 ****
--- 103,109 ----
getBoxOption($inputbox->buttonlabel,$input,'buttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->searchbuttonlabel,$input,'searchbuttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->namespaces,$input,'namespaces',$parser);
+ getBoxOption($inputbox->namespacehide,$input,'namespacehide',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->id,$input,'id',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->labeltext,$input,'labeltext',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->br, $input, 'break',$parser);
***************
*** 203,214 ****
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
}
}
//Line feed
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';
--- 204,221 ----
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
+ if (!$this->namespacehide) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
+ } else {
+ $searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
+ }
}
}
}
//Line feed
! if (!$this->namespacehide) {
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
! }
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';

</pre>
:I don't understand how to fix it but would like to see this option to hide the checkbox(es). SO what about a Version 0.1.2? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

===patch for current revision===
Perhaps they've made a revision without changing the version number, but the code above does not match version 0.1.1 that is available currently at SVN. To make [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]]'s patch work with the current revision, make the following changes:
====make the namespace selection work====
Follow [[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]]'s patch (above) and replace
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
with
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
====introduce a new variable====
I've called it '$showboxes' instead of 'namespacehide' because the patch hides the boxes by default and the parameter is used only to "show" the boxes. Find:
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces,;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces, $showboxes;
</pre>

====hook the new parameter====
Find:
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
);
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
'showboxes' => 'showboxes',
);
</pre>
====add new conditional rendering====
Find:
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
} else {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
}
}
</pre>

And find:
<pre>
//Line feed
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
//Line feed
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
}
</pre>

--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 20:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category?==
Would it be possible to have the Inputbox being display as search box on all category pages so you can search the category (only consider the articles in this category)?<br />
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. This adds a special page and will search those article pages which are included in the category you've entered in the search fields. But you cannot enter normal search terms, only category names. So it would be nice to search articles in only 1 category. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
:I second this. It'd be a great idea.

== Default value ==

It would be nice if the default value in the box would disappear by clicking into it in order to type. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

== Can you use Inputbox to use an external search engine? ==

I'd like to be able to use inputbox to search an external search engine. Is that possible? Would be great if that was built in. --[[User:Apolloni|Apolloni]] 09:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== Parsing ==

Has anyone looked into adding the capability to allow for parser functions inside the <nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> tags?

[[User:Caile13|Kay]]

== Searching in namespaces ==

On the [http://tiddlywiki.com TiddlyWiki] [http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Help:Developer_Search community wiki] we're using this extension to create the following search form:
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
searchbuttonlabel=Search Developers Documentation
width=24
namespaces=Dev**,Dev_talk**
</inputbox>
</pre>
However, this doesn't actually search the specified namespaces.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- [[User:FND|FND]] 08:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

==Invalid Parameters==
Some parameters became invalid. What's wrong?--[[User:Πrate|百楽兎]] 01:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

== Inputbox + AJAX Search Suggestion? ==
Hi, I like this extension very much - one question: Is there any possibility to combine the search inputbox with the AJAX search suggestion on MediaWiki 1.13 or with the extension Search Suggest? I've already tried various things, but I haven't found a proper solution yet. I think it would be very useful...
Thank you. --[[User:Filburt|Filburt]] 07:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

==PHP warning ==
With the latest svn revision of inputbox working over the latest svn revision of mediawiki 1.14alpha, I see the php warning: PHP Warning: call_user_func_array() [<a href='function.call-user-func-array'>function.call
-user-func-array</a>]: Unable to call InputBoxHooks::render() in includes/p
arser/Parser.php on line 3330. [[User:NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis|NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis]] 14:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Bug with "default" parameter ==

Hi,

There seems to be a problem with the <code>default</code> parameter. Look at [[Extension:InputBox#Parameters]] : below this code :
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
</pre>
... there is no text in the inputbox :
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
[[User:Delhovlyn|Delhovlyn]] 20:52, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Fixing the broken InputBox ==

The current checked in version simply doesn't load as people have pointed out.
This is easy to fix, and you can simplify the code. Basically get rid of the
Inputbox.hooks.php.

1. In Inputbox.php replace everything from line 50 on with:
<source lang="php">

// Register parser hook
if ( defined( 'MW_SUPPORTS_PARSERFIRSTCALLINIT' ) ) {
// Modern
$wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = 'wfInputBox';
} else {
// Legacy
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfInputBox';
}

function wfInputBox ()
{
new InputBox;
return true;
}
</source>
2.In Inputbox.classes.php get rid of the __construct function and replace it
with:
<source lang="php">
function InputBox() {
global $wgParser;

$wgParser->setHook( 'inputbox' , array( &$this, 'render' ) );
}

public function render( $input, $args, $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;

// Configure InputBox
$this->extractOptions( $parser->replaceVariables( $input ) );

// Return output
return $this->render();
}
</source>
and you're done! {{unsigned|Thempel}} 16:49, 6 November 2008
:You need to be more specific is the construct function the following:
<source lang="php">
public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}
</source>
:I get another error message:
::<code>Fatal error: Call to a member function replaceVariables() on a non-object in /home/(mywikiname)/public_html/wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line 45</code>
:Line 45 is:
<source lang="php">// Configure InputBox</source>
:Again, I am using mediawiki 1.7.1. [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

== In subpages ==

Hello,<br>
I'm a french wikibookian... I would like to know if it can be possible to search in the subpages.
Thanks !
--[[Special:Contributions/79.87.132.217|79.87.132.217]] 12:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

== Align link broken==
The link to the current code in the Align section of this page is broken. {{unsigned|76.191.159.88}} 01:00, 13 December 2008

:I changed Inputbox.classes.php to put this feature back in. I think the other align code was lost in the move.
:Sorry I didn't do this via svn, but I don't have enough time to set svn up right now.[[User:Wezelboy|Wezelboy]] 18:23, 19 December 2008

<source lang="php">
<?php
/**
* Classes for InputBox extension
*
* @file
* @ingroup Extensions
*/

// InputBox class
class InputBox {

/* Fields */

private $mParser;
private $mType = '';
private $mWidth = 50;
private $mPreload = '';
private $mEditIntro = '';
private $mPage = '';
private $mBR = 'yes';
private $mDefaultText = '';
private $mBGColor = 'transparent';
private $mButtonLabel = '';
private $mSearchButtonLabel = '';
private $mFullTextButton = '';
private $mLabelText = '';
private $mHidden = '';
private $mNamespaces = '';
private $mID = '';
private $mInline = false;
private $mAlignment = 'center';

/* Functions */

public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}

/**
* Generate search form
*/
public function getSearchForm() {
global $wgContLang;

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}
if ( !$this->mSearchButtonLabel ) {
$this->mSearchButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'searchfulltext' );
}

// Build HTML
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'searchbox',
'id' => 'searchbox',
'class' => 'searchbox',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'class' => 'searchboxInput',
'name' => 'search',
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth,
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;

// Determine namespace checkboxes
$namespaces = $wgContLang->getNamespaces();
$namespacesArray = explode( ',', $this->mNamespaces );
if ( $this->mNamespaces ) {
foreach ( $namespacesArray as $userNamespace ) {
$checked = array();
// Namespace needs to be checked if flagged with "**" or if it's the only one
if ( strstr( $userNamespace, '**' ) || count( $namespacesArray ) == 1 ) {
$userNamespace = str_replace( '**', '', $userNamespace );
$checked = array( 'checked' => 'checked' );
}

// Namespace checkboxes
foreach ( $namespaces as $i => $name ) {
if ( $i < 0 ) {
continue;
} elseif ( $i == 0 ) {
$name = 'Main';
}
if ( $userNamespace == $name ) {
// Checkbox
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'checkbox',
'name' => 'ns' . $i,
'value' => 1,
'id' => 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i
) + $checked
);
// Label
$htmlOut .= ' ' . Xml::label( $userNamespace, 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i );
}
}
}

// Line break
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
} else {
// Go button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'class' => 'searchboxGoButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= ' ';
}

// Search button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'searchboxSearchButton',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/*
* Generate search form version 2
*/
public function getSearchForm2() {

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}

$id = Sanitizer::escapeId( $this->mID );
$htmlLabel = '';
if ( isset( $this->mLabelText ) && strlen( trim( $this->mLabelText ) ) ) {
$this->mLabelText = $this->mParser->recursiveTagParse( $this->mLabelText );
$htmlLabel = Xml::openElement( 'label', array( 'for' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id ) );
$htmlLabel .= $this->mLabelText;
$htmlLabel .= Xml::closeElement( 'label' );
}
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'id' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'class' => 'bodySearch',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
'style' => $this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'class' => 'bodySearchWrap',
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor . ';' .
$this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= $htmlLabel;
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'search',
'size' => $this->mWidth,
'id' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel,
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnGo' . $id
)
);

// Better testing needed here!
if ( !empty( $this->mFullTextButton ) ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnSearch',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
}

$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate create page form
*/
public function getCreateForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( $this->mType == "comment" ) {
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}
} else {
$comment = '';
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'createarticle' );
}
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'createbox',
'id' => 'createbox',
'class' => 'createbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
if ( $this->mType == 'comment' ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
}
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'title',
'class' => 'createboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'createboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate new section form
*/
public function getCommentForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'commentbox',
'id' => 'commentbox',
'class' => 'commentbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'preloadtitle',
'class' => 'commentboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'title',
'value' => $this->mPage
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'commentboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Extract options from a blob of text
*
* @param string $text Tag contents
*/
public function extractOptions( $text ) {
wfProfileIn( __METHOD__ );

// Parse all possible options
$values = array();
foreach ( explode( "\n", $text ) as $line ) {
if ( strpos( $line, '=' ) === false )
continue;
list( $name, $value ) = explode( '=', $line, 2 );
$values[ strtolower( trim( $name ) ) ] = trim( $value );
}

// Build list of options, with local member names
$options = array(
'type' => 'mType',
'width' => 'mWidth',
'preload' => 'mPreload',
'page' => 'mPage',
'editintro' => 'mEditIntro',
'break' => 'mBR',
'default' => 'mDefaultText',
'bgcolor' => 'mBGColor',
'buttonlabel' => 'mButtonLabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'mSearchButtonLabel',
'fulltextbutton' => 'mFullTextButton',
'namespaces' => 'mNamespaces',
'labeltext' => 'mLabelText',
'hidden' => 'mHidden',
'id' => 'mID',
'inline' => 'mInline',
'align' => 'mAlignment',
);
foreach ( $options as $name => $var ) {
if ( isset( $values[$name] ) ) {
$this->$var = $values[$name];
}
}

// Insert a line break if configured to do so
$this->mBR = ( strtolower( $this->mBR ) == "no" ) ? '' : '<br />';

// Validate the width; make sure it's a valid, positive integer
$this->mWidth = intval( $this->mWidth <= 0 ? 50 : $this->mWidth );

wfProfileOut( __METHOD__ );
}

}
</source>

== Latest Extension of InputBox doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.13.3 ==

I've added this to my Wiki as per the install instructions and using:

<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
width=42
buttonlabel=Go
searchbuttonlabel=Search
break=no
</inputbox>
</pre>

I get :

<pre>
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Inputbox::extractOptions()
in /home/mywiki/public_html/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.hooks.php on line 31
</pre>

Well all 4 files are in there and I added the line in my LocalSettings.

I also see it's not available via the Snapshot link.

Does the author still support this extension?

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 16:57, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

----

Extension talk:InputBox/Archive 1

2009-02-21T16:57:31Z

Quatermass: /* Extension 0.1.1 doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.13.3 */

For the page history, see also [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:Inputbox&limit=250&action=history].
----
__TOC__
{{TalkFromMeta}}

<center><h1> Is it possible to use this input box on other wiki's because i've tried it and the raw syntax displays as text, any idea's/help plese?<h1></center>

==Installation==
Download the file [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/inputbox/ inputbox.php] to the folder ''extensions'' of your MediaWiki installation.
Add the line
<font face="Courier New" size="2">require_once("extensions/inputbox.php");</font> to ''LocalSettings.php''.

== I HOPE INPUTBOX can preload any word ==
such as<nowiki> [[Category:xxx]] {{xxxx}} [[xxxx]].....</nowiki>

== It would be good if ... ==

the button label "create article" can be customized, like "create city article".--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 6 July 2005 10:22 (UTC)

:Yes, that idea is good! I'd also like to be able to define a prefix for the created page. That way, I could place it on, say, [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] and only need to enter "Alpha" to create [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Alpha]]. As it is I'd have to manually enter the prefix each and every time I wanted to add a page. [[User:Master Thief Garrett|Master Thief Garrett]] 7 July 2005 21:10 (UTC)

:: Yup that is definitely a nice way to go, and furthermore you could customize the prefix at will, so you can create, for instance, a category by only putting the name, and the page Category:name would be created. [[User:82.242.132.211|82.242.132.211]] 21:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

''Copied from [[Talk:Inputbox]]''

::: '''''Yes''''', I would like to have an input box to create a page in a specific namespace, so the prefix idea would be really useful. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

In [[w:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#User talk inputbox]], [[User:Angela|Angela]] proposes using this extension to add messages to user talk pages, with the note that it only works for previously blank talk pages. To make this truly effective, it would seem expedient to add a third type, corresponding to the new section "+" functionality of talk pages. Arguably, such a type should insert " talk" into the namespace if not already present.

And would it be hard to add the facility to use an explicit message string rather than just a reference to a template?

[[User:Bovlb|Bovlb]] 04:55, 6 Jul 2005 (UTC)

== bugzilla references ==

# <s>[[bugzilla:02805]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow to set predefined titles"
# [[bugzilla:02847]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> usage of template constructs to generate the "default" option"
# [[bugzilla:02842]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow alternatively to place the header *between* the inputbox and the button not only above the inputbox"
# <s>[[bugzilla:02844]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow allow to label a button differently then [[MediaWiki:Createarticle]]"
: "''Amike''" [[User:Gangleri|Gangleri]] | [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:User talk:Gangleri|action=history}} Th] | [[{{ns:User_talk}}:Gangleri|T]] 18:32, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

== undefined function: wfmsghtml() ==

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wfmsghtml() in /var/www/.../extensions/inputbox.php on line 124

Where this wfMsgHtml come from ?

Which MediaWiki version is required ? I've 1.4.4, I'll try to upgrade.

[[User:Iubito|Iubito]] 07:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

:I found that said function is only present since version 1.5alpha2. For 1.4.x, you'll need inputbox.php version 1.3 (this is the last one without the wfMsgHtml() call)

:Have fun!

:Wolfram. [[User:217.5.190.74|217.5.190.74]] 06:56, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

== Preload Function does not work. ==

I have Mediawiki version 1.4.7. I use version 1.3 of the extension. Any suggestions on what could be a problem?
Oh, and the "default" option is not working either. But create new page and search work fine. Also, the button text is enclosed between < > brackets. Such as "<searchfulltext>". Any idea how to get rid of the brackets? Thank you. Your help is appreciated.

: You won't be able to use preload without MediaWiki 1.5, as this part of the code resides in MediaWiki itself and does not exist in 1.4. However, you should be able to get the correct messages by editing (creating) [[MediaWiki:text in brackets]], e.g. [[MediaWiki:Searchfulltext]]. In 1.5, these already exist.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 01:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

:: I have sort of a similar problem, except the angle brackets are displaying as raw HTML. I already made sure the MediaWiki messages (Searchfulltext, tryexact, createarticle) exist and have the proper messages; they do (and the messages are just text, with no brackets), but the buttons won't change. Any idea? I'm running 1.11.0. Also, my site is [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific here], for reference's sake. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 23:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

==Integration with Multiple Starting Text Hack==
<u>(Or: how I got the same functionality with 1.4)</u>
<br>Well, I really wanted this and I'm scared @#$%less of upgrading, so I downloaded and tried it. As noted in the previous comment, preload doesn't work. However, if you add a couple lines to the inputbox.php files in the right places, you can use the [[meta:Multiple starting text hack|multiple starting text hack]] to do your preloading for you.

This is somewhat dependent on how you have that particular hack installed, but for me it was the following:

# Add a getBoxOption. Not too difficult, just add it where the others are.
getBoxOption($inputbox->starttext,$input,"starttext");
# In Class InputBox, where the variables are given, just add $starttext in one of the lines.
# Where the HTML to be rendered for the CreateBox is given, just add this in the input box stuff.
<input type="hidden" name="starttext" value="{$this->starttext}_StartText">

Note that on my Wiki, I use many namespaces and thus have a <nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}_StartText</nowiki> theme going. See the Multiple Starting Text Hack discussion for more information.

So that's what works for me. Not sure, but there might be a way to implement the editintro parameter in a similar way. It doesn't really fit my needs, though, so I haven't mucked with it.

I hope that helps someone, and (as per usual) I am extremely hopeful that I didn't just point out something that's extremely obvious.

== Umvalid! ==
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHelp%3AInputbox --[[User:Paddy|Paddy]] 10:42, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
:The code created by the extension isn't invalid, but when you place more than one box of the same type on a page, all that boxes have got the same id --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 13:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

::The code outputted isn't valid in general. I'm getting errors.
<pre>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeff">
<p><form name="createbox" action="/index.php" method="get" class="createbox">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="StoryTemplate" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="" />
</p><p> <input class="createboxInput" name="title" type="text"
value="Enter Title Here" size="50"/><br />
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="Create Story With Title Above"/>
</form>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table></pre>

== Inputbox on Meta ==

I found this extension on the very day I started looking for such a feature -- ''but only thanks to luck'' -- it'd be very neat if the page showed up in the search results for 'forms' or 'html forms' or 'HTML forms'!!! -- yet I don't know if it's possible?

== type=comment ==
It would be great if you could choose to add the comment at the top instead of the bottom to get a list with the most reasent comments at the head.
--[[User:213.115.0.20|213.115.0.20]] 13:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
: +1! --[[User:80.109.61.51|80.109.61.51]] 10:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

== Namespace Specific Searches ==

Does/could this extension support a parameter listing a set of specific namespaces to be searched? The URL for such searches appears to be in the form: ".../index.php/Special:Search?ns110=1&search=SEARCHTERM&searchx=Search"

[[User:Tdoyle|Tdoyle]] 14:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

: I second this! We would specifically like it for the [[b:Cookbook]] (namespace 102!). Also, we would like a FULLTEXT-only search box (like search2, but reversed) since searching for an article name in the cookbook is rather pointless. [[b:User:Kellen|Kellen]] <sup>[[b:User_talk:Kellen|T]]</sup> [[User:80.229.36.69|80.229.36.69]] 18:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== define namespace (type=create) ==
I added a couple of lines that allow to define the namespace the article will be created in. Could it also be included in regulary versions? I added a "namespace" parameter and changed the HTML-Code in getCreateForm() as follows:
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox" onsubmit="if (document.createbox.pagename.value.substring(0,'{$this->namespace}:'.length) != '{$this->namespace}:') {document.createbox.title.value = '{$this->namespace}:' + document.createbox.pagename.value;} else {document.createbox.title.value = document.createbox.pagename.value;}">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="{$this->preload}" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="{$this->editintro}" />
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="" />
{$comment}
<input class="createboxInput" name="pagename" type="text"
value="{$this->defaulttext}" size="{$this->width}"/>{$this->br}
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="{$this->buttonlabel}"/>
</form>
(maybe, you might be able to realize that function easier ;) --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 21:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

:by removing the colon the subpage-function could be integrated and other prefixes, too --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 18:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki v1.5: Output error ==

I'm getting a strange error running Inputbox with MediaWiki v1.5 ...

when i add a text inputbox to a page using the syntax described on the Help page i get the following output instead of a textbox when the page is rendered:<br />
<code>NaodW29-inputbox319e48674cc47cb700000001</code>

I'm very new to all of this but haven't any trouble installing extensions in the past. Unfortunately i don't even know where to begin looking for a solution.
[[User:72.139.230.29|72.139.230.29]] 22:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I had the same problem. I solved it by moving the InputBox code to a template. The problem occured when the
InputBox code was on the same page as a call to a template with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MenuTabs code.
Now both MenuTabs code and InputBox code are in templates and I can use them on the same page.
Michiel.[[User:82.170.134.93|82.170.134.93]] 20:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

==editintro==
Could this box be modified, so that the 'editintro' ''does'' work on existing articles? Currently, when editing existing articles, no header text appears, but I'd like for it to be possible for editors to specify that text ''should'' appear in special cases. For example, on the Wikipedia Reference Desk, it would be possible to include a reminder of the rules in a header above each edit window, so that newbies can be gently guided.

Is there a reason the editintro is ignored by default when editing existing pages? -- [[User:Ec5618|Ec5618]] 00:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

This is something that we at the Vietnamese Wikipedia would much like, because there's obviously a lot more you can do in wikitext than in HTML comments to make editing a page more user-friendly. – [[User:Mxn|Minh Nguyễn]] <small>([[User talk:Mxn|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/Mxn|contribs]])</small> 06:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== Add to a defined category ==

'''who use this? in my mediawii,1.82 i can't find this $text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);'''

I wanted the extension to work from a category page and make a new page within the category from which it is created. I made the following changes and thought they may be useful to others. This is very much a hack, but feel free to incorporate it properly into the software if it's seen to be a good feature.

First, change the inputbox extension to include the following lines:
In the function "renderinputbox" add this line near the others:
getBoxOption($inputbox->catname,$input,'catname');
This allows you to pass the variable 'catname', which you define when you write the extension.

Under "class InputBox', add $catname to the variable listing.

Then, near the bottom of the file, add this line near the others for the form creation:
<input type="hidden" name="catname" value="{$this->catname}" />

Then, in article.php (in the includes folder), add in the following:
Under "function getContent" add in:
$catname = $wgRequest->getText( 'catname' );
So it reads in the variable.

Then, change:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);
to:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload,$catname);
And another version about 15 lines down, to pass the variable to the function.

In function getPreloaded text, change the function call from:
getPreloadedText($preload)
to
getPreloadedText($preload,$catname)

And finally, change:
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText();
}
}
to this:
if($catname) {
$cattext = "\n\n<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:" . $catname . "]]";
}
else {
$cattext = "";
}
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText() . $cattext;
}
}

That's it, you should be able to pass a category now. Change as you see fit to pass another variable to the page you're creating. Good luck!

== Pre-box label ==

Can we get a label before the input box? [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 01:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

: Take a look at the code - you should easily be able to hack that yourself, even without understanding PHP.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 02:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

:: Curiously enough, the most recent code already has a "labeltext" option for boxes of type "search2":
::: <inputbox>
type=search2
break=no
labeltext=A pre-box label:
</inputbox>
:: This made my job a lot easier. :) [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 20:12, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== bug? inputbox interrupts a numbered list ==

The inputbox is great but it seems to interrupt a numbered list:

<pre><nowiki>
# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange
</nowiki></pre>

# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange

Any idea on how to fix? [[User:Arghman|Arghman]] 22:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

:The InputBox is wrapped in a '''<nowiki><div></nowiki>''' element, forcing it to be block level. The sanitiser is probably cleaning up what it sees as a still-open '''<nowiki><ol></nowiki>''' container; or the browser is ignoring the invalid XHTML. This isn't an InputBox-specific problem. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

==error message==

Hi I'm *very* new to MediaWiki and installing an inputbox is my first ever extension, but I get the following warnings when I try to save the page (I've followed the instructions on uploading inputbox.php and edited LocalSettings.php),

Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderInputbox() in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 42

Fatal error: Call to a member function getText() on a non-object in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 60

Any pointers would be much appreciated

Hello,
I get the exact same error and to be honest I have no idea where to look to solve it. Please help. jrleonard@gmail.com

--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I also get the same error message. Are you two using EasyPHP? This is the only thing I can see that may be affecting the functioning of the extension.

PHP Version: 4.3.10

: I've got the same message too with easyphph AND on my distant website with Mw 1.5.6 (PHP: 4.4.0 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.1.10a-log ), thanks for help. --[[User:Henrique|Henrique]] 01:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[ 3/3/2006 ] Same error here, using php on Solaris:

PHP 5.0.4 (cli) (built: Jun 28 2005 22:24:45)<br>
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group<br>
Zend Engine v2.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

:Getting the same error on RHEL 3, Apache 2, PHP 4.3.2. I am ''not'' using EasyPHP. --[[User:Bradley Holt|Bradley Holt]] 18:09, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Same error here, PHP 5.0.5/Netware - this file needs to be rewritten to be compatible with the latest versions of PHP.
:See http://www.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/thread/2109/ and http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5733 for some hints to fix it

Same here - I tried php 4.4.2 and 5.0.4 ... [[User:63.229.127.222|63.229.127.222]]

===Quick Fix===
After some browsing around and quick hashing of the code I found that the following addressed the issue. However, please note that this has not yet been tested fully. Please add any issues you encounter.

Line 40: Delete variable '''&$parser''' so the function now looks like this
<pre>
function renderInputbox($input, $params)
</pre>

Line 60: Comment out the entire line starting '''$boxhtml=str_replace...''':
<pre>
# Maybe support other useful magic words here
# $boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->mTitle->getText(),$boxhtml);
</pre>
--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

::Does this disable the parser? Because that could be dangerous (allowing sql injection, html tags, etc)

Extensions don't have the power to totally disable the parser; this is just ignoring the reference to the parser passed to all parser hooks. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

That fixes the problem. Thanks. Looks like lots of people are having this same issue, trying to perform a non-object operation on that variable.

== MediaWiki 1.5: inputbox is not working==

MediaWiki v1.5

I'm sure i followed the instructions, but when i added the inbox code into a page, the browser just hung up at
.....wiki/index.php?title=Test&action=submit

Doesn't work with any other browser. Can someone give me a hand? I don't know whereelse to put this. Thanks.

:First of all, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download upgrade from 1.5.0 to 1.5.7]; your version of MediaWiki contains about four largish bugs or security issues. Next; we'll need more information in order to diagnose the problem. What you actually did; what your Apache/other HTTPD/PHP error logs state (if at all, if not, turn them on and see what comes up) etc. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.5.7: inputbox.php 1.20 hangs up while 1.19 works ==

MediaWiki 1.5.7 on Red Hat Enterprise 4 WS: With inputbox.php 1.20 version you can observe on ''/var/log/httpd/error_log''

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderinputbox() in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 42

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 60</nowiki>

I downloaded version 1.9 from MediaWiki's SourceForge CVS and it seems to work alright.

--[[User:Canne|Canne]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Exactly like you said. Thanks Canne! It's working now.

--[[User:Ming|Ming]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

==Windows?==

I have a windows installation, with IIS, which otherwise works fine. I installed Inputbox.php etc, no errors, but it just doesn't work. It seems to be running the script ok, it just doesn't render the box or translate the tags. Any ideas?

:What version of MediaWiki? Confirm that the extension is installed; check [[Special:Version]] and see what extensions are registered. Consider adding a line like

echo( "Hook run!\n" );

:to the parser hook function, to prove that's being executed. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== Inputbox on the sidebar? ==

I just installed this extension, and it's working great.

My question is; is it possible to put a "Create Article" inputbox on the sidebar? I tried to just add one beneath the last link, but the sidebar doesn't seem to recognize it. When viewed as an article, the MediaWiki:Sidebar page displays the inputbox fine.

Is there something different I have to do, or is this just not possible. If it's not possible, is there another way to have some kind of "create article" link on the sidebar?

:The sidebar doesn't interpret wiki text quite as you seem to expect. You could add such a box via edits to the skin file. Another semi-solution might be to set <code>$wgGoToEdit = true;</code> in LocalSettings.php, which causes the user to be taken to an edit form if entering a nonexisting title and clicking Go. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] ([[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]]) 12:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::“You could add such a box via edits to the skin file”
:: can you elaborate for those who are new users...

== noinclude and includeonly ==

I created a fairly simply set up to add creatures to a [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Creature_database database] on [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page SporeWiki.com]. The section [http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Creature_database&action=edit&section=16" Create a creature portal page"] preloads [http://www.sporewiki.com/MediaWiki:Content_base/creature_portal MediaWiki:Content base/creature portal] as I wanted it to, when setting it up I was really hoping that includeonly would work so that it didn't sort the mediawiki pages (since the portal template has a cat tag in it) and I found out that it does work (as you can see if you test the inputbox on the creature database page yourself). Then I wanted to be able to keep all of the messages related to adding creatures in the same place, so I figured I'd just categorize them with noinclude, but if you test out the inputbox you'll see that that portion of the code doesn't do what I thought it might... Is there any reason why that would happen, is it a mediawiki bug or an inputbox bug? Is there any temporary fix to get around it (I already set up an [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Qif if template] if that could be useful) for now until noinclude works in that manner? It'd be appreciated, thanks! [[User:69.183.38.170|69.183.38.170]] 17:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

:All I can say is "interesting problem". Apparently the includeonly tags are stripped keeping the content, but noinclude tags + content are kept as is (?). Maybe an oddity in the inputbox extension, you could report it as "bug" / missing feature / oddity at [[mediazilla:]] (component "extensions" "inputbox").
:And / or try a workaround based on [[m:ParserFunctions#.23ifeq:|#ifeq:]] MediaWiki | {{NAMESPACE}}. But I've never seen a category for system messages, better test first if that's possible at all. If not you could use an ordinary template message instead of a system message for your inputbox - the help page only uses MediaWiki examples because they are guaranteed to exist and can't be vandalized. -- [[w:User:Omniplex|Omniplex]] [[w:User talk:Omniplex|(w:t)]] 20:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know how to report bugs, and I'm not sure what you mean by a a workaround with that, but I moved it to a template and preloaded the template again and it did the same that it did earlier, loading the noinclude tag and it's text also. [[User:69.183.39.72|69.183.39.72]] 05:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::I updated the page after trying it out with {{tim|Preload demo}}.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 14:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

:::See [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5210 Bug #5210].
:::--[[User:99.236.115.46|99.236.115.46]] 05:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

== using an <s>image</s>TEMPLATE with parameters as the 'preloaded' thing ==

Is it possible? All this subst and includeonly is starting to get to me, along with nested templates...

I'm trying to simplify the process of nominating an image for FPC. see here: [[commons:User:Pfctdayelise/test]]. Any tips welcome. This is a really handy extension BTW. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 12:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

:I do not think that is possible. As a minor typing aid you can preload {{tim|T image preload}}, that is all I can think of.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:You can also preload {{tim|T image preload 2}} containing subst of {{tim|T image preload 3}}. Here you fill in the image name as parameter of the latter. There is still some duplication: the Subject/headline probably has to contain the image name too, but this is not automated.
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload 2
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

==Using inputbox to subscribe to a mailing list?==
I'm looking for an extension which will allow a user to enter his/her email adress and submit the value to an external http address. I already got the HTML code for this from the mailing list service, but have trouble building it into MW properly. Could inputbox (currently or potentially) be used for this? --[[User:Morten Blaabjerg|MortenB]] 21:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
:make a modifies version of inputbox.php that will post the input boxes contents to the php page you wish, then have the php page do whatever with the email then redirect them wherever. ;) --[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

== downloading problems? ==

I've been trying to download the inputbox.php from the links here, but it never loads for me. Is anyone else getting this problem? Or is there a different link someone can show me to get this file?

== Editintro does not work for comments ==

Even the example fails. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 15:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

==Target =new==
Is there a way to add a parameter to the inputbox so when doing page creation, the form gets posted to a new window?

This is useful for creating a page that's been populated with a list of inputboxes preloaded with titles of new pages to create.

So this way, I can go down the list and create new pages and not loose the page I'm on. You see, this is the script I'm using; so you know why this is useful for me.

This handy script will be useful for anyone who needs to create lots of these inputboxes preloaded with their topic titles so they can add a bunch of pages all at once, easily. Just edit wherever you see "TOPIC TITLE" with the respective text you need.

<pre><html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$script = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
echo "<font face=verdana>Enter a list of TOPIC TITLES to generate code to mass create pages<br>
<form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<textarea cols='80' rows='20' name='names'></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type='submit' value=' Do It ' name='submit'>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form></font>
";
}
else
{
$namelist=explode("\n",$_POST['names']);
echo " <form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'><textarea name='textarea' cols='80' rows='20'>";
for($i = 0;$i < sizeof($namelist);$i++)
{
echo "<inputbox>
type=create
preload=Template:TOPICTEMPLATE
default=".str_replace("\r","",$namelist[$i])."
buttonlabel=Add New TOPICTITLE
</inputbox>
";

}
echo " </textarea><br><input type='button' value='Highlight Text' onClick='javascript:this.form.textarea.focus();this.form.textarea.select();'></form><br><a href=/index.php?title=Template:TopicTitle&action=edit>Go to TOPICTITLE to add this code!</a>";
}
?>
</body>
</html></pre>
Maybe somebody will have fun with this code...
Anyway, I would like each inputbox thats created to open the page to be created in a new window. Is there a way to specify a target for the inputbox form?
Thanks, [[User:MediaHound|MediaHound]] 15:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

== default target ==

I think it would be useful to be able to specify a default page that it goes to if the user clicks the button when the text field is blank. Currently, it goes to Main_Page, but I think project:sandbox would be more useful. -[[User:Sanbeg|Sanbeg]] 23:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

== Full text search in input=search does not work ==

In the below box, press either button, and you get back to this page. Full text search does not work, and I don't know why. The input name is "searchx" for this button, but "fulltext" for the search button in the sidebar - which still works.

<inputbox>
type=search
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

The reason for the problem is probably easy to fix.

--[[User:Barklund|Barklund]] 19:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.8.2: Unable to install ==
I am unable to install the extension (inputbox.php 0.1.1) as well as the hack from Algorithm. I'm pretty new to mediawiki. Any clue?

Currently using:
* MediaWiki 1.8.2
* PHP 5.2
* MySQL 5.0.27

== Hiding the input box, or having only the button ==

It would be extremely nice to be able to hide the input box somehow, and default it to a certain value in the form. The reason for this would be if I wanted to comment, and I wanted to hard code where the user could comment to. Understandably, it wouldn't be secure (javascript overwriting) but still, it would be a nice addition! -- Silivrenion Jan 1 2006
:See [[#Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch]] below. [[Special:Contributions/69.138.163.138|69.138.163.138]] 01:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

==Mediawiki 1.9.0: Positioning the create box==
I am using Mediawiki 1.9.0 and this wonderfull extansion. I have noticed that by default, the extansion put itself centered on a page. I found that nice for the seach function or when you put it in a tab but I wanted that the create function and box be left positioned on the page.

To acheive this, located in the code the section (At the botom):
<pre>
<td align="center" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>

And replace by :
<pre>
<td align="left" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>
Or replace '''left''' by whatever you want ('''center''' is the default).

--[[User:Romainp|Romainp]] 16:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki: 1.6.8: ERROR On Line 67 ==

it says Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/codev/public_html/en/w/extensions/inputbox.php on line 67
please help--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

:heres my version info:
:MediaWiki: 1.6.8
:PHP: 4.4.2 (cgi)
:MySQL: 5.0.27-standard
:--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
:I got my host to set me up an account on their PHP5 server, and i just finished moving all the data to all my sites over and just upgraded the wiki to 1.9.2 and re-downloaded inputbox.php and all appears to be working fine now.--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 23:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Reason for the above given error is PHP Version 4. You need V5 - then the error will not appear on line 67.

:I fixed this error pretty easily, by unchaining the -> operators on that line, using a temp variable instead; i.e. I replaced
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->getTitle()->getText(),$boxhtml);
with:
$title = $parser->getTitle();
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$title->getText(),$boxhtml);
:I haven't tested thoroughly for any other PHP4 incompatibilities, but it seems to work, so it's probably worth putting that fix into SVN for those of us still running PHP4 (it's not that much uglier <tt>:)</tt>).
: - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 17:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

*I am also under PHP vers.4 and have the same syntax error, but showing on line 77. I could not find the line indicated by IMSoP to try his workaround, any idea of what might be the issue? Did the inputbox extension change since Feb. 2007?
:[[Special:Contributions/80.80.162.148|80.80.162.148]] 14:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== MediaWiki: 1.6.9: inputbox "breaking" script ==

I am having problems with the inputbox extension. When I add it and the entry to LocalSettings, no pages will load. I just get a blank page. I have been able to add other extensions without problems.

I am using version 1.6.9 with Linux and a MySQL backend.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

:I'm guessing this is the PHP4 compatibility problem (see section above, including fix) - if you can find your PHP error log, it's probably logging the same parse error that others have reported, it's just suppressing it from display on your live host. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 09:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

== Borders ==

Is there any way to have a border around the input box without putting the whole thing into a table?

== Defining Alignment ==

I have found the need to define the alignment for the inputbox on my wikipages, so i hae made a small modification that allows you to specify the alignment as a paramater, see [[Help:Inputbox#Define_Alignment|this]].--[[User:RyanB88|RyanB88]] 01:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== Followed all the instructions, so why is it still just code? ==

I followed all the instructions for installing the Inputbox and altering the ActionCreate (from Algorithm), but [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/index.php?title=Template:Card_Article_Creators the page] still appears as code. Did I forget something somewhere? I don't get an error; it's just that the inputboxes don't show up. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 01:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

== dynamic default text ==
hi, I want to have as default text the current date, so <inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=[[YEAR-MONTH-DAY]] my item
</inputbox>

how to implement?

--08:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:Variables and parser functions are not supported in inputbox parameters. A cumbersome workaround is to make a big switch with for every day the full wikitext of an inputbox:

{{#switch:{{CURRENTDAY}}
|16=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-16 my item
</inputbox>
|17=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-17 my item
</inputbox>
}}

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 10:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:: Right. Thanks. So that would mean 365 different inputboxes for a year, maybe not then :/. --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== combining several small fields ==
I want to make a field similar to http://wikimaas.org/AddEvent. So how to connect several small boxes, to add them together to form one page title, eg. [[YYYY-MM-DD The launch of the new inputbox]]. And can I apply a maxwidth?

For filling in it is easier to type a number - <tab> - next, instead of replacing already formatted numbers in one line. Oh, and they should also have a connected tab-order :)

<inputbox>
type=create
width=4
default=YYYY
break=no
buttonlabel= get rid of the button
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=2
default=MM
break=no
buttonlabel=month
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
default=DD
type=create
width=2
break=no
buttonlabel=year
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=24
break=no
buttonlabel=Add event
align=left
</inputbox>

--[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:MediaWiki does not allow variables in the computer programming sense, so the inputbox cannot be applied to assign a value to a variable.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 11:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
::What about a sort of redirecting to a template-page which receives these different variables, and then redirects to the to-be created page? --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 13:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:::You may be interested in [[mw:Simple Forms|Simple Forms]] (though I can't get it to work with MW 1.9.3) and/or [[mw:Semantic Forms|Semantic Forms]] (but it requires the cumbersome [[mw:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]). -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:57, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

== Background color? ==

Is there any way to to put background color on the inputbox? I'm using it on a table that has a background, and it' kind of strange to see only the inputbox with a white background. --[[User:219.121.89.169|219.121.89.169]] 11:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

'''Yes you can change the background color:'''
It is a parameter that you can set, just like "type" or "buttonlabel" - you would add the phrase bgcolor= and then add a color code

see below

<nowiki><inputbox>
type=create
'''bgcolor=#eeeeff'''
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox></nowiki>

Looks Like This:

<inputbox>
type=create
bgcolor=#0000FF
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox>

To figure out a color code, you just add in the hex numbers - as described here: http://html-color-codes.com/

==Idea for easy extension==

To make a button which runs a PHP script, eg. for sending a message using a textarea:

Add to "function render()" another type "php":

''elseif($this->type=='php') {return $this->runPHP() ...''

Add a function "runPHP" like this:

''function runPHP() {''<br />
''$createform=<<<ENDFORM''<br />
''<form name="runPHP" action="xxx.php" method="post">''<br />
''<textarea rows="3" name="textareaPHP"></textarea><br />''
''<input type='submit' value="xxx" />''<br />
''</form>''<br />
''ENDFORM;''<br />
''return $createform;''<br />
}

Perhaps ''action="xxx.php"'' must be sth. like this: ''action="http://xxx/xxx.php"'', because otherwise, a new Wiki page will be opened.

== Preload ''Upload File'' ==

I wanted to try and preload a template into the upload page, much like commons dose. I tried the commons irc and they couldn't tell me how they are doing it. So I tried at test.W with no results as you can find out yourself:

http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?action=edit&preload=Template:Dead

Any ideas? --[[:is:Notandi:Steinninn]] [[User:194.144.110.1|194.144.110.1]] 15:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:Adding text into Summary field on [[:commons:Special:Upload]] is done with Javascript and has nothing to do with Input box. See [[:commons:MediaWiki:Upload.js]] which is called from [[:commons:MediaWiki:Common.js]] ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 15:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::I can't tough JS, every time I do I break more then I fix. Maybe you, or someone els want's to do this on en:? It has been suggested at least [[:en:Wikipedia_talk:Upload#Fill_in_some_info_into_the_upload_description_box|once]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 16:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:::I'm not sure where to start, [[:en:MediaWiki talk:Common.js]] or [[:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)‎]], but in any case you need consensus first. Coding is the easy part ;) Also, I would suggest that the script doesn't insert the text ''automatically'' (like on Commons) but rather provide a link in [[:en:MediaWiki:Fileuploadsummary]] that would insert it ''when user wants'' it ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 20:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::::I made a propossal at [[:en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Make_.22Upload_file.22_more_like_on_Commons|The Village Pump]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 00:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

== Mediawiki 1.9.3 and 1.10: Namespace Searching not working ==

I have not used Inputbox before with the namespace attribute and have been unsuccessful to get it working. I have tried some of the tips posted here still with no success. I have tried using it on a couple different installs and of recent versions of Mediawiki (1.9.3 and 1.10) (PHP 5.2.2 and MySQL 5.0.24a) but with no success. It looks like it runs successfully on Wikimedia? So what am I doing wrong?! Related extensions I need to install to get it working? Ideas? Is this due to custom namespaces? <br>
Example of what I am adding:<br>
<pre>
<nowiki>
<inputbox>
type=search
namespaces=Winner,Nomination
</inputbox>
</nowiki>
</pre>

--[[User:Myotus|Myotus]] 13:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

:I experienced the same issue and found the solution. Open inputbox.php and goto line 132

<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
:and change it to
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>

:Works for me!
:--[[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]] 20:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

--[[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 00:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

:I needed this fix as well for Mediawiki 1.11, which brings up some questions:
:* Did the search interface change in some version of Mediawiki?
:* Is anyone maintaining this extension, that could make this fix permanent, or add a check for MW version?
:* Note: Search2, which doesn't seem to be documented doesn't do anything with name spaces, so that is a little trap for anyone trying to search specific name spaces.

Worked for me too, but:
* in the most current version, the suspect line is 138,
* had to close my browser and come back for changes to work.
--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

== Multiply fields ==
I'd like the function to have multiple input fields on the same submit button and the content of these fields to be applied to a pre-set template. This way it becomes like a 'wizard' for creating pages that has basic set content but with only say a few parameters of the subject being different.

For example fish profiles, these pages are often 95% identical expect for the species name, common name, colour, etc.

Can this extension do this?

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 11:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

== Suggestions from ''CreateArticle'' ==

''CreateArticle'' is based off ''Inputbox'' but [[mw:Extension talk:CreateArticle#Basic error checking|my suggestions]] for it apply to ''Inputbox'' (and other extensions based off it, like [[mw:Extension:CreateBox|CreateBox]]) as well. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:49, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

== Transparent ==

Hi!, I want to know how can I configure the inputbox to match with the background color without using the parameter '''''bgcolor''''', like, '''make it transparent'''. Also, I want to know if it's possible <u>'''put it under the search bar'''</u> in the sidebar. This is an example of what I'm talking about:

{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
</inputbox>
|}
And it should look like:
{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
bgcolor=black
</inputbox>
|}
Without using bgcolor

As you can see, the background color of the box (black) does not affect the input box background color and this gives me problems when I try to put it in the sidebar. Thank you very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 00:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

:I would try global CSS: give your table some id and then use something like <code>table.yourid form {background:color:transparent}</code>. As for sidebar, do you mean editing [[Mediawiki:Sidebar]]? I don't think it will accept inputbox. Note that if you type something in the usual search field and press Go, and the phrase is not found, then there are two links to create an article, you could make on of those links to really stand out ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 02:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

::Thank yo very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 05:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

:::If you add $wgGoToEdit = true; to your LocalSettings.php, typing a nonexistent article name in the search box and clicking "Go" will create that article. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

{{EndTalkFromMeta}}

== please add 'summary='-Option ==

Hey guys, wouldn't it be usefull if you would add an option, witch sets the summary-text of the created edit. I'd need it for german WP, for example. Thanks for ths tool. Greetings, Michi <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:88.217.29.241|88.217.29.241]] ([[User talk:88.217.29.241|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/88.217.29.241|contribs]]) 14:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC). Please sign your posts!</small>

== Bug report Inputbox revision 27198 ==

I am using PHP version 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi) on a Windows machine.
Inputbox (search) seems to be working ok, but I do see the following note
in a small font at the bottom of the wiki page on which I use the Inputbox:

PHP Notice: Undefined property: Inputbox::$labeltext in C:\iWiki\extensions\Inputbox\inputbox.php on line 153

If you need more info, let me know.
[[User:80.127.78.73|80.127.78.73]] 01:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

== Another namespace issue ==

I have tried following the above guidelines about changing line 132 but it did not work, the extension won't search in a specific namespace for me, here is an example: [http://bahaikipedia.org/User:David/sandbox3 here] Does anyone know what could be the cause? Thanks very much [[User:60.50.173.98|60.50.173.98]] 00:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki 1.11.0: Create Article issue==
I have recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11.0 and although the inputbox function still works, the button labels are labeled as &lt;createarticle&gt; and &lt;searchfulltext&gt; - where should that be fixed? --[[Special:Contributions/90.200.52.95|90.200.52.95]] 14:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
:Hi. I had the same problem at http://www.appropedia.org. I fixed it by uploading the newest code (liked on extension page) and adding the inputbox directory to the include code. I.e. I changed <code>require_once(/extensions/inputbox.php');</code> to <code>require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php');</code>. If that does not work, you could always just add the extension markup to label the buttons as you like. Good luck, --[[User:LRG|LRG]] 22:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

== Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line==
Installation Issue with mediawiki 1.9.3

I am trying to add this extension to MediaWiki 1.9.3 with no success.

I have downloaded inputbox.php and InputBox.i18n.php and placed them in /extensions/inputbox.

At the bottom of LocalSettings.php I have added <source lang="php">require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php'); .</source>

In MediaWiki I now receive:

:<code>'Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfLoadExtensionMessages() in C:\webdocs\pitawiki\extensions\inputbox\inputbox.php on line 38.</code>

I have been doing quite a bit of research on Google to find the answer myself, but it is beginning to look like I am either the only one or nobody has documented this problem before. Can someone please help?
[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 22:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

:I still am not sure what the problem was, but I have upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11 and now all works fine. --[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 17:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
::Same problem, a year later:
:::# MediaWiki: 1.7.1
:::# PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
:::# MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
:For me the problem is on line 40. Line 40 is:
<source lang="php">wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );</source>
::Line 38 is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {</source>
::Line 58 (next section) is:
<source lang="php">),</source>
::The entire section which is having problems is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),</source>
::[[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:17, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
=== Extension Inputbox fault ===

*MediaWiki: 1.9.3
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log

I am trying to install [[extension:Inputbox]] but I am getting this error while using it:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in /home/gidelimm/public_html/wiki/extensions/Inputbox/inputbox.php on line 58

Is there anybody whop can help me to sort out this problem? Thanks in advance --[[User:Plenumchamber|Plenumchamber]] 11:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

:See below for a reply. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

=== undefined function wfloadextensionmessages ===

I'm also getting the undefined function wfloadextensionmessages error.

* MediaWiki: 1.9.3
* PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 5.0.41-log

The php error log entry:
[23-Apr-2008 19:35:31] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function
wfloadextensionmessages() in .../mediawiki/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php
on line 58

:You're trying to use too up-to-date version of InputBox with a legacy version of MediaWiki; function wfLoadExtensionMessages() didn't exist prior to MW 1.11. You'll either need to upgrade your MediaWiki to a newer version, which is the preferred solution, or to use an older version of the extension. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Version history ==
I suppose the latest version of [[extension:InputBox]] is not compatible with older versions of MediaWiki.
It seems that only the latest version of InputBox is available on the Mediawiki SVN.
For example [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox#Installation] and [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox] refer to the SourceForce CVS, which doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Is there any public repository of older versions of this extension?
--Samuel <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:213.28.6.132|213.28.6.132]] ([[User talk:213.28.6.132|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/213.28.6.132|contribs]]) . Please sign your posts with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>!</small>

:That is exactly what [http://svn.wikimedia.org svn.wikimedia.org] is for. It's there so that you can download older versions of files. Extensions have been branched since [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/ MediaWiki 1.10 (REL1_10)]. The [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php?revision=21730&view=markup 1.10 branched version of Inputbox] is supposed to work with MediaWiki 1.10.

:In any case, I just can't understand why you are using old and outdated pages like Wikiquote's and test.wikipedia's pages as a reference when it comes to MediaWiki extensions. In most cases if an extension can be found at svn.wikimedia.org, its documentation can be found at MediaWiki.org — this is especially true when it comes to extensions that are [[:Extensions used on Wikimedia|used on Wikimedia sites]]. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Adding NameSpace when creating articles ==

I'd like to combine the functionalities of search and create article...<br>
I mean there should be an input box, radiobuttons with my predefined namespaces and a button.
Is there allready someone who did this?<br>
Because I tried it and for some reason it doesn't work.<br>
Can someone please help me?<br>

== Version number please ==

It would be helpful if the developers of this extension assigned a version number to this extension. This could be in both the code (so it shows up in [[special:version]]) and the {{tl|extension}} infobox on this extension page. This way at a glance we can know if our MediaWiki installations are up to to date. --[[User:Maxelrod|Maxelrod]] 22:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

== Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch ==

I needed to search specific namespace for particular pages, so I didn't want the checkbox to show, or give the user the opportunity to uncheck the box which would cause the search to fail. Here is a patch (context diff) against Version 0.1.1 that adds a parameter ''namespacehide'' which will prevent the checkboxes from being displayed.

-- [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 15:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

<pre>
*** inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:19:05 1.3
--- inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:27:06
***************
*** 103,108 ****
--- 103,109 ----
getBoxOption($inputbox->buttonlabel,$input,'buttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->searchbuttonlabel,$input,'searchbuttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->namespaces,$input,'namespaces',$parser);
+ getBoxOption($inputbox->namespacehide,$input,'namespacehide',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->id,$input,'id',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->labeltext,$input,'labeltext',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->br, $input, 'break',$parser);
***************
*** 203,214 ****
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
}
}
//Line feed
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';
--- 204,221 ----
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
+ if (!$this->namespacehide) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
+ } else {
+ $searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
+ }
}
}
}
//Line feed
! if (!$this->namespacehide) {
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
! }
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';

</pre>
:I don't understand how to fix it but would like to see this option to hide the checkbox(es). SO what about a Version 0.1.2? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

===patch for current revision===
Perhaps they've made a revision without changing the version number, but the code above does not match version 0.1.1 that is available currently at SVN. To make [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]]'s patch work with the current revision, make the following changes:
====make the namespace selection work====
Follow [[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]]'s patch (above) and replace
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
with
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
====introduce a new variable====
I've called it '$showboxes' instead of 'namespacehide' because the patch hides the boxes by default and the parameter is used only to "show" the boxes. Find:
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces,;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces, $showboxes;
</pre>

====hook the new parameter====
Find:
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
);
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
'showboxes' => 'showboxes',
);
</pre>
====add new conditional rendering====
Find:
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
} else {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
}
}
</pre>

And find:
<pre>
//Line feed
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
//Line feed
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
}
</pre>

--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 20:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category?==
Would it be possible to have the Inputbox being display as search box on all category pages so you can search the category (only consider the articles in this category)?<br />
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. This adds a special page and will search those article pages which are included in the category you've entered in the search fields. But you cannot enter normal search terms, only category names. So it would be nice to search articles in only 1 category. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
:I second this. It'd be a great idea.

== Default value ==

It would be nice if the default value in the box would disappear by clicking into it in order to type. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

== Can you use Inputbox to use an external search engine? ==

I'd like to be able to use inputbox to search an external search engine. Is that possible? Would be great if that was built in. --[[User:Apolloni|Apolloni]] 09:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== Parsing ==

Has anyone looked into adding the capability to allow for parser functions inside the <nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> tags?

[[User:Caile13|Kay]]

== Searching in namespaces ==

On the [http://tiddlywiki.com TiddlyWiki] [http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Help:Developer_Search community wiki] we're using this extension to create the following search form:
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
searchbuttonlabel=Search Developers Documentation
width=24
namespaces=Dev**,Dev_talk**
</inputbox>
</pre>
However, this doesn't actually search the specified namespaces.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- [[User:FND|FND]] 08:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

==Invalid Parameters==
Some parameters became invalid. What's wrong?--[[User:Πrate|百楽兎]] 01:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

== Inputbox + AJAX Search Suggestion? ==
Hi, I like this extension very much - one question: Is there any possibility to combine the search inputbox with the AJAX search suggestion on MediaWiki 1.13 or with the extension Search Suggest? I've already tried various things, but I haven't found a proper solution yet. I think it would be very useful...
Thank you. --[[User:Filburt|Filburt]] 07:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

==PHP warning ==
With the latest svn revision of inputbox working over the latest svn revision of mediawiki 1.14alpha, I see the php warning: PHP Warning: call_user_func_array() [<a href='function.call-user-func-array'>function.call
-user-func-array</a>]: Unable to call InputBoxHooks::render() in includes/p
arser/Parser.php on line 3330. [[User:NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis|NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis]] 14:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Bug with "default" parameter ==

Hi,

There seems to be a problem with the <code>default</code> parameter. Look at [[Extension:InputBox#Parameters]] : below this code :
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
</pre>
... there is no text in the inputbox :
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
[[User:Delhovlyn|Delhovlyn]] 20:52, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Fixing the broken InputBox ==

The current checked in version simply doesn't load as people have pointed out.
This is easy to fix, and you can simplify the code. Basically get rid of the
Inputbox.hooks.php.

1. In Inputbox.php replace everything from line 50 on with:
<source lang="php">

// Register parser hook
if ( defined( 'MW_SUPPORTS_PARSERFIRSTCALLINIT' ) ) {
// Modern
$wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = 'wfInputBox';
} else {
// Legacy
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfInputBox';
}

function wfInputBox ()
{
new InputBox;
return true;
}
</source>
2.In Inputbox.classes.php get rid of the __construct function and replace it
with:
<source lang="php">
function InputBox() {
global $wgParser;

$wgParser->setHook( 'inputbox' , array( &$this, 'render' ) );
}

public function render( $input, $args, $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;

// Configure InputBox
$this->extractOptions( $parser->replaceVariables( $input ) );

// Return output
return $this->render();
}
</source>
and you're done! {{unsigned|Thempel}} 16:49, 6 November 2008
:You need to be more specific is the construct function the following:
<source lang="php">
public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}
</source>
:I get another error message:
::<code>Fatal error: Call to a member function replaceVariables() on a non-object in /home/(mywikiname)/public_html/wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line 45</code>
:Line 45 is:
<source lang="php">// Configure InputBox</source>
:Again, I am using mediawiki 1.7.1. [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

== In subpages ==

Hello,<br>
I'm a french wikibookian... I would like to know if it can be possible to search in the subpages.
Thanks !
--[[Special:Contributions/79.87.132.217|79.87.132.217]] 12:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

== Align link broken==
The link to the current code in the Align section of this page is broken. {{unsigned|76.191.159.88}} 01:00, 13 December 2008

:I changed Inputbox.classes.php to put this feature back in. I think the other align code was lost in the move.
:Sorry I didn't do this via svn, but I don't have enough time to set svn up right now.[[User:Wezelboy|Wezelboy]] 18:23, 19 December 2008

<source lang="php">
<?php
/**
* Classes for InputBox extension
*
* @file
* @ingroup Extensions
*/

// InputBox class
class InputBox {

/* Fields */

private $mParser;
private $mType = '';
private $mWidth = 50;
private $mPreload = '';
private $mEditIntro = '';
private $mPage = '';
private $mBR = 'yes';
private $mDefaultText = '';
private $mBGColor = 'transparent';
private $mButtonLabel = '';
private $mSearchButtonLabel = '';
private $mFullTextButton = '';
private $mLabelText = '';
private $mHidden = '';
private $mNamespaces = '';
private $mID = '';
private $mInline = false;
private $mAlignment = 'center';

/* Functions */

public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}

/**
* Generate search form
*/
public function getSearchForm() {
global $wgContLang;

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}
if ( !$this->mSearchButtonLabel ) {
$this->mSearchButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'searchfulltext' );
}

// Build HTML
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'searchbox',
'id' => 'searchbox',
'class' => 'searchbox',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'class' => 'searchboxInput',
'name' => 'search',
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth,
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;

// Determine namespace checkboxes
$namespaces = $wgContLang->getNamespaces();
$namespacesArray = explode( ',', $this->mNamespaces );
if ( $this->mNamespaces ) {
foreach ( $namespacesArray as $userNamespace ) {
$checked = array();
// Namespace needs to be checked if flagged with "**" or if it's the only one
if ( strstr( $userNamespace, '**' ) || count( $namespacesArray ) == 1 ) {
$userNamespace = str_replace( '**', '', $userNamespace );
$checked = array( 'checked' => 'checked' );
}

// Namespace checkboxes
foreach ( $namespaces as $i => $name ) {
if ( $i < 0 ) {
continue;
} elseif ( $i == 0 ) {
$name = 'Main';
}
if ( $userNamespace == $name ) {
// Checkbox
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'checkbox',
'name' => 'ns' . $i,
'value' => 1,
'id' => 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i
) + $checked
);
// Label
$htmlOut .= ' ' . Xml::label( $userNamespace, 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i );
}
}
}

// Line break
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
} else {
// Go button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'class' => 'searchboxGoButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= ' ';
}

// Search button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'searchboxSearchButton',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/*
* Generate search form version 2
*/
public function getSearchForm2() {

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}

$id = Sanitizer::escapeId( $this->mID );
$htmlLabel = '';
if ( isset( $this->mLabelText ) && strlen( trim( $this->mLabelText ) ) ) {
$this->mLabelText = $this->mParser->recursiveTagParse( $this->mLabelText );
$htmlLabel = Xml::openElement( 'label', array( 'for' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id ) );
$htmlLabel .= $this->mLabelText;
$htmlLabel .= Xml::closeElement( 'label' );
}
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'id' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'class' => 'bodySearch',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
'style' => $this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'class' => 'bodySearchWrap',
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor . ';' .
$this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= $htmlLabel;
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'search',
'size' => $this->mWidth,
'id' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel,
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnGo' . $id
)
);

// Better testing needed here!
if ( !empty( $this->mFullTextButton ) ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnSearch',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
}

$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate create page form
*/
public function getCreateForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( $this->mType == "comment" ) {
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}
} else {
$comment = '';
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'createarticle' );
}
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'createbox',
'id' => 'createbox',
'class' => 'createbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
if ( $this->mType == 'comment' ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
}
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'title',
'class' => 'createboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'createboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate new section form
*/
public function getCommentForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'commentbox',
'id' => 'commentbox',
'class' => 'commentbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'preloadtitle',
'class' => 'commentboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'title',
'value' => $this->mPage
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'commentboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Extract options from a blob of text
*
* @param string $text Tag contents
*/
public function extractOptions( $text ) {
wfProfileIn( __METHOD__ );

// Parse all possible options
$values = array();
foreach ( explode( "\n", $text ) as $line ) {
if ( strpos( $line, '=' ) === false )
continue;
list( $name, $value ) = explode( '=', $line, 2 );
$values[ strtolower( trim( $name ) ) ] = trim( $value );
}

// Build list of options, with local member names
$options = array(
'type' => 'mType',
'width' => 'mWidth',
'preload' => 'mPreload',
'page' => 'mPage',
'editintro' => 'mEditIntro',
'break' => 'mBR',
'default' => 'mDefaultText',
'bgcolor' => 'mBGColor',
'buttonlabel' => 'mButtonLabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'mSearchButtonLabel',
'fulltextbutton' => 'mFullTextButton',
'namespaces' => 'mNamespaces',
'labeltext' => 'mLabelText',
'hidden' => 'mHidden',
'id' => 'mID',
'inline' => 'mInline',
'align' => 'mAlignment',
);
foreach ( $options as $name => $var ) {
if ( isset( $values[$name] ) ) {
$this->$var = $values[$name];
}
}

// Insert a line break if configured to do so
$this->mBR = ( strtolower( $this->mBR ) == "no" ) ? '' : '<br />';

// Validate the width; make sure it's a valid, positive integer
$this->mWidth = intval( $this->mWidth <= 0 ? 50 : $this->mWidth );

wfProfileOut( __METHOD__ );
}

}
</source>

== Extension 0.1.1 doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.13.3 ==

I've added this to my Wiki as per the install instructions and using:

<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
width=42
buttonlabel=Go
searchbuttonlabel=Search
break=no
</inputbox>
</pre>

I get :

<pre>
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Inputbox::extractOptions()
in /home/mywiki/public_html/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.hooks.php on line 31
</pre>

Well all 4 files are in there and I added the line in my LocalSettings.

I also see it's not available via the Snapshot link.

Does the author still support this extension?

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 16:57, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

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Extension talk:InputBox/Archive 1

2009-02-21T16:54:56Z

Quatermass: /* Extension 0.1.1 doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.13.3 */

For the page history, see also [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:Inputbox&limit=250&action=history].
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__TOC__
{{TalkFromMeta}}

<center><h1> Is it possible to use this input box on other wiki's because i've tried it and the raw syntax displays as text, any idea's/help plese?<h1></center>

==Installation==
Download the file [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/inputbox/ inputbox.php] to the folder ''extensions'' of your MediaWiki installation.
Add the line
<font face="Courier New" size="2">require_once("extensions/inputbox.php");</font> to ''LocalSettings.php''.

== I HOPE INPUTBOX can preload any word ==
such as<nowiki> [[Category:xxx]] {{xxxx}} [[xxxx]].....</nowiki>

== It would be good if ... ==

the button label "create article" can be customized, like "create city article".--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 6 July 2005 10:22 (UTC)

:Yes, that idea is good! I'd also like to be able to define a prefix for the created page. That way, I could place it on, say, [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] and only need to enter "Alpha" to create [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Alpha]]. As it is I'd have to manually enter the prefix each and every time I wanted to add a page. [[User:Master Thief Garrett|Master Thief Garrett]] 7 July 2005 21:10 (UTC)

:: Yup that is definitely a nice way to go, and furthermore you could customize the prefix at will, so you can create, for instance, a category by only putting the name, and the page Category:name would be created. [[User:82.242.132.211|82.242.132.211]] 21:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

''Copied from [[Talk:Inputbox]]''

::: '''''Yes''''', I would like to have an input box to create a page in a specific namespace, so the prefix idea would be really useful. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

In [[w:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#User talk inputbox]], [[User:Angela|Angela]] proposes using this extension to add messages to user talk pages, with the note that it only works for previously blank talk pages. To make this truly effective, it would seem expedient to add a third type, corresponding to the new section "+" functionality of talk pages. Arguably, such a type should insert " talk" into the namespace if not already present.

And would it be hard to add the facility to use an explicit message string rather than just a reference to a template?

[[User:Bovlb|Bovlb]] 04:55, 6 Jul 2005 (UTC)

== bugzilla references ==

# <s>[[bugzilla:02805]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow to set predefined titles"
# [[bugzilla:02847]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> usage of template constructs to generate the "default" option"
# [[bugzilla:02842]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow alternatively to place the header *between* the inputbox and the button not only above the inputbox"
# <s>[[bugzilla:02844]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow allow to label a button differently then [[MediaWiki:Createarticle]]"
: "''Amike''" [[User:Gangleri|Gangleri]] | [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:User talk:Gangleri|action=history}} Th] | [[{{ns:User_talk}}:Gangleri|T]] 18:32, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

== undefined function: wfmsghtml() ==

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wfmsghtml() in /var/www/.../extensions/inputbox.php on line 124

Where this wfMsgHtml come from ?

Which MediaWiki version is required ? I've 1.4.4, I'll try to upgrade.

[[User:Iubito|Iubito]] 07:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

:I found that said function is only present since version 1.5alpha2. For 1.4.x, you'll need inputbox.php version 1.3 (this is the last one without the wfMsgHtml() call)

:Have fun!

:Wolfram. [[User:217.5.190.74|217.5.190.74]] 06:56, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

== Preload Function does not work. ==

I have Mediawiki version 1.4.7. I use version 1.3 of the extension. Any suggestions on what could be a problem?
Oh, and the "default" option is not working either. But create new page and search work fine. Also, the button text is enclosed between < > brackets. Such as "<searchfulltext>". Any idea how to get rid of the brackets? Thank you. Your help is appreciated.

: You won't be able to use preload without MediaWiki 1.5, as this part of the code resides in MediaWiki itself and does not exist in 1.4. However, you should be able to get the correct messages by editing (creating) [[MediaWiki:text in brackets]], e.g. [[MediaWiki:Searchfulltext]]. In 1.5, these already exist.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 01:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

:: I have sort of a similar problem, except the angle brackets are displaying as raw HTML. I already made sure the MediaWiki messages (Searchfulltext, tryexact, createarticle) exist and have the proper messages; they do (and the messages are just text, with no brackets), but the buttons won't change. Any idea? I'm running 1.11.0. Also, my site is [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific here], for reference's sake. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 23:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

==Integration with Multiple Starting Text Hack==
<u>(Or: how I got the same functionality with 1.4)</u>
<br>Well, I really wanted this and I'm scared @#$%less of upgrading, so I downloaded and tried it. As noted in the previous comment, preload doesn't work. However, if you add a couple lines to the inputbox.php files in the right places, you can use the [[meta:Multiple starting text hack|multiple starting text hack]] to do your preloading for you.

This is somewhat dependent on how you have that particular hack installed, but for me it was the following:

# Add a getBoxOption. Not too difficult, just add it where the others are.
getBoxOption($inputbox->starttext,$input,"starttext");
# In Class InputBox, where the variables are given, just add $starttext in one of the lines.
# Where the HTML to be rendered for the CreateBox is given, just add this in the input box stuff.
<input type="hidden" name="starttext" value="{$this->starttext}_StartText">

Note that on my Wiki, I use many namespaces and thus have a <nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}_StartText</nowiki> theme going. See the Multiple Starting Text Hack discussion for more information.

So that's what works for me. Not sure, but there might be a way to implement the editintro parameter in a similar way. It doesn't really fit my needs, though, so I haven't mucked with it.

I hope that helps someone, and (as per usual) I am extremely hopeful that I didn't just point out something that's extremely obvious.

== Umvalid! ==
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHelp%3AInputbox --[[User:Paddy|Paddy]] 10:42, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
:The code created by the extension isn't invalid, but when you place more than one box of the same type on a page, all that boxes have got the same id --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 13:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

::The code outputted isn't valid in general. I'm getting errors.
<pre>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeff">
<p><form name="createbox" action="/index.php" method="get" class="createbox">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="StoryTemplate" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="" />
</p><p> <input class="createboxInput" name="title" type="text"
value="Enter Title Here" size="50"/><br />
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="Create Story With Title Above"/>
</form>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table></pre>

== Inputbox on Meta ==

I found this extension on the very day I started looking for such a feature -- ''but only thanks to luck'' -- it'd be very neat if the page showed up in the search results for 'forms' or 'html forms' or 'HTML forms'!!! -- yet I don't know if it's possible?

== type=comment ==
It would be great if you could choose to add the comment at the top instead of the bottom to get a list with the most reasent comments at the head.
--[[User:213.115.0.20|213.115.0.20]] 13:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
: +1! --[[User:80.109.61.51|80.109.61.51]] 10:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

== Namespace Specific Searches ==

Does/could this extension support a parameter listing a set of specific namespaces to be searched? The URL for such searches appears to be in the form: ".../index.php/Special:Search?ns110=1&search=SEARCHTERM&searchx=Search"

[[User:Tdoyle|Tdoyle]] 14:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

: I second this! We would specifically like it for the [[b:Cookbook]] (namespace 102!). Also, we would like a FULLTEXT-only search box (like search2, but reversed) since searching for an article name in the cookbook is rather pointless. [[b:User:Kellen|Kellen]] <sup>[[b:User_talk:Kellen|T]]</sup> [[User:80.229.36.69|80.229.36.69]] 18:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== define namespace (type=create) ==
I added a couple of lines that allow to define the namespace the article will be created in. Could it also be included in regulary versions? I added a "namespace" parameter and changed the HTML-Code in getCreateForm() as follows:
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox" onsubmit="if (document.createbox.pagename.value.substring(0,'{$this->namespace}:'.length) != '{$this->namespace}:') {document.createbox.title.value = '{$this->namespace}:' + document.createbox.pagename.value;} else {document.createbox.title.value = document.createbox.pagename.value;}">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="{$this->preload}" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="{$this->editintro}" />
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="" />
{$comment}
<input class="createboxInput" name="pagename" type="text"
value="{$this->defaulttext}" size="{$this->width}"/>{$this->br}
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="{$this->buttonlabel}"/>
</form>
(maybe, you might be able to realize that function easier ;) --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 21:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

:by removing the colon the subpage-function could be integrated and other prefixes, too --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 18:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki v1.5: Output error ==

I'm getting a strange error running Inputbox with MediaWiki v1.5 ...

when i add a text inputbox to a page using the syntax described on the Help page i get the following output instead of a textbox when the page is rendered:<br />
<code>NaodW29-inputbox319e48674cc47cb700000001</code>

I'm very new to all of this but haven't any trouble installing extensions in the past. Unfortunately i don't even know where to begin looking for a solution.
[[User:72.139.230.29|72.139.230.29]] 22:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I had the same problem. I solved it by moving the InputBox code to a template. The problem occured when the
InputBox code was on the same page as a call to a template with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MenuTabs code.
Now both MenuTabs code and InputBox code are in templates and I can use them on the same page.
Michiel.[[User:82.170.134.93|82.170.134.93]] 20:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

==editintro==
Could this box be modified, so that the 'editintro' ''does'' work on existing articles? Currently, when editing existing articles, no header text appears, but I'd like for it to be possible for editors to specify that text ''should'' appear in special cases. For example, on the Wikipedia Reference Desk, it would be possible to include a reminder of the rules in a header above each edit window, so that newbies can be gently guided.

Is there a reason the editintro is ignored by default when editing existing pages? -- [[User:Ec5618|Ec5618]] 00:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

This is something that we at the Vietnamese Wikipedia would much like, because there's obviously a lot more you can do in wikitext than in HTML comments to make editing a page more user-friendly. – [[User:Mxn|Minh Nguyễn]] <small>([[User talk:Mxn|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/Mxn|contribs]])</small> 06:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== Add to a defined category ==

'''who use this? in my mediawii,1.82 i can't find this $text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);'''

I wanted the extension to work from a category page and make a new page within the category from which it is created. I made the following changes and thought they may be useful to others. This is very much a hack, but feel free to incorporate it properly into the software if it's seen to be a good feature.

First, change the inputbox extension to include the following lines:
In the function "renderinputbox" add this line near the others:
getBoxOption($inputbox->catname,$input,'catname');
This allows you to pass the variable 'catname', which you define when you write the extension.

Under "class InputBox', add $catname to the variable listing.

Then, near the bottom of the file, add this line near the others for the form creation:
<input type="hidden" name="catname" value="{$this->catname}" />

Then, in article.php (in the includes folder), add in the following:
Under "function getContent" add in:
$catname = $wgRequest->getText( 'catname' );
So it reads in the variable.

Then, change:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);
to:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload,$catname);
And another version about 15 lines down, to pass the variable to the function.

In function getPreloaded text, change the function call from:
getPreloadedText($preload)
to
getPreloadedText($preload,$catname)

And finally, change:
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText();
}
}
to this:
if($catname) {
$cattext = "\n\n<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:" . $catname . "]]";
}
else {
$cattext = "";
}
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText() . $cattext;
}
}

That's it, you should be able to pass a category now. Change as you see fit to pass another variable to the page you're creating. Good luck!

== Pre-box label ==

Can we get a label before the input box? [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 01:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

: Take a look at the code - you should easily be able to hack that yourself, even without understanding PHP.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 02:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

:: Curiously enough, the most recent code already has a "labeltext" option for boxes of type "search2":
::: <inputbox>
type=search2
break=no
labeltext=A pre-box label:
</inputbox>
:: This made my job a lot easier. :) [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 20:12, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== bug? inputbox interrupts a numbered list ==

The inputbox is great but it seems to interrupt a numbered list:

<pre><nowiki>
# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange
</nowiki></pre>

# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange

Any idea on how to fix? [[User:Arghman|Arghman]] 22:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

:The InputBox is wrapped in a '''<nowiki><div></nowiki>''' element, forcing it to be block level. The sanitiser is probably cleaning up what it sees as a still-open '''<nowiki><ol></nowiki>''' container; or the browser is ignoring the invalid XHTML. This isn't an InputBox-specific problem. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

==error message==

Hi I'm *very* new to MediaWiki and installing an inputbox is my first ever extension, but I get the following warnings when I try to save the page (I've followed the instructions on uploading inputbox.php and edited LocalSettings.php),

Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderInputbox() in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 42

Fatal error: Call to a member function getText() on a non-object in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 60

Any pointers would be much appreciated

Hello,
I get the exact same error and to be honest I have no idea where to look to solve it. Please help. jrleonard@gmail.com

--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I also get the same error message. Are you two using EasyPHP? This is the only thing I can see that may be affecting the functioning of the extension.

PHP Version: 4.3.10

: I've got the same message too with easyphph AND on my distant website with Mw 1.5.6 (PHP: 4.4.0 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.1.10a-log ), thanks for help. --[[User:Henrique|Henrique]] 01:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[ 3/3/2006 ] Same error here, using php on Solaris:

PHP 5.0.4 (cli) (built: Jun 28 2005 22:24:45)<br>
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group<br>
Zend Engine v2.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

:Getting the same error on RHEL 3, Apache 2, PHP 4.3.2. I am ''not'' using EasyPHP. --[[User:Bradley Holt|Bradley Holt]] 18:09, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Same error here, PHP 5.0.5/Netware - this file needs to be rewritten to be compatible with the latest versions of PHP.
:See http://www.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/thread/2109/ and http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5733 for some hints to fix it

Same here - I tried php 4.4.2 and 5.0.4 ... [[User:63.229.127.222|63.229.127.222]]

===Quick Fix===
After some browsing around and quick hashing of the code I found that the following addressed the issue. However, please note that this has not yet been tested fully. Please add any issues you encounter.

Line 40: Delete variable '''&$parser''' so the function now looks like this
<pre>
function renderInputbox($input, $params)
</pre>

Line 60: Comment out the entire line starting '''$boxhtml=str_replace...''':
<pre>
# Maybe support other useful magic words here
# $boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->mTitle->getText(),$boxhtml);
</pre>
--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

::Does this disable the parser? Because that could be dangerous (allowing sql injection, html tags, etc)

Extensions don't have the power to totally disable the parser; this is just ignoring the reference to the parser passed to all parser hooks. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

That fixes the problem. Thanks. Looks like lots of people are having this same issue, trying to perform a non-object operation on that variable.

== MediaWiki 1.5: inputbox is not working==

MediaWiki v1.5

I'm sure i followed the instructions, but when i added the inbox code into a page, the browser just hung up at
.....wiki/index.php?title=Test&action=submit

Doesn't work with any other browser. Can someone give me a hand? I don't know whereelse to put this. Thanks.

:First of all, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download upgrade from 1.5.0 to 1.5.7]; your version of MediaWiki contains about four largish bugs or security issues. Next; we'll need more information in order to diagnose the problem. What you actually did; what your Apache/other HTTPD/PHP error logs state (if at all, if not, turn them on and see what comes up) etc. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.5.7: inputbox.php 1.20 hangs up while 1.19 works ==

MediaWiki 1.5.7 on Red Hat Enterprise 4 WS: With inputbox.php 1.20 version you can observe on ''/var/log/httpd/error_log''

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderinputbox() in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 42

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 60</nowiki>

I downloaded version 1.9 from MediaWiki's SourceForge CVS and it seems to work alright.

--[[User:Canne|Canne]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Exactly like you said. Thanks Canne! It's working now.

--[[User:Ming|Ming]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

==Windows?==

I have a windows installation, with IIS, which otherwise works fine. I installed Inputbox.php etc, no errors, but it just doesn't work. It seems to be running the script ok, it just doesn't render the box or translate the tags. Any ideas?

:What version of MediaWiki? Confirm that the extension is installed; check [[Special:Version]] and see what extensions are registered. Consider adding a line like

echo( "Hook run!\n" );

:to the parser hook function, to prove that's being executed. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== Inputbox on the sidebar? ==

I just installed this extension, and it's working great.

My question is; is it possible to put a "Create Article" inputbox on the sidebar? I tried to just add one beneath the last link, but the sidebar doesn't seem to recognize it. When viewed as an article, the MediaWiki:Sidebar page displays the inputbox fine.

Is there something different I have to do, or is this just not possible. If it's not possible, is there another way to have some kind of "create article" link on the sidebar?

:The sidebar doesn't interpret wiki text quite as you seem to expect. You could add such a box via edits to the skin file. Another semi-solution might be to set <code>$wgGoToEdit = true;</code> in LocalSettings.php, which causes the user to be taken to an edit form if entering a nonexisting title and clicking Go. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] ([[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]]) 12:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::“You could add such a box via edits to the skin file”
:: can you elaborate for those who are new users...

== noinclude and includeonly ==

I created a fairly simply set up to add creatures to a [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Creature_database database] on [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page SporeWiki.com]. The section [http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Creature_database&action=edit&section=16" Create a creature portal page"] preloads [http://www.sporewiki.com/MediaWiki:Content_base/creature_portal MediaWiki:Content base/creature portal] as I wanted it to, when setting it up I was really hoping that includeonly would work so that it didn't sort the mediawiki pages (since the portal template has a cat tag in it) and I found out that it does work (as you can see if you test the inputbox on the creature database page yourself). Then I wanted to be able to keep all of the messages related to adding creatures in the same place, so I figured I'd just categorize them with noinclude, but if you test out the inputbox you'll see that that portion of the code doesn't do what I thought it might... Is there any reason why that would happen, is it a mediawiki bug or an inputbox bug? Is there any temporary fix to get around it (I already set up an [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Qif if template] if that could be useful) for now until noinclude works in that manner? It'd be appreciated, thanks! [[User:69.183.38.170|69.183.38.170]] 17:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

:All I can say is "interesting problem". Apparently the includeonly tags are stripped keeping the content, but noinclude tags + content are kept as is (?). Maybe an oddity in the inputbox extension, you could report it as "bug" / missing feature / oddity at [[mediazilla:]] (component "extensions" "inputbox").
:And / or try a workaround based on [[m:ParserFunctions#.23ifeq:|#ifeq:]] MediaWiki | {{NAMESPACE}}. But I've never seen a category for system messages, better test first if that's possible at all. If not you could use an ordinary template message instead of a system message for your inputbox - the help page only uses MediaWiki examples because they are guaranteed to exist and can't be vandalized. -- [[w:User:Omniplex|Omniplex]] [[w:User talk:Omniplex|(w:t)]] 20:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know how to report bugs, and I'm not sure what you mean by a a workaround with that, but I moved it to a template and preloaded the template again and it did the same that it did earlier, loading the noinclude tag and it's text also. [[User:69.183.39.72|69.183.39.72]] 05:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::I updated the page after trying it out with {{tim|Preload demo}}.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 14:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

:::See [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5210 Bug #5210].
:::--[[User:99.236.115.46|99.236.115.46]] 05:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

== using an <s>image</s>TEMPLATE with parameters as the 'preloaded' thing ==

Is it possible? All this subst and includeonly is starting to get to me, along with nested templates...

I'm trying to simplify the process of nominating an image for FPC. see here: [[commons:User:Pfctdayelise/test]]. Any tips welcome. This is a really handy extension BTW. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 12:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

:I do not think that is possible. As a minor typing aid you can preload {{tim|T image preload}}, that is all I can think of.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:You can also preload {{tim|T image preload 2}} containing subst of {{tim|T image preload 3}}. Here you fill in the image name as parameter of the latter. There is still some duplication: the Subject/headline probably has to contain the image name too, but this is not automated.
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload 2
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

==Using inputbox to subscribe to a mailing list?==
I'm looking for an extension which will allow a user to enter his/her email adress and submit the value to an external http address. I already got the HTML code for this from the mailing list service, but have trouble building it into MW properly. Could inputbox (currently or potentially) be used for this? --[[User:Morten Blaabjerg|MortenB]] 21:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
:make a modifies version of inputbox.php that will post the input boxes contents to the php page you wish, then have the php page do whatever with the email then redirect them wherever. ;) --[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

== downloading problems? ==

I've been trying to download the inputbox.php from the links here, but it never loads for me. Is anyone else getting this problem? Or is there a different link someone can show me to get this file?

== Editintro does not work for comments ==

Even the example fails. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 15:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

==Target =new==
Is there a way to add a parameter to the inputbox so when doing page creation, the form gets posted to a new window?

This is useful for creating a page that's been populated with a list of inputboxes preloaded with titles of new pages to create.

So this way, I can go down the list and create new pages and not loose the page I'm on. You see, this is the script I'm using; so you know why this is useful for me.

This handy script will be useful for anyone who needs to create lots of these inputboxes preloaded with their topic titles so they can add a bunch of pages all at once, easily. Just edit wherever you see "TOPIC TITLE" with the respective text you need.

<pre><html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$script = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
echo "<font face=verdana>Enter a list of TOPIC TITLES to generate code to mass create pages<br>
<form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<textarea cols='80' rows='20' name='names'></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type='submit' value=' Do It ' name='submit'>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form></font>
";
}
else
{
$namelist=explode("\n",$_POST['names']);
echo " <form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'><textarea name='textarea' cols='80' rows='20'>";
for($i = 0;$i < sizeof($namelist);$i++)
{
echo "<inputbox>
type=create
preload=Template:TOPICTEMPLATE
default=".str_replace("\r","",$namelist[$i])."
buttonlabel=Add New TOPICTITLE
</inputbox>
";

}
echo " </textarea><br><input type='button' value='Highlight Text' onClick='javascript:this.form.textarea.focus();this.form.textarea.select();'></form><br><a href=/index.php?title=Template:TopicTitle&action=edit>Go to TOPICTITLE to add this code!</a>";
}
?>
</body>
</html></pre>
Maybe somebody will have fun with this code...
Anyway, I would like each inputbox thats created to open the page to be created in a new window. Is there a way to specify a target for the inputbox form?
Thanks, [[User:MediaHound|MediaHound]] 15:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

== default target ==

I think it would be useful to be able to specify a default page that it goes to if the user clicks the button when the text field is blank. Currently, it goes to Main_Page, but I think project:sandbox would be more useful. -[[User:Sanbeg|Sanbeg]] 23:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

== Full text search in input=search does not work ==

In the below box, press either button, and you get back to this page. Full text search does not work, and I don't know why. The input name is "searchx" for this button, but "fulltext" for the search button in the sidebar - which still works.

<inputbox>
type=search
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

The reason for the problem is probably easy to fix.

--[[User:Barklund|Barklund]] 19:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.8.2: Unable to install ==
I am unable to install the extension (inputbox.php 0.1.1) as well as the hack from Algorithm. I'm pretty new to mediawiki. Any clue?

Currently using:
* MediaWiki 1.8.2
* PHP 5.2
* MySQL 5.0.27

== Hiding the input box, or having only the button ==

It would be extremely nice to be able to hide the input box somehow, and default it to a certain value in the form. The reason for this would be if I wanted to comment, and I wanted to hard code where the user could comment to. Understandably, it wouldn't be secure (javascript overwriting) but still, it would be a nice addition! -- Silivrenion Jan 1 2006
:See [[#Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch]] below. [[Special:Contributions/69.138.163.138|69.138.163.138]] 01:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

==Mediawiki 1.9.0: Positioning the create box==
I am using Mediawiki 1.9.0 and this wonderfull extansion. I have noticed that by default, the extansion put itself centered on a page. I found that nice for the seach function or when you put it in a tab but I wanted that the create function and box be left positioned on the page.

To acheive this, located in the code the section (At the botom):
<pre>
<td align="center" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>

And replace by :
<pre>
<td align="left" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>
Or replace '''left''' by whatever you want ('''center''' is the default).

--[[User:Romainp|Romainp]] 16:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki: 1.6.8: ERROR On Line 67 ==

it says Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/codev/public_html/en/w/extensions/inputbox.php on line 67
please help--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

:heres my version info:
:MediaWiki: 1.6.8
:PHP: 4.4.2 (cgi)
:MySQL: 5.0.27-standard
:--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
:I got my host to set me up an account on their PHP5 server, and i just finished moving all the data to all my sites over and just upgraded the wiki to 1.9.2 and re-downloaded inputbox.php and all appears to be working fine now.--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 23:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Reason for the above given error is PHP Version 4. You need V5 - then the error will not appear on line 67.

:I fixed this error pretty easily, by unchaining the -> operators on that line, using a temp variable instead; i.e. I replaced
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->getTitle()->getText(),$boxhtml);
with:
$title = $parser->getTitle();
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$title->getText(),$boxhtml);
:I haven't tested thoroughly for any other PHP4 incompatibilities, but it seems to work, so it's probably worth putting that fix into SVN for those of us still running PHP4 (it's not that much uglier <tt>:)</tt>).
: - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 17:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

*I am also under PHP vers.4 and have the same syntax error, but showing on line 77. I could not find the line indicated by IMSoP to try his workaround, any idea of what might be the issue? Did the inputbox extension change since Feb. 2007?
:[[Special:Contributions/80.80.162.148|80.80.162.148]] 14:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== MediaWiki: 1.6.9: inputbox "breaking" script ==

I am having problems with the inputbox extension. When I add it and the entry to LocalSettings, no pages will load. I just get a blank page. I have been able to add other extensions without problems.

I am using version 1.6.9 with Linux and a MySQL backend.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

:I'm guessing this is the PHP4 compatibility problem (see section above, including fix) - if you can find your PHP error log, it's probably logging the same parse error that others have reported, it's just suppressing it from display on your live host. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 09:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

== Borders ==

Is there any way to have a border around the input box without putting the whole thing into a table?

== Defining Alignment ==

I have found the need to define the alignment for the inputbox on my wikipages, so i hae made a small modification that allows you to specify the alignment as a paramater, see [[Help:Inputbox#Define_Alignment|this]].--[[User:RyanB88|RyanB88]] 01:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== Followed all the instructions, so why is it still just code? ==

I followed all the instructions for installing the Inputbox and altering the ActionCreate (from Algorithm), but [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/index.php?title=Template:Card_Article_Creators the page] still appears as code. Did I forget something somewhere? I don't get an error; it's just that the inputboxes don't show up. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 01:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

== dynamic default text ==
hi, I want to have as default text the current date, so <inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=[[YEAR-MONTH-DAY]] my item
</inputbox>

how to implement?

--08:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:Variables and parser functions are not supported in inputbox parameters. A cumbersome workaround is to make a big switch with for every day the full wikitext of an inputbox:

{{#switch:{{CURRENTDAY}}
|16=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-16 my item
</inputbox>
|17=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-17 my item
</inputbox>
}}

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 10:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:: Right. Thanks. So that would mean 365 different inputboxes for a year, maybe not then :/. --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== combining several small fields ==
I want to make a field similar to http://wikimaas.org/AddEvent. So how to connect several small boxes, to add them together to form one page title, eg. [[YYYY-MM-DD The launch of the new inputbox]]. And can I apply a maxwidth?

For filling in it is easier to type a number - <tab> - next, instead of replacing already formatted numbers in one line. Oh, and they should also have a connected tab-order :)

<inputbox>
type=create
width=4
default=YYYY
break=no
buttonlabel= get rid of the button
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=2
default=MM
break=no
buttonlabel=month
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
default=DD
type=create
width=2
break=no
buttonlabel=year
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=24
break=no
buttonlabel=Add event
align=left
</inputbox>

--[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:MediaWiki does not allow variables in the computer programming sense, so the inputbox cannot be applied to assign a value to a variable.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 11:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
::What about a sort of redirecting to a template-page which receives these different variables, and then redirects to the to-be created page? --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 13:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:::You may be interested in [[mw:Simple Forms|Simple Forms]] (though I can't get it to work with MW 1.9.3) and/or [[mw:Semantic Forms|Semantic Forms]] (but it requires the cumbersome [[mw:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]). -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:57, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

== Background color? ==

Is there any way to to put background color on the inputbox? I'm using it on a table that has a background, and it' kind of strange to see only the inputbox with a white background. --[[User:219.121.89.169|219.121.89.169]] 11:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

'''Yes you can change the background color:'''
It is a parameter that you can set, just like "type" or "buttonlabel" - you would add the phrase bgcolor= and then add a color code

see below

<nowiki><inputbox>
type=create
'''bgcolor=#eeeeff'''
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox></nowiki>

Looks Like This:

<inputbox>
type=create
bgcolor=#0000FF
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox>

To figure out a color code, you just add in the hex numbers - as described here: http://html-color-codes.com/

==Idea for easy extension==

To make a button which runs a PHP script, eg. for sending a message using a textarea:

Add to "function render()" another type "php":

''elseif($this->type=='php') {return $this->runPHP() ...''

Add a function "runPHP" like this:

''function runPHP() {''<br />
''$createform=<<<ENDFORM''<br />
''<form name="runPHP" action="xxx.php" method="post">''<br />
''<textarea rows="3" name="textareaPHP"></textarea><br />''
''<input type='submit' value="xxx" />''<br />
''</form>''<br />
''ENDFORM;''<br />
''return $createform;''<br />
}

Perhaps ''action="xxx.php"'' must be sth. like this: ''action="http://xxx/xxx.php"'', because otherwise, a new Wiki page will be opened.

== Preload ''Upload File'' ==

I wanted to try and preload a template into the upload page, much like commons dose. I tried the commons irc and they couldn't tell me how they are doing it. So I tried at test.W with no results as you can find out yourself:

http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?action=edit&preload=Template:Dead

Any ideas? --[[:is:Notandi:Steinninn]] [[User:194.144.110.1|194.144.110.1]] 15:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:Adding text into Summary field on [[:commons:Special:Upload]] is done with Javascript and has nothing to do with Input box. See [[:commons:MediaWiki:Upload.js]] which is called from [[:commons:MediaWiki:Common.js]] ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 15:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::I can't tough JS, every time I do I break more then I fix. Maybe you, or someone els want's to do this on en:? It has been suggested at least [[:en:Wikipedia_talk:Upload#Fill_in_some_info_into_the_upload_description_box|once]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 16:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:::I'm not sure where to start, [[:en:MediaWiki talk:Common.js]] or [[:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)‎]], but in any case you need consensus first. Coding is the easy part ;) Also, I would suggest that the script doesn't insert the text ''automatically'' (like on Commons) but rather provide a link in [[:en:MediaWiki:Fileuploadsummary]] that would insert it ''when user wants'' it ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 20:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::::I made a propossal at [[:en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Make_.22Upload_file.22_more_like_on_Commons|The Village Pump]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 00:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

== Mediawiki 1.9.3 and 1.10: Namespace Searching not working ==

I have not used Inputbox before with the namespace attribute and have been unsuccessful to get it working. I have tried some of the tips posted here still with no success. I have tried using it on a couple different installs and of recent versions of Mediawiki (1.9.3 and 1.10) (PHP 5.2.2 and MySQL 5.0.24a) but with no success. It looks like it runs successfully on Wikimedia? So what am I doing wrong?! Related extensions I need to install to get it working? Ideas? Is this due to custom namespaces? <br>
Example of what I am adding:<br>
<pre>
<nowiki>
<inputbox>
type=search
namespaces=Winner,Nomination
</inputbox>
</nowiki>
</pre>

--[[User:Myotus|Myotus]] 13:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

:I experienced the same issue and found the solution. Open inputbox.php and goto line 132

<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
:and change it to
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>

:Works for me!
:--[[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]] 20:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

--[[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 00:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

:I needed this fix as well for Mediawiki 1.11, which brings up some questions:
:* Did the search interface change in some version of Mediawiki?
:* Is anyone maintaining this extension, that could make this fix permanent, or add a check for MW version?
:* Note: Search2, which doesn't seem to be documented doesn't do anything with name spaces, so that is a little trap for anyone trying to search specific name spaces.

Worked for me too, but:
* in the most current version, the suspect line is 138,
* had to close my browser and come back for changes to work.
--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

== Multiply fields ==
I'd like the function to have multiple input fields on the same submit button and the content of these fields to be applied to a pre-set template. This way it becomes like a 'wizard' for creating pages that has basic set content but with only say a few parameters of the subject being different.

For example fish profiles, these pages are often 95% identical expect for the species name, common name, colour, etc.

Can this extension do this?

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 11:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

== Suggestions from ''CreateArticle'' ==

''CreateArticle'' is based off ''Inputbox'' but [[mw:Extension talk:CreateArticle#Basic error checking|my suggestions]] for it apply to ''Inputbox'' (and other extensions based off it, like [[mw:Extension:CreateBox|CreateBox]]) as well. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:49, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

== Transparent ==

Hi!, I want to know how can I configure the inputbox to match with the background color without using the parameter '''''bgcolor''''', like, '''make it transparent'''. Also, I want to know if it's possible <u>'''put it under the search bar'''</u> in the sidebar. This is an example of what I'm talking about:

{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
</inputbox>
|}
And it should look like:
{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
bgcolor=black
</inputbox>
|}
Without using bgcolor

As you can see, the background color of the box (black) does not affect the input box background color and this gives me problems when I try to put it in the sidebar. Thank you very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 00:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

:I would try global CSS: give your table some id and then use something like <code>table.yourid form {background:color:transparent}</code>. As for sidebar, do you mean editing [[Mediawiki:Sidebar]]? I don't think it will accept inputbox. Note that if you type something in the usual search field and press Go, and the phrase is not found, then there are two links to create an article, you could make on of those links to really stand out ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 02:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

::Thank yo very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 05:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

:::If you add $wgGoToEdit = true; to your LocalSettings.php, typing a nonexistent article name in the search box and clicking "Go" will create that article. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

{{EndTalkFromMeta}}

== please add 'summary='-Option ==

Hey guys, wouldn't it be usefull if you would add an option, witch sets the summary-text of the created edit. I'd need it for german WP, for example. Thanks for ths tool. Greetings, Michi <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:88.217.29.241|88.217.29.241]] ([[User talk:88.217.29.241|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/88.217.29.241|contribs]]) 14:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC). Please sign your posts!</small>

== Bug report Inputbox revision 27198 ==

I am using PHP version 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi) on a Windows machine.
Inputbox (search) seems to be working ok, but I do see the following note
in a small font at the bottom of the wiki page on which I use the Inputbox:

PHP Notice: Undefined property: Inputbox::$labeltext in C:\iWiki\extensions\Inputbox\inputbox.php on line 153

If you need more info, let me know.
[[User:80.127.78.73|80.127.78.73]] 01:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

== Another namespace issue ==

I have tried following the above guidelines about changing line 132 but it did not work, the extension won't search in a specific namespace for me, here is an example: [http://bahaikipedia.org/User:David/sandbox3 here] Does anyone know what could be the cause? Thanks very much [[User:60.50.173.98|60.50.173.98]] 00:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki 1.11.0: Create Article issue==
I have recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11.0 and although the inputbox function still works, the button labels are labeled as &lt;createarticle&gt; and &lt;searchfulltext&gt; - where should that be fixed? --[[Special:Contributions/90.200.52.95|90.200.52.95]] 14:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
:Hi. I had the same problem at http://www.appropedia.org. I fixed it by uploading the newest code (liked on extension page) and adding the inputbox directory to the include code. I.e. I changed <code>require_once(/extensions/inputbox.php');</code> to <code>require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php');</code>. If that does not work, you could always just add the extension markup to label the buttons as you like. Good luck, --[[User:LRG|LRG]] 22:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

== Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line==
Installation Issue with mediawiki 1.9.3

I am trying to add this extension to MediaWiki 1.9.3 with no success.

I have downloaded inputbox.php and InputBox.i18n.php and placed them in /extensions/inputbox.

At the bottom of LocalSettings.php I have added <source lang="php">require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php'); .</source>

In MediaWiki I now receive:

:<code>'Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfLoadExtensionMessages() in C:\webdocs\pitawiki\extensions\inputbox\inputbox.php on line 38.</code>

I have been doing quite a bit of research on Google to find the answer myself, but it is beginning to look like I am either the only one or nobody has documented this problem before. Can someone please help?
[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 22:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

:I still am not sure what the problem was, but I have upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11 and now all works fine. --[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 17:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
::Same problem, a year later:
:::# MediaWiki: 1.7.1
:::# PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
:::# MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
:For me the problem is on line 40. Line 40 is:
<source lang="php">wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );</source>
::Line 38 is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {</source>
::Line 58 (next section) is:
<source lang="php">),</source>
::The entire section which is having problems is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),</source>
::[[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:17, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
=== Extension Inputbox fault ===

*MediaWiki: 1.9.3
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log

I am trying to install [[extension:Inputbox]] but I am getting this error while using it:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in /home/gidelimm/public_html/wiki/extensions/Inputbox/inputbox.php on line 58

Is there anybody whop can help me to sort out this problem? Thanks in advance --[[User:Plenumchamber|Plenumchamber]] 11:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

:See below for a reply. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

=== undefined function wfloadextensionmessages ===

I'm also getting the undefined function wfloadextensionmessages error.

* MediaWiki: 1.9.3
* PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 5.0.41-log

The php error log entry:
[23-Apr-2008 19:35:31] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function
wfloadextensionmessages() in .../mediawiki/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php
on line 58

:You're trying to use too up-to-date version of InputBox with a legacy version of MediaWiki; function wfLoadExtensionMessages() didn't exist prior to MW 1.11. You'll either need to upgrade your MediaWiki to a newer version, which is the preferred solution, or to use an older version of the extension. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Version history ==
I suppose the latest version of [[extension:InputBox]] is not compatible with older versions of MediaWiki.
It seems that only the latest version of InputBox is available on the Mediawiki SVN.
For example [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox#Installation] and [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox] refer to the SourceForce CVS, which doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Is there any public repository of older versions of this extension?
--Samuel <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:213.28.6.132|213.28.6.132]] ([[User talk:213.28.6.132|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/213.28.6.132|contribs]]) . Please sign your posts with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>!</small>

:That is exactly what [http://svn.wikimedia.org svn.wikimedia.org] is for. It's there so that you can download older versions of files. Extensions have been branched since [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/ MediaWiki 1.10 (REL1_10)]. The [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php?revision=21730&view=markup 1.10 branched version of Inputbox] is supposed to work with MediaWiki 1.10.

:In any case, I just can't understand why you are using old and outdated pages like Wikiquote's and test.wikipedia's pages as a reference when it comes to MediaWiki extensions. In most cases if an extension can be found at svn.wikimedia.org, its documentation can be found at MediaWiki.org — this is especially true when it comes to extensions that are [[:Extensions used on Wikimedia|used on Wikimedia sites]]. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Adding NameSpace when creating articles ==

I'd like to combine the functionalities of search and create article...<br>
I mean there should be an input box, radiobuttons with my predefined namespaces and a button.
Is there allready someone who did this?<br>
Because I tried it and for some reason it doesn't work.<br>
Can someone please help me?<br>

== Version number please ==

It would be helpful if the developers of this extension assigned a version number to this extension. This could be in both the code (so it shows up in [[special:version]]) and the {{tl|extension}} infobox on this extension page. This way at a glance we can know if our MediaWiki installations are up to to date. --[[User:Maxelrod|Maxelrod]] 22:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

== Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch ==

I needed to search specific namespace for particular pages, so I didn't want the checkbox to show, or give the user the opportunity to uncheck the box which would cause the search to fail. Here is a patch (context diff) against Version 0.1.1 that adds a parameter ''namespacehide'' which will prevent the checkboxes from being displayed.

-- [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 15:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

<pre>
*** inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:19:05 1.3
--- inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:27:06
***************
*** 103,108 ****
--- 103,109 ----
getBoxOption($inputbox->buttonlabel,$input,'buttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->searchbuttonlabel,$input,'searchbuttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->namespaces,$input,'namespaces',$parser);
+ getBoxOption($inputbox->namespacehide,$input,'namespacehide',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->id,$input,'id',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->labeltext,$input,'labeltext',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->br, $input, 'break',$parser);
***************
*** 203,214 ****
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
}
}
//Line feed
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';
--- 204,221 ----
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
+ if (!$this->namespacehide) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
+ } else {
+ $searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
+ }
}
}
}
//Line feed
! if (!$this->namespacehide) {
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
! }
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';

</pre>
:I don't understand how to fix it but would like to see this option to hide the checkbox(es). SO what about a Version 0.1.2? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

===patch for current revision===
Perhaps they've made a revision without changing the version number, but the code above does not match version 0.1.1 that is available currently at SVN. To make [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]]'s patch work with the current revision, make the following changes:
====make the namespace selection work====
Follow [[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]]'s patch (above) and replace
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
with
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
====introduce a new variable====
I've called it '$showboxes' instead of 'namespacehide' because the patch hides the boxes by default and the parameter is used only to "show" the boxes. Find:
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces,;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces, $showboxes;
</pre>

====hook the new parameter====
Find:
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
);
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
'showboxes' => 'showboxes',
);
</pre>
====add new conditional rendering====
Find:
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
} else {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
}
}
</pre>

And find:
<pre>
//Line feed
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
//Line feed
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
}
</pre>

--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 20:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category?==
Would it be possible to have the Inputbox being display as search box on all category pages so you can search the category (only consider the articles in this category)?<br />
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. This adds a special page and will search those article pages which are included in the category you've entered in the search fields. But you cannot enter normal search terms, only category names. So it would be nice to search articles in only 1 category. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
:I second this. It'd be a great idea.

== Default value ==

It would be nice if the default value in the box would disappear by clicking into it in order to type. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

== Can you use Inputbox to use an external search engine? ==

I'd like to be able to use inputbox to search an external search engine. Is that possible? Would be great if that was built in. --[[User:Apolloni|Apolloni]] 09:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== Parsing ==

Has anyone looked into adding the capability to allow for parser functions inside the <nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> tags?

[[User:Caile13|Kay]]

== Searching in namespaces ==

On the [http://tiddlywiki.com TiddlyWiki] [http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Help:Developer_Search community wiki] we're using this extension to create the following search form:
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
searchbuttonlabel=Search Developers Documentation
width=24
namespaces=Dev**,Dev_talk**
</inputbox>
</pre>
However, this doesn't actually search the specified namespaces.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- [[User:FND|FND]] 08:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

==Invalid Parameters==
Some parameters became invalid. What's wrong?--[[User:Πrate|百楽兎]] 01:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

== Inputbox + AJAX Search Suggestion? ==
Hi, I like this extension very much - one question: Is there any possibility to combine the search inputbox with the AJAX search suggestion on MediaWiki 1.13 or with the extension Search Suggest? I've already tried various things, but I haven't found a proper solution yet. I think it would be very useful...
Thank you. --[[User:Filburt|Filburt]] 07:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

==PHP warning ==
With the latest svn revision of inputbox working over the latest svn revision of mediawiki 1.14alpha, I see the php warning: PHP Warning: call_user_func_array() [<a href='function.call-user-func-array'>function.call
-user-func-array</a>]: Unable to call InputBoxHooks::render() in includes/p
arser/Parser.php on line 3330. [[User:NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis|NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis]] 14:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Bug with "default" parameter ==

Hi,

There seems to be a problem with the <code>default</code> parameter. Look at [[Extension:InputBox#Parameters]] : below this code :
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
</pre>
... there is no text in the inputbox :
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
[[User:Delhovlyn|Delhovlyn]] 20:52, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Fixing the broken InputBox ==

The current checked in version simply doesn't load as people have pointed out.
This is easy to fix, and you can simplify the code. Basically get rid of the
Inputbox.hooks.php.

1. In Inputbox.php replace everything from line 50 on with:
<source lang="php">

// Register parser hook
if ( defined( 'MW_SUPPORTS_PARSERFIRSTCALLINIT' ) ) {
// Modern
$wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = 'wfInputBox';
} else {
// Legacy
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfInputBox';
}

function wfInputBox ()
{
new InputBox;
return true;
}
</source>
2.In Inputbox.classes.php get rid of the __construct function and replace it
with:
<source lang="php">
function InputBox() {
global $wgParser;

$wgParser->setHook( 'inputbox' , array( &$this, 'render' ) );
}

public function render( $input, $args, $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;

// Configure InputBox
$this->extractOptions( $parser->replaceVariables( $input ) );

// Return output
return $this->render();
}
</source>
and you're done! {{unsigned|Thempel}} 16:49, 6 November 2008
:You need to be more specific is the construct function the following:
<source lang="php">
public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}
</source>
:I get another error message:
::<code>Fatal error: Call to a member function replaceVariables() on a non-object in /home/(mywikiname)/public_html/wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line 45</code>
:Line 45 is:
<source lang="php">// Configure InputBox</source>
:Again, I am using mediawiki 1.7.1. [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

== In subpages ==

Hello,<br>
I'm a french wikibookian... I would like to know if it can be possible to search in the subpages.
Thanks !
--[[Special:Contributions/79.87.132.217|79.87.132.217]] 12:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

== Align link broken==
The link to the current code in the Align section of this page is broken. {{unsigned|76.191.159.88}} 01:00, 13 December 2008

:I changed Inputbox.classes.php to put this feature back in. I think the other align code was lost in the move.
:Sorry I didn't do this via svn, but I don't have enough time to set svn up right now.[[User:Wezelboy|Wezelboy]] 18:23, 19 December 2008

<source lang="php">
<?php
/**
* Classes for InputBox extension
*
* @file
* @ingroup Extensions
*/

// InputBox class
class InputBox {

/* Fields */

private $mParser;
private $mType = '';
private $mWidth = 50;
private $mPreload = '';
private $mEditIntro = '';
private $mPage = '';
private $mBR = 'yes';
private $mDefaultText = '';
private $mBGColor = 'transparent';
private $mButtonLabel = '';
private $mSearchButtonLabel = '';
private $mFullTextButton = '';
private $mLabelText = '';
private $mHidden = '';
private $mNamespaces = '';
private $mID = '';
private $mInline = false;
private $mAlignment = 'center';

/* Functions */

public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}

/**
* Generate search form
*/
public function getSearchForm() {
global $wgContLang;

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}
if ( !$this->mSearchButtonLabel ) {
$this->mSearchButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'searchfulltext' );
}

// Build HTML
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'searchbox',
'id' => 'searchbox',
'class' => 'searchbox',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'class' => 'searchboxInput',
'name' => 'search',
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth,
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;

// Determine namespace checkboxes
$namespaces = $wgContLang->getNamespaces();
$namespacesArray = explode( ',', $this->mNamespaces );
if ( $this->mNamespaces ) {
foreach ( $namespacesArray as $userNamespace ) {
$checked = array();
// Namespace needs to be checked if flagged with "**" or if it's the only one
if ( strstr( $userNamespace, '**' ) || count( $namespacesArray ) == 1 ) {
$userNamespace = str_replace( '**', '', $userNamespace );
$checked = array( 'checked' => 'checked' );
}

// Namespace checkboxes
foreach ( $namespaces as $i => $name ) {
if ( $i < 0 ) {
continue;
} elseif ( $i == 0 ) {
$name = 'Main';
}
if ( $userNamespace == $name ) {
// Checkbox
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'checkbox',
'name' => 'ns' . $i,
'value' => 1,
'id' => 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i
) + $checked
);
// Label
$htmlOut .= ' ' . Xml::label( $userNamespace, 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i );
}
}
}

// Line break
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
} else {
// Go button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'class' => 'searchboxGoButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= ' ';
}

// Search button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'searchboxSearchButton',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/*
* Generate search form version 2
*/
public function getSearchForm2() {

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}

$id = Sanitizer::escapeId( $this->mID );
$htmlLabel = '';
if ( isset( $this->mLabelText ) && strlen( trim( $this->mLabelText ) ) ) {
$this->mLabelText = $this->mParser->recursiveTagParse( $this->mLabelText );
$htmlLabel = Xml::openElement( 'label', array( 'for' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id ) );
$htmlLabel .= $this->mLabelText;
$htmlLabel .= Xml::closeElement( 'label' );
}
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'id' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'class' => 'bodySearch',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
'style' => $this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'class' => 'bodySearchWrap',
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor . ';' .
$this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= $htmlLabel;
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'search',
'size' => $this->mWidth,
'id' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel,
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnGo' . $id
)
);

// Better testing needed here!
if ( !empty( $this->mFullTextButton ) ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnSearch',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
}

$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate create page form
*/
public function getCreateForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( $this->mType == "comment" ) {
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}
} else {
$comment = '';
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'createarticle' );
}
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'createbox',
'id' => 'createbox',
'class' => 'createbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
if ( $this->mType == 'comment' ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
}
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'title',
'class' => 'createboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'createboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate new section form
*/
public function getCommentForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'commentbox',
'id' => 'commentbox',
'class' => 'commentbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'preloadtitle',
'class' => 'commentboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'title',
'value' => $this->mPage
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'commentboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Extract options from a blob of text
*
* @param string $text Tag contents
*/
public function extractOptions( $text ) {
wfProfileIn( __METHOD__ );

// Parse all possible options
$values = array();
foreach ( explode( "\n", $text ) as $line ) {
if ( strpos( $line, '=' ) === false )
continue;
list( $name, $value ) = explode( '=', $line, 2 );
$values[ strtolower( trim( $name ) ) ] = trim( $value );
}

// Build list of options, with local member names
$options = array(
'type' => 'mType',
'width' => 'mWidth',
'preload' => 'mPreload',
'page' => 'mPage',
'editintro' => 'mEditIntro',
'break' => 'mBR',
'default' => 'mDefaultText',
'bgcolor' => 'mBGColor',
'buttonlabel' => 'mButtonLabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'mSearchButtonLabel',
'fulltextbutton' => 'mFullTextButton',
'namespaces' => 'mNamespaces',
'labeltext' => 'mLabelText',
'hidden' => 'mHidden',
'id' => 'mID',
'inline' => 'mInline',
'align' => 'mAlignment',
);
foreach ( $options as $name => $var ) {
if ( isset( $values[$name] ) ) {
$this->$var = $values[$name];
}
}

// Insert a line break if configured to do so
$this->mBR = ( strtolower( $this->mBR ) == "no" ) ? '' : '<br />';

// Validate the width; make sure it's a valid, positive integer
$this->mWidth = intval( $this->mWidth <= 0 ? 50 : $this->mWidth );

wfProfileOut( __METHOD__ );
}

}
</source>

== Extension 0.1.1 doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.13.3 ==

I've added this to my Wiki as per the install instructions and using:

<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
width=42
buttonlabel=Go
searchbuttonlabel=Search
break=no
</inputbox>
</pre>

I get :

<pre>
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Inputbox::extractOptions()
in /home/mywiki/public_html/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.hooks.php on line 31
</pre>

Well all 4 files are in there and I added the line in my LocalSettings.

Does the author still support this extension?

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Extension talk:InputBox/Archive 1

2009-02-21T16:53:59Z

Quatermass: /* Extension 0.1.1 doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.13.3 */ new section

For the page history, see also [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:Inputbox&limit=250&action=history].
----
__TOC__
{{TalkFromMeta}}

<center><h1> Is it possible to use this input box on other wiki's because i've tried it and the raw syntax displays as text, any idea's/help plese?<h1></center>

==Installation==
Download the file [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/inputbox/ inputbox.php] to the folder ''extensions'' of your MediaWiki installation.
Add the line
<font face="Courier New" size="2">require_once("extensions/inputbox.php");</font> to ''LocalSettings.php''.

== I HOPE INPUTBOX can preload any word ==
such as<nowiki> [[Category:xxx]] {{xxxx}} [[xxxx]].....</nowiki>

== It would be good if ... ==

the button label "create article" can be customized, like "create city article".--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 6 July 2005 10:22 (UTC)

:Yes, that idea is good! I'd also like to be able to define a prefix for the created page. That way, I could place it on, say, [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] and only need to enter "Alpha" to create [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Alpha]]. As it is I'd have to manually enter the prefix each and every time I wanted to add a page. [[User:Master Thief Garrett|Master Thief Garrett]] 7 July 2005 21:10 (UTC)

:: Yup that is definitely a nice way to go, and furthermore you could customize the prefix at will, so you can create, for instance, a category by only putting the name, and the page Category:name would be created. [[User:82.242.132.211|82.242.132.211]] 21:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

''Copied from [[Talk:Inputbox]]''

::: '''''Yes''''', I would like to have an input box to create a page in a specific namespace, so the prefix idea would be really useful. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

In [[w:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#User talk inputbox]], [[User:Angela|Angela]] proposes using this extension to add messages to user talk pages, with the note that it only works for previously blank talk pages. To make this truly effective, it would seem expedient to add a third type, corresponding to the new section "+" functionality of talk pages. Arguably, such a type should insert " talk" into the namespace if not already present.

And would it be hard to add the facility to use an explicit message string rather than just a reference to a template?

[[User:Bovlb|Bovlb]] 04:55, 6 Jul 2005 (UTC)

== bugzilla references ==

# <s>[[bugzilla:02805]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow to set predefined titles"
# [[bugzilla:02847]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> usage of template constructs to generate the "default" option"
# [[bugzilla:02842]] – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow alternatively to place the header *between* the inputbox and the button not only above the inputbox"
# <s>[[bugzilla:02844]]</s> (fixed) – "<nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> should allow allow to label a button differently then [[MediaWiki:Createarticle]]"
: "''Amike''" [[User:Gangleri|Gangleri]] | [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:User talk:Gangleri|action=history}} Th] | [[{{ns:User_talk}}:Gangleri|T]] 18:32, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

== undefined function: wfmsghtml() ==

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wfmsghtml() in /var/www/.../extensions/inputbox.php on line 124

Where this wfMsgHtml come from ?

Which MediaWiki version is required ? I've 1.4.4, I'll try to upgrade.

[[User:Iubito|Iubito]] 07:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

:I found that said function is only present since version 1.5alpha2. For 1.4.x, you'll need inputbox.php version 1.3 (this is the last one without the wfMsgHtml() call)

:Have fun!

:Wolfram. [[User:217.5.190.74|217.5.190.74]] 06:56, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

== Preload Function does not work. ==

I have Mediawiki version 1.4.7. I use version 1.3 of the extension. Any suggestions on what could be a problem?
Oh, and the "default" option is not working either. But create new page and search work fine. Also, the button text is enclosed between < > brackets. Such as "<searchfulltext>". Any idea how to get rid of the brackets? Thank you. Your help is appreciated.

: You won't be able to use preload without MediaWiki 1.5, as this part of the code resides in MediaWiki itself and does not exist in 1.4. However, you should be able to get the correct messages by editing (creating) [[MediaWiki:text in brackets]], e.g. [[MediaWiki:Searchfulltext]]. In 1.5, these already exist.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 01:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

:: I have sort of a similar problem, except the angle brackets are displaying as raw HTML. I already made sure the MediaWiki messages (Searchfulltext, tryexact, createarticle) exist and have the proper messages; they do (and the messages are just text, with no brackets), but the buttons won't change. Any idea? I'm running 1.11.0. Also, my site is [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific here], for reference's sake. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 23:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

==Integration with Multiple Starting Text Hack==
<u>(Or: how I got the same functionality with 1.4)</u>
<br>Well, I really wanted this and I'm scared @#$%less of upgrading, so I downloaded and tried it. As noted in the previous comment, preload doesn't work. However, if you add a couple lines to the inputbox.php files in the right places, you can use the [[meta:Multiple starting text hack|multiple starting text hack]] to do your preloading for you.

This is somewhat dependent on how you have that particular hack installed, but for me it was the following:

# Add a getBoxOption. Not too difficult, just add it where the others are.
getBoxOption($inputbox->starttext,$input,"starttext");
# In Class InputBox, where the variables are given, just add $starttext in one of the lines.
# Where the HTML to be rendered for the CreateBox is given, just add this in the input box stuff.
<input type="hidden" name="starttext" value="{$this->starttext}_StartText">

Note that on my Wiki, I use many namespaces and thus have a <nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}_StartText</nowiki> theme going. See the Multiple Starting Text Hack discussion for more information.

So that's what works for me. Not sure, but there might be a way to implement the editintro parameter in a similar way. It doesn't really fit my needs, though, so I haven't mucked with it.

I hope that helps someone, and (as per usual) I am extremely hopeful that I didn't just point out something that's extremely obvious.

== Umvalid! ==
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHelp%3AInputbox --[[User:Paddy|Paddy]] 10:42, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
:The code created by the extension isn't invalid, but when you place more than one box of the same type on a page, all that boxes have got the same id --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 13:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

::The code outputted isn't valid in general. I'm getting errors.
<pre>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeff">
<p><form name="createbox" action="/index.php" method="get" class="createbox">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="StoryTemplate" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="" />
</p><p> <input class="createboxInput" name="title" type="text"
value="Enter Title Here" size="50"/><br />
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="Create Story With Title Above"/>
</form>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table></pre>

== Inputbox on Meta ==

I found this extension on the very day I started looking for such a feature -- ''but only thanks to luck'' -- it'd be very neat if the page showed up in the search results for 'forms' or 'html forms' or 'HTML forms'!!! -- yet I don't know if it's possible?

== type=comment ==
It would be great if you could choose to add the comment at the top instead of the bottom to get a list with the most reasent comments at the head.
--[[User:213.115.0.20|213.115.0.20]] 13:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
: +1! --[[User:80.109.61.51|80.109.61.51]] 10:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

== Namespace Specific Searches ==

Does/could this extension support a parameter listing a set of specific namespaces to be searched? The URL for such searches appears to be in the form: ".../index.php/Special:Search?ns110=1&search=SEARCHTERM&searchx=Search"

[[User:Tdoyle|Tdoyle]] 14:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

: I second this! We would specifically like it for the [[b:Cookbook]] (namespace 102!). Also, we would like a FULLTEXT-only search box (like search2, but reversed) since searching for an article name in the cookbook is rather pointless. [[b:User:Kellen|Kellen]] <sup>[[b:User_talk:Kellen|T]]</sup> [[User:80.229.36.69|80.229.36.69]] 18:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== define namespace (type=create) ==
I added a couple of lines that allow to define the namespace the article will be created in. Could it also be included in regulary versions? I added a "namespace" parameter and changed the HTML-Code in getCreateForm() as follows:
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox" onsubmit="if (document.createbox.pagename.value.substring(0,'{$this->namespace}:'.length) != '{$this->namespace}:') {document.createbox.title.value = '{$this->namespace}:' + document.createbox.pagename.value;} else {document.createbox.title.value = document.createbox.pagename.value;}">
<input type='hidden' name="action" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="preload" value="{$this->preload}" />
<input type="hidden" name="editintro" value="{$this->editintro}" />
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="" />
{$comment}
<input class="createboxInput" name="pagename" type="text"
value="{$this->defaulttext}" size="{$this->width}"/>{$this->br}
<input type='submit' name="create" class="createboxButton"
value="{$this->buttonlabel}"/>
</form>
(maybe, you might be able to realize that function easier ;) --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 21:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

:by removing the colon the subpage-function could be integrated and other prefixes, too --[[User:Three Of Twelve|Three Of Twelve]] 18:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki v1.5: Output error ==

I'm getting a strange error running Inputbox with MediaWiki v1.5 ...

when i add a text inputbox to a page using the syntax described on the Help page i get the following output instead of a textbox when the page is rendered:<br />
<code>NaodW29-inputbox319e48674cc47cb700000001</code>

I'm very new to all of this but haven't any trouble installing extensions in the past. Unfortunately i don't even know where to begin looking for a solution.
[[User:72.139.230.29|72.139.230.29]] 22:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I had the same problem. I solved it by moving the InputBox code to a template. The problem occured when the
InputBox code was on the same page as a call to a template with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MenuTabs code.
Now both MenuTabs code and InputBox code are in templates and I can use them on the same page.
Michiel.[[User:82.170.134.93|82.170.134.93]] 20:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

==editintro==
Could this box be modified, so that the 'editintro' ''does'' work on existing articles? Currently, when editing existing articles, no header text appears, but I'd like for it to be possible for editors to specify that text ''should'' appear in special cases. For example, on the Wikipedia Reference Desk, it would be possible to include a reminder of the rules in a header above each edit window, so that newbies can be gently guided.

Is there a reason the editintro is ignored by default when editing existing pages? -- [[User:Ec5618|Ec5618]] 00:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

This is something that we at the Vietnamese Wikipedia would much like, because there's obviously a lot more you can do in wikitext than in HTML comments to make editing a page more user-friendly. – [[User:Mxn|Minh Nguyễn]] <small>([[User talk:Mxn|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/Mxn|contribs]])</small> 06:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== Add to a defined category ==

'''who use this? in my mediawii,1.82 i can't find this $text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);'''

I wanted the extension to work from a category page and make a new page within the category from which it is created. I made the following changes and thought they may be useful to others. This is very much a hack, but feel free to incorporate it properly into the software if it's seen to be a good feature.

First, change the inputbox extension to include the following lines:
In the function "renderinputbox" add this line near the others:
getBoxOption($inputbox->catname,$input,'catname');
This allows you to pass the variable 'catname', which you define when you write the extension.

Under "class InputBox', add $catname to the variable listing.

Then, near the bottom of the file, add this line near the others for the form creation:
<input type="hidden" name="catname" value="{$this->catname}" />

Then, in article.php (in the includes folder), add in the following:
Under "function getContent" add in:
$catname = $wgRequest->getText( 'catname' );
So it reads in the variable.

Then, change:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);
to:
$text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload,$catname);
And another version about 15 lines down, to pass the variable to the function.

In function getPreloaded text, change the function call from:
getPreloadedText($preload)
to
getPreloadedText($preload,$catname)

And finally, change:
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText();
}
}
to this:
if($catname) {
$cattext = "\n\n<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:" . $catname . "]]";
}
else {
$cattext = "";
}
if($rev) {
return $rev->getText() . $cattext;
}
}

That's it, you should be able to pass a category now. Change as you see fit to pass another variable to the page you're creating. Good luck!

== Pre-box label ==

Can we get a label before the input box? [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 01:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

: Take a look at the code - you should easily be able to hack that yourself, even without understanding PHP.--[[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 02:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

:: Curiously enough, the most recent code already has a "labeltext" option for boxes of type "search2":
::: <inputbox>
type=search2
break=no
labeltext=A pre-box label:
</inputbox>
:: This made my job a lot easier. :) [[User:Alerante|æle]] <small>[[User talk:Alerante|✆]]</small> 20:12, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== bug? inputbox interrupts a numbered list ==

The inputbox is great but it seems to interrupt a numbered list:

<pre><nowiki>
# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange
</nowiki></pre>

# Green
# Red
# Blue
# New colors (add your own):<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
# Purple
# Orange

Any idea on how to fix? [[User:Arghman|Arghman]] 22:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

:The InputBox is wrapped in a '''<nowiki><div></nowiki>''' element, forcing it to be block level. The sanitiser is probably cleaning up what it sees as a still-open '''<nowiki><ol></nowiki>''' container; or the browser is ignoring the invalid XHTML. This isn't an InputBox-specific problem. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

==error message==

Hi I'm *very* new to MediaWiki and installing an inputbox is my first ever extension, but I get the following warnings when I try to save the page (I've followed the instructions on uploading inputbox.php and edited LocalSettings.php),

Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderInputbox() in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 42

Fatal error: Call to a member function getText() on a non-object in /home/.../public_html/extensions/inputbox.php on line 60

Any pointers would be much appreciated

Hello,
I get the exact same error and to be honest I have no idea where to look to solve it. Please help. jrleonard@gmail.com

--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I also get the same error message. Are you two using EasyPHP? This is the only thing I can see that may be affecting the functioning of the extension.

PHP Version: 4.3.10

: I've got the same message too with easyphph AND on my distant website with Mw 1.5.6 (PHP: 4.4.0 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.1.10a-log ), thanks for help. --[[User:Henrique|Henrique]] 01:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[ 3/3/2006 ] Same error here, using php on Solaris:

PHP 5.0.4 (cli) (built: Jun 28 2005 22:24:45)<br>
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group<br>
Zend Engine v2.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

:Getting the same error on RHEL 3, Apache 2, PHP 4.3.2. I am ''not'' using EasyPHP. --[[User:Bradley Holt|Bradley Holt]] 18:09, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Same error here, PHP 5.0.5/Netware - this file needs to be rewritten to be compatible with the latest versions of PHP.
:See http://www.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/thread/2109/ and http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5733 for some hints to fix it

Same here - I tried php 4.4.2 and 5.0.4 ... [[User:63.229.127.222|63.229.127.222]]

===Quick Fix===
After some browsing around and quick hashing of the code I found that the following addressed the issue. However, please note that this has not yet been tested fully. Please add any issues you encounter.

Line 40: Delete variable '''&$parser''' so the function now looks like this
<pre>
function renderInputbox($input, $params)
</pre>

Line 60: Comment out the entire line starting '''$boxhtml=str_replace...''':
<pre>
# Maybe support other useful magic words here
# $boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->mTitle->getText(),$boxhtml);
</pre>
--[[User:CMacedo|CMacedo]] 08:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

::Does this disable the parser? Because that could be dangerous (allowing sql injection, html tags, etc)

Extensions don't have the power to totally disable the parser; this is just ignoring the reference to the parser passed to all parser hooks. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

That fixes the problem. Thanks. Looks like lots of people are having this same issue, trying to perform a non-object operation on that variable.

== MediaWiki 1.5: inputbox is not working==

MediaWiki v1.5

I'm sure i followed the instructions, but when i added the inbox code into a page, the browser just hung up at
.....wiki/index.php?title=Test&action=submit

Doesn't work with any other browser. Can someone give me a hand? I don't know whereelse to put this. Thanks.

:First of all, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download upgrade from 1.5.0 to 1.5.7]; your version of MediaWiki contains about four largish bugs or security issues. Next; we'll need more information in order to diagnose the problem. What you actually did; what your Apache/other HTTPD/PHP error logs state (if at all, if not, turn them on and see what comes up) etc. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.5.7: inputbox.php 1.20 hangs up while 1.19 works ==

MediaWiki 1.5.7 on Red Hat Enterprise 4 WS: With inputbox.php 1.20 version you can observe on ''/var/log/httpd/error_log''

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Warning: Missing argument 3 for renderinputbox() in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 42

[client 160.xxx.yyy.zzz] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/inputbox_1.20.php on line 60</nowiki>

I downloaded version 1.9 from MediaWiki's SourceForge CVS and it seems to work alright.

--[[User:Canne|Canne]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Exactly like you said. Thanks Canne! It's working now.

--[[User:Ming|Ming]] 23:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

==Windows?==

I have a windows installation, with IIS, which otherwise works fine. I installed Inputbox.php etc, no errors, but it just doesn't work. It seems to be running the script ok, it just doesn't render the box or translate the tags. Any ideas?

:What version of MediaWiki? Confirm that the extension is installed; check [[Special:Version]] and see what extensions are registered. Consider adding a line like

echo( "Hook run!\n" );

:to the parser hook function, to prove that's being executed. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Robchurch|Talk]]''</sup> 07:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

== Inputbox on the sidebar? ==

I just installed this extension, and it's working great.

My question is; is it possible to put a "Create Article" inputbox on the sidebar? I tried to just add one beneath the last link, but the sidebar doesn't seem to recognize it. When viewed as an article, the MediaWiki:Sidebar page displays the inputbox fine.

Is there something different I have to do, or is this just not possible. If it's not possible, is there another way to have some kind of "create article" link on the sidebar?

:The sidebar doesn't interpret wiki text quite as you seem to expect. You could add such a box via edits to the skin file. Another semi-solution might be to set <code>$wgGoToEdit = true;</code> in LocalSettings.php, which causes the user to be taken to an edit form if entering a nonexisting title and clicking Go. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]] ([[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]]) 12:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::“You could add such a box via edits to the skin file”
:: can you elaborate for those who are new users...

== noinclude and includeonly ==

I created a fairly simply set up to add creatures to a [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Creature_database database] on [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page SporeWiki.com]. The section [http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Creature_database&action=edit&section=16" Create a creature portal page"] preloads [http://www.sporewiki.com/MediaWiki:Content_base/creature_portal MediaWiki:Content base/creature portal] as I wanted it to, when setting it up I was really hoping that includeonly would work so that it didn't sort the mediawiki pages (since the portal template has a cat tag in it) and I found out that it does work (as you can see if you test the inputbox on the creature database page yourself). Then I wanted to be able to keep all of the messages related to adding creatures in the same place, so I figured I'd just categorize them with noinclude, but if you test out the inputbox you'll see that that portion of the code doesn't do what I thought it might... Is there any reason why that would happen, is it a mediawiki bug or an inputbox bug? Is there any temporary fix to get around it (I already set up an [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Qif if template] if that could be useful) for now until noinclude works in that manner? It'd be appreciated, thanks! [[User:69.183.38.170|69.183.38.170]] 17:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

:All I can say is "interesting problem". Apparently the includeonly tags are stripped keeping the content, but noinclude tags + content are kept as is (?). Maybe an oddity in the inputbox extension, you could report it as "bug" / missing feature / oddity at [[mediazilla:]] (component "extensions" "inputbox").
:And / or try a workaround based on [[m:ParserFunctions#.23ifeq:|#ifeq:]] MediaWiki | {{NAMESPACE}}. But I've never seen a category for system messages, better test first if that's possible at all. If not you could use an ordinary template message instead of a system message for your inputbox - the help page only uses MediaWiki examples because they are guaranteed to exist and can't be vandalized. -- [[w:User:Omniplex|Omniplex]] [[w:User talk:Omniplex|(w:t)]] 20:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know how to report bugs, and I'm not sure what you mean by a a workaround with that, but I moved it to a template and preloaded the template again and it did the same that it did earlier, loading the noinclude tag and it's text also. [[User:69.183.39.72|69.183.39.72]] 05:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::I updated the page after trying it out with {{tim|Preload demo}}.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 14:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

:::See [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5210 Bug #5210].
:::--[[User:99.236.115.46|99.236.115.46]] 05:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

== using an <s>image</s>TEMPLATE with parameters as the 'preloaded' thing ==

Is it possible? All this subst and includeonly is starting to get to me, along with nested templates...

I'm trying to simplify the process of nominating an image for FPC. see here: [[commons:User:Pfctdayelise/test]]. Any tips welcome. This is a really handy extension BTW. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 12:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

:I do not think that is possible. As a minor typing aid you can preload {{tim|T image preload}}, that is all I can think of.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:You can also preload {{tim|T image preload 2}} containing subst of {{tim|T image preload 3}}. Here you fill in the image name as parameter of the latter. There is still some duplication: the Subject/headline probably has to contain the image name too, but this is not automated.
<inputbox>
type=comment
preload=Template:T image preload 2
buttonlabel=add nomination
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 13:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

==Using inputbox to subscribe to a mailing list?==
I'm looking for an extension which will allow a user to enter his/her email adress and submit the value to an external http address. I already got the HTML code for this from the mailing list service, but have trouble building it into MW properly. Could inputbox (currently or potentially) be used for this? --[[User:Morten Blaabjerg|MortenB]] 21:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
:make a modifies version of inputbox.php that will post the input boxes contents to the php page you wish, then have the php page do whatever with the email then redirect them wherever. ;) --[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

== downloading problems? ==

I've been trying to download the inputbox.php from the links here, but it never loads for me. Is anyone else getting this problem? Or is there a different link someone can show me to get this file?

== Editintro does not work for comments ==

Even the example fails. [[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 15:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

==Target =new==
Is there a way to add a parameter to the inputbox so when doing page creation, the form gets posted to a new window?

This is useful for creating a page that's been populated with a list of inputboxes preloaded with titles of new pages to create.

So this way, I can go down the list and create new pages and not loose the page I'm on. You see, this is the script I'm using; so you know why this is useful for me.

This handy script will be useful for anyone who needs to create lots of these inputboxes preloaded with their topic titles so they can add a bunch of pages all at once, easily. Just edit wherever you see "TOPIC TITLE" with the respective text you need.

<pre><html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$script = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
echo "<font face=verdana>Enter a list of TOPIC TITLES to generate code to mass create pages<br>
<form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<textarea cols='80' rows='20' name='names'></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type='submit' value=' Do It ' name='submit'>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form></font>
";
}
else
{
$namelist=explode("\n",$_POST['names']);
echo " <form name='form' action='$script' method='POST'><textarea name='textarea' cols='80' rows='20'>";
for($i = 0;$i < sizeof($namelist);$i++)
{
echo "<inputbox>
type=create
preload=Template:TOPICTEMPLATE
default=".str_replace("\r","",$namelist[$i])."
buttonlabel=Add New TOPICTITLE
</inputbox>
";

}
echo " </textarea><br><input type='button' value='Highlight Text' onClick='javascript:this.form.textarea.focus();this.form.textarea.select();'></form><br><a href=/index.php?title=Template:TopicTitle&action=edit>Go to TOPICTITLE to add this code!</a>";
}
?>
</body>
</html></pre>
Maybe somebody will have fun with this code...
Anyway, I would like each inputbox thats created to open the page to be created in a new window. Is there a way to specify a target for the inputbox form?
Thanks, [[User:MediaHound|MediaHound]] 15:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

== default target ==

I think it would be useful to be able to specify a default page that it goes to if the user clicks the button when the text field is blank. Currently, it goes to Main_Page, but I think project:sandbox would be more useful. -[[User:Sanbeg|Sanbeg]] 23:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

== Full text search in input=search does not work ==

In the below box, press either button, and you get back to this page. Full text search does not work, and I don't know why. The input name is "searchx" for this button, but "fulltext" for the search button in the sidebar - which still works.

<inputbox>
type=search
default=Help talk:Inputbox
</inputbox>

The reason for the problem is probably easy to fix.

--[[User:Barklund|Barklund]] 19:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.8.2: Unable to install ==
I am unable to install the extension (inputbox.php 0.1.1) as well as the hack from Algorithm. I'm pretty new to mediawiki. Any clue?

Currently using:
* MediaWiki 1.8.2
* PHP 5.2
* MySQL 5.0.27

== Hiding the input box, or having only the button ==

It would be extremely nice to be able to hide the input box somehow, and default it to a certain value in the form. The reason for this would be if I wanted to comment, and I wanted to hard code where the user could comment to. Understandably, it wouldn't be secure (javascript overwriting) but still, it would be a nice addition! -- Silivrenion Jan 1 2006
:See [[#Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch]] below. [[Special:Contributions/69.138.163.138|69.138.163.138]] 01:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

==Mediawiki 1.9.0: Positioning the create box==
I am using Mediawiki 1.9.0 and this wonderfull extansion. I have noticed that by default, the extansion put itself centered on a page. I found that nice for the seach function or when you put it in a tab but I wanted that the create function and box be left positioned on the page.

To acheive this, located in the code the section (At the botom):
<pre>
<td align="center" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>

And replace by :
<pre>
<td align="left" bgcolor="{$this->bgcolor}">
<form name="createbox" action="$action" method="get" class="createbox">
</pre>
Or replace '''left''' by whatever you want ('''center''' is the default).

--[[User:Romainp|Romainp]] 16:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki: 1.6.8: ERROR On Line 67 ==

it says Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/codev/public_html/en/w/extensions/inputbox.php on line 67
please help--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

:heres my version info:
:MediaWiki: 1.6.8
:PHP: 4.4.2 (cgi)
:MySQL: 5.0.27-standard
:--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 00:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
:I got my host to set me up an account on their PHP5 server, and i just finished moving all the data to all my sites over and just upgraded the wiki to 1.9.2 and re-downloaded inputbox.php and all appears to be working fine now.--[[User:71.217.192.176|71.217.192.176]] 23:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Reason for the above given error is PHP Version 4. You need V5 - then the error will not appear on line 67.

:I fixed this error pretty easily, by unchaining the -> operators on that line, using a temp variable instead; i.e. I replaced
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$parser->getTitle()->getText(),$boxhtml);
with:
$title = $parser->getTitle();
$boxhtml=str_replace("{{PAGENAME}}",$title->getText(),$boxhtml);
:I haven't tested thoroughly for any other PHP4 incompatibilities, but it seems to work, so it's probably worth putting that fix into SVN for those of us still running PHP4 (it's not that much uglier <tt>:)</tt>).
: - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 17:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

*I am also under PHP vers.4 and have the same syntax error, but showing on line 77. I could not find the line indicated by IMSoP to try his workaround, any idea of what might be the issue? Did the inputbox extension change since Feb. 2007?
:[[Special:Contributions/80.80.162.148|80.80.162.148]] 14:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== MediaWiki: 1.6.9: inputbox "breaking" script ==

I am having problems with the inputbox extension. When I add it and the entry to LocalSettings, no pages will load. I just get a blank page. I have been able to add other extensions without problems.

I am using version 1.6.9 with Linux and a MySQL backend.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

:I'm guessing this is the PHP4 compatibility problem (see section above, including fix) - if you can find your PHP error log, it's probably logging the same parse error that others have reported, it's just suppressing it from display on your live host. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 09:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

== Borders ==

Is there any way to have a border around the input box without putting the whole thing into a table?

== Defining Alignment ==

I have found the need to define the alignment for the inputbox on my wikipages, so i hae made a small modification that allows you to specify the alignment as a paramater, see [[Help:Inputbox#Define_Alignment|this]].--[[User:RyanB88|RyanB88]] 01:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== Followed all the instructions, so why is it still just code? ==

I followed all the instructions for installing the Inputbox and altering the ActionCreate (from Algorithm), but [http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/index.php?title=Template:Card_Article_Creators the page] still appears as code. Did I forget something somewhere? I don't get an error; it's just that the inputboxes don't show up. --[[User:Azurite|Azurite]] 01:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

== dynamic default text ==
hi, I want to have as default text the current date, so <inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=[[YEAR-MONTH-DAY]] my item
</inputbox>

how to implement?

--08:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:Variables and parser functions are not supported in inputbox parameters. A cumbersome workaround is to make a big switch with for every day the full wikitext of an inputbox:

{{#switch:{{CURRENTDAY}}
|16=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-16 my item
</inputbox>
|17=
<inputbox>
type=create
buttonlabel=OK
default=2007-04-17 my item
</inputbox>
}}

:[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 10:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

:: Right. Thanks. So that would mean 365 different inputboxes for a year, maybe not then :/. --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== combining several small fields ==
I want to make a field similar to http://wikimaas.org/AddEvent. So how to connect several small boxes, to add them together to form one page title, eg. [[YYYY-MM-DD The launch of the new inputbox]]. And can I apply a maxwidth?

For filling in it is easier to type a number - <tab> - next, instead of replacing already formatted numbers in one line. Oh, and they should also have a connected tab-order :)

<inputbox>
type=create
width=4
default=YYYY
break=no
buttonlabel= get rid of the button
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=2
default=MM
break=no
buttonlabel=month
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
default=DD
type=create
width=2
break=no
buttonlabel=year
align=left
</inputbox>
<inputbox>
type=create
width=24
break=no
buttonlabel=Add event
align=left
</inputbox>

--[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 10:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:MediaWiki does not allow variables in the computer programming sense, so the inputbox cannot be applied to assign a value to a variable.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 11:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
::What about a sort of redirecting to a template-page which receives these different variables, and then redirects to the to-be created page? --[[User:217.64.242.138|217.64.242.138]] 13:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

:::You may be interested in [[mw:Simple Forms|Simple Forms]] (though I can't get it to work with MW 1.9.3) and/or [[mw:Semantic Forms|Semantic Forms]] (but it requires the cumbersome [[mw:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]). -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:57, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

== Background color? ==

Is there any way to to put background color on the inputbox? I'm using it on a table that has a background, and it' kind of strange to see only the inputbox with a white background. --[[User:219.121.89.169|219.121.89.169]] 11:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

'''Yes you can change the background color:'''
It is a parameter that you can set, just like "type" or "buttonlabel" - you would add the phrase bgcolor= and then add a color code

see below

<nowiki><inputbox>
type=create
'''bgcolor=#eeeeff'''
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox></nowiki>

Looks Like This:

<inputbox>
type=create
bgcolor=#0000FF
buttonlabel=Create New Page
</inputbox>

To figure out a color code, you just add in the hex numbers - as described here: http://html-color-codes.com/

==Idea for easy extension==

To make a button which runs a PHP script, eg. for sending a message using a textarea:

Add to "function render()" another type "php":

''elseif($this->type=='php') {return $this->runPHP() ...''

Add a function "runPHP" like this:

''function runPHP() {''<br />
''$createform=<<<ENDFORM''<br />
''<form name="runPHP" action="xxx.php" method="post">''<br />
''<textarea rows="3" name="textareaPHP"></textarea><br />''
''<input type='submit' value="xxx" />''<br />
''</form>''<br />
''ENDFORM;''<br />
''return $createform;''<br />
}

Perhaps ''action="xxx.php"'' must be sth. like this: ''action="http://xxx/xxx.php"'', because otherwise, a new Wiki page will be opened.

== Preload ''Upload File'' ==

I wanted to try and preload a template into the upload page, much like commons dose. I tried the commons irc and they couldn't tell me how they are doing it. So I tried at test.W with no results as you can find out yourself:

http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?action=edit&preload=Template:Dead

Any ideas? --[[:is:Notandi:Steinninn]] [[User:194.144.110.1|194.144.110.1]] 15:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:Adding text into Summary field on [[:commons:Special:Upload]] is done with Javascript and has nothing to do with Input box. See [[:commons:MediaWiki:Upload.js]] which is called from [[:commons:MediaWiki:Common.js]] ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 15:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::I can't tough JS, every time I do I break more then I fix. Maybe you, or someone els want's to do this on en:? It has been suggested at least [[:en:Wikipedia_talk:Upload#Fill_in_some_info_into_the_upload_description_box|once]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 16:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:::I'm not sure where to start, [[:en:MediaWiki talk:Common.js]] or [[:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)‎]], but in any case you need consensus first. Coding is the easy part ;) Also, I would suggest that the script doesn't insert the text ''automatically'' (like on Commons) but rather provide a link in [[:en:MediaWiki:Fileuploadsummary]] that would insert it ''when user wants'' it ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 20:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

::::I made a propossal at [[:en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Make_.22Upload_file.22_more_like_on_Commons|The Village Pump]]. --[[User:Steinninn|Steinninn]] 00:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

== Mediawiki 1.9.3 and 1.10: Namespace Searching not working ==

I have not used Inputbox before with the namespace attribute and have been unsuccessful to get it working. I have tried some of the tips posted here still with no success. I have tried using it on a couple different installs and of recent versions of Mediawiki (1.9.3 and 1.10) (PHP 5.2.2 and MySQL 5.0.24a) but with no success. It looks like it runs successfully on Wikimedia? So what am I doing wrong?! Related extensions I need to install to get it working? Ideas? Is this due to custom namespaces? <br>
Example of what I am adding:<br>
<pre>
<nowiki>
<inputbox>
type=search
namespaces=Winner,Nomination
</inputbox>
</nowiki>
</pre>

--[[User:Myotus|Myotus]] 13:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

:I experienced the same issue and found the solution. Open inputbox.php and goto line 132

<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
:and change it to
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>

:Works for me!
:--[[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]] 20:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

--[[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 00:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

:I needed this fix as well for Mediawiki 1.11, which brings up some questions:
:* Did the search interface change in some version of Mediawiki?
:* Is anyone maintaining this extension, that could make this fix permanent, or add a check for MW version?
:* Note: Search2, which doesn't seem to be documented doesn't do anything with name spaces, so that is a little trap for anyone trying to search specific name spaces.

Worked for me too, but:
* in the most current version, the suspect line is 138,
* had to close my browser and come back for changes to work.
--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

== Multiply fields ==
I'd like the function to have multiple input fields on the same submit button and the content of these fields to be applied to a pre-set template. This way it becomes like a 'wizard' for creating pages that has basic set content but with only say a few parameters of the subject being different.

For example fish profiles, these pages are often 95% identical expect for the species name, common name, colour, etc.

Can this extension do this?

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 11:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

== Suggestions from ''CreateArticle'' ==

''CreateArticle'' is based off ''Inputbox'' but [[mw:Extension talk:CreateArticle#Basic error checking|my suggestions]] for it apply to ''Inputbox'' (and other extensions based off it, like [[mw:Extension:CreateBox|CreateBox]]) as well. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:49, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

== Transparent ==

Hi!, I want to know how can I configure the inputbox to match with the background color without using the parameter '''''bgcolor''''', like, '''make it transparent'''. Also, I want to know if it's possible <u>'''put it under the search bar'''</u> in the sidebar. This is an example of what I'm talking about:

{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
</inputbox>
|}
And it should look like:
{| align="center" width=24% style="background: black; border: 1px solid red; padding: .2em; margin-bottom: 25px; width: 2; color: #000000"
| <inputbox>
type=create
width=24
bgcolor=black
</inputbox>
|}
Without using bgcolor

As you can see, the background color of the box (black) does not affect the input box background color and this gives me problems when I try to put it in the sidebar. Thank you very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 00:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

:I would try global CSS: give your table some id and then use something like <code>table.yourid form {background:color:transparent}</code>. As for sidebar, do you mean editing [[Mediawiki:Sidebar]]? I don't think it will accept inputbox. Note that if you type something in the usual search field and press Go, and the phrase is not found, then there are two links to create an article, you could make on of those links to really stand out ∴ [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 02:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

::Thank yo very much. [[User:Thunder26|Thunder26]] [[User Talk:Thunder26|(talk)]] 05:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

:::If you add $wgGoToEdit = true; to your LocalSettings.php, typing a nonexistent article name in the search box and clicking "Go" will create that article. —[[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] 13:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

{{EndTalkFromMeta}}

== please add 'summary='-Option ==

Hey guys, wouldn't it be usefull if you would add an option, witch sets the summary-text of the created edit. I'd need it for german WP, for example. Thanks for ths tool. Greetings, Michi <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:88.217.29.241|88.217.29.241]] ([[User talk:88.217.29.241|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/88.217.29.241|contribs]]) 14:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC). Please sign your posts!</small>

== Bug report Inputbox revision 27198 ==

I am using PHP version 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi) on a Windows machine.
Inputbox (search) seems to be working ok, but I do see the following note
in a small font at the bottom of the wiki page on which I use the Inputbox:

PHP Notice: Undefined property: Inputbox::$labeltext in C:\iWiki\extensions\Inputbox\inputbox.php on line 153

If you need more info, let me know.
[[User:80.127.78.73|80.127.78.73]] 01:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

== Another namespace issue ==

I have tried following the above guidelines about changing line 132 but it did not work, the extension won't search in a specific namespace for me, here is an example: [http://bahaikipedia.org/User:David/sandbox3 here] Does anyone know what could be the cause? Thanks very much [[User:60.50.173.98|60.50.173.98]] 00:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

==MediaWiki 1.11.0: Create Article issue==
I have recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11.0 and although the inputbox function still works, the button labels are labeled as &lt;createarticle&gt; and &lt;searchfulltext&gt; - where should that be fixed? --[[Special:Contributions/90.200.52.95|90.200.52.95]] 14:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
:Hi. I had the same problem at http://www.appropedia.org. I fixed it by uploading the newest code (liked on extension page) and adding the inputbox directory to the include code. I.e. I changed <code>require_once(/extensions/inputbox.php');</code> to <code>require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php');</code>. If that does not work, you could always just add the extension markup to label the buttons as you like. Good luck, --[[User:LRG|LRG]] 22:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

== Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line==
Installation Issue with mediawiki 1.9.3

I am trying to add this extension to MediaWiki 1.9.3 with no success.

I have downloaded inputbox.php and InputBox.i18n.php and placed them in /extensions/inputbox.

At the bottom of LocalSettings.php I have added <source lang="php">require_once($IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php'); .</source>

In MediaWiki I now receive:

:<code>'Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfLoadExtensionMessages() in C:\webdocs\pitawiki\extensions\inputbox\inputbox.php on line 38.</code>

I have been doing quite a bit of research on Google to find the answer myself, but it is beginning to look like I am either the only one or nobody has documented this problem before. Can someone please help?
[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 22:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

:I still am not sure what the problem was, but I have upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11 and now all works fine. --[[User:Chad.cdmtech|Chad.cdmtech]] 17:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
::Same problem, a year later:
:::# MediaWiki: 1.7.1
:::# PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
:::# MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
:For me the problem is on line 40. Line 40 is:
<source lang="php">wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );</source>
::Line 38 is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {</source>
::Line 58 (next section) is:
<source lang="php">),</source>
::The entire section which is having problems is:
<source lang="php">public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),</source>
::[[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:17, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
=== Extension Inputbox fault ===

*MediaWiki: 1.9.3
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log

I am trying to install [[extension:Inputbox]] but I am getting this error while using it:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfloadextensionmessages() in /home/gidelimm/public_html/wiki/extensions/Inputbox/inputbox.php on line 58

Is there anybody whop can help me to sort out this problem? Thanks in advance --[[User:Plenumchamber|Plenumchamber]] 11:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

:See below for a reply. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

=== undefined function wfloadextensionmessages ===

I'm also getting the undefined function wfloadextensionmessages error.

* MediaWiki: 1.9.3
* PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 5.0.41-log

The php error log entry:
[23-Apr-2008 19:35:31] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function
wfloadextensionmessages() in .../mediawiki/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php
on line 58

:You're trying to use too up-to-date version of InputBox with a legacy version of MediaWiki; function wfLoadExtensionMessages() didn't exist prior to MW 1.11. You'll either need to upgrade your MediaWiki to a newer version, which is the preferred solution, or to use an older version of the extension. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Version history ==
I suppose the latest version of [[extension:InputBox]] is not compatible with older versions of MediaWiki.
It seems that only the latest version of InputBox is available on the Mediawiki SVN.
For example [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox#Installation] and [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox] refer to the SourceForce CVS, which doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Is there any public repository of older versions of this extension?
--Samuel <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:213.28.6.132|213.28.6.132]] ([[User talk:213.28.6.132|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/213.28.6.132|contribs]]) . Please sign your posts with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>!</small>

:That is exactly what [http://svn.wikimedia.org svn.wikimedia.org] is for. It's there so that you can download older versions of files. Extensions have been branched since [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/ MediaWiki 1.10 (REL1_10)]. The [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php?revision=21730&view=markup 1.10 branched version of Inputbox] is supposed to work with MediaWiki 1.10.

:In any case, I just can't understand why you are using old and outdated pages like Wikiquote's and test.wikipedia's pages as a reference when it comes to MediaWiki extensions. In most cases if an extension can be found at svn.wikimedia.org, its documentation can be found at MediaWiki.org — this is especially true when it comes to extensions that are [[:Extensions used on Wikimedia|used on Wikimedia sites]]. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 14:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Adding NameSpace when creating articles ==

I'd like to combine the functionalities of search and create article...<br>
I mean there should be an input box, radiobuttons with my predefined namespaces and a button.
Is there allready someone who did this?<br>
Because I tried it and for some reason it doesn't work.<br>
Can someone please help me?<br>

== Version number please ==

It would be helpful if the developers of this extension assigned a version number to this extension. This could be in both the code (so it shows up in [[special:version]]) and the {{tl|extension}} infobox on this extension page. This way at a glance we can know if our MediaWiki installations are up to to date. --[[User:Maxelrod|Maxelrod]] 22:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

== Namespace Search, Hide Checkboxes Patch ==

I needed to search specific namespace for particular pages, so I didn't want the checkbox to show, or give the user the opportunity to uncheck the box which would cause the search to fail. Here is a patch (context diff) against Version 0.1.1 that adds a parameter ''namespacehide'' which will prevent the checkboxes from being displayed.

-- [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]] 15:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

<pre>
*** inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:19:05 1.3
--- inputbox.php 2008/03/04 00:27:06
***************
*** 103,108 ****
--- 103,109 ----
getBoxOption($inputbox->buttonlabel,$input,'buttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->searchbuttonlabel,$input,'searchbuttonlabel',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->namespaces,$input,'namespaces',$parser);
+ getBoxOption($inputbox->namespacehide,$input,'namespacehide',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->id,$input,'id',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->labeltext,$input,'labeltext',$parser);
getBoxOption($inputbox->br, $input, 'break',$parser);
***************
*** 203,214 ****
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
}
}
//Line feed
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';
--- 204,221 ----
$name='Main';
}
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
+ if (!$this->namespacehide) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
+ } else {
+ $searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
+ }
}
}
}
//Line feed
! if (!$this->namespacehide) {
! $searchform2 .= $this->br;
! }
//If namespaces are defined remove the go button
//because go button doesn't accept namespaces parameters
$gobutton='';

</pre>
:I don't understand how to fix it but would like to see this option to hide the checkbox(es). SO what about a Version 0.1.2? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

===patch for current revision===
Perhaps they've made a revision without changing the version number, but the code above does not match version 0.1.1 that is available currently at SVN. To make [[User:Rterzi|Rob Terzi]]'s patch work with the current revision, make the following changes:
====make the namespace selection work====
Follow [[User:Mark P.|Mark P.]]'s patch (above) and replace
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
with
<pre>
<input type='submit' name="searchx" class="searchboxSearchButton" value="{$this->searchbuttonlabel}" />
</pre>
====introduce a new variable====
I've called it '$showboxes' instead of 'namespacehide' because the patch hides the boxes by default and the parameter is used only to "show" the boxes. Find:
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces,;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
class Inputbox {
var $type, $width, $preload, $editintro, $br;
var $defaulttext,$bgcolor,$buttonlabel,$searchbuttonlabel,$labeltext;
var $hidden, $namespaces, $showboxes;
</pre>

====hook the new parameter====
Find:
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
);
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
$options = array(
'type' => 'type',
'width' => 'width',
'preload' => 'preload',
'editintro' => 'editintro',
'default' => 'defaulttext',
'bgcolor' => 'bgcolor',
'buttonlabel' => 'buttonlabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'searchbuttonlabel',
'namespaces' => 'namespaces',
'id' => 'id',
'labeltext' => 'labeltext',
'break' => 'br',
'hidden' => 'hidden',
'showboxes' => 'showboxes',
);
</pre>
====add new conditional rendering====
Find:
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
}
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
if ($usernamespace == $name) {
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\"{$checked}>{$usernamespace}";
} else {
$searchform2 .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ns{$i}\" value=\"1\">";
}
}
</pre>

And find:
<pre>
//Line feed
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
</pre>
and replace it with
<pre>
//Line feed
if ($this->showboxes == 'yes') {
$searchform2 .= $this->br;
}
</pre>

--[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 20:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category?==
Would it be possible to have the Inputbox being display as search box on all category pages so you can search the category (only consider the articles in this category)?<br />
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. This adds a special page and will search those article pages which are included in the category you've entered in the search fields. But you cannot enter normal search terms, only category names. So it would be nice to search articles in only 1 category. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
:I second this. It'd be a great idea.

== Default value ==

It would be nice if the default value in the box would disappear by clicking into it in order to type. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

== Can you use Inputbox to use an external search engine? ==

I'd like to be able to use inputbox to search an external search engine. Is that possible? Would be great if that was built in. --[[User:Apolloni|Apolloni]] 09:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== Parsing ==

Has anyone looked into adding the capability to allow for parser functions inside the <nowiki><inputbox></nowiki> tags?

[[User:Caile13|Kay]]

== Searching in namespaces ==

On the [http://tiddlywiki.com TiddlyWiki] [http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Help:Developer_Search community wiki] we're using this extension to create the following search form:
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
searchbuttonlabel=Search Developers Documentation
width=24
namespaces=Dev**,Dev_talk**
</inputbox>
</pre>
However, this doesn't actually search the specified namespaces.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- [[User:FND|FND]] 08:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

==Invalid Parameters==
Some parameters became invalid. What's wrong?--[[User:Πrate|百楽兎]] 01:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

== Inputbox + AJAX Search Suggestion? ==
Hi, I like this extension very much - one question: Is there any possibility to combine the search inputbox with the AJAX search suggestion on MediaWiki 1.13 or with the extension Search Suggest? I've already tried various things, but I haven't found a proper solution yet. I think it would be very useful...
Thank you. --[[User:Filburt|Filburt]] 07:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

==PHP warning ==
With the latest svn revision of inputbox working over the latest svn revision of mediawiki 1.14alpha, I see the php warning: PHP Warning: call_user_func_array() [<a href='function.call-user-func-array'>function.call
-user-func-array</a>]: Unable to call InputBoxHooks::render() in includes/p
arser/Parser.php on line 3330. [[User:NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis|NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis]] 14:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Bug with "default" parameter ==

Hi,

There seems to be a problem with the <code>default</code> parameter. Look at [[Extension:InputBox#Parameters]] : below this code :
<pre>
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
</pre>
... there is no text in the inputbox :
<inputbox>
type=comment
default=User talk:Eloquence
</inputbox>
[[User:Delhovlyn|Delhovlyn]] 20:52, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== Fixing the broken InputBox ==

The current checked in version simply doesn't load as people have pointed out.
This is easy to fix, and you can simplify the code. Basically get rid of the
Inputbox.hooks.php.

1. In Inputbox.php replace everything from line 50 on with:
<source lang="php">

// Register parser hook
if ( defined( 'MW_SUPPORTS_PARSERFIRSTCALLINIT' ) ) {
// Modern
$wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = 'wfInputBox';
} else {
// Legacy
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfInputBox';
}

function wfInputBox ()
{
new InputBox;
return true;
}
</source>
2.In Inputbox.classes.php get rid of the __construct function and replace it
with:
<source lang="php">
function InputBox() {
global $wgParser;

$wgParser->setHook( 'inputbox' , array( &$this, 'render' ) );
}

public function render( $input, $args, $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;

// Configure InputBox
$this->extractOptions( $parser->replaceVariables( $input ) );

// Return output
return $this->render();
}
</source>
and you're done! {{unsigned|Thempel}} 16:49, 6 November 2008
:You need to be more specific is the construct function the following:
<source lang="php">
public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}
</source>
:I get another error message:
::<code>Fatal error: Call to a member function replaceVariables() on a non-object in /home/(mywikiname)/public_html/wiki/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.classes.php on line 45</code>
:Line 45 is:
<source lang="php">// Configure InputBox</source>
:Again, I am using mediawiki 1.7.1. [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 02:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

== In subpages ==

Hello,<br>
I'm a french wikibookian... I would like to know if it can be possible to search in the subpages.
Thanks !
--[[Special:Contributions/79.87.132.217|79.87.132.217]] 12:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

== Align link broken==
The link to the current code in the Align section of this page is broken. {{unsigned|76.191.159.88}} 01:00, 13 December 2008

:I changed Inputbox.classes.php to put this feature back in. I think the other align code was lost in the move.
:Sorry I didn't do this via svn, but I don't have enough time to set svn up right now.[[User:Wezelboy|Wezelboy]] 18:23, 19 December 2008

<source lang="php">
<?php
/**
* Classes for InputBox extension
*
* @file
* @ingroup Extensions
*/

// InputBox class
class InputBox {

/* Fields */

private $mParser;
private $mType = '';
private $mWidth = 50;
private $mPreload = '';
private $mEditIntro = '';
private $mPage = '';
private $mBR = 'yes';
private $mDefaultText = '';
private $mBGColor = 'transparent';
private $mButtonLabel = '';
private $mSearchButtonLabel = '';
private $mFullTextButton = '';
private $mLabelText = '';
private $mHidden = '';
private $mNamespaces = '';
private $mID = '';
private $mInline = false;
private $mAlignment = 'center';

/* Functions */

public function __construct( $parser ) {
$this->mParser = $parser;
}

public function render() {
// Internationalization
wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'InputBox' );

// Handle various types
switch( $this->mType ) {
case 'create':
case 'comment':
return $this->getCreateForm();
case 'commenttitle':
return $this->getCommentForm();
case 'search':
return $this->getSearchForm();
case 'search2':
return $this->getSearchForm2();
default:
return Xml::tags( 'div', null,
Xml::element( 'strong',
array(
'class' => 'error'
),
strlen( $this->mType ) > 0
? wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-bad-type', $this->mType )
: wfMsgForContent( 'inputbox-error-no-type' )
)
);
}
}

/**
* Generate search form
*/
public function getSearchForm() {
global $wgContLang;

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}
if ( !$this->mSearchButtonLabel ) {
$this->mSearchButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'searchfulltext' );
}

// Build HTML
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'searchbox',
'id' => 'searchbox',
'class' => 'searchbox',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'class' => 'searchboxInput',
'name' => 'search',
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth,
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;

// Determine namespace checkboxes
$namespaces = $wgContLang->getNamespaces();
$namespacesArray = explode( ',', $this->mNamespaces );
if ( $this->mNamespaces ) {
foreach ( $namespacesArray as $userNamespace ) {
$checked = array();
// Namespace needs to be checked if flagged with "**" or if it's the only one
if ( strstr( $userNamespace, '**' ) || count( $namespacesArray ) == 1 ) {
$userNamespace = str_replace( '**', '', $userNamespace );
$checked = array( 'checked' => 'checked' );
}

// Namespace checkboxes
foreach ( $namespaces as $i => $name ) {
if ( $i < 0 ) {
continue;
} elseif ( $i == 0 ) {
$name = 'Main';
}
if ( $userNamespace == $name ) {
// Checkbox
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'checkbox',
'name' => 'ns' . $i,
'value' => 1,
'id' => 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i
) + $checked
);
// Label
$htmlOut .= ' ' . Xml::label( $userNamespace, 'mw-inputbox-ns' . $i );
}
}
}

// Line break
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
} else {
// Go button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'class' => 'searchboxGoButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= ' ';
}

// Search button
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'searchboxSearchButton',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/*
* Generate search form version 2
*/
public function getSearchForm2() {

// Use button label fallbacks
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'tryexact' );
}

$id = Sanitizer::escapeId( $this->mID );
$htmlLabel = '';
if ( isset( $this->mLabelText ) && strlen( trim( $this->mLabelText ) ) ) {
$this->mLabelText = $this->mParser->recursiveTagParse( $this->mLabelText );
$htmlLabel = Xml::openElement( 'label', array( 'for' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id ) );
$htmlLabel .= $this->mLabelText;
$htmlLabel .= Xml::closeElement( 'label' );
}
$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'id' => 'bodySearch' . $id,
'class' => 'bodySearch',
'action' => SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Search' )->escapeLocalUrl(),
'style' => $this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'class' => 'bodySearchWrap',
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor . ';' .
$this->mInline ? 'display: inline;' : ''
)
);
$htmlOut .= $htmlLabel;
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'search',
'size' => $this->mWidth,
'id' => 'bodySearchInput' . $id
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'go',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel,
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnGo' . $id
)
);

// Better testing needed here!
if ( !empty( $this->mFullTextButton ) ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::element( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'fulltext',
'class' => 'bodySearchBtnSearch',
'value' => $this->mSearchButtonLabel
)
);
}

$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate create page form
*/
public function getCreateForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( $this->mType == "comment" ) {
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}
} else {
$comment = '';
if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( 'createarticle' );
}
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'createbox',
'id' => 'createbox',
'class' => 'createbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
if ( $this->mType == 'comment' ) {
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
}
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'title',
'class' => 'createboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'createboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Generate new section form
*/
public function getCommentForm() {
global $wgScript;

if ( !$this->mButtonLabel ) {
$this->mButtonLabel = wfMsgHtml( "postcomment" );
}

$htmlOut = Xml::openElement( 'div',
array(
'align' => $this->mAlignment,
'style' => 'background-color:' . $this->mBGColor
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'form',
array(
'name' => 'commentbox',
'id' => 'commentbox',
'class' => 'commentbox',
'action' => $wgScript,
'method' => 'get'
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'action',
'value' => 'edit',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'preload',
'value' => $this->mPreload,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'editintro',
'value' => $this->mEditIntro,
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => $this->mHidden ? 'hidden' : 'text',
'name' => 'preloadtitle',
'class' => 'commentboxInput',
'value' => $this->mDefaultText,
'size' => $this->mWidth
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'section',
'value' => 'new',
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'name' => 'title',
'value' => $this->mPage
)
);
$htmlOut .= $this->mBR;
$htmlOut .= Xml::openElement( 'input',
array(
'type' => 'submit',
'name' => 'create',
'class' => 'commentboxButton',
'value' => $this->mButtonLabel
)
);
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'form' );
$htmlOut .= Xml::closeElement( 'div' );

// Return HTML
return $htmlOut;
}

/**
* Extract options from a blob of text
*
* @param string $text Tag contents
*/
public function extractOptions( $text ) {
wfProfileIn( __METHOD__ );

// Parse all possible options
$values = array();
foreach ( explode( "\n", $text ) as $line ) {
if ( strpos( $line, '=' ) === false )
continue;
list( $name, $value ) = explode( '=', $line, 2 );
$values[ strtolower( trim( $name ) ) ] = trim( $value );
}

// Build list of options, with local member names
$options = array(
'type' => 'mType',
'width' => 'mWidth',
'preload' => 'mPreload',
'page' => 'mPage',
'editintro' => 'mEditIntro',
'break' => 'mBR',
'default' => 'mDefaultText',
'bgcolor' => 'mBGColor',
'buttonlabel' => 'mButtonLabel',
'searchbuttonlabel' => 'mSearchButtonLabel',
'fulltextbutton' => 'mFullTextButton',
'namespaces' => 'mNamespaces',
'labeltext' => 'mLabelText',
'hidden' => 'mHidden',
'id' => 'mID',
'inline' => 'mInline',
'align' => 'mAlignment',
);
foreach ( $options as $name => $var ) {
if ( isset( $values[$name] ) ) {
$this->$var = $values[$name];
}
}

// Insert a line break if configured to do so
$this->mBR = ( strtolower( $this->mBR ) == "no" ) ? '' : '<br />';

// Validate the width; make sure it's a valid, positive integer
$this->mWidth = intval( $this->mWidth <= 0 ? 50 : $this->mWidth );

wfProfileOut( __METHOD__ );
}

}
</source>

== Extension 0.1.1 doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.13.3 ==

I've added this to my Wiki as per the install instructions and using:

<pre>
<inputbox>
type=search
width=42
buttonlabel=Go
searchbuttonlabel=Search
break=no
</inputbox>
</pre>

I get :

<pre>
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Inputbox::extractOptions() in /home/mywiki/public_html/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.hooks.php on line 31
</pre>

Well all 4 files are in there and I added the line in my LocalSettings.

Does the author still support this extension?

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Help talk:Starting a new page

2009-02-21T16:07:02Z

Quatermass: /* Characters not allowed in a new page */ new section

''Discuss [[Help:Starting a new page]] here. ''
----

==New page templates==
I want a template so every time a new page is created, the same headers are created by default for each new page started. i.e. they create a new page, and on that new page is already header1/header2/header3 with special instructional text under each header as guidelines. Is this possible?

== Creating Redirects ==

''"Don't forget to setup redirects when you create a page. If you think another person may search for the page you've created by ussesrestesting a different name or spelling, please create the proper redirect(s)."''

ok, but how do you '''create the redirect''' ??

-- 129.33.1.37 - 15:28, 29 November 2006

:just read the text and click on [[Help:Links]] ;-) --[[User:Bdk|<span style="color:#116611">:Bdk:</span>]] 01:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

The Links help doesn't actually explain redirects very well. Meta does, but like all the meta help pages, it needs to be severely pared down to be ported here (and in fact, it can't just be imported willy-nilly because meta is GFDL and not Public Domain). [[User:64.121.2.59|64.121.2.59]] 21:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

:I think this is clearer now (and we have a page [[Help:Redirects]]) -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 13:52, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

== Protect a page ==
How do I do a 'protect page'? I see no link to any explanation on this. Thanks for your feedback [[User:VReijs|VReijs]] 10:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
: If you are a sysop, you should see a "protect" tab on top of every page, if using the Monobook skin. You can also click on "edit this page", and on the address bar of your browser, replace <code>?action=edit</code> with <code>?action=protect</code>. If you get a permissions error, then you need to get a wiki admin to protect the page for you. You can also have a look at [[:m:Help:Administration|Help:Administration]] on Meta for more detailed instructions. [[User:Titoxd|Tito]][[:en:User:Titoxd|<font color="#008000">xd</font>]]<sup>([[:en:User talk:Titoxd|?!?]])</sup> 07:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

== URL problem ==

You can use the wiki's URL for creating a new page. The URL to an article of the wiki is usually something like this:

* http://www.example.com/index.php/ARTICLE or
* http://www.example.com/wiki/ARTICLE

this doesn't work?? HOw com I have to do it like this instead:-

http://wiki.example.com/index.php?title=ARTICLE

-- 60.51.120.123 - 00:03, 11 April 2007

:Yeah so you're seeing '?title=' in the URL. Actually that's the default way a MediaWiki URL looks, until the server administrator does [[Manual:Short URL|installation steps to beautify the URL]], so in a way it might make sense to chage the instructions here to show the '?title=' bit. On the other hand many administrators do often figure out how to beautify their URLs, so for users of these wikis...
:That's not actually relevant to the instructions being given here anyway. The point is that you can create a new page, by replacing the article title appearing at the end of the URL.
:-- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 14:00, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

== No Links for Spammers ==

The page www.my-wiki.org is a existing url which contains a lot of adverts. Please change the URL in the example to something like example.net from RFC 2606.

-- 89.244.74.23 - 17:43, 1 July 2007

== how to put a new page in a namespace? ==

i'm trying to create a simple site:

main page
child a
child b
child c

where main page would contain a table of contents for all its child pages, and each child page would contain links back to the parent page. i believe i need to use subpages to accomplish this, and in order to use subpages, i have to turn on namespace subpages. i also, seemingly, would need to put each of the pages into this new namespace. at this point i have no idea how to put a page into a namespace. i also have no idea how to get a table of contents on the main page. after sinking 3 hours into this i feel like an idiot.

-- 68.167.89.124 - 03:25, 22 January 2008

:Wikis actually work best if you dont try to be too clever with heirarchical navigations structures etc. My advice is, write the main navigation points into the text of the wiki pages itself (rather than trying to auto generate it in any way), and keep your actual page naming entirely flat, especially for key pages linked off the main page. So even though you create the impression of 'Child' pages of the main page, you're actually linking to other pages on the same flat level. Your Main Page wikitext might look like...

<pre>
__NOTOC__
Welcome to this wiki about fruit. Please feel free to edit.

'''[[Apple]]''' - Information about apples

'''[[Bannana]]''' - In depth analysis on bananas

'''[[Orange]]''' - A detailed look at oranges
</pre>

:Even though 'Apple','Banana' and 'Orange' are not "child" pages in any Content Management System sense of the word, psychologically and navigationally, they effectively are. The Main Page list must be maintained by hand.

:That answer might seem lame to you, but remember that this allows the wiki community to develop an organic navigational structure, and really in my experience this is the best way to keep wikis simple and effective.

:If you ''are'' wanting to ignore this, and activate sub pages. Set the variable [[Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages|$wgNamespacesWithSubpages]] e.g.

$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array(
NS_TALK => true,
NS_USER => true,
NS_USER_TALK => true,
NS_PROJECT_TALK => true,
NS_IMAGE_TALK => true,
NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => true,
NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => true,
NS_HELP_TALK => true,
NS_CATEGORY_TALK => true
);

:...to activate it across all namespaces (which is what you would want).

:Sub pages give your wiki an inbuilt heirarchical mechanism, however I think you will still need to create the Table of Contents by hand (although I guess there's a good chance someone's created an extension to do this)

:Another inbuilt heirarchical mechanism is '[[Help:Categories|Categories]]'. This creates an autmatically maintained list of 'child' pages (well pages which are in the category) but still this doesn't allow you to put that list as a table of contents on the Main Page.

:-- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 14:27, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

== Characters not allowed in a new page ==

Is there a list of characters we're not allowed to use when creating a new page?

I tried to create a page called 'Amquel+' and mediawiki dropped the '+'!

Why can't a '+' be used?

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 16:07, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

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Manual talk:Installing on MoWeS Portable (Windows)

2009-01-27T11:24:07Z

Quatermass: /* Out of date install and set up instructions */

{{TalkFromMeta}}
==Question on Instructions:==

Step three goes like this:

---
3. The default for the apache web server is to listen on port 80 of the host machine. This is likely to cause problems if there's an existing server on your target machine. To change the port number, open the file apache2\conf\httpd.conf in a text editor like notepad.

Search for the line that says Listen 80 and change it to Listen 127.0.0.1:8080
Search for the line that says ServerName localhost:80 and change it to ServerName 127.0.0.1:8080
* IANA Port Numbers:

o 80: World Wide Web (HTTP)

o 8080: HTTP Alternate

o 443: HTTP protocol over TLS/SSL (HTTPS)

o 49152 through 65535: Dynamic and/or Private Ports

o 1024 through 49151 should not be used on the Internet without IANA registration.

---
I've been very slow and deliberate and been very careful to do everything EXACTLY as described. And my question is when it starts into the "IANA port numbers... " um.... do you want me to DO something with those? there are no instructions to do anything about them, so I did nothing.

If someone is reading this, I also had to go into G:\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf and change all of the "c:" to "x:" to get it MORE working. You can find all of these by running the file "httpd" from "x:\Apache2\bin" it will give you an error message which helps point out where you need to change stuff.

You also may have to "x:\\wow\old.dir is not writable. WOS can not run correctly without writing this file." (x is your thumb drive) Check "archive" on that file and it works without the error message. But now after all of that, it says it's running Apache but NOT SQL. I don't know why.

When I run httpd it says (OS 10048)Only one useage of each socket address (protocal/network adress/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 127.0.0.1:8080 no listening sockets available, shutting down unable to open logs.

Error log is empty

httpdf.pid says "2736"

help! I am using VISTA 64 bit. --[[User:Eckre|Eckre]] 13:00, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

:On mine it reports the status of the DB incorrectly. Says MySQL is not running, when in fact it is running just fine. Not sure why.
:So is your apache running OK or not? go to http://localhost:8080/ Do you get the WOS home page? Do you have link to phpmyadmin? Try it. See if you can do stuff with you database. Is it ''really'' not starting? -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 18:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

==Question:==
The Hints describe saving space by deleting PHP4 or PHP5 folder, after selecting the one you want to use. I tried selecting 5 and deleted 4 and ended up broken. WOS would not start up until I restored the php4 folder.

==Question:==

When I set this up, it doesn't allow pages to be deleted, even if I log in as WikiSysop. The "delete" tab comes up, and it asks me to "confirm delete", but the "delete page" button does not delete the page - it just goes back to the "confirm delete" page.

Note: "move" page also doesn't work.

===Answer: (I figured it out myself!)===

'''You need to create a directory <code>W:\php5\temp\</code> if you are using php5, or <code>W:\php4\temp\</code> if you are using php4.'''

''If you look in the W:\apache2\logs\error.log file (you made it in step 5, right?), it says:''
<code>Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (W:\\php5\\temp) in Unknown on line 0, referer: localhost:8080/wiki/index.php?title=Deletion_Test_Page&action=delete</code>

==Speed==
My WoWoS seems to run slightly slower than wikipedia.org (on a busy day). What can I do to speed it up? Can I install memcached? ''[[w:User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich ]] [[w:User talk:Rich Farmbrough| Farmbrough]]'' 10:44 [[12 July]] [[2006]] (UTC).
:INterestingly it seems to have sped up a bit "on its own". ''[[w:User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich ]] [[w:User talk:Rich Farmbrough| Farmbrough]]'' 12:22 [[27 July]] [[2006]] (UTC).

(I'm confused. Isn't your WoWoS on a USB stick, connected to your local computer? What does "on a busy day" mean when there should be no one but you accessing it.)
:I think he means Wikipedia on a busy day, not his personal wiki.
:Make sure you install on a USB2.0 drive, not a usb1.1 drive, and that you connect to a usb2.0 port. The difference is profound.

==Question:==

I have a working Wiki on a Stick, set up as described. However, the computer I plug the stick into also has a WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) wiki. It seems that the CH Software WOS will start up Apache properly, and it reports that MySQL Server is running, but I can't access the MySQL database. The error message is "Access denied for user 'mywiki'@'localhost' (using password: YES) (localhost))". If I stop the WAMP MySQL server, and restart the WOS MySQL server, then the Wiki on a Stick works, but the WAMP wiki has the same error message. (Checking services says that both Apache servers and both MySQL servers can run at the same time.)
:You're probibly trying to run both MySQL servers on port 3306, which is the default MySQL port. However, when your Wiki on a Stick tries to access it's MySQL server it goes to the first one that was started on the machine, which in this case is the wrong one. Try changing the port for the MySQL server you have on your USB device to 3307, the setting for that can be found in your my.ini file in the MySQL server's root directory. Just look for the line that reads "Port=3306", without the quotations, and change it to 3307 or another port of your choice. [[User:Paul Barkley|Paul Barkley]] 18:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

== Does it work on a CD ==

Has anybody tried to install this on a CD-rom or DVD instead of a stick? is it possible?
:Where would you save wiki edits? I would guess that RW media works.
:You could use WOS Presenter ([www.chsoftware.net/en/products/wospresenter/])
{{EndTalkFromMeta}}

== Uniform Server will run on Win98/ME ==

CH Software requires Win2K/XP. Uniform Server will run on Win98/ME.-[[Special:Contributions/69.87.199.193|69.87.199.193]] 02:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

== Empty wiki 55 MB? ==

The manual says: ''"A complete WOS installation with an empty MediaWiki takes about 55Mb."'' On the download site however, when I check Apache2_SE, MySQL5_SE, PHP5_SE + MediaWiki 1.12.0 it says, that it will be 87.17 MB (extracted). It is quite a big difference for me, because I want to put it on 128MB stick. Q1: Which of the mentioned sizes is more close to truth. Q2: Can anybody give a hint, how many pages of wiki-text could be saved on the remaining cca. 30 MBs? --[[Special:Contributions/194.160.92.107|194.160.92.107]] 09:42, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

== Out of date install and set up instructions ==

The main page instructions are very out of date.

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 11:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I've got it working with:

* Apache2 (Version 2.2.9)
* PHP5 (Version 5.2.5)
* MediaWiki (Version 1.13.1)
* PHPMyAdmin (Version 3.1.1)
* MySQL5 (Version 5.0.67)

Basically I selected the full 5 items listed above as a package from the CH Software website and installed them on a 8GB USB stick. I then used PHPMyAdmin to import most of my mysql databases into MySql (I had to manually import my main one as the PHPMyAdmin has a upper limit). I then took a backup of this new mediawiki directory before importing from my FTP client the directories and contents from my online Wiki into this directory.
I then took the original LocalSettings.php made by MoWeS Portable II and altered:
<pre>
$wgDBuser = "root";
$wgDBpassword = "";
</pre>
and put it into the mediawiki folder.
This allowed me to see the contents of my pages. I then slowly added the extensions back in by copying and pasting from my original LocalSettings.php into the new one.

As I was simply using the MoWeS to view my Wiki offline, I had no need to set up any extra mysql users, so I took any mediawiki extensions that had extra mySQL user and passwords and set them to user root and null password.
This at least got them working quickly. :-)

This was a good exercise as it gave me a feel of what is involved in doing a full restore if I had a catastrophic failure of my online wiki.

*[http://php.about.com/od/learnmysql/ss/mysql_backup.htm backup/restore of mysql databases]
*[http://php.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=php&cdn=compute&tm=6&f=11&tt=14&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/security.html How mysql user privileges work]

Tip: Don't use Notepad.exe to edit php files, it can corrupt them. WordPad or NotePad++ is better.

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 11:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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Manual talk:Installing on MoWeS Portable (Windows)

2009-01-22T11:49:06Z

Quatermass: /* Out of date install and set up instructions */ new section

Help talk:Categories

2009-01-20T12:10:31Z

Quatermass: /* Changing items listed per category */ new section

{{help talk}}

== Sub-categorising ==

Should anyone add information here on how to put one categorry under another (subcategory)?
: This was done a while back (but since the question was asked) --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 16:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

== Hiding categories ==

How does one hide category display?

: You can hide the category links at the bottom of a page using CSS (e.g. <code>#catlinks { display: none; }</code>). --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 01:36, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

But how does one hide an article (or something like a template) from being included within a category?

== Intro ==

I think it's important to define what a Category is. It could be placed before the help section where it explains how to add a category, as a noob might not know what the Category does. Just a suggestion.
--[[User:Hawkwynd|Hawkwynd]] 12:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

: Thanks. It's a wiki, so feel free to add this kind of text yourself! In the meantime, I've added a rough-and-ready intro. Please tweak it if you feel the need. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 16:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

== second independent category system ==
I want to introduce a second category system in my wiki or let me call it an "advanced Tag-System". The idea is to tag every page with some words as links - similiar to the categorie syntax. When I then click this words, I want to see a page with the content of "what links here". Besides this I want to keep the standard category tree.
Have anyone has an idea, how to realize this? --[[User:87.162.127.221|87.162.127.221]] 13:43, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
:Try Semantic MediaWiki? --[[Special:Contributions/141.14.26.125|141.14.26.125]] 08:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

== Language ==

Could someone please add a guide on how one can change the name "Category" into something localised in other languages? --[[User:David Munch|David Munch]] 14:41, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
:I would think that would be the "MediaWiki:Categories" page of your wiki; accessible via "Special:Allmessages". --[[User:Lance May|Lance May]] 12:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

== Sorting question... ==

In an interesting display, I have managed to thoroughly confuse myself with categories. When sorting using the <nowiki>"[[Category:CatName|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]"</nowiki> suggestion, I've gotten my templates to exhibit the appropriate behavior. The category is "Templates", and the namespace is the default "Template". This works perfectly. However, when I tried this with another category (originally the same name in category as in namespace), they simply sort by the namespace. I've since renamed the category and left the namespace the same. It still sorts by the namespace. The only difference in the two situations that I can see now is that the problematic pages are also tied to another category. Do categories not sort if the pages are attached to more than one? --[[User:Lance May|Lance May]] 18:04, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
:Okay, so just in case there are others out there who may have a similar issue. Any level of pride does not prohibit me from saying that the issue above was not only my fault, it was my complete ignorance of the product's features. Essentially, I had expected that namespaces would be created just as any other page; through usage. Granted, this would not be feasible in situations like [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], so I can see why it is not that way. So that is what the delta was between the two situations; one was a real namespace and had a <nowiki>{{SUBPAGENAME}}</nowiki>, the other was not and did not. However, in the interest of possibly lending a hand to anyone else running across this issue, please see [[Manual:$wgExtraNamespaces]] before just creating "Something:Like_this", as it will '''not''' become a namespace without setting it up ahead of time.

==<nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT}}</nowiki> in pages categorized via templates==
I'm facing a problem to which I haven't yet found any answer or solution: in a wiki I collaborate to, we have a kind of pages that are categorized in two different ways:
# via directly receiving category tags (say, <nowiki>[[Category:A]][[Category:B]]</nowiki>), and
# by receiving templates that categorize the page indirectly (i.e.: templates <nowiki>{{C}} {{D}}</nowiki> that insert the page in categories <nowiki>[[Category:C]][[Category:D]]</nowiki>).
When I decided for DEFAULTSORT in place of the old procedure of manually inserting a sort key in each category tag (and for the templates, by passing the sort key as parameter), I discovered that DEFAULTSORT only works for the categories local to the page, but not for the ones inserted by the templates. Is there a way to change this behavior and force all categories to follow DEFAULTSORT? Even a tweak in the wiki code would be welcome! Thanks --[[User:Capmo|Capmo]] 21:49, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

:<nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT}}</nowiki> should apply also to categories included via templates. However, keep in mind that it's the ''default'' sort key: any explicitly specified sort key will override it. —[[User:Ilmari Karonen|Ilmari Karonen]] 22:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks for your reply, you were right: some of the templates had a sortkey code defined in them that was preventing DEFAULTSORT from working properly. It was something like this: <tt><nowiki>[[Category:{{{1}}}|{{{sortkey|{{PAGENAME}}}}}]]</nowiki></tt>. When no sortkey was passed as parameter, the "magic word" PAGENAME would become active and override DEFAULTSORT. When I removed all that and left only <tt><nowiki>[[Category:{{{1}}}]]</nowiki></tt> everything worked fine! [[User:Capmo|Capmo]] 04:50, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

== Changing items listed per category ==

I know I can place the following global variable into LocalSettings.php

$wgCategoryPagingLimit = 600;

To alter all categories in a Wiki.

But someone said that the latest MediaWiki now allows this to be done on a per category basis?

If so, does anyone know the magic word I add into a category page to do this?

I can't find it listed.

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:10, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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Manual talk:Configuring file uploads

2009-01-12T15:15:17Z

Quatermass: /* Changing the text on the File Upload Page */

==Clarifications==

=== False folder permission ===

After uploading images I'm not able to see them because the subfolders don't have the permission 755. Can I change that automatically or do I have to change them after every upload? It would also be ok if all images would be stored in the images/ folder instead in the images/firstletter/firstletternumber. I hope someone can help me.

=== MediaWiki's $wgEnableUploads vs. PHP's file_uploads ===

How come when editing MediaWiki's $wgEnableUploads between true and false becomes noticeable immediately (unable to upload vs. upload enabled) but editing PHP $file_uploads (if already 'on') is not impacting/denying my upload experience at all?

===End User===

;Who is the "end user"; someone accessing the wiki using a web browser, or a local user on the machine running the wiki?

In this case, "end user" refers to the user accessing the wiki using a web browser.

===File Types===

;Are file uploads only for images, or for any type of file?

You can configure MediaWiki to accept additional file types using the [[Manual:$wgFileExtensions|$wgFileExtensions]] configuration setting.

===Chmod===

;Shouldn't the chmod for the upload directory be 744? That gives rwxr--r--. 755 gives r-x, which I thought was what we were trying to avoid...

:Execute privilege on directories is required to access files inside them. (Yes, this is confusing. Blame AT&T.) --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] 00:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

There are pages on this site that say 744,755,777. Could someone explain wich to use when?

The important thing is that the webserver has write access. Thus if the upload directory is owned by the webserver user ( e.g. www-data ) 755 would suffice. If the webserver is not owner, but is in the group owning the directory, 775 would be better.
777 is the extreme case where all users on the system have full access. In most cases this would not be advisable.

===Making Uploads Lowercase===
Does anyone have any idea how to allow files to be uploaded and named with lowercase letter, for some reason all uploaded file default to a capital letter for the first letter of the file name? [[User:24.3.123.174|24.3.123.174]] 21:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
: wuh. just under a year response time. Anywho: A technical limitation of Mediawiki is that all pagenames have to start with an uppercase letter. this is most likely the cause for all files beeing renamed.[[User:195.230.62.186|195.230.62.186]] 12:24, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

== The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again. ==

I did as mentioned.

It's a little frustrating, but it seems like mediawiki does not bother that I changed settings in localsettings.php.

I added zip as an extension, than I turned off the extension check, then I turned of mime check etc.

Still I can only upload images and no zip files.

what to do?

===How I fixed it===
I had to set $wgVerifyMimeType=false; in my LocalSettings.php which means my mime types are probably screwed up. Its an symptomatic fix to a bigger problem, i suspect.

: Perhaps have a look at [[Manual:Mime type detection]] -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 11:10, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

== ".[FILE EXTENSION]" is not a recommended image file format. ==

I have set file extensions to allow wmv and avi, set <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions=false</tt>; and <tt>$wgVerifyMimeType=false</tt> in LocalSettings.php, but get the message " ".avi" is not a recommended image file format. " (same for .wmv) when I try to upload avi (and wmv) files. Files sizes are under the cap in php.ini. I have not problems uploading static image files (eg .jpg, .png).

: With <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions=false</tt>, you will still get that warning, but should be able to override it ("upload anyway" or some such). <tt>$wgVerifyMimeType=false</tt> has nothing to do with this, it just tells MediaWiki not to check if the file actually ''is'' an avi file (failing that test would result in a different error message though). -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 11:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

:: Thanks for the speedy response. Unfortunately no override option appeared on the screen. I just got "Upload warning" header above the "not a recommended image file format" message. This also happened when I check "Ignore any warnings" on the upload screen. However, I then rearranged the order of in LocalSetting.php so that <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions=false</tt> appeared ''before'' <tt>$wgEnableUploads=true</tt> and <tt>$wgFileExtensions = ...<tt>. I can now upload video files without any difficulties.

::: Turning of <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions</tt> seems a little dangerous. I fixed a similar problem I was having with ''xls'' files by adding the following line to mime.types:

:::<tt>application/msword xls</tt>

:::Depending upon the mime detection engine on your server, certain types are misidentified. The true solution is to fix the engine, but this is a pretty safe alternative. - ''dan''

MUst be server pixies then. -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 13:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

==This file is bigger than the server is configured to allow==
How do you change the maximum allowed size of a file for uploading?

This is what I have in my php.ini:

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 250M

(default was 2 MB)

:: YOu may also have to change post_max_size or max_post_size or some such. Apache itself might also have a limit set. And keep in mind that you have to restart apache for any changes to the php configuration to take effect. -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 11:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

==Linking to .mov files (Quick Time) won't work==
After: allowing uploading of .mov files to my wiki, successfully uploading a certain .mov file and watching it from the page I've been directed to, I found my wiki won't link to it.
If I type, for instance, [[Media:Example.mov]] (assuming my .mov file's named ''Example''), I'd get a red link, leading to "Upload file" page. What am I doing wrong? --[[User:87.69.58.71|87.69.58.71]] 17:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

==Upload Priviledges==
Is there a way to set it so that only SysOp can upload files?
:Try [[:meta:Uploading_files#Is_it_possible_to_let_only_some_users_upload_Images.3F]] --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

== anonymous uploads ==

Is there a way to allow users to upload files without logging in?

That'd be a great help for corporate environments where only a limited number of people can access the wiki (server) anyway...

>This can be done by editing the SepcialUpload.php file in the includes folder. If you comment out both the $wgOut->errorPage('uploadnologin'.... line and the return line, users will not have to login to reach the upload form.

== In which file is variable $wgFileExtensions? ==

Im trying to change my extensions list, but it is not in LocalSettings? Where is it?
*:The default is set in includes/DefaultSettings.php. But you shouldn't change it here. Just copy the line into your LocalSettings.php and alter it the way you like here. The intention for this procedure is just that the DefaultSettings is responsible for everything that is NOT explicity set by yourself. Also if you like to make an update someday you won't destroy your current settings, cause the LocalSettings.php won't be touched through an update.

== Check directory security ==

In the manual page, it says under "Check directory security" that "The upload directory needs to be configured so that it is not possible for an end user to upload and execute other scripts, which could then exploit access to your web directory and damage your wiki or web site."

Unfortunately, the PHP function that makes subdirectories is:

<code>function wfMkdirParents( $fullDir, $mode = 0777 ) { ... }</code>

and many places that call this use the fault mode 0777 which is world-writable. For example, everywhere in Image.php it uses one argument calling this method, such as:

<code>./includes/Image.php:1078: wfMkdirParents( $thumbDir );</code>

The consequence of this is that every directory recursively under images is world-writable. The files themselves seem to be fine (mode 644), however, any user who can login to the system on which the MediaWiki instance is running can copy or destroy files at will.

Can we get wfMkdirParents (and everywhere that 0777 is passed to that method) to use a mode of 0755 instead? --[[User:Caswick|Caswick]] 21:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

== How to link "other" file types on pages? ==

Case 1 - When i want to upload images, i follow the following steps
*go to page edit
*write a suitable name
*make it into an image link by clicking the 6th button from the left on the edit menu
*save page
*view page, the link is shown in red.
*click it and upload the image
Simple.

But with file types other than images,it give an error as to "not a jpeg format", there is no such option.
I have to link the thing by copy/pasting the exact names everytime.
There must some other way around!
Please help me on this !!
--[[User:Ankit.madan|Ankit.madan]] 07:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

== Error when uploading from URL ==
''Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /path/to/wiki/includes/SpecialUpload.php on line 165''

Any idea what could cause this? I've googled it, but it seems only the chinese have experiences this problem. Using MW 1.11 - followed the directions on the configuration page. Regular uploads work fine.

I solved this by typing on Ubuntu: 'sudo apt-get install php5-curl' followed by 'sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart'

== Folder permissions & SUPHP ==

If you are using suphp you might want to check the suphp configuration file ( /etc/suphp.conf )

and ensure the Umask value is set to something sane (so when the folders get created they get the proper permissions)

;Umask to set, specify in octal notation
umask=0022

You can also set the umask locally at the LocalSettings.php:

umask(0022);

== Multiple Uploads ==

Is it possible to upload multiple files at one time (like for a photo gallery) rather than uploading each file individually? Or if I FTP them to my server without using MediaWiki's upload page, can I still use the <gallery> tags to display them somehow?

: There's [[Extension:MultiUpload]], havn't tried it though. If you upload files directly to the server using FTP or SCP or whatever, you have to import them into MediaWiki to make them work wiki-style: That is done using maintenance/importImages.php but it requires shell access. I believe some of the bots that exist for mediawiki also support file upload, but I havn't looked into that. There's also the [http://djini.de/software/commonist/ commonist upload tool], which was designed for wikimedia commons, but can be adopted to other sites as well.
: HTH -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 06:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks so much for the info! I do have shell access, and I think FTP and import would probably the fastest for lots of images. I may use MultiUpload as well - it would be nice if I had just a few files.

:::Just saw that I do not want drag'n'drop mutple upload via interface. Too much abuse. Will also try MultiUpload. Thanks --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 04:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

==Image File Names==
I'm webmaster of http://venciclopedia.com, a Spanish language wiki. We recently moved from one hosting server to another and it took us weeks to finish the migration because of problems with the names of some images. The main problem was that our former hosting (yahoo) didn't allow the creation of files or folders with certain characters, but wiki did it anyway and we didn't care until we moved away. Our former wiki could read the folders and images in them, but we could not see them or ftp them out of yahoo because of invalid characters in the names.

This was most likely solved by our move to a new hosting and upgrade to the latest wiki, but after so many problems I simply don't want to risk it. My question: There's way to forbid users from uploading files with names containing symbols (as in #, @, etc) and accented words (as in "ó")?

Right now we are running with a modification I did to Specialupload.php in line 426, where I changed this:
<pre>
$filtered = preg_replace ( "/[^".Title::legalChars()."]|:/", '-', $filtered );
</pre>
To this:
<pre>
$filtered = preg_replace ( "/[^a-z0-9\\040\\.]|:/i", 'x', $filtered );
</pre>

With this change users cannot upload files with symbols or accented words, but they still can upload the "ugly" and nondescriptive file names created by my patch. Meaning, words with a bunch of X's where the symbols or accented words used to be.

*So, is there a way to just reload the page and say, Please change your filename, such and such characters are invalid?
*Is there a way to transform accented words like "ó" into plain "o"s?

In Especial:Allmessages I found a message titled ''illegalfilename'' that warns against using invalid characters, so I guess there's some sort of option without having to change Specialupload.php directly.

Thanks in advance, here's my upload page in case you need to test it. http://venciclopedia.com/index.php?title=Especial:Upload

--Mark 09:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

== Upload files to FTP server ==
Is it possible to upload files to FTP server?

Yes, then use /maintenance/importImages.php
Read above section.

== Odd filenames? ==

Hey, I recently installed the newest Mediawiki and any files (I only tried images though) I upload always come up as Image:[USERNAME]--[IMAGENAME].[extension]. Is there any way to make it just go to the file name? Thanks. --[[User:Ratmaster|Ratmaster]] 21:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

== File size and postgres ==

Hi,

I'm using mediawiki1.7 with postgres. When uploading a file, the pg_query() can't write in img_size in the image table and I get an error message -

ERROR: value "202205" is out of range for type smallint

and some other details...

...out of range for type smallint in /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/DatabasePostgres.php

I have modified $wgMaxUploadSize and $wgFileExtensions in LocalSettings.php

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ppt', 'pdf', 'doc', 'psd', 'mp3','xls', 'zip','swf', 'doc', 'odt', 'odc', 'odp', 'odg', 'mpp');
$wgUploadSizeWarning = 1000 * 1024;
$wgMaxUploadSize = 1024 * 1024 * 100;

This did not help. I think, the problem is in the definition of the image table.
Is there a way to enable upload of larger files, up to 2M?

Thank you in advance,

Twisp

== Changing the text on the File Upload Page ==
How does one change the text on this page?

I need to add some extra copyright warning text.

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 14:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah. Discovered how to do this: Go to the 'MediaWiki:Uploadtext' page of your Wiki and edit it.
--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 15:15, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

----

Manual talk:Configuring file uploads

2009-01-12T14:44:35Z

Quatermass: /* Changing the text on the File Upload Page */ new section

==Clarifications==

=== False folder permission ===

After uploading images I'm not able to see them because the subfolders don't have the permission 755. Can I change that automatically or do I have to change them after every upload? It would also be ok if all images would be stored in the images/ folder instead in the images/firstletter/firstletternumber. I hope someone can help me.

=== MediaWiki's $wgEnableUploads vs. PHP's file_uploads ===

How come when editing MediaWiki's $wgEnableUploads between true and false becomes noticeable immediately (unable to upload vs. upload enabled) but editing PHP $file_uploads (if already 'on') is not impacting/denying my upload experience at all?

===End User===

;Who is the "end user"; someone accessing the wiki using a web browser, or a local user on the machine running the wiki?

In this case, "end user" refers to the user accessing the wiki using a web browser.

===File Types===

;Are file uploads only for images, or for any type of file?

You can configure MediaWiki to accept additional file types using the [[Manual:$wgFileExtensions|$wgFileExtensions]] configuration setting.

===Chmod===

;Shouldn't the chmod for the upload directory be 744? That gives rwxr--r--. 755 gives r-x, which I thought was what we were trying to avoid...

:Execute privilege on directories is required to access files inside them. (Yes, this is confusing. Blame AT&T.) --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] 00:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

There are pages on this site that say 744,755,777. Could someone explain wich to use when?

The important thing is that the webserver has write access. Thus if the upload directory is owned by the webserver user ( e.g. www-data ) 755 would suffice. If the webserver is not owner, but is in the group owning the directory, 775 would be better.
777 is the extreme case where all users on the system have full access. In most cases this would not be advisable.

===Making Uploads Lowercase===
Does anyone have any idea how to allow files to be uploaded and named with lowercase letter, for some reason all uploaded file default to a capital letter for the first letter of the file name? [[User:24.3.123.174|24.3.123.174]] 21:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
: wuh. just under a year response time. Anywho: A technical limitation of Mediawiki is that all pagenames have to start with an uppercase letter. this is most likely the cause for all files beeing renamed.[[User:195.230.62.186|195.230.62.186]] 12:24, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

== The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again. ==

I did as mentioned.

It's a little frustrating, but it seems like mediawiki does not bother that I changed settings in localsettings.php.

I added zip as an extension, than I turned off the extension check, then I turned of mime check etc.

Still I can only upload images and no zip files.

what to do?

===How I fixed it===
I had to set $wgVerifyMimeType=false; in my LocalSettings.php which means my mime types are probably screwed up. Its an symptomatic fix to a bigger problem, i suspect.

: Perhaps have a look at [[Manual:Mime type detection]] -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 11:10, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

== ".[FILE EXTENSION]" is not a recommended image file format. ==

I have set file extensions to allow wmv and avi, set <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions=false</tt>; and <tt>$wgVerifyMimeType=false</tt> in LocalSettings.php, but get the message " ".avi" is not a recommended image file format. " (same for .wmv) when I try to upload avi (and wmv) files. Files sizes are under the cap in php.ini. I have not problems uploading static image files (eg .jpg, .png).

: With <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions=false</tt>, you will still get that warning, but should be able to override it ("upload anyway" or some such). <tt>$wgVerifyMimeType=false</tt> has nothing to do with this, it just tells MediaWiki not to check if the file actually ''is'' an avi file (failing that test would result in a different error message though). -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 11:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

:: Thanks for the speedy response. Unfortunately no override option appeared on the screen. I just got "Upload warning" header above the "not a recommended image file format" message. This also happened when I check "Ignore any warnings" on the upload screen. However, I then rearranged the order of in LocalSetting.php so that <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions=false</tt> appeared ''before'' <tt>$wgEnableUploads=true</tt> and <tt>$wgFileExtensions = ...<tt>. I can now upload video files without any difficulties.

::: Turning of <tt>$wgStrictFileExtensions</tt> seems a little dangerous. I fixed a similar problem I was having with ''xls'' files by adding the following line to mime.types:

:::<tt>application/msword xls</tt>

:::Depending upon the mime detection engine on your server, certain types are misidentified. The true solution is to fix the engine, but this is a pretty safe alternative. - ''dan''

MUst be server pixies then. -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 13:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

==This file is bigger than the server is configured to allow==
How do you change the maximum allowed size of a file for uploading?

This is what I have in my php.ini:

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 250M

(default was 2 MB)

:: YOu may also have to change post_max_size or max_post_size or some such. Apache itself might also have a limit set. And keep in mind that you have to restart apache for any changes to the php configuration to take effect. -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 11:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

==Linking to .mov files (Quick Time) won't work==
After: allowing uploading of .mov files to my wiki, successfully uploading a certain .mov file and watching it from the page I've been directed to, I found my wiki won't link to it.
If I type, for instance, [[Media:Example.mov]] (assuming my .mov file's named ''Example''), I'd get a red link, leading to "Upload file" page. What am I doing wrong? --[[User:87.69.58.71|87.69.58.71]] 17:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

==Upload Priviledges==
Is there a way to set it so that only SysOp can upload files?
:Try [[:meta:Uploading_files#Is_it_possible_to_let_only_some_users_upload_Images.3F]] --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

== anonymous uploads ==

Is there a way to allow users to upload files without logging in?

That'd be a great help for corporate environments where only a limited number of people can access the wiki (server) anyway...

>This can be done by editing the SepcialUpload.php file in the includes folder. If you comment out both the $wgOut->errorPage('uploadnologin'.... line and the return line, users will not have to login to reach the upload form.

== In which file is variable $wgFileExtensions? ==

Im trying to change my extensions list, but it is not in LocalSettings? Where is it?
*:The default is set in includes/DefaultSettings.php. But you shouldn't change it here. Just copy the line into your LocalSettings.php and alter it the way you like here. The intention for this procedure is just that the DefaultSettings is responsible for everything that is NOT explicity set by yourself. Also if you like to make an update someday you won't destroy your current settings, cause the LocalSettings.php won't be touched through an update.

== Check directory security ==

In the manual page, it says under "Check directory security" that "The upload directory needs to be configured so that it is not possible for an end user to upload and execute other scripts, which could then exploit access to your web directory and damage your wiki or web site."

Unfortunately, the PHP function that makes subdirectories is:

<code>function wfMkdirParents( $fullDir, $mode = 0777 ) { ... }</code>

and many places that call this use the fault mode 0777 which is world-writable. For example, everywhere in Image.php it uses one argument calling this method, such as:

<code>./includes/Image.php:1078: wfMkdirParents( $thumbDir );</code>

The consequence of this is that every directory recursively under images is world-writable. The files themselves seem to be fine (mode 644), however, any user who can login to the system on which the MediaWiki instance is running can copy or destroy files at will.

Can we get wfMkdirParents (and everywhere that 0777 is passed to that method) to use a mode of 0755 instead? --[[User:Caswick|Caswick]] 21:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

== How to link "other" file types on pages? ==

Case 1 - When i want to upload images, i follow the following steps
*go to page edit
*write a suitable name
*make it into an image link by clicking the 6th button from the left on the edit menu
*save page
*view page, the link is shown in red.
*click it and upload the image
Simple.

But with file types other than images,it give an error as to "not a jpeg format", there is no such option.
I have to link the thing by copy/pasting the exact names everytime.
There must some other way around!
Please help me on this !!
--[[User:Ankit.madan|Ankit.madan]] 07:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

== Error when uploading from URL ==
''Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /path/to/wiki/includes/SpecialUpload.php on line 165''

Any idea what could cause this? I've googled it, but it seems only the chinese have experiences this problem. Using MW 1.11 - followed the directions on the configuration page. Regular uploads work fine.

I solved this by typing on Ubuntu: 'sudo apt-get install php5-curl' followed by 'sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart'

== Folder permissions & SUPHP ==

If you are using suphp you might want to check the suphp configuration file ( /etc/suphp.conf )

and ensure the Umask value is set to something sane (so when the folders get created they get the proper permissions)

;Umask to set, specify in octal notation
umask=0022

You can also set the umask locally at the LocalSettings.php:

umask(0022);

== Multiple Uploads ==

Is it possible to upload multiple files at one time (like for a photo gallery) rather than uploading each file individually? Or if I FTP them to my server without using MediaWiki's upload page, can I still use the <gallery> tags to display them somehow?

: There's [[Extension:MultiUpload]], havn't tried it though. If you upload files directly to the server using FTP or SCP or whatever, you have to import them into MediaWiki to make them work wiki-style: That is done using maintenance/importImages.php but it requires shell access. I believe some of the bots that exist for mediawiki also support file upload, but I havn't looked into that. There's also the [http://djini.de/software/commonist/ commonist upload tool], which was designed for wikimedia commons, but can be adopted to other sites as well.
: HTH -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 06:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks so much for the info! I do have shell access, and I think FTP and import would probably the fastest for lots of images. I may use MultiUpload as well - it would be nice if I had just a few files.

:::Just saw that I do not want drag'n'drop mutple upload via interface. Too much abuse. Will also try MultiUpload. Thanks --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 04:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

==Image File Names==
I'm webmaster of http://venciclopedia.com, a Spanish language wiki. We recently moved from one hosting server to another and it took us weeks to finish the migration because of problems with the names of some images. The main problem was that our former hosting (yahoo) didn't allow the creation of files or folders with certain characters, but wiki did it anyway and we didn't care until we moved away. Our former wiki could read the folders and images in them, but we could not see them or ftp them out of yahoo because of invalid characters in the names.

This was most likely solved by our move to a new hosting and upgrade to the latest wiki, but after so many problems I simply don't want to risk it. My question: There's way to forbid users from uploading files with names containing symbols (as in #, @, etc) and accented words (as in "ó")?

Right now we are running with a modification I did to Specialupload.php in line 426, where I changed this:
<pre>
$filtered = preg_replace ( "/[^".Title::legalChars()."]|:/", '-', $filtered );
</pre>
To this:
<pre>
$filtered = preg_replace ( "/[^a-z0-9\\040\\.]|:/i", 'x', $filtered );
</pre>

With this change users cannot upload files with symbols or accented words, but they still can upload the "ugly" and nondescriptive file names created by my patch. Meaning, words with a bunch of X's where the symbols or accented words used to be.

*So, is there a way to just reload the page and say, Please change your filename, such and such characters are invalid?
*Is there a way to transform accented words like "ó" into plain "o"s?

In Especial:Allmessages I found a message titled ''illegalfilename'' that warns against using invalid characters, so I guess there's some sort of option without having to change Specialupload.php directly.

Thanks in advance, here's my upload page in case you need to test it. http://venciclopedia.com/index.php?title=Especial:Upload

--Mark 09:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

== Upload files to FTP server ==
Is it possible to upload files to FTP server?

Yes, then use /maintenance/importImages.php
Read above section.

== Odd filenames? ==

Hey, I recently installed the newest Mediawiki and any files (I only tried images though) I upload always come up as Image:[USERNAME]--[IMAGENAME].[extension]. Is there any way to make it just go to the file name? Thanks. --[[User:Ratmaster|Ratmaster]] 21:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

== File size and postgres ==

Hi,

I'm using mediawiki1.7 with postgres. When uploading a file, the pg_query() can't write in img_size in the image table and I get an error message -

ERROR: value "202205" is out of range for type smallint

and some other details...

...out of range for type smallint in /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/DatabasePostgres.php

I have modified $wgMaxUploadSize and $wgFileExtensions in LocalSettings.php

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ppt', 'pdf', 'doc', 'psd', 'mp3','xls', 'zip','swf', 'doc', 'odt', 'odc', 'odp', 'odg', 'mpp');
$wgUploadSizeWarning = 1000 * 1024;
$wgMaxUploadSize = 1024 * 1024 * 100;

This did not help. I think, the problem is in the definition of the image table.
Is there a way to enable upload of larger files, up to 2M?

Thank you in advance,

Twisp

== Changing the text on the File Upload Page ==

How does one change the text on this page?

I need to add some copyright warning text.

--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 14:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Extension requests

2008-10-29T19:29:09Z

Quatermass: /* Purpose of this Page? */

{{TalkFromMeta}}
== Resolved issues ==

Is there a general consensus on what to do with issues / rquests that have been resolved? [[User:Blckdmnd99|Blckdmnd99]] 15:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

:Someone should refactor them. See:
:*[[w:Refactor#Other_text]]
:*[[w:WP:REFACTOR]]
:Since [[{{PAGENAME}}]] functions like a [[w:Help:Talk page|talk page]], it seems reasonable that we should follow the [[w:WP:REFACTOR|Wikipedia policy for refactoring talk pages]]. For example, if someone writes the [[{{PAGENAME}}#Wikitext help annotator|Wikitext help annotator]] extension that I requested, or tells me where to find an existing one, I will move my lengthy description of the proposed extension off the request page, and refactor the content into the extension's manual page, if the material helps there. [[User:Teratornis|Teratornis]] 01:56, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
{{EndTalkFromMeta}}

This is a really good question. Should we simply remove them some weeks later? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

A first action should be putting (resolved) in the headline. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

== Wrong namespace ==

This page should not be located in the Project namespace. The project namespace is for discussion of the MW.org website, not the software. I have previously requested that it is renamed to 'Site:' to avoid this confusion, but Brion refused. However, if this is still causing confusion then it would be good to get a community consensus on a rename, which would probably be enough to convince him of the change.

This page should either be located in the main namespace or the Extension namespace.

--[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 15:15, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

::[[Extension:Requests]]? —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 19:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

::: I agree that this page should be moved. While the distinctions betweeen namespaces aren`t always as clear here as on on Wikipedia, this page is not related to the software, or the administration of this site- the stated purpose of the "Project" namespace. I can see moving this page either to the extension namespace, or to mainspace, along with [[Bugzilla]], which is also dealing with requests for software improvment. More broadly, we might want to define the projectspace a bit more- besides this page, there`s [[Project:Support desk]], which is about the software but in projectspace. Also, [[ About this site]] is in mainspace. Anyways, I`m intrested in what everyone thinks of these naming issues. --[[User:BrianOregon|Brian]] 10:18, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

:::: [[Project:Namespaces]] gives some information about the namespaces, but perhaps it is not clear enough. The roles of the various namespaces are pretty well defined by now, at least to the people who have been here for while, but you're right that they are not very clearly documented. I will try and update that page soon with the current namespace definitions. On top of that a lot of pages are currently in the wrong place. This is partly due to the confusion, but also largely due to pages that were created before the namespace usage was defined and which have not been moved yet. In relation to this page, it does fall slightly on a boundary, but I think it should really be in the main namespace. The extension namespace is really for the actual extensions themselves, not discussion or feature proposals. [[Extension matrix]] sets a good precedent. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 16:24, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

::::: Thanks for the clarifications. Based on the above I agree this page should go to the main namespace, which I will probably do in a few days if no one objects. Also, I continue to believe that the other pages I mentioned above may be in the wrong namespace, though I want to be sure I`m acting within preccedent, so I look forward to your updates to the namespace policy. --[[User:BrianOregon|Brian]] 06:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

== Redlinks ==

I need an extension to avoid anonymous users (rigorously users who can't edit) to see the redlink for edit new articles. Then they must see a special styled (the CSS must specify it) title. At least I wonna know how to create it (the name of parser functions). Thanks!<DIV align="Right">[[User:Eloy|Eloy]] 00:17, 18 June 2008 (UTC)</DIV>

==Category:Feature requests on Meta-Wiki==
Top links to Category:Feature requests on Meta-Wiki. This is a dead page. Page and entries all from 2006 and before. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:19, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

==Resolved requests==
What happens to them? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:19, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

== Cleanup! ==

Created 2 new subpages.

* [[Extension requests/Resolved|Resolved requests]] (Moved those with [RESOLVED] in front)
* [[Extension requests/Before 2007|Old requests from before 2007]] (Too old to keep upfront. May be solved meanwhile by new MW versions)

No data lost except the 2 removed outdated metawiki links.

The left request still could lists solved requests but one would have to read them to move them to the subpage. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 17:40, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

== Purpose of this Page? ==

What is the purpose of this page? It says "''Use this page for preliminary proposal and discussion of ideas''". But actions speak louder than words. Requests have been consistently ignored for years. All that really is being done for the most part is people put requests up, and then they are left there to die. The only lucky ones are ones that an extension developer obtains from somewhere else. I don't mean to sound too harsh. But it is what has been happening. There are some awesome ideas on this page. But they are just ignored. If the developers are not going to discuss these ideas to determine if they can be implemented, then there is no point to keep this page.--[[User:Mjr162006|Matt]] 03:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

===Seconded===
I agree, most of the ideas on this page are excellent and should be discussed by the Developers and then this page can be deleted. It's casting MediaWiki in a very bad light... --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 19:29, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

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Extension requests

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{{caution|Use this page for '''preliminary proposal and discussion''' of ideas. Once you have received positive feedback on your idea here and have refined your proposal, post it on [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Bugzilla], as this page is not necessarily read by all MediaWiki developers.}}

Please check these pages for existing extensions and requests before posting here.
* [[Extension requests/Resolved|Resolved requests]]
* [[Extension requests/Before 2007|Old requests from before 2007]] (may be solved meanwhile by new MW versions)
* [[Extension Matrix]]
* [[:Category:Extensions|Category:Extensions]]

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== [Implemented] - Google Translate feature via API ==
The working code for this has been posted here [[Extension:GoogleTranslate]] - '''this version can translate the text that you edit!''' --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 16:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

According Google it is perfectly possible to call their translation [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Examples Google AjAX-API]. For XSS security reasons it would be very constructive to be able to allow/implement various translations calls from within wiki:
* Translation on page level
* Translation of article texts, in Read mode
* Translation of article texts, in Edit mode (this is what I need currently.)
:* Special Feature: translate the unformated texts
:* Special Feature: Allow the original text to be saved
:* Special Feature: Allow to create new article based upon the translated text

I suggest that there should be a ways for the sysop, through localsetting.php to setup namespaces where google translation is an option. --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 13:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

== Media Category ==
is there extensions for creating a gallery off a category who includes media?
: <cgallery>Images</cgallery> or <cgallery limit"5">images</cgallery>
--[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 14:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)?

=== Programming Documentation and Extensions to copy from ===
* [[:Category:Ajax_extensions]] other ajax features
* [[Extension:Link_Suggest]], add a feature to the edit window and allows you to change the text.....
* [[Extension:Lockdown]], can be used to control usage?

== Simple Download System ==
I've looked everywhere and cannot find a download system like paFileDB for mediawiki!
Now I'm not looking for something like paFileDB, although I wouldn't mind it.
I was looking for something a little simpler that can be easily be designed without to much trouble!

I developed a proposal which you can download in .pdf format
http://www.designermotion.com/projects/web/mediawiki/docs/mediawiki_proposal_extension_download-v1.pdf

I'm hoping someone will be interested in creating such an extension as I'm planning to add over 400 download pages to my wiki.

Thanks for your time--[[User:unknown|unknown]] 02:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

==Dynamic page update from other pages==
Let's say on one page, we'll see page "Renee", I have the following wiki stuff (displayed in code here):

===Year 1===
*Spring: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
===Year 2===
*Spring: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in Teaching
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component

Just to give a rough example, at least. Now, let's say this goes on for some 20 years, and with potential to keep on going. It is also repeated (but with differences in what happens year to year) in other pages, like "Jariya", "Lea", "Nike", etc. Now, I want to know if there is an extension that can take the seasonal advancement, interwiki-style, and place them in a single page, we'll say "Advancement", with an output kinda like this:

===Year 1===
====Spring====
*Renee: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Jariya: Teaching
:Practice in teaching
:Exposure in influence
*Nike: etc etc

Now, I originally used [[Labeled_Section_Transclusion | Labeled section transclusion]] by wrapping everyone's year 1 spring as 'year1spr', then 'year1sum', then 'year1aut' and 'year1win', then 'year2spr'.... you get the idea, and including the transclusion on the advancement page. It worked, however, adding a new name is a pain. You need to write the new name, write the new transclusions, and when you have 10 years and growing of transclusions to rewrite from 'year1spr' to 'year3spr', then 4, 5, 6... then repeat for the other 3 seasons, it's annoying and not very efficient.

What I'd like to know is if there is an extension that could do what I'd like more easily? Especially if it could do it dynamically and automatically update like Transclusions did, but without needing to add 40 tweaked lines when adding someone or removing/renaming someone?

I thought I could maybe use the MySQL extension and have a DB with the changes in them, but that doesn't seem like it'll work too great overtime.
:Thanks

==Game rating system (0% => 100%)==
Does anyone know if there is a little extention that makes it possible to display a rating for a game, like normal gameratings, from 0 to 100%? And a little thing to let anyone give a rating (with IP check)?

== Google AJAX extension ==
An Extension that gets google search results with AJAX API presented by Google. The results should be gathered with wiki markups. For example with a text <googlesearch>britney</googlesearch>, the extension must turn the Google results within the page. --88.229.252.158 07:46, 13 January 2007

== Display Name ==

There should exist an extension to allow the admins or maybe even the users to select which name is displayed. Currently the username is used, but why not have an extension that allows all references to a username also allow for reference to a the Nickname, or the Real Name. (Example: Recent Changes page lists lots of users, but the admins could force it to display the Real Names instead of the usernames, or if the localsettings variable isn't set to force it, let the users select which name is displayed). --71.145.131.12 22:21, 14 January 2007

==Extensions to Enable Wiki of 3D Geometrical Models==
Hi, we would like to create a Wiki of 3D geometrical models which are built with a product called [http://www.zometool.com Zometool]. We already have the software to build the models and are working on a browser plug-in which will allow users to manipulate these models in their browser window.
We would need for users to be able to:

a) Publish their models on the wiki (even if they're noobs).

b) Access the browser plug-in from the wiki so they can see/manipulate the models in the wiki article.

The publishing aspect would require functionality similar to that requested by [[User:Blckdmnd99|Blckdmnd99]] in "File Upload as Part of Article Creation" and also [[User:Barrylb|Barrylb's]] "New Article Form".

The modeling program would export jpegs, csv files with a description of certain model parameters (number of parts, etc.) and the model file itself. Ideally, this would be transformed into part of a wiki article which would include the jpegs, a table with the required parts for assembling that specific model, categories (taken from the csv) and a link to the 3D model file itself.

The plug-in access, I would imagine, would be similar to adding quicktime or flash compatibility.

If anyone is interested in helping us out with this we would be willing to pay for the functionality.

Thanks, --[[User:Zomenut|Carlos]] 07:36, 30 January 2007 (edit) (undo)
Zomenut

:I already have something similar in Java called [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki3D Wiki3D] that might help you getting started. It is all open sourced under the BSD license.
:Regards, [[User:lyriarte|Luc]]

== Internal Article Social Tagging==
I would like an extension that puts a "Digg"-like tag on each page. By tagging those pages, there would be a special page or extension that allows those articles to be dynamically presented in order of votes. This is not the same as presenting a link to Digg itself or any other social bookmarking sites. This feature would allow a MediaWiki wiki to have its own pages rated by readers and then have a summary page that showed the relative rankings.

==Cladograms==
An extension to create graphic [[:en:cladogram|cladograms]]. This, with the right options, could have other obvious applications such as family trees (and similar material) and sports brackets. This could be based on [http://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree/ PhpSyntaxTree] and [[EasyTimeline]], both of which propose more or less similar possibilities. [[:en:User:Circeus]] --08:06, 26 June 2007

:see [[Extension:CategoryTree]] if you can model your data using categories. --[[User:Purodha|Purodha Blissenbach]] 10:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

==Drop Down Box==
I would love to have an extension that allows a drop down menu. Not to redirect to a different page, but just to change the status of item. If this is not enough information, feel free to drop me a line as this is quite important. [[User:129.57.10.6|129.57.10.6]] 19:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

gibsonmarshall_sg@yahoo.com

==Easier automatic categorization==
[[Extension:CategoryHook]] can do automatic categorization but it requires esoteric PHP coding and [[Extension talk:CategoryHook#User-friendliness|isn't very user-friendly]]. I'd like a more [[w:GUI|GUI]]-centered approach for, oh, 90% of users out there... -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

==Multi-select namespace search==
When [[Help:Searching|searching]], instead of all the checkboxes, which are nerve-wracking to select/deselect, why not a multi-select menu? -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

:My attempt: [[Extension:Multi-select Namespace Search]]--unfortunately, it doesn't work. :/ -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 17:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

::It works now (for a few weeks, actually, with the help of another user), but it's not a proper extension and just a hack. If someone can "extensionize" it, that'd be super. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

== Media Player ==

I'm Want to Suggest on Extension who allows To look at Videos And Listen on Music
This is Because i'm looked long for one Extension who can this!.
And its 2 different formats i'm want to have in this extension
'''Formats:'''
.mp3
.ogg
{{nosigr|August 13, 2007|62.128.243.228}}

:Check [[:Category:Media handling extensions]]. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 22:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

::Tryed but No one of them works - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 11:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

:::You tried [[Extension:Mp3]] and [[Extension:Player]]? —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes , And Many Others - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 13:11, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
: What happened? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 13:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Some of them dident show , And the one named player Did show but dident play it --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 14:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
::Are you sure that your browser supports it? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 10:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

==[Implemented] Redirects Here ==

I would LOVE to have a way for admins to see, at the top or bottom of each page, a simple list of pages which redirect to the current page. Just like [[Special:Whatlinkshere]], but listing ONLY the redirects, and appearing '''on the same page''' as the content (if the user is an admin) separated by an <nowiki><hr></nowiki> so I don't have to click through to it. I would also love to have a few text fields below the list of redirects where I could add multiple NEW redirects quickly. This would help in my projects immensely. -- [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 17:05, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
:Added to Bugzilla as [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11083 #11083]. [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]]
In response to my request for this, [[w:User:Splarka|Splarka]] put together a nice proof-of-concept at [[w:User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js]]. It adds a link to activate it in the '''toolbox''' (below the search box) and displays the results below the page title. – [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

::A feature that accomplishes this same task has been integrated into the whatlinkshere as of version 1.13.0.--[[User:Mjr162006|Matt]] 22:33, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
== Automatic Linking (with Bug) ==

I'd really like to have an extension that allows automatic linking as an option (because I can't ask all of my users to know of and link to every other page that exists in the wiki on their own... Can this be done? If anyone knows of a current way to do this please reply to this thread. Thanks. --[[User:129.111.144.30|129.111.144.30]] 17:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

: See [[Extension:AutoLink]]. [[User:89.52.129.174|89.52.129.174]] 12:25, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

:: There is a realy little bug in that [[Extension:AutoLink]] - but I don't know PHP to repair it. [[User:89.52.146.8|89.52.146.8]] 07:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension talk:AutoLink]]. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 12:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

:::: I did it with no success. Only <nowiki>[ ]</nowiki> has to be added to the to the mapIgnoringBlocks. But I don't now how to do it. Is here someone who knows php?[[User:89.52.137.94|89.52.137.94]] 06:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

:::::Do you mean a single set of brackets? If so, I added it (but haven't tested it) to [[extension:AutoLink#version which matches all pages]]. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

== Auto short URL links ==

You enter <nowiki>http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new</nowiki><br /> to an edit page and the system makes the article display [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]<br /> just as if you'd have entered <br /><nowiki>[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]</nowiki>. <br /> Shouldn't affect existing [url Alt text] entries but all URLs that are eneterd as above --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 13:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

== Frappr Extension ==

I assume its really easy, but I don't know php. I'd really like to be able to embed a frappr (www.frappr.com) map into my wiki so that users can mark where they are from.
If this is more simple than I realize please just email me. dave at consumersolidarity.org

[[User:75.111.44.66|75.111.44.66]] 02:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
:it seems to be shockwave flash, so [[Extension:Flash]] ought to work. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Advanced Linking ==

'''Tags:'''
<Addtextgotourl> - Start tag to activate the code
</Addtextgotourl> - End tag for the end of the code
</getpath> - The tag will be replaced with typed text in The text field, This tag gonna get the filepath who is typed in the text field
</getdomainname> - the tag will be replaced with typed text in the domainname text filed

'''Code:'''
<Addtextgotourl>
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Image= YPagename or no text
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name

</addtextgotourl>

'''Actions:'''
&action=edit&section=new - For editing a wiki page
noaction - If no is the action the text in the field willl be produeced in the link as notext

'''Other Commands'''
Pagebeforenter - you will enter a page with some information for the link place , And a directly link with the text enter
Linktext - if you select no pagebforenter you will get a link text like this <nowiki> [http://www.example.com link yourlinktext]
Namespace - Choose the namespace
Category - Choose the category
</nowiki>
Image - Image:file.format if you have a image you will use with the directly link or a link to the dynamic page pagebeforeenter!...

'''Parameters'''
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name
Image= Pagename or no text

'''This Idea is by [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Zizanzu Zizanzu]'''

Can this be a good idea?.it need to be little imrpoved
but a good start

== WhosOnline extension ==

I'm not sure if this request fits here fully or not. Anyways, I was trying to help someone over IRC to make [[Extension:Whos_online]] work on MediaWiki 1.10.x and we ended up here: [http://mediawiki.pastey.net/73126 code on Pasty.net]

The code is corrected, in regards to using the correct table and generating the correct text in $output variable. However, the way $wgOut->parse() is used, makes some gibberish text to be added to the page. I didn't know how to fix it, so I though I might ask others for help here. Practically, it may be only a few seconds for a developer to figure out what the problem is. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 20:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

== External Link - Redirecting ==

Is there possible to make one extension for redirecting to external links like
www.mediawiki.org!

Code:
#REDIRECT <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
or
#REDIRECT-awayfromwiki <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
THinked nothing like that
:I think you could maybe create a function in [[MediaWiki:monobook.js]] that looks for such redirects and changes window.location. Why would you need something instead of creating a simple link? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Delete Vandal - Delete a user and all pages that he edited/created ==

The purpose of this extension would be to make it easy to remove a vandal and any trace of what he did.<p>
I would like an extension that given a user name,
* will delete all pages that have been created by that user.
* reverts any edits by that user.
* blocks or deletes the user
* Puts him on a banned list (this is not critical since he is using random user names).

I would really like it it to be liked form the "Recent pages" page, along with the (Talk | Block) links.
:Practically, it is not that esaily achievable I guess. I'm not going to argue the usefulness of it here, just the possibility of performing the tasks yo mentioned:

1) There is no point in deleting the user account, and, I guess it is enough to block it. As far as I know, MediaWiki doens't support deletion of a user account, because if even a single edit is left by that member, deletion of the account can mess every thing up (read below too).

2) Reverting edits is not easily possible. Suppose that he edits a page and modifies several parts of it. After that, a second user makes some more changes (may be, without reverting the vandal's changes even). Then, we may reach a point where software would be unable to undo vandal's changes (I'm pretty certain everyone of us have faced a "cannot undo this change because conflicting intermediate edits"-like message several times). So as you see, some edits cannot be reverted.

My two cents. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 12:31, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

:Just because intermediate edits have taken place doesn't mean restoring a page to a previous state, with edits ''after'' that state, is not perfectly entirely possible since MediaWiki stores ''each'' difference between revisions. It's a mindless task of simply removing the unwanted revisions and combining the later revisions together. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

::Well, MediaWiki doesn't really store ''diffs''; it only stores revisions. Deleting a revision by a vandal only makes sense if all the changes made by him are reverted; otherwise, after the revision is deleted, it will look like the user who actually edited after the vandal has made the unreverted changes, which is wrong. Reverts are not possible in 100% of cases. That's what I know [[User:Huji|Huji]] 18:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:::MediaWiki shows differences which can be used to compare revisions and, hence, remove differences/revisions by (a) certain user(s). —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 02:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

::::When you say differences, what is meant? Display of differences is not the same as any merging feature that would need to know what to do with which side of the equation (e.g., what gets included/what gets removed in the merge). In addition, there is the challenge of information that is needed to be kept but is out of order on a given line. MediaWiki does not have this facility, even though it can display differences. --[[User:Jeffmcneill|Jeffmcneill]] 23:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

:::::The fact that not every change can be rolled back isn't enough to block a "Delete User" feature, be the user a vandal or not. The software can at least tell what it can roll back and what it can't (at least changes that are the latest for a page can certainly be rolled back). If the software can roll back everything, it does so and it deletes the user. Otherwise it could assign its changes that can't be rolled back to some sysop or other moderator account, roll back remaining changes, delete the user and notify the moderator. [[User:Lucrus|Lucrus]] 13:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

:It would seem that the desired functionalities all exist in some form, but just aren't in one central place. The [revert] links to undo each of the users' edits to pages where they had the last word are on [[special:contributions]], the mass-delete is in [[extension:nuke]] and the bannination is done from [[special:blockip]]. What's needed is to consolidate all of these tasks, so that one visit to [[special:blockip]] not only allows an admin to block the user, but also offers pre-checked checkboxes inviting the admin to revert the edits and delete the newly-created pages in the same one step - maybe even giving an option to protect them against re-creation. It would make the task of blocking open spambot proxies a few clicks shorter. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 17:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

::: Additionally, all versions edited by the vandal could get a hint like "the user that edited this version is tagged as vandal, so think twice before trusting its content". [Marc]

== Slideshow with Lightbox ==

I'd love to see an extension that would allow to activate a slideshow with [http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ Lightbox] like the one working on this page :
* [http://dialoguesenhumanite.free.fr/pmwiki.php5?n=Photos2006.Galerie Dialogues en Humanité - Galerie]

--[[User:Dieudo|Dieudo]] 14:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:My [[User:Alxndr/Lightbox2 hack|Lightbox2 hack]] can do this. It works best for only one image gallery; if there are multiple galleries, Lightbox will think they're part of the same slideshow. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 21:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:Hack is now an extension: '''[[Extension:LightboxThumbs|LightboxThumbs]]'''. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 05:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

== Watching Subpages ==

I'd like to see an extension that would add all subpages to your watchlist when the main page is added. In otherwords, if I were to add MAINPAGE to the watchlist, it would also include MAINPAGE/subpage in the watchlist and all associated talk pages.--[[User:Dukeruckley|Dukeruckley]] 15:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

== Category And Namespace... ==

----
*Category
**Category logo (upload image called Categorylogo:categoryname.png , The logo will be showne when your viewing a page with a namespace who have a logo (if not a logo,it will display wikilogo)
**Category Css (viewed from [[Mediawiki:skin/category:categoryname.css , if your viewing this category you get that css)
**Categorysidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __Categorysidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig)
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESICATEGORY=CATEGORYNAME}} you will get displayed how many pages in this Chossed Category</nowiki>
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*Namespace
**Namespace logo (upload image called NS:namespacename.png Or Namespace:namespacename.png, The logo will be showen when your vieweing a page with a Namespace with a A Logo i(ff not a logo it will display wiki logo))
**Namespace Css (Made in [[Mediawiki:skin/Namespace:Namespacename.css]] )
**Namespace Sidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __NAMESPACEsidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig
**Recent changes on Namespace
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESINNAMESPACE=id}} you will get displayed how many pages in this namespace</nowiki>
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*News
**A Option for turning up Message box in the localsettings.php £wguse Messagebox= True/false; ([[Extension:Message_Box]])

Here is some ideas i have for future extensions and Mediawiki!.... - --[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 13:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

==Lossless rotation of images==
As requested [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2007-September/002689.html here] an extension that is able to rotate images like the one on flickr. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
:[[Commons:User:Rotatebot]] meanwhile does this. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 14:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

::*I strongly support this request. I think it would be even better if not the file itself would be rotated, but if you could chose the orientation like the image size wherever you embed the image. Don't know if that is possible, but it would be really helpful. --[[User:Gollum|Gollum]] 23:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

:MediaWiki uses external utilities such as [http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=82 gd] or [http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php ImageMagick] to resize images. All of these have capabilities and functionality beyond that which MediaWiki currently exposes; for instance "ImageMagick supports about 100 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch; changing colours; stretching, rotating, and overlaying images; and overlaying text on images."
:The images are normally handled by core MediaWiki code (not extensions), but there are exceptions - such as extensions which use images as clickable links or embed external content. Perhaps there's something there that could be used as a starting point for new code? --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

===we need this===
:It would be a real asset to be able to temporary crop or rotate an image already on the Wiki. A tag could control how an existing image appears so we can make it appear rotated or indeed cropped or lightened to show an image. This way one image could be used instead of having to upload several. This would make it easier for non-graphic users to manipulate images. All very easy to do via Imagemagick.

:Something like
:<pre><imgcrop:Example.jpg|X Y H W> or <imgrotate:Example.jpg|90 180 270> <imggamma:Example.jpg|2.2></pre>

:How about it MediaWiki? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==User Notification on Article Edit==
This would be the inverse of the '''watch''' feature, in that the article text would define one or more usernames to notify whenever the article is changed. This is a '''"PUSH"''' as opposed to watching being a '''"PULL"'''. It would be very useful for meeting minutes which might contain action items or other information subject to change. The entire group would receive an e-mail notification as if they had selected that article to watch. The wiki text for this might be:

<notify caption="Attendees">
User:Username1
User:Username2
User:Username3
</notify>

This would also cause the listed user's names to be shown on the page, in a box similar to the '''Table of Contents''' box but with a specified caption, to serve as a reminder that these users are to be notified of changes. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 02:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

: After some further searching, this appears similar to [[Extension:Todo Tasks]]. Possibly that extension could be used along with a different template to achieve the above result. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 03:07, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

==Review Date==

An extension to whereby you can add a tag onto a article:-

<review>25.12.2010</review>

then create either a special page or a section on the Main Page of the wiki showing articles past or near their review date.

Useful when creating documentation for a particular project or something that needs to be regularly checked for relevance / accuracy.
--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 10:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:You could just create a <nowiki>{{review|25.12.2010}}</nowiki> template and add that to the article. The Review template would contain a date-parser function so that if the date given by the article (25.12.2010 in this case) was today or in the past, it would add <nowiki><includeonly>[[Category:Articles needing review]]</includeonly> to the article. Then keep tabs on that category and you'll always see what articles need to be reviewed. After review, change the review date in the <nowiki>{{review|}}</nowiki> call and the article will drop out of the category until the new review date comes up. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a go and see what happens.--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 19:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

: I suggest using [[Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]. It lets you define dates and can show a timeline (and much, much more very useful things). See [http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events] for an example. --[[User:Tbleher|Tbleher]] 10:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

==Viewcount by Date==
A list of page views per day for each page, so I can know whether or not to rearrange the structure of my wiki.
:You'd probably get more useful information by adding Google Analytics or another tracking service to your site. You can just add the tracking code to the bottom of /skins/MonoBook.php and that will cover nearly all of your users. Add it to the other skins if you think they're being used a lot. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

== Search statistics ==
Is there any decent method of tracking searches being run? I want a list, ordered by decreasing frequency, of the things my users have typed into the search box. I also want to be able to split this list into those terms for which there is an existing article, and those for which there is not. This would be immensely helpful in making sure that my users are finding the information they're looking for. This extension would also help contributors determine the desire for articles which don't exist yet.

For example, let's say that ''banana'', for which I have an excellent article, was entered 139 times in the last 30 days. However, without this extension, I don't know that ''bananna'' is entered 15 times and ''banananas'' is entered 4 times on my site, but I have redirects in place for neither of these, so all of these searches end up with no useful results. I can correct this problem once this extension has brought it to my attention. I also learn that 430 people searched for ''kiwi'', and I don't even have an article for that yet! --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 23:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
:I wrote a quick and dirty hack that logs every search with search term, ip address, search method and time. Unfortunately there is currently no [[Manual:Hooks|hook]] available when the search is started :( I will have a look at how my hack is working for some days and I'm going to post it afterwards. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:32, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
:: Any luck? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension:Log Searches]] for starters ... as I said ... dirty hack! --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
::::Has there been any progress on this? Frankly I'm amazed MW has no built in search statistics page yet. --[[Special:Contributions/134.129.146.183|134.129.146.183]] 07:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
::::: There is also a similar [[Extension:SearchLog]]. Don't know of any developments for a core MW special page --[[User:Zven|Zven]] 11:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

== Watermark ==
I need hack (extension), who can automaticaly add watermark on every pictur that has been bigger as 300 x 300 pixel. Thank you. --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 15:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:I don't think anyone believing in open source software will support such suggestions. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 18:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:: :/ --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 12:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

:Flo, I fail to see the dichotomy between open content licensing of images and adding a small watermark credit line to such images ''to ensure they are actually attributed as their license requires''. It is an uncontested fact that open content images are rampantly used without any attribution at all, to the great angst of creators, and that this has resulted in a strong disincentive for semi-pro and pro photographers and other image creators to release free images at all. If the watermark were minimalistic, a credit line, this extension would substantially ''increase'' the overall amount of high quality free content material available, because it would give a better assurance to such creators that they will actually be attributed if they release free images. You might say this extension is exactly what a lot are waiting for, even. [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 10:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

::Not every wiki is used in an "open" format anyway. There are many applications where an open format is totally inappropriate (propitiatory in-house documentation, etc).[[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

:This is a good idea. my wiki uses copyright and PD images. Imagemagick which Mediawiki uses can easily do this. I'd like to see a crop, rotate, gamma correct images in a wiki and a general purpose tag to get Imagemagick to control the display of images would cover all these bases. Be nice if it was built into MediaWiki as standard. I mean it uses Imagemagick already! :-) --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==three tracking pages==
There are often articles I don't want to keep on a watch list, but sometimes want to check up on. I envision these similar to Special:Contributions. First, Special:Created (for articles that the user created), Special:Contributionsunchanged (for articles where the user's edit serves as the most recent version), and Special:Articlestouched (like Special:Contributions with duplicates removed). Feel free to choose better names, though. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 15:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:These all sound quite useful. Good ideas. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 15:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:What about putting such articles on a page and checking them via "related changes"? --[[User:213.182.155.146|213.182.155.146]] 13:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
::That's manual updating of another "watch list", which is what I am hoping to avoid. These are the sort of things many people will often want to keep an eye on from time to time, but not so much that they want to be continually receiving notices like you do with watched pages. It ought to be straightforward (almost trivial) to implement, yet ''extremely'' convenient. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 18:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== Filter content by IP/hostname ==

I would like a way to display different content based on whether the user is coming from within or outside of my LAN, based on their IP. Something like this:

<nowiki> This is page content that shows up for everyone. <externalonly>This is page content that
shows up only for visitors outside the designated IP ranges.</externalonly><internalonly>This is page
content that shows up only for visitors inside the designated IP ranges.</internalonly> Here is some
more page content that everyone sees.</nowiki>

This is not intended to be a security measure, since the user could edit the page and see all of the content, but just one to make it easier to tell the user things that apply only to them. For example, my internal audience might know exactly which building to go to for an event, but the external audience might need more detailed information, maps, full phone numbers instead of just an extension, and so on. Is this even possible? Would there be a way to still cache pages? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== RSS / Atom Feeds on Related changes ==

Although you can subscribe to a feed on Recent changes and New pages, it would be very helpful to support feeds from Related changes pages. In particular, the Related changes from a Category page would allow a user to receive a feed for all changes made to articles within a specified category. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 19:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
:I also think it might be useful (actually, I has been asked this functionnality, for a corporate use) [[User:Gizmhail|Gizmhail]] 14:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

== automated e-mail obfuscation ==
I'd love to see an extension that automatically obfuscates any e-mail address included in an article. Maybe replacing all (or some) of the letters with images and/or HTML code. Other methods exist too... [[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

== Brainstorm feature ==

It will be very cool to have such feature in MediaWiki as it was done in Britannica.

[http://www.akappleug.org/reviews/2006/10/17/encyclopaedia-britannica-2007-deluxe-on-dvd/]

''A “brainstorm” feature maps relationships between ideas, subjects, and people as you go through the encyclopedia. It is fascinating to browse through subjects and watch a virtual brainstorm of related subjects coalesce around chosen articles, leading you to additional interesting paths to take.''

Screenshot (poor, though) is there: [http://akappleug.org/reviews/img/Reviewed/Oct06/britannica_pic2.jpg]

For what you are looking for first we need the semantic version of MediaWiki which is [[Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki]]. For SMW there are also extension and you need the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MOCA MOCA Extention]. See an implementation example on [http://frema.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Entities]

== Machine Translation Feature ==

Add a mechanism that sends the substantive content of an article to an online translation service (like Google Translate or Babelfish).

Bonus points if the translated text could somehow be integrated back into the original page, with a clear indication to the user that an automated translation has been performed.

== Block certain E-mail address domains ==

Dunno if this really needs an extension or if it could be set in SpecialUserlogin.php.<br />
I've set that users need to confirm their e-mail address in order to edit pages. Now it would be nice to block some free spam domains like [http://spam.la spam.la]. Possibilities:
* do not send such confirmation mails to blocked domains
* do not allow to enter blocked domains in Create Account ''and'' User Preferences

Thought about entering such a domain to $wgSpamRegex but it only controls page edits.
~~Subfader

== Block account creation if E-Mail address already exists ==
Have problem with a spam bot using the same mail address to create fake accounts for an attack session.
~~Subfader

==Category navigation - Change order==
I'd like to see an extension that gives you a little more features to the category listings, esp. when there are more than 200 subcategories or articles listed. E.g. switch order (ASC, DESC), or a drop-down menue to choose the number of listed items instead of 200 default for all and everyone. ~~Subfader
:Could maybe be done via Javascript. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
::Yeah I dunno how but I do know it's not hard to set up. It should be possible to also set a standard order in the category. (E.g. a special categoy page which I want to order descending instead of ascending as per default. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

== Flexible Watchlists ==
I'd love to see an extension that allows flexible lists just like the watchlist but without displaying the latest changes, e-mail notification on changes etc., primarily just to list the articles I have added to the list.<br />
Example: Many wikis are about collectable things. Let's assume a wiki about those pokemon cards. Each article of the main namespace stands for one unique pokemon card. Now it would be great if users could keep track of which they already have and which they want. So I imagine new tabs where the "watch" is located reading sth like: [own] [want].<br />
So combined with that, those lists should be located on top aswell where "my watchlist" is atm. In this example it would be "my collection" and "my wantlist". I could also imagine a list for "my favourite articles". Such a list itself should primarily list the articles which were added to it. Now even more awesome would be to search inside such personal list :)

Such a feature could also come with some added value for all users by giving out statistic lists like:<br />
On each article page: "X users own this" or "X users want this" or "X users boomarked this" etc. or "Hitlists" like most owned or most wanted. Or for personal use: List all articles not in my collection or not in my wantlist...

The names for those lists should be easily changable at one place of the code (sth like $list1name= and $list2name=). Note that eachlist has 2 names; one for adding it to the list and one name to display the list. Flexible names would be important cos of the different use of the wikis which may use it. E.g. in my wiki articles are not called articles. Or in the pokemon wiki "artcile" could be called "card page" etc.<br />
I hope I could demonstrate the variety of possibilities by such felxible watchlists. If anyone has an idea how to set this up, pls let me know!<br />
It would be great if such an extension would work on my MW 1.8.2 ;) --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category==
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. So a simple search box will pop up on every category page. It searches like the standard search, but it only considers articles in the according category. Combined with that a new search field could be added on the Multi-Category Search on top for normal text search... I post here cos I doubt the devs read their extension talk page. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 01:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

==Limit edits per minute for new users==
I am looking for a way of limiting the number of edits new users (say for the first week or two) can create per minute.
I am also looking for some way of identifying accounts that don't make any edits at all during that period. Any help is gratefully appreciated! [[Special:Contributions/217.65.158.124|217.65.158.124]] 10:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
:For the first part, you can use [[Manual:$wgRateLimits|$wgRateLimits]] with, for example, <code>$wgRateLimits['edit']['newbie'] = array( 2, 60 );</code> to allow new users (i.e. non autoconfirmed) to make 2 edits in one minute. This require caching, see [[Manual:$wgMainCacheType|$wgMainCacheType]].
:For the second part, you can run the <code>removeUnusedAccounts.php</code> script in the maintenance directory (it won't remove the account by default, it will just show it), but it lists all account that didn't make edits at all. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 11:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Encrypt / decrypt wiki content ==
Is it possible to create a MediaWiki extension which ables :

- to encrypt content with a public key on edit

- to decrypt content with a private key on display ? (I guess the user have to be prompted once to give the key)

Maybe such an extension already exists ?

Second question : Is it best to encrypt/decrypt client side with javascript for server performance reasons ?

Thanks for your help.

Vincent - [[Special:Contributions/83.137.240.218|83.137.240.218]] 12:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Register your collection / Bookmark Wiki pages ==
I partake in maintaining a wiki about comicbooks. Most (but not all) pages on the wiki detail individual comicbooks. I would love to let users ''register their comicbook collection'' on the wiki, by adding such pages to a list stored in their profile. Both for their own leisure, and if they want to: to show off to others.

So what I'd love is a "register your collection" extension that:
* when installed adds a tab to the tabrow called "Add this to your collection". When the tab is clicked -- like when "Watch" is clicked it turns to "Unwatch" -- it turns into "Remove from collection".
* adds an extra link to the top-right user area, called "my collection", which lists bookmarked pages.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<mycollection />", which users can add to their user pages. When doing that, other users would be able to see their collection.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<collectible />", which must be added to all pages that describe collectible items.
** because a single page could possibly detail two or more different editions of the same collectible, it would be nice to be able to distinguish betweeen editions by inserting two <collectible /> tags. For instance, <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, first edition" />, and <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, second edition" />.

I'm sure wikis such as Memory Alpha and Wookieepedia would love to let their users register their collection on their wikis, so I'm convinced there's an audience for this type of extension. Finally, I imagine the extension could also easily be used simply as a bookmarking extension. Your thoughts, and possibly your skills, are very welcome. [[User:Joen|Joen]] 19:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

:I want something similar: [[Extension_requests#Flexible_Watchlists]] --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 17:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

==Private Messages system==
Could be based on [[Extension:MediaWiki Bulletin Board]]. But I hate this extension cos the devs don't seem to care much about it. The PM system should use the following features additionally to what MWBB already features:
*load edit toolbar like on a normal edit page, including preview
*Inbox and Outbox (for sent messages)
*On a reply: load old message(s) like forum quotes, leave space on top of the edit field for the new reply (to force "latest on top" order)
*Option to delete selected messages in Inbox and Outbox
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:37, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

==Slideshare==
[[mw:Extension:SlideShare|Slideshare Extension]]
[[Special:Contributions/124.176.23.250|124.176.23.250]] 12:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

==Email Article to a Friend==
How about having an extension that will allow users to email articles to a friend? This can be achieved by having a small icon appear at the top right corner of each article. Once that icon is clicked the user can input his/her friends' emails. A link to the article is then sent to the list of friends.

==Proper Ajax Rating==
[[Extension:AjaxRatingScript]] is full of bugs and most people are not able to install it. Devs are only communicating on their own wiki which is horror. So pls don't tell me to suggest it there.<br />
I'd like a rating system that is fully integrated in the wiki:
*Option for admin to decide if only logged in users can rate or everybody (while considering only registered users is more safe against abuse)
*Each rating section on an article page should have some link "Details" (link to different page or better as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NavFrame collapsible NavFrame])
**See who else voted how (with linked users name and his ratings)
**Update your vote: see your own rating (simply bold in above "users who rated" list) and enable updating it by simply rating again
*Special page for
**"Best rated articles" listing the best 50 | 100 | 250 | 500 rated articles of the wiki
**Unrated articles
*Integration on user profile: A user should be able to add some code on his profile page so "My favourites" are displayed: (5 | 10 | 25 | 50) best rated atricles by User...
*Option for admin to display the rating behind article links on categories. Combined with that: Option to sort articles in a category by rating
*Some smart way to delete all votes by abusers (e.g. users who obviously rate everything worst or best to manipulate results)
:Why not consider [[Extension:JSKitRating]] ? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 13:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
::Cos I never saw exmaples using it and it cannot do what I requested above. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

==User View Statistics==
When establishing a new wiki it is useful to be able to gauge user uptake. [[Extension:Contribution Scores]] is great for giving a good overview of user edits but gives no appreciation of user view activity. [[Extension:UserPageViewTracker]] is too detailed in that it breaks down the stats on a per page basis making it difficult to compare all users. A simple view count for each registered user would be very useful. I would like to see this as an additional column in the report output by [[Extension:Contribution Scores]]. A helpful addition would be to also provide a count of page views for all unregistered users i.e. a single total NOT per IP address! A final possible enhancement would be to allow break down of the stats by namespace (so long as it didn't impact performance too much). --[[User:Phil Clark|Phil]] 10:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

==Simplified New Pages Embeding==
First of, excuse me if something to do this already exists. Ive looked all over the site and google without luck.
Im after an extension to embed a summery of the Special:Newpages on the main page of my wiki.

I know it is possible to limit the number of records displayed by using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages/5}}</nowiki> however it still provides alot of information that is unnecessary on the main page.

At present information is displayed in the normal format;

''05:30, 3 April 2008 ? Sandbox(hist) ?[746 bytes] ?Dargrotek (Talk | contribs) (create''')

However on a main page that can be very cluttering and want to change the format to something similar to the following.

''3 April 2008 -? "Sandbox" Created by ?Dargrotek''

Also the ability to limit what type of pages are displayed as well would be extremely usefull so that new images wont show up and so on. Can anyone help or point me in the direction of an existing extension? --[[User:Dargrotek|Dargrotek]] 19:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
: First off, images etc don't show up using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages}}</nowiki>. Hack /includes/SpecialNewpages.php to remove useless info. Not recommended but easy: In your case find <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$dm}{$plink} ({$hist}) {$dm}[{$length}] {$dm}{$ulink} {$comment}";</nowiki> and change to sth like <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$plink} created by {$ulink};";</nowiki><br />--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

==List all audio files==
I'd like to have an parser extension that enables listing audio files being uploaded to the wiki (mp3 only is ok):
*either all or per user
*enable defining an order of the upload date (sort by filename is useless for me)
*always list the pages on which it is used (What links here)
Something like this:
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|DESC}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded to the wiki (so I can place it whereever I want instead of a special page), order will be descending, all linked to pages are listed
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|Mike}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded by User:Mike (so Mike can put a list of his audio files on his user page for example), no order defined > ASC is default, all linked to pages are listed
The code which generates the output should be in wiki markup (maybe stored as a template). The reason is that I use a player extension (not listed on MW yet) that generates output for audio files already and the new extension should list it the same. I tried to use the html output of that player extension in it's php file but can't get it working. So the output should work like this:
*User Mike has uploaded 3 files. A.mp3, B.mp3, C.mp3
*The template for the output could read my player parser code including the audiolist parameter:<br />
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{paramFILE}}}}} - used on: {{{paramLinkedTo|<br />}}}</div></nowiki></code>
*So entering <code><nowiki>{{audiolist|all|Mike|DESC}}</nowiki></code> on some page should work like the following code was added manually to that page:
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{C.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article hdf]]<br />[[Article kghkh]]<br /></div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{B.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article sasxckh]]<br />[</div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{A.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article psdgfh]]<br />[[Article xdfa2o3]]<br />[[Article z9s84]]</div></nowiki></code>

Listing all could also be a Special page with search function, but using the same template.

Might be useful:
*[[Special:Imagelist]]
*[[Special:Log/upload]]
*[[Manual:Mime type detection]]
*[[Special:MIMEsearch]]
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 21:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Word substitution ==
I need an extension to do the same as [[Extension:AutoLink]] but that would be able to point to external pages.
The best thing I think would be an extension that:
# when an article is saved
# it parses the 'to-be-saved' text searching for strings existing in a dictionary
# if such a string is found in the 'to-be-saved' text it gets substituted with the 'translation' of it from the dictionary

I'll try to make myself clear with an example:

*I save an article containing the following text:<pre>bla hello bla bla wikipedia bla bla bla</pre>
*I then have a dictionary say called [[mediawiki:substitution]] containing the following:
<pre>wikipedia//[en.wikipedia.org wikipedia]
yahoo//[www.yahoo.com yahoo]
hello//greetings
whatever you want to translate//whatever you want to have instead</pre>
*the resulting page should be:<pre>bla greetings bla bla [en.wikipedia.org wikipedia] bla bla bla</pre>

Thank you,

--[[User:DonGiulio|DonGiulio]] 20:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

:Check what [[Extension:AutoLink]] can do for you. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

==AJAX Capability Testing==

We have $wgUseAjax to determine if AJAX is used on this wiki. But it would be nice to have a function that other extensions can call to check whether AJAX is likely to work.

If $wgUseAjax is off, this function would always give false. If it is on, the extension would add an option to the user preferences: "Use AJAX: yes/no/autodetect" (with autodetect being the default, I'd guess). If this was set to auto, the extension would first check the browser identification against a known list (maybe), and then if unsure it would send the user a simple chunk of javascript which calls an Ajax function to say "yes it works", and this data could be stored in session and/or cookie.

It could also be useful to have such an extension which knows (or can test) the different capabilities of different browsers, such that other extensions could check the availability of certain javascript functions. (For example, I believe I read that if sent an XML document as an ajax response, some browsers will parse it into a document object, but some don't have this functionality. In this case, it would be useful for an extension author to have a function they can call to determine which javascript to send the client) Of course in the case of $wgUseAjax being off or the user disabling javascript in their preferences, these functions could return false even if the client is actually capable.

[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

== Search results direct link ==
The Search button returns a list of all articles that include the term in the search box, and the list items include wikilinks to the pages. In order to find the search phrase, however, the user must follow the link to the page and then search again, either manually or with the browser's Find function. It would be helpful if the user could link directly to the first occurrence of the term in each page listing. --[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
:Have you seen [[Help:Search]] (GO function) and [[Extension:GoToCategory]]? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 16:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
::Neither of these seem to do what he was asking for. However, it sounds like it should be a fairly simple extension to write. I'll see what I can do if I have time tonight [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
:::The extension would require you to take the target page and drop an anchor on that search term - I'll be interested to see the implementation. ;-) [[User:Tim_Laqua|Tim Laqua]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Tim_Laqua|talk]]</small></sup> 02:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
::::Highlighting the search terms and wrapping anchors around the first instance isn't a big deal ... a crude implementation could do it using an OutputPageBeforeHTML handler, just run a preg_replace over the page text to insert anchors and highlighting. (I'm sure there's more refined ways to do it if you look)
::::The place I'm falling down is making the search results page generate links which contain the search terms. So far, the only solution I can find involves inserting a new hook in SpecialSearch::showHit (after line 364 in SpecialSearch.php, I added one line)
wfRunHooks('RenderSearchResult', &$link, &$t, &$extract, $size)
::::I'd rather not play with the core code, but I don't see any existing hooks which could enable this
::::-- [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 18:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Page creation in extention code ==

Hi, I'm writing an extension and I need to create a category and add some wikitext in it directly in the php code of my extention. I tried Article::doEdit, and the code below :
<code>

$newtitle = Title::newFromText($name, NS_CATEGORY);

$newcategory = new Article($newtitle);

$newtext = "<nowiki>[[Category:$parent_cat]]</nowiki>";

$newcat = $newcategory->doEdit($newtext,'Project', EDIT_NEW );

</code>
But I always get an error... (MyExtention::getContent() undefined for Article::doEdit and T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM for the second case).
I don't know if it's a good place to post this problem but I didn't know where to post it.

Regards, --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 08:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

: I think you mean $newcategory->doEdit ? --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 09:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, It's ok now ! --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 09:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

== MapLib extension ==

is posible to create a extension to add a iframe from MapLib like <maplib width="'''400'''" height="'''400'''">'''999999999'''</maplib> to do a:

<iframe src="<nowiki>http://www.maplib.net/fullmap.php?id=</nowiki>'''999999999'''" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="width:'''400'''px;height:'''400'''px;border:0px"></iframe>

thanks.

:Seems like a fairly simple extension, should only take a few minutes. I'll get back to you later today. --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 01:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

== Per user Statistics ==
Is possible to add a tab in user page with statistics like edit count, creation count, age, and so on, and also something like a personal page in which a user can descrive his preferences or other features

==Homepage/Portal==
I'd like to see an extension that gives a wiki the ability to allow its users to personalize the main page.
The content included within the main page modules could be either controlled by the site admin/bureaucrat, or if they allow, could include custom user made modules...

The idea is to make the main page look as professional as possible, allowing user personalization to entice them to use it more regularly as their 'home page', thus further contribute to the wiki and engage with the community.

A perfect example of what I am talking about is the [http://www.bbc.com BBC] site, with its movable and configurable modules.

Desired features:
*Designed for the main page
*Ajax modules movable, collapsible and able to be added/removed as chosen by user
*User settings remember user preferences
*Admin/bureaucrat acceptance required for user made custom modules (if allowed at all)
*Admin/bureaucrat control over allowing users to create and add their own custom modules
*Admin/bureaucrat control over what modules have to be displayed no matter what
*Content much still be readable/search-able by search engines

Examples of what is available, but meet different needs, but if combined, could make a user personalized homepage/portal
*[[Extension:My_portal|My Portal]] - Portal extension, poorly supported and based on user special page as opposed to main page.
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles#Andy.27s_AJAX_.2F_JavaScript_Skin Andy's Skin] - A skin using ajax that allows for users to move boxes, minimize/maximize them, and add favorites.
*[http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Userboxes_extension Wikia Userboxes Extension] - A extension that gives a user the ability to make custom modules for their user page

This I believe would take wikis the next step in personalization and presentation/skinning.

--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 03:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

==Save all the Content==
I search a solution to save all the content from my wiki with the ending ".pdf". (Like Extensios.pdf)
I imagine like i click on the "Save all!"-Button and all the Content is saved with the correct title in a folder on my server.
(sorry but my bad english)

--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 06:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
:Backing up the complete site on your server is not enough? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

::My problem is the content should be portable for everyone in our team when he/she doesn't have internet--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 12:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

== 'grab my edits' ==

I'd like to see an extension to allow a user to retroactively claim responsibility for their edits in case they forgot to login.

Essentially, you'd have a "claim my edits" tickbox on the login page, which associates your username with any anonymous edits coming from your IP address since you last logged in. (I'm currently doing this on my wiki by manually hacking the database)

== AJAX autocomplete ==

I'd like to see an extension that autocompletes page names. This is on my to-do list, but I'll post here in case it already exists, or someone has ideas to do it in a better way.

When you type '<nowiki>{{</nowiki>', it would produce a little pop-up box (preferably below the cursor) listing all the templates, most commonly used first. As you start typing a template name, it acts as a filter on the list. Each list entry would be clickable to complete it, and would also have "view template" (in popup window) and "edit template" links next to it. Once the user has typed '<nowiki>{{templatename|</nowiki>' or clicked one in the list, a popup appears listing common parameters for that template (possibly just searching the template for all <nowiki>{{{.*}}}</nowiki> blocks, possibly something a little more complex).

Similarly, typing '<nowiki>[[</nowiki>' would produce a popup list of pages. If the list of all pages is too long, it would only show pages which link to this one, until the user has typed enough letters to allow a sensible-sized list (or until they click a 'find all options' button).

:--[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

An extension is available on wikia, it's called LinkSuggest [http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Link_Suggest]. I've contacted the author Inez Korczynski who told me it's going to be released soon.
Cheers

==Addthis Social Boomarking==
[[Extension:Social Bookmarking]] uses [http://addthis.com Addthis] but the solutions is very unhandy.
*I'd like to see the Addthis button below the toolbox and for every page or defined namespaces.
*Enable via gadget for those who want to use it. Cos I think what keeps most admins from installing a social bookmarking feature is that it's annoying for those who don't use this. The extra loads for Addthis interrupts loading the wiki page (just like google ads do sometimes). Yes there other extensions with static buttons but Addthis is more complete (I don't need to worry about adding new sites) and is pretty handy.
*Additionally, when you have an account there it gives you click statistics(!). So adding / using the original script (with the addthis account name) in the extension is essential for me.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 07:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

:Don't know if this will suit you, but maybe a possibility...
:[http://jldupont.com/Widget:Addthis Widget:Addthis]
:You would need [http://jldupont.com/Extension:SecureWidgets Extension:SecureWidgets] for it to work.
:--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 06:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, but I want it appear on every page when user enables the gadget. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 08:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
::: Use [[Extension:HeaderFooter]] perhaps? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 18:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

==Advanced Reading Restriction for Anonymous Users==
I am wondering if any extension can restrict the reading right of anonymous users. Examples may be that after specified pages viewing it would auto-direct anonymous users to register or it restricts the reading rate(ie, pages/hr ). I think that would be great to increase the proportion of registered users. Thanks for discussion.
:Note that those restrictions suck a lot and actually end up in teh other direction. I never register at sites (mostly forums) where content is hidden for visitors. I just leave. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
::However,that is why I dont use the original function of the Mediawiki,which can hide the information. I just want to give users a choice. You can just keep anonymous to get all information. For example, after 10 pages viewing, the extension directs user to register. But the anonymous user can go back to the normal page without any difficult.

==Gadget: User Sidebar==
A Gadget that (if enabled) will override the MediaWiki:Sidebar config with the user's very own config.
<br />The user's config list could be stored in a users subpage, e.g. in User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar.<br />A problem might be what the sidebar displays after enabling the gadget and the user's config page doesn't exist yet. A workaround could be: If enabled, use MediaWiki:Sidebar when User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar doesn't exist / is empty (User could clear). It could also created automatically (with default content) when a new user registers (using [[Extension:NewUserMessage]]) and to let a bot add it to the existing accounts.
<br/>See also [[Extension:SidebarEx]], [[Extension:SysopSidebar]]     --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

== Email Client ==
A extension that makes a special page for a E-mail client.

==Images in categories==
'''The problem''': When you categorize images into the same categories as articles they're listed on the category page as "Media files" below the articles. There's nothing wrong about it. The problem is the counting and the navigation of both.<br />The standard limit of 200 = articles + files. E.g. you have 183 articles and 30 images in the same category: On the bottom you'll have 17 images (200-183) reading "next 200" or you have 250 artciles and some images. The images won't appear until you click "next 200". How am I supposed to know there are images in the category when opening it?

'''Possible solutions''': Split the counting and navigation
*List all images below the articles. When browsing next 200 articles, only list the rest of the articles.
*List all images independetly from the article navigation but in a kinda iframe with vertical scrollbar. The frame could be 5 image boxes wide and 2 image boxes high and placed above the article links section.
*Split up article and image count and navigation. E.g. 500 articles and 500 images: When browsing forward to articles 401-500 still show images 1-200. When browsing now images 201-400 still keep articles 401-500. For a better navigation it may good to only list like 40 images but 200 article links.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 19:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

==User friendly way to flag/request pages==
'''The problem''': I am trying to develop a super user-friendly way for users to flag a page for review, and separately, request a page that doesn't exist (not create it per se, but request the page to be created by someone else). I realize this is as easy as adding some kind of "review" or "request" template to a page but what if I assume most of my users are not wiki-proficient. Is there a very simple way (ie clicking one button) for users to flag a page for review/request a page that does not exist yet.

'''Possible solutions''': Ideally any solution would require no editing on behalf of a user - just one click. Thanks!

==Move pages via find / replace==
A special page lists a find and a replace input box. The extension finds the page titles with the given word and moves the pages to the new title which replaced the word with the new one. The result should be a valid move (with redirect).<br />[[Extension:Replace Text]] does that for page content but not for titles. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

== Support docbook ==
Like some feature in [http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/ docbookwiki].

== Related news extension request==
Information of what extension will do: http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki/issues/detail?id=20 Hope someone develop it. Thanks

== Template Extension ==
is there an extension that can get me all the important templates like Infoboxes and tables, stuff like that..
I've tried importing those pages from wikipedia and other Wiki's but on the page it just has.. well alot of stuff that should not be there
so is there an extension for that or how do i do this?
--[[Special:Contributions/70.100.80.125|70.100.80.125]] 18:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

== Search Extension ==
As in our wiki we link not only images, but also some files .doc or .ppt or .pdf, is there an extension that makes it possible to search also into these files?
[[User:Cattest|Cattest]] 09:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

== WhiteBoard Extension ==
A simple freehand drawing tool, like a whiteboard, where authors can draw pictures.<br>
Minimum tool bar: freehand pencil, shapes, and Text tools.<br>
Newly created image file can be saved on the server and indexed.<br>
Old images can be added to or edited.<br>
Real-time multi-client draw control, to show many clients the image as it is being drawn, and who has the pen.<br>
Eventually multiple clients could draw at the same time.

==Edit Preview Redirect List==
I was editing my wiki when I got an idea. What about having an extension that lists the any redirect pages that are linked to on the current page when previewing an edit? I couldn't seem to find an existing extension like this. Sound good?--[[User:Mjr162006|Mjr162006]] 22:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)<br><small>PS: Could someone please archive the older parts of this page. It is very difficult to edit with it being so big.</small>

==Indent first line==
In formal writing, the first line of every paragraph is indented. However, the only options are either to use 8 HTML spaces or to use another line for separating paragraphs. However, the first one is messy and the second is harder to read. So my idea is for a special symbol (like [ind] or [indt]) to be automatically replaced by 8 HTML spaces or equivalent indent. Or simply make the ":" character indent ONLY the first line. (By the way, I'm requesting this as a result of "problems" at Novelas.)
:You can use CSS to solve this. Just modify your default style sheet or add a template like this <pre><p style="text-indent: 2em">...</p></pre>--[[User:Benjamin Garn|Benjamin Garn]] 19:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

== Move section to Sub-Page ==
Does anyone have any suggestions to make the task of migrating large pages to sub pages?
I've seen talk of a bot which could break up a page based on H2 level tags, but can't find the source of it anywhere.

I would imagine an extra button on the edit section page "Make this section a sub-page". Then the full section contents would be pushed as a sub-page of the current page (with title=heading of the current section), and the full text of the current section would be replaced by a transclusion of the new page.

==Easier select and copy method==
I have noticed whenever some people have to copy a long code written on a wiki page, they have to wait a very long time for the whole code to be selected. So I am proposing a new button with an opacity of 50% on the top right corner of any code on a wiki page. Its function would be to select the code and copy it in a click. You can't use control + A for this since this method highlights everything on the page.
This extension should be called Extension:Autocopy. Worth looking into. --''''<font face="freestyle script">[[User:truetech|<span style="color: #CC1100;">Truetech</span>]]</font>''''' ''<font face="Imapct"><small>[[User Talk:Truetech|<span style="color: #AAAAAA;">(Talk)</span>]]</small></font>'' <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] [[Project:Support desk/Support team|'''''<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>''''']]</span> 23:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

==Record Search Queries==
I'm sure this isn't too hard to implement, but I'm drawing a blank on this one. I think a feature rich version of this would be very helpful to any mediawiki owner.

The reason I would like something like this:

*Build more pages based off of what people are looking for
*Create a list of commonly searched for phrases to help noobs
*creates a page full of key words (and misspellings) that get indexed by search engines
*Helps you learn more about your users

anyone willing to help out, please feel free to hit me up on my talk page.

-[[User:Theothertom|Theothertom]] 18:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
==Groupselection + Accountcreation==
I'm not so good in php and so on. Maybe someone can help me.
I need an extension which allowes me to select groups I want to be in while I'm creating an account

example:
A company with 3 groups (group1, group2 and group3)
A new user wants to create an account in the company he's in group1 so he wants to select group1 in the account creation.

Sorry for my bad english :D

==Allow user to delete only files he uploaded himself==
I'd like to see a wg that allows the group User to delete files the user uploaded himself (not other User's files). --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 22:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
:So if the user uploaded the file the [delete] button will appear on top so he can delete the complete thing like a sysop. Maybe add a message that deleting is not possible if the file is still used on other pages. -[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 14:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

==Blanking historical page versions==
I would appreciate an extension that allows the blanking of page versions, or more generally replace them with a chosen text like '(vandal)', while completely removing the orginal content from the database. This both for individual edits and for all edits by one user, and preferably also with the option to permanently remove a version if it is the last version of a page. We've had a lot of mass vandalism lately that inflated our database. Regards, [[User:Guido den Broeder|Guido den Broeder]] 16:39, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

:MW 1.12+ have the script maintenance/[[Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php|deleteOldRevisions.php]] for older versions check [[Extension:SpecialDeleteOldRevisions]]. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 15:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

==Disqus extension==
An extension to allow for Disqus comments to be added to a wiki page. Should allow for customization of comment layout through HTML template, CSS file, and extension configuration. Possible solution includes a checkbox on the mediawiki edit form to enable comments on this article or not.

==What Links Here extension==
A simple extension adding a box at the bottom of article with a list of max. (parameter=10) articles linking here.

==Change signatures in old page histories==
On an old wiki site I used to run, there was a user who's signature was "FUCK HEIL HITLER!" and we had to manually re-edit the signatures right across the wiki: if there was some way of fixing this with a new special page it would be good. [[Extension:ReplaceText]] almost does it, but not quite. I don't know what the SQL is to manually replace every signature, so a new special page would be helpful. --[[User:Sunstar NW XP|Sunstar NW XP]] 12:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
:Why is Extension:ReplaceText not working good enough for that? What could a new special page do better? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 16:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==Making new pages even easier with a Wizard==
I'd like to see a Extension where the Editor is given a column of text fields and drop down menus for the person to select the page title, headings, etc. where they just fill in text and submit the form. The wiki then takes this input and generates a new page.

Templates are all very well, but they require a user to go to the right one and then cut and paste from it into the new page. Why give them less work by offering a simple drop down menu to select a template and then the Extension takes the <nowiki>== headers ==</nowiki> from the template and shows them a column of text fields they can fill in. From my (very) limited experience in PHP this should be possible?

On my [http://theaquariumwiki.com/ Wiki], the potential Editors often find the aspect of opening a new page and then having to open the templates page separately and cutting and pasting a bit 'frightening'.

Let's make the Editors job even easier? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 10:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Extension requests

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== [Implemented] - Google Translate feature via API ==
The working code for this has been posted here [[Extension:GoogleTranslate]] - '''this version can translate the text that you edit!''' --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 16:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

According Google it is perfectly possible to call their translation [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Examples Google AjAX-API]. For XSS security reasons it would be very constructive to be able to allow/implement various translations calls from within wiki:
* Translation on page level
* Translation of article texts, in Read mode
* Translation of article texts, in Edit mode (this is what I need currently.)
:* Special Feature: translate the unformated texts
:* Special Feature: Allow the original text to be saved
:* Special Feature: Allow to create new article based upon the translated text

I suggest that there should be a ways for the sysop, through localsetting.php to setup namespaces where google translation is an option. --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 13:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

== Media Category ==
is there extensions for creating a gallery off a category who includes media?
: <cgallery>Images</cgallery> or <cgallery limit"5">images</cgallery>
--[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 14:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)?

=== Programming Documentation and Extensions to copy from ===
* [[:Category:Ajax_extensions]] other ajax features
* [[Extension:Link_Suggest]], add a feature to the edit window and allows you to change the text.....
* [[Extension:Lockdown]], can be used to control usage?

== Simple Download System ==
I've looked everywhere and cannot find a download system like paFileDB for mediawiki!
Now I'm not looking for something like paFileDB, although I wouldn't mind it.
I was looking for something a little simpler that can be easily be designed without to much trouble!

I developed a proposal which you can download in .pdf format
http://www.designermotion.com/projects/web/mediawiki/docs/mediawiki_proposal_extension_download-v1.pdf

I'm hoping someone will be interested in creating such an extension as I'm planning to add over 400 download pages to my wiki.

Thanks for your time--[[User:unknown|unknown]] 02:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

==Dynamic page update from other pages==
Let's say on one page, we'll see page "Renee", I have the following wiki stuff (displayed in code here):

===Year 1===
*Spring: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
===Year 2===
*Spring: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in Teaching
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component

Just to give a rough example, at least. Now, let's say this goes on for some 20 years, and with potential to keep on going. It is also repeated (but with differences in what happens year to year) in other pages, like "Jariya", "Lea", "Nike", etc. Now, I want to know if there is an extension that can take the seasonal advancement, interwiki-style, and place them in a single page, we'll say "Advancement", with an output kinda like this:

===Year 1===
====Spring====
*Renee: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Jariya: Teaching
:Practice in teaching
:Exposure in influence
*Nike: etc etc

Now, I originally used [[Labeled_Section_Transclusion | Labeled section transclusion]] by wrapping everyone's year 1 spring as 'year1spr', then 'year1sum', then 'year1aut' and 'year1win', then 'year2spr'.... you get the idea, and including the transclusion on the advancement page. It worked, however, adding a new name is a pain. You need to write the new name, write the new transclusions, and when you have 10 years and growing of transclusions to rewrite from 'year1spr' to 'year3spr', then 4, 5, 6... then repeat for the other 3 seasons, it's annoying and not very efficient.

What I'd like to know is if there is an extension that could do what I'd like more easily? Especially if it could do it dynamically and automatically update like Transclusions did, but without needing to add 40 tweaked lines when adding someone or removing/renaming someone?

I thought I could maybe use the MySQL extension and have a DB with the changes in them, but that doesn't seem like it'll work too great overtime.
:Thanks

==Game rating system (0% => 100%)==
Does anyone know if there is a little extention that makes it possible to display a rating for a game, like normal gameratings, from 0 to 100%? And a little thing to let anyone give a rating (with IP check)?

== Google AJAX extension ==
An Extension that gets google search results with AJAX API presented by Google. The results should be gathered with wiki markups. For example with a text <googlesearch>britney</googlesearch>, the extension must turn the Google results within the page. --88.229.252.158 07:46, 13 January 2007

== Display Name ==

There should exist an extension to allow the admins or maybe even the users to select which name is displayed. Currently the username is used, but why not have an extension that allows all references to a username also allow for reference to a the Nickname, or the Real Name. (Example: Recent Changes page lists lots of users, but the admins could force it to display the Real Names instead of the usernames, or if the localsettings variable isn't set to force it, let the users select which name is displayed). --71.145.131.12 22:21, 14 January 2007

==Extensions to Enable Wiki of 3D Geometrical Models==
Hi, we would like to create a Wiki of 3D geometrical models which are built with a product called [http://www.zometool.com Zometool]. We already have the software to build the models and are working on a browser plug-in which will allow users to manipulate these models in their browser window.
We would need for users to be able to:

a) Publish their models on the wiki (even if they're noobs).

b) Access the browser plug-in from the wiki so they can see/manipulate the models in the wiki article.

The publishing aspect would require functionality similar to that requested by [[User:Blckdmnd99|Blckdmnd99]] in "File Upload as Part of Article Creation" and also [[User:Barrylb|Barrylb's]] "New Article Form".

The modeling program would export jpegs, csv files with a description of certain model parameters (number of parts, etc.) and the model file itself. Ideally, this would be transformed into part of a wiki article which would include the jpegs, a table with the required parts for assembling that specific model, categories (taken from the csv) and a link to the 3D model file itself.

The plug-in access, I would imagine, would be similar to adding quicktime or flash compatibility.

If anyone is interested in helping us out with this we would be willing to pay for the functionality.

Thanks, --[[User:Zomenut|Carlos]] 07:36, 30 January 2007 (edit) (undo)
Zomenut

:I already have something similar in Java called [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki3D Wiki3D] that might help you getting started. It is all open sourced under the BSD license.
:Regards, [[User:lyriarte|Luc]]

== Internal Article Social Tagging==
I would like an extension that puts a "Digg"-like tag on each page. By tagging those pages, there would be a special page or extension that allows those articles to be dynamically presented in order of votes. This is not the same as presenting a link to Digg itself or any other social bookmarking sites. This feature would allow a MediaWiki wiki to have its own pages rated by readers and then have a summary page that showed the relative rankings.

==Cladograms==
An extension to create graphic [[:en:cladogram|cladograms]]. This, with the right options, could have other obvious applications such as family trees (and similar material) and sports brackets. This could be based on [http://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree/ PhpSyntaxTree] and [[EasyTimeline]], both of which propose more or less similar possibilities. [[:en:User:Circeus]] --08:06, 26 June 2007

:see [[Extension:CategoryTree]] if you can model your data using categories. --[[User:Purodha|Purodha Blissenbach]] 10:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

==Drop Down Box==
I would love to have an extension that allows a drop down menu. Not to redirect to a different page, but just to change the status of item. If this is not enough information, feel free to drop me a line as this is quite important. [[User:129.57.10.6|129.57.10.6]] 19:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

gibsonmarshall_sg@yahoo.com

==Easier automatic categorization==
[[Extension:CategoryHook]] can do automatic categorization but it requires esoteric PHP coding and [[Extension talk:CategoryHook#User-friendliness|isn't very user-friendly]]. I'd like a more [[w:GUI|GUI]]-centered approach for, oh, 90% of users out there... -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

==Multi-select namespace search==
When [[Help:Searching|searching]], instead of all the checkboxes, which are nerve-wracking to select/deselect, why not a multi-select menu? -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

:My attempt: [[Extension:Multi-select Namespace Search]]--unfortunately, it doesn't work. :/ -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 17:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

::It works now (for a few weeks, actually, with the help of another user), but it's not a proper extension and just a hack. If someone can "extensionize" it, that'd be super. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

== Media Player ==

I'm Want to Suggest on Extension who allows To look at Videos And Listen on Music
This is Because i'm looked long for one Extension who can this!.
And its 2 different formats i'm want to have in this extension
'''Formats:'''
.mp3
.ogg
{{nosigr|August 13, 2007|62.128.243.228}}

:Check [[:Category:Media handling extensions]]. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 22:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

::Tryed but No one of them works - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 11:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

:::You tried [[Extension:Mp3]] and [[Extension:Player]]? —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes , And Many Others - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 13:11, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
: What happened? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 13:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Some of them dident show , And the one named player Did show but dident play it --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 14:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
::Are you sure that your browser supports it? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 10:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

==[Implemented] Redirects Here ==

I would LOVE to have a way for admins to see, at the top or bottom of each page, a simple list of pages which redirect to the current page. Just like [[Special:Whatlinkshere]], but listing ONLY the redirects, and appearing '''on the same page''' as the content (if the user is an admin) separated by an <nowiki><hr></nowiki> so I don't have to click through to it. I would also love to have a few text fields below the list of redirects where I could add multiple NEW redirects quickly. This would help in my projects immensely. -- [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 17:05, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
:Added to Bugzilla as [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11083 #11083]. [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]]
In response to my request for this, [[w:User:Splarka|Splarka]] put together a nice proof-of-concept at [[w:User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js]]. It adds a link to activate it in the '''toolbox''' (below the search box) and displays the results below the page title. – [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

::A feature that accomplishes this same task has been integrated into the whatlinkshere as of version 1.13.0.--[[User:Mjr162006|Matt]] 22:33, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
== Automatic Linking (with Bug) ==

I'd really like to have an extension that allows automatic linking as an option (because I can't ask all of my users to know of and link to every other page that exists in the wiki on their own... Can this be done? If anyone knows of a current way to do this please reply to this thread. Thanks. --[[User:129.111.144.30|129.111.144.30]] 17:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

: See [[Extension:AutoLink]]. [[User:89.52.129.174|89.52.129.174]] 12:25, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

:: There is a realy little bug in that [[Extension:AutoLink]] - but I don't know PHP to repair it. [[User:89.52.146.8|89.52.146.8]] 07:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension talk:AutoLink]]. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 12:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

:::: I did it with no success. Only <nowiki>[ ]</nowiki> has to be added to the to the mapIgnoringBlocks. But I don't now how to do it. Is here someone who knows php?[[User:89.52.137.94|89.52.137.94]] 06:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

:::::Do you mean a single set of brackets? If so, I added it (but haven't tested it) to [[extension:AutoLink#version which matches all pages]]. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

== Auto short URL links ==

You enter <nowiki>http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new</nowiki><br /> to an edit page and the system makes the article display [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]<br /> just as if you'd have entered <br /><nowiki>[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]</nowiki>. <br /> Shouldn't affect existing [url Alt text] entries but all URLs that are eneterd as above --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 13:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

== Frappr Extension ==

I assume its really easy, but I don't know php. I'd really like to be able to embed a frappr (www.frappr.com) map into my wiki so that users can mark where they are from.
If this is more simple than I realize please just email me. dave at consumersolidarity.org

[[User:75.111.44.66|75.111.44.66]] 02:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
:it seems to be shockwave flash, so [[Extension:Flash]] ought to work. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Advanced Linking ==

'''Tags:'''
<Addtextgotourl> - Start tag to activate the code
</Addtextgotourl> - End tag for the end of the code
</getpath> - The tag will be replaced with typed text in The text field, This tag gonna get the filepath who is typed in the text field
</getdomainname> - the tag will be replaced with typed text in the domainname text filed

'''Code:'''
<Addtextgotourl>
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Image= YPagename or no text
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name

</addtextgotourl>

'''Actions:'''
&action=edit&section=new - For editing a wiki page
noaction - If no is the action the text in the field willl be produeced in the link as notext

'''Other Commands'''
Pagebeforenter - you will enter a page with some information for the link place , And a directly link with the text enter
Linktext - if you select no pagebforenter you will get a link text like this <nowiki> [http://www.example.com link yourlinktext]
Namespace - Choose the namespace
Category - Choose the category
</nowiki>
Image - Image:file.format if you have a image you will use with the directly link or a link to the dynamic page pagebeforeenter!...

'''Parameters'''
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name
Image= Pagename or no text

'''This Idea is by [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Zizanzu Zizanzu]'''

Can this be a good idea?.it need to be little imrpoved
but a good start

== WhosOnline extension ==

I'm not sure if this request fits here fully or not. Anyways, I was trying to help someone over IRC to make [[Extension:Whos_online]] work on MediaWiki 1.10.x and we ended up here: [http://mediawiki.pastey.net/73126 code on Pasty.net]

The code is corrected, in regards to using the correct table and generating the correct text in $output variable. However, the way $wgOut->parse() is used, makes some gibberish text to be added to the page. I didn't know how to fix it, so I though I might ask others for help here. Practically, it may be only a few seconds for a developer to figure out what the problem is. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 20:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

== External Link - Redirecting ==

Is there possible to make one extension for redirecting to external links like
www.mediawiki.org!

Code:
#REDIRECT <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
or
#REDIRECT-awayfromwiki <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
THinked nothing like that
:I think you could maybe create a function in [[MediaWiki:monobook.js]] that looks for such redirects and changes window.location. Why would you need something instead of creating a simple link? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Delete Vandal - Delete a user and all pages that he edited/created ==

The purpose of this extension would be to make it easy to remove a vandal and any trace of what he did.<p>
I would like an extension that given a user name,
* will delete all pages that have been created by that user.
* reverts any edits by that user.
* blocks or deletes the user
* Puts him on a banned list (this is not critical since he is using random user names).

I would really like it it to be liked form the "Recent pages" page, along with the (Talk | Block) links.
:Practically, it is not that esaily achievable I guess. I'm not going to argue the usefulness of it here, just the possibility of performing the tasks yo mentioned:

1) There is no point in deleting the user account, and, I guess it is enough to block it. As far as I know, MediaWiki doens't support deletion of a user account, because if even a single edit is left by that member, deletion of the account can mess every thing up (read below too).

2) Reverting edits is not easily possible. Suppose that he edits a page and modifies several parts of it. After that, a second user makes some more changes (may be, without reverting the vandal's changes even). Then, we may reach a point where software would be unable to undo vandal's changes (I'm pretty certain everyone of us have faced a "cannot undo this change because conflicting intermediate edits"-like message several times). So as you see, some edits cannot be reverted.

My two cents. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 12:31, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

:Just because intermediate edits have taken place doesn't mean restoring a page to a previous state, with edits ''after'' that state, is not perfectly entirely possible since MediaWiki stores ''each'' difference between revisions. It's a mindless task of simply removing the unwanted revisions and combining the later revisions together. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

::Well, MediaWiki doesn't really store ''diffs''; it only stores revisions. Deleting a revision by a vandal only makes sense if all the changes made by him are reverted; otherwise, after the revision is deleted, it will look like the user who actually edited after the vandal has made the unreverted changes, which is wrong. Reverts are not possible in 100% of cases. That's what I know [[User:Huji|Huji]] 18:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:::MediaWiki shows differences which can be used to compare revisions and, hence, remove differences/revisions by (a) certain user(s). —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 02:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

::::When you say differences, what is meant? Display of differences is not the same as any merging feature that would need to know what to do with which side of the equation (e.g., what gets included/what gets removed in the merge). In addition, there is the challenge of information that is needed to be kept but is out of order on a given line. MediaWiki does not have this facility, even though it can display differences. --[[User:Jeffmcneill|Jeffmcneill]] 23:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

:::::The fact that not every change can be rolled back isn't enough to block a "Delete User" feature, be the user a vandal or not. The software can at least tell what it can roll back and what it can't (at least changes that are the latest for a page can certainly be rolled back). If the software can roll back everything, it does so and it deletes the user. Otherwise it could assign its changes that can't be rolled back to some sysop or other moderator account, roll back remaining changes, delete the user and notify the moderator. [[User:Lucrus|Lucrus]] 13:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

:It would seem that the desired functionalities all exist in some form, but just aren't in one central place. The [revert] links to undo each of the users' edits to pages where they had the last word are on [[special:contributions]], the mass-delete is in [[extension:nuke]] and the bannination is done from [[special:blockip]]. What's needed is to consolidate all of these tasks, so that one visit to [[special:blockip]] not only allows an admin to block the user, but also offers pre-checked checkboxes inviting the admin to revert the edits and delete the newly-created pages in the same one step - maybe even giving an option to protect them against re-creation. It would make the task of blocking open spambot proxies a few clicks shorter. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 17:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

::: Additionally, all versions edited by the vandal could get a hint like "the user that edited this version is tagged as vandal, so think twice before trusting its content". [Marc]

== Slideshow with Lightbox ==

I'd love to see an extension that would allow to activate a slideshow with [http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ Lightbox] like the one working on this page :
* [http://dialoguesenhumanite.free.fr/pmwiki.php5?n=Photos2006.Galerie Dialogues en Humanité - Galerie]

--[[User:Dieudo|Dieudo]] 14:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:My [[User:Alxndr/Lightbox2 hack|Lightbox2 hack]] can do this. It works best for only one image gallery; if there are multiple galleries, Lightbox will think they're part of the same slideshow. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 21:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:Hack is now an extension: '''[[Extension:LightboxThumbs|LightboxThumbs]]'''. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 05:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

== Watching Subpages ==

I'd like to see an extension that would add all subpages to your watchlist when the main page is added. In otherwords, if I were to add MAINPAGE to the watchlist, it would also include MAINPAGE/subpage in the watchlist and all associated talk pages.--[[User:Dukeruckley|Dukeruckley]] 15:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

== Category And Namespace... ==

----
*Category
**Category logo (upload image called Categorylogo:categoryname.png , The logo will be showne when your viewing a page with a namespace who have a logo (if not a logo,it will display wikilogo)
**Category Css (viewed from [[Mediawiki:skin/category:categoryname.css , if your viewing this category you get that css)
**Categorysidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __Categorysidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig)
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESICATEGORY=CATEGORYNAME}} you will get displayed how many pages in this Chossed Category</nowiki>
----
*Namespace
**Namespace logo (upload image called NS:namespacename.png Or Namespace:namespacename.png, The logo will be showen when your vieweing a page with a Namespace with a A Logo i(ff not a logo it will display wiki logo))
**Namespace Css (Made in [[Mediawiki:skin/Namespace:Namespacename.css]] )
**Namespace Sidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __NAMESPACEsidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig
**Recent changes on Namespace
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESINNAMESPACE=id}} you will get displayed how many pages in this namespace</nowiki>
----
*News
**A Option for turning up Message box in the localsettings.php £wguse Messagebox= True/false; ([[Extension:Message_Box]])

Here is some ideas i have for future extensions and Mediawiki!.... - --[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 13:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

==Lossless rotation of images==
As requested [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2007-September/002689.html here] an extension that is able to rotate images like the one on flickr. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
:[[Commons:User:Rotatebot]] meanwhile does this. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 14:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

::*I strongly support this request. I think it would be even better if not the file itself would be rotated, but if you could chose the orientation like the image size wherever you embed the image. Don't know if that is possible, but it would be really helpful. --[[User:Gollum|Gollum]] 23:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

:MediaWiki uses external utilities such as [http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=82 gd] or [http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php ImageMagick] to resize images. All of these have capabilities and functionality beyond that which MediaWiki currently exposes; for instance "ImageMagick supports about 100 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch; changing colours; stretching, rotating, and overlaying images; and overlaying text on images."
:The images are normally handled by core MediaWiki code (not extensions), but there are exceptions - such as extensions which use images as clickable links or embed external content. Perhaps there's something there that could be used as a starting point for new code? --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

===we need this===
:It would be a real asset to be able to temporary crop or rotate an image already on the Wiki. A tag could control how an existing image appears so we can make it appear rotated or indeed cropped or lightened to show an image. This way one image could be used instead of having to upload several. This would make it easier for non-graphic users to manipulate images. All very easy to do via Imagemagick.

:Something like
:<pre><imgcrop:Example.jpg|X Y H W> or <imgrotate:Example.jpg|90 180 270> <imggamma:Example.jpg|2.2></pre>

:How about it MediaWiki? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==User Notification on Article Edit==
This would be the inverse of the '''watch''' feature, in that the article text would define one or more usernames to notify whenever the article is changed. This is a '''"PUSH"''' as opposed to watching being a '''"PULL"'''. It would be very useful for meeting minutes which might contain action items or other information subject to change. The entire group would receive an e-mail notification as if they had selected that article to watch. The wiki text for this might be:

<notify caption="Attendees">
User:Username1
User:Username2
User:Username3
</notify>

This would also cause the listed user's names to be shown on the page, in a box similar to the '''Table of Contents''' box but with a specified caption, to serve as a reminder that these users are to be notified of changes. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 02:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

: After some further searching, this appears similar to [[Extension:Todo Tasks]]. Possibly that extension could be used along with a different template to achieve the above result. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 03:07, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

==Review Date==

An extension to whereby you can add a tag onto a article:-

<review>25.12.2010</review>

then create either a special page or a section on the Main Page of the wiki showing articles past or near their review date.

Useful when creating documentation for a particular project or something that needs to be regularly checked for relevance / accuracy.
--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 10:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:You could just create a <nowiki>{{review|25.12.2010}}</nowiki> template and add that to the article. The Review template would contain a date-parser function so that if the date given by the article (25.12.2010 in this case) was today or in the past, it would add <nowiki><includeonly>[[Category:Articles needing review]]</includeonly> to the article. Then keep tabs on that category and you'll always see what articles need to be reviewed. After review, change the review date in the <nowiki>{{review|}}</nowiki> call and the article will drop out of the category until the new review date comes up. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a go and see what happens.--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 19:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

: I suggest using [[Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]. It lets you define dates and can show a timeline (and much, much more very useful things). See [http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events] for an example. --[[User:Tbleher|Tbleher]] 10:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

==Viewcount by Date==
A list of page views per day for each page, so I can know whether or not to rearrange the structure of my wiki.
:You'd probably get more useful information by adding Google Analytics or another tracking service to your site. You can just add the tracking code to the bottom of /skins/MonoBook.php and that will cover nearly all of your users. Add it to the other skins if you think they're being used a lot. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

== Search statistics ==
Is there any decent method of tracking searches being run? I want a list, ordered by decreasing frequency, of the things my users have typed into the search box. I also want to be able to split this list into those terms for which there is an existing article, and those for which there is not. This would be immensely helpful in making sure that my users are finding the information they're looking for. This extension would also help contributors determine the desire for articles which don't exist yet.

For example, let's say that ''banana'', for which I have an excellent article, was entered 139 times in the last 30 days. However, without this extension, I don't know that ''bananna'' is entered 15 times and ''banananas'' is entered 4 times on my site, but I have redirects in place for neither of these, so all of these searches end up with no useful results. I can correct this problem once this extension has brought it to my attention. I also learn that 430 people searched for ''kiwi'', and I don't even have an article for that yet! --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 23:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
:I wrote a quick and dirty hack that logs every search with search term, ip address, search method and time. Unfortunately there is currently no [[Manual:Hooks|hook]] available when the search is started :( I will have a look at how my hack is working for some days and I'm going to post it afterwards. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:32, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
:: Any luck? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension:Log Searches]] for starters ... as I said ... dirty hack! --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
::::Has there been any progress on this? Frankly I'm amazed MW has no built in search statistics page yet. --[[Special:Contributions/134.129.146.183|134.129.146.183]] 07:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
::::: There is also a similar [[Extension:SearchLog]]. Don't know of any developments for a core MW special page --[[User:Zven|Zven]] 11:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

== Watermark ==
I need hack (extension), who can automaticaly add watermark on every pictur that has been bigger as 300 x 300 pixel. Thank you. --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 15:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:I don't think anyone believing in open source software will support such suggestions. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 18:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:: :/ --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 12:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

:Flo, I fail to see the dichotomy between open content licensing of images and adding a small watermark credit line to such images ''to ensure they are actually attributed as their license requires''. It is an uncontested fact that open content images are rampantly used without any attribution at all, to the great angst of creators, and that this has resulted in a strong disincentive for semi-pro and pro photographers and other image creators to release free images at all. If the watermark were minimalistic, a credit line, this extension would substantially ''increase'' the overall amount of high quality free content material available, because it would give a better assurance to such creators that they will actually be attributed if they release free images. You might say this extension is exactly what a lot are waiting for, even. [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 10:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

::Not every wiki is used in an "open" format anyway. There are many applications where an open format is totally inappropriate (propitiatory in-house documentation, etc).[[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

:This is a good idea. my wiki uses copyright and PD images. Imagemagick which Mediawiki uses can easily do this. I'd like to see a crop, rotate, gamma correct images in a wiki and a general purpose tag to get Imagemagick to control the display of images would cover all these bases. Be nice if it was built into MediaWiki as standard. I mean it uses Imagemagick already! :-) --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==three tracking pages==
There are often articles I don't want to keep on a watch list, but sometimes want to check up on. I envision these similar to Special:Contributions. First, Special:Created (for articles that the user created), Special:Contributionsunchanged (for articles where the user's edit serves as the most recent version), and Special:Articlestouched (like Special:Contributions with duplicates removed). Feel free to choose better names, though. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 15:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:These all sound quite useful. Good ideas. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 15:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:What about putting such articles on a page and checking them via "related changes"? --[[User:213.182.155.146|213.182.155.146]] 13:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
::That's manual updating of another "watch list", which is what I am hoping to avoid. These are the sort of things many people will often want to keep an eye on from time to time, but not so much that they want to be continually receiving notices like you do with watched pages. It ought to be straightforward (almost trivial) to implement, yet ''extremely'' convenient. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 18:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== Filter content by IP/hostname ==

I would like a way to display different content based on whether the user is coming from within or outside of my LAN, based on their IP. Something like this:

<nowiki> This is page content that shows up for everyone. <externalonly>This is page content that
shows up only for visitors outside the designated IP ranges.</externalonly><internalonly>This is page
content that shows up only for visitors inside the designated IP ranges.</internalonly> Here is some
more page content that everyone sees.</nowiki>

This is not intended to be a security measure, since the user could edit the page and see all of the content, but just one to make it easier to tell the user things that apply only to them. For example, my internal audience might know exactly which building to go to for an event, but the external audience might need more detailed information, maps, full phone numbers instead of just an extension, and so on. Is this even possible? Would there be a way to still cache pages? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== RSS / Atom Feeds on Related changes ==

Although you can subscribe to a feed on Recent changes and New pages, it would be very helpful to support feeds from Related changes pages. In particular, the Related changes from a Category page would allow a user to receive a feed for all changes made to articles within a specified category. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 19:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
:I also think it might be useful (actually, I has been asked this functionnality, for a corporate use) [[User:Gizmhail|Gizmhail]] 14:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

== automated e-mail obfuscation ==
I'd love to see an extension that automatically obfuscates any e-mail address included in an article. Maybe replacing all (or some) of the letters with images and/or HTML code. Other methods exist too... [[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

== Brainstorm feature ==

It will be very cool to have such feature in MediaWiki as it was done in Britannica.

[http://www.akappleug.org/reviews/2006/10/17/encyclopaedia-britannica-2007-deluxe-on-dvd/]

''A “brainstorm” feature maps relationships between ideas, subjects, and people as you go through the encyclopedia. It is fascinating to browse through subjects and watch a virtual brainstorm of related subjects coalesce around chosen articles, leading you to additional interesting paths to take.''

Screenshot (poor, though) is there: [http://akappleug.org/reviews/img/Reviewed/Oct06/britannica_pic2.jpg]

For what you are looking for first we need the semantic version of MediaWiki which is [[Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki]]. For SMW there are also extension and you need the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MOCA MOCA Extention]. See an implementation example on [http://frema.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Entities]

== Machine Translation Feature ==

Add a mechanism that sends the substantive content of an article to an online translation service (like Google Translate or Babelfish).

Bonus points if the translated text could somehow be integrated back into the original page, with a clear indication to the user that an automated translation has been performed.

== Block certain E-mail address domains ==

Dunno if this really needs an extension or if it could be set in SpecialUserlogin.php.<br />
I've set that users need to confirm their e-mail address in order to edit pages. Now it would be nice to block some free spam domains like [http://spam.la spam.la]. Possibilities:
* do not send such confirmation mails to blocked domains
* do not allow to enter blocked domains in Create Account ''and'' User Preferences

Thought about entering such a domain to $wgSpamRegex but it only controls page edits.
~~Subfader

== Block account creation if E-Mail address already exists ==
Have problem with a spam bot using the same mail address to create fake accounts for an attack session.
~~Subfader

==Category navigation - Change order==
I'd like to see an extension that gives you a little more features to the category listings, esp. when there are more than 200 subcategories or articles listed. E.g. switch order (ASC, DESC), or a drop-down menue to choose the number of listed items instead of 200 default for all and everyone. ~~Subfader
:Could maybe be done via Javascript. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
::Yeah I dunno how but I do know it's not hard to set up. It should be possible to also set a standard order in the category. (E.g. a special categoy page which I want to order descending instead of ascending as per default. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

== Flexible Watchlists ==
I'd love to see an extension that allows flexible lists just like the watchlist but without displaying the latest changes, e-mail notification on changes etc., primarily just to list the articles I have added to the list.<br />
Example: Many wikis are about collectable things. Let's assume a wiki about those pokemon cards. Each article of the main namespace stands for one unique pokemon card. Now it would be great if users could keep track of which they already have and which they want. So I imagine new tabs where the "watch" is located reading sth like: [own] [want].<br />
So combined with that, those lists should be located on top aswell where "my watchlist" is atm. In this example it would be "my collection" and "my wantlist". I could also imagine a list for "my favourite articles". Such a list itself should primarily list the articles which were added to it. Now even more awesome would be to search inside such personal list :)

Such a feature could also come with some added value for all users by giving out statistic lists like:<br />
On each article page: "X users own this" or "X users want this" or "X users boomarked this" etc. or "Hitlists" like most owned or most wanted. Or for personal use: List all articles not in my collection or not in my wantlist...

The names for those lists should be easily changable at one place of the code (sth like $list1name= and $list2name=). Note that eachlist has 2 names; one for adding it to the list and one name to display the list. Flexible names would be important cos of the different use of the wikis which may use it. E.g. in my wiki articles are not called articles. Or in the pokemon wiki "artcile" could be called "card page" etc.<br />
I hope I could demonstrate the variety of possibilities by such felxible watchlists. If anyone has an idea how to set this up, pls let me know!<br />
It would be great if such an extension would work on my MW 1.8.2 ;) --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category==
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. So a simple search box will pop up on every category page. It searches like the standard search, but it only considers articles in the according category. Combined with that a new search field could be added on the Multi-Category Search on top for normal text search... I post here cos I doubt the devs read their extension talk page. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 01:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

==Limit edits per minute for new users==
I am looking for a way of limiting the number of edits new users (say for the first week or two) can create per minute.
I am also looking for some way of identifying accounts that don't make any edits at all during that period. Any help is gratefully appreciated! [[Special:Contributions/217.65.158.124|217.65.158.124]] 10:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
:For the first part, you can use [[Manual:$wgRateLimits|$wgRateLimits]] with, for example, <code>$wgRateLimits['edit']['newbie'] = array( 2, 60 );</code> to allow new users (i.e. non autoconfirmed) to make 2 edits in one minute. This require caching, see [[Manual:$wgMainCacheType|$wgMainCacheType]].
:For the second part, you can run the <code>removeUnusedAccounts.php</code> script in the maintenance directory (it won't remove the account by default, it will just show it), but it lists all account that didn't make edits at all. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 11:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Encrypt / decrypt wiki content ==
Is it possible to create a MediaWiki extension which ables :

- to encrypt content with a public key on edit

- to decrypt content with a private key on display ? (I guess the user have to be prompted once to give the key)

Maybe such an extension already exists ?

Second question : Is it best to encrypt/decrypt client side with javascript for server performance reasons ?

Thanks for your help.

Vincent - [[Special:Contributions/83.137.240.218|83.137.240.218]] 12:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Register your collection / Bookmark Wiki pages ==
I partake in maintaining a wiki about comicbooks. Most (but not all) pages on the wiki detail individual comicbooks. I would love to let users ''register their comicbook collection'' on the wiki, by adding such pages to a list stored in their profile. Both for their own leisure, and if they want to: to show off to others.

So what I'd love is a "register your collection" extension that:
* when installed adds a tab to the tabrow called "Add this to your collection". When the tab is clicked -- like when "Watch" is clicked it turns to "Unwatch" -- it turns into "Remove from collection".
* adds an extra link to the top-right user area, called "my collection", which lists bookmarked pages.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<mycollection />", which users can add to their user pages. When doing that, other users would be able to see their collection.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<collectible />", which must be added to all pages that describe collectible items.
** because a single page could possibly detail two or more different editions of the same collectible, it would be nice to be able to distinguish betweeen editions by inserting two <collectible /> tags. For instance, <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, first edition" />, and <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, second edition" />.

I'm sure wikis such as Memory Alpha and Wookieepedia would love to let their users register their collection on their wikis, so I'm convinced there's an audience for this type of extension. Finally, I imagine the extension could also easily be used simply as a bookmarking extension. Your thoughts, and possibly your skills, are very welcome. [[User:Joen|Joen]] 19:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

:I want something similar: [[Extension_requests#Flexible_Watchlists]] --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 17:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

==Private Messages system==
Could be based on [[Extension:MediaWiki Bulletin Board]]. But I hate this extension cos the devs don't seem to care much about it. The PM system should use the following features additionally to what MWBB already features:
*load edit toolbar like on a normal edit page, including preview
*Inbox and Outbox (for sent messages)
*On a reply: load old message(s) like forum quotes, leave space on top of the edit field for the new reply (to force "latest on top" order)
*Option to delete selected messages in Inbox and Outbox
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:37, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

==Slideshare==
[[mw:Extension:SlideShare|Slideshare Extension]]
[[Special:Contributions/124.176.23.250|124.176.23.250]] 12:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

==Email Article to a Friend==
How about having an extension that will allow users to email articles to a friend? This can be achieved by having a small icon appear at the top right corner of each article. Once that icon is clicked the user can input his/her friends' emails. A link to the article is then sent to the list of friends.

==Proper Ajax Rating==
[[Extension:AjaxRatingScript]] is full of bugs and most people are not able to install it. Devs are only communicating on their own wiki which is horror. So pls don't tell me to suggest it there.<br />
I'd like a rating system that is fully integrated in the wiki:
*Option for admin to decide if only logged in users can rate or everybody (while considering only registered users is more safe against abuse)
*Each rating section on an article page should have some link "Details" (link to different page or better as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NavFrame collapsible NavFrame])
**See who else voted how (with linked users name and his ratings)
**Update your vote: see your own rating (simply bold in above "users who rated" list) and enable updating it by simply rating again
*Special page for
**"Best rated articles" listing the best 50 | 100 | 250 | 500 rated articles of the wiki
**Unrated articles
*Integration on user profile: A user should be able to add some code on his profile page so "My favourites" are displayed: (5 | 10 | 25 | 50) best rated atricles by User...
*Option for admin to display the rating behind article links on categories. Combined with that: Option to sort articles in a category by rating
*Some smart way to delete all votes by abusers (e.g. users who obviously rate everything worst or best to manipulate results)
:Why not consider [[Extension:JSKitRating]] ? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 13:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
::Cos I never saw exmaples using it and it cannot do what I requested above. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

==User View Statistics==
When establishing a new wiki it is useful to be able to gauge user uptake. [[Extension:Contribution Scores]] is great for giving a good overview of user edits but gives no appreciation of user view activity. [[Extension:UserPageViewTracker]] is too detailed in that it breaks down the stats on a per page basis making it difficult to compare all users. A simple view count for each registered user would be very useful. I would like to see this as an additional column in the report output by [[Extension:Contribution Scores]]. A helpful addition would be to also provide a count of page views for all unregistered users i.e. a single total NOT per IP address! A final possible enhancement would be to allow break down of the stats by namespace (so long as it didn't impact performance too much). --[[User:Phil Clark|Phil]] 10:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

==Simplified New Pages Embeding==
First of, excuse me if something to do this already exists. Ive looked all over the site and google without luck.
Im after an extension to embed a summery of the Special:Newpages on the main page of my wiki.

I know it is possible to limit the number of records displayed by using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages/5}}</nowiki> however it still provides alot of information that is unnecessary on the main page.

At present information is displayed in the normal format;

''05:30, 3 April 2008 ? Sandbox(hist) ?[746 bytes] ?Dargrotek (Talk | contribs) (create''')

However on a main page that can be very cluttering and want to change the format to something similar to the following.

''3 April 2008 -? "Sandbox" Created by ?Dargrotek''

Also the ability to limit what type of pages are displayed as well would be extremely usefull so that new images wont show up and so on. Can anyone help or point me in the direction of an existing extension? --[[User:Dargrotek|Dargrotek]] 19:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
: First off, images etc don't show up using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages}}</nowiki>. Hack /includes/SpecialNewpages.php to remove useless info. Not recommended but easy: In your case find <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$dm}{$plink} ({$hist}) {$dm}[{$length}] {$dm}{$ulink} {$comment}";</nowiki> and change to sth like <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$plink} created by {$ulink};";</nowiki><br />--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

==List all audio files==
I'd like to have an parser extension that enables listing audio files being uploaded to the wiki (mp3 only is ok):
*either all or per user
*enable defining an order of the upload date (sort by filename is useless for me)
*always list the pages on which it is used (What links here)
Something like this:
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|DESC}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded to the wiki (so I can place it whereever I want instead of a special page), order will be descending, all linked to pages are listed
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|Mike}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded by User:Mike (so Mike can put a list of his audio files on his user page for example), no order defined > ASC is default, all linked to pages are listed
The code which generates the output should be in wiki markup (maybe stored as a template). The reason is that I use a player extension (not listed on MW yet) that generates output for audio files already and the new extension should list it the same. I tried to use the html output of that player extension in it's php file but can't get it working. So the output should work like this:
*User Mike has uploaded 3 files. A.mp3, B.mp3, C.mp3
*The template for the output could read my player parser code including the audiolist parameter:<br />
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{paramFILE}}}}} - used on: {{{paramLinkedTo|<br />}}}</div></nowiki></code>
*So entering <code><nowiki>{{audiolist|all|Mike|DESC}}</nowiki></code> on some page should work like the following code was added manually to that page:
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{C.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article hdf]]<br />[[Article kghkh]]<br /></div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{B.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article sasxckh]]<br />[</div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{A.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article psdgfh]]<br />[[Article xdfa2o3]]<br />[[Article z9s84]]</div></nowiki></code>

Listing all could also be a Special page with search function, but using the same template.

Might be useful:
*[[Special:Imagelist]]
*[[Special:Log/upload]]
*[[Manual:Mime type detection]]
*[[Special:MIMEsearch]]
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 21:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Word substitution ==
I need an extension to do the same as [[Extension:AutoLink]] but that would be able to point to external pages.
The best thing I think would be an extension that:
# when an article is saved
# it parses the 'to-be-saved' text searching for strings existing in a dictionary
# if such a string is found in the 'to-be-saved' text it gets substituted with the 'translation' of it from the dictionary

I'll try to make myself clear with an example:

*I save an article containing the following text:<pre>bla hello bla bla wikipedia bla bla bla</pre>
*I then have a dictionary say called [[mediawiki:substitution]] containing the following:
<pre>wikipedia//[en.wikipedia.org wikipedia]
yahoo//[www.yahoo.com yahoo]
hello//greetings
whatever you want to translate//whatever you want to have instead</pre>
*the resulting page should be:<pre>bla greetings bla bla [en.wikipedia.org wikipedia] bla bla bla</pre>

Thank you,

--[[User:DonGiulio|DonGiulio]] 20:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

:Check what [[Extension:AutoLink]] can do for you. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

==AJAX Capability Testing==

We have $wgUseAjax to determine if AJAX is used on this wiki. But it would be nice to have a function that other extensions can call to check whether AJAX is likely to work.

If $wgUseAjax is off, this function would always give false. If it is on, the extension would add an option to the user preferences: "Use AJAX: yes/no/autodetect" (with autodetect being the default, I'd guess). If this was set to auto, the extension would first check the browser identification against a known list (maybe), and then if unsure it would send the user a simple chunk of javascript which calls an Ajax function to say "yes it works", and this data could be stored in session and/or cookie.

It could also be useful to have such an extension which knows (or can test) the different capabilities of different browsers, such that other extensions could check the availability of certain javascript functions. (For example, I believe I read that if sent an XML document as an ajax response, some browsers will parse it into a document object, but some don't have this functionality. In this case, it would be useful for an extension author to have a function they can call to determine which javascript to send the client) Of course in the case of $wgUseAjax being off or the user disabling javascript in their preferences, these functions could return false even if the client is actually capable.

[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

== Search results direct link ==
The Search button returns a list of all articles that include the term in the search box, and the list items include wikilinks to the pages. In order to find the search phrase, however, the user must follow the link to the page and then search again, either manually or with the browser's Find function. It would be helpful if the user could link directly to the first occurrence of the term in each page listing. --[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
:Have you seen [[Help:Search]] (GO function) and [[Extension:GoToCategory]]? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 16:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
::Neither of these seem to do what he was asking for. However, it sounds like it should be a fairly simple extension to write. I'll see what I can do if I have time tonight [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
:::The extension would require you to take the target page and drop an anchor on that search term - I'll be interested to see the implementation. ;-) [[User:Tim_Laqua|Tim Laqua]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Tim_Laqua|talk]]</small></sup> 02:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
::::Highlighting the search terms and wrapping anchors around the first instance isn't a big deal ... a crude implementation could do it using an OutputPageBeforeHTML handler, just run a preg_replace over the page text to insert anchors and highlighting. (I'm sure there's more refined ways to do it if you look)
::::The place I'm falling down is making the search results page generate links which contain the search terms. So far, the only solution I can find involves inserting a new hook in SpecialSearch::showHit (after line 364 in SpecialSearch.php, I added one line)
wfRunHooks('RenderSearchResult', &$link, &$t, &$extract, $size)
::::I'd rather not play with the core code, but I don't see any existing hooks which could enable this
::::-- [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 18:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Page creation in extention code ==

Hi, I'm writing an extension and I need to create a category and add some wikitext in it directly in the php code of my extention. I tried Article::doEdit, and the code below :
<code>

$newtitle = Title::newFromText($name, NS_CATEGORY);

$newcategory = new Article($newtitle);

$newtext = "<nowiki>[[Category:$parent_cat]]</nowiki>";

$newcat = $newcategory->doEdit($newtext,'Project', EDIT_NEW );

</code>
But I always get an error... (MyExtention::getContent() undefined for Article::doEdit and T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM for the second case).
I don't know if it's a good place to post this problem but I didn't know where to post it.

Regards, --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 08:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

: I think you mean $newcategory->doEdit ? --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 09:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, It's ok now ! --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 09:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

== MapLib extension ==

is posible to create a extension to add a iframe from MapLib like <maplib width="'''400'''" height="'''400'''">'''999999999'''</maplib> to do a:

<iframe src="<nowiki>http://www.maplib.net/fullmap.php?id=</nowiki>'''999999999'''" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="width:'''400'''px;height:'''400'''px;border:0px"></iframe>

thanks.

:Seems like a fairly simple extension, should only take a few minutes. I'll get back to you later today. --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 01:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

== Per user Statistics ==
Is possible to add a tab in user page with statistics like edit count, creation count, age, and so on, and also something like a personal page in which a user can descrive his preferences or other features

==Homepage/Portal==
I'd like to see an extension that gives a wiki the ability to allow its users to personalize the main page.
The content included within the main page modules could be either controlled by the site admin/bureaucrat, or if they allow, could include custom user made modules...

The idea is to make the main page look as professional as possible, allowing user personalization to entice them to use it more regularly as their 'home page', thus further contribute to the wiki and engage with the community.

A perfect example of what I am talking about is the [http://www.bbc.com BBC] site, with its movable and configurable modules.

Desired features:
*Designed for the main page
*Ajax modules movable, collapsible and able to be added/removed as chosen by user
*User settings remember user preferences
*Admin/bureaucrat acceptance required for user made custom modules (if allowed at all)
*Admin/bureaucrat control over allowing users to create and add their own custom modules
*Admin/bureaucrat control over what modules have to be displayed no matter what
*Content much still be readable/search-able by search engines

Examples of what is available, but meet different needs, but if combined, could make a user personalized homepage/portal
*[[Extension:My_portal|My Portal]] - Portal extension, poorly supported and based on user special page as opposed to main page.
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles#Andy.27s_AJAX_.2F_JavaScript_Skin Andy's Skin] - A skin using ajax that allows for users to move boxes, minimize/maximize them, and add favorites.
*[http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Userboxes_extension Wikia Userboxes Extension] - A extension that gives a user the ability to make custom modules for their user page

This I believe would take wikis the next step in personalization and presentation/skinning.

--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 03:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

==Save all the Content==
I search a solution to save all the content from my wiki with the ending ".pdf". (Like Extensios.pdf)
I imagine like i click on the "Save all!"-Button and all the Content is saved with the correct title in a folder on my server.
(sorry but my bad english)

--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 06:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
:Backing up the complete site on your server is not enough? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

::My problem is the content should be portable for everyone in our team when he/she doesn't have internet--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 12:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

== 'grab my edits' ==

I'd like to see an extension to allow a user to retroactively claim responsibility for their edits in case they forgot to login.

Essentially, you'd have a "claim my edits" tickbox on the login page, which associates your username with any anonymous edits coming from your IP address since you last logged in. (I'm currently doing this on my wiki by manually hacking the database)

== AJAX autocomplete ==

I'd like to see an extension that autocompletes page names. This is on my to-do list, but I'll post here in case it already exists, or someone has ideas to do it in a better way.

When you type '<nowiki>{{</nowiki>', it would produce a little pop-up box (preferably below the cursor) listing all the templates, most commonly used first. As you start typing a template name, it acts as a filter on the list. Each list entry would be clickable to complete it, and would also have "view template" (in popup window) and "edit template" links next to it. Once the user has typed '<nowiki>{{templatename|</nowiki>' or clicked one in the list, a popup appears listing common parameters for that template (possibly just searching the template for all <nowiki>{{{.*}}}</nowiki> blocks, possibly something a little more complex).

Similarly, typing '<nowiki>[[</nowiki>' would produce a popup list of pages. If the list of all pages is too long, it would only show pages which link to this one, until the user has typed enough letters to allow a sensible-sized list (or until they click a 'find all options' button).

:--[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

An extension is available on wikia, it's called LinkSuggest [http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Link_Suggest]. I've contacted the author Inez Korczynski who told me it's going to be released soon.
Cheers

==Addthis Social Boomarking==
[[Extension:Social Bookmarking]] uses [http://addthis.com Addthis] but the solutions is very unhandy.
*I'd like to see the Addthis button below the toolbox and for every page or defined namespaces.
*Enable via gadget for those who want to use it. Cos I think what keeps most admins from installing a social bookmarking feature is that it's annoying for those who don't use this. The extra loads for Addthis interrupts loading the wiki page (just like google ads do sometimes). Yes there other extensions with static buttons but Addthis is more complete (I don't need to worry about adding new sites) and is pretty handy.
*Additionally, when you have an account there it gives you click statistics(!). So adding / using the original script (with the addthis account name) in the extension is essential for me.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 07:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

:Don't know if this will suit you, but maybe a possibility...
:[http://jldupont.com/Widget:Addthis Widget:Addthis]
:You would need [http://jldupont.com/Extension:SecureWidgets Extension:SecureWidgets] for it to work.
:--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 06:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, but I want it appear on every page when user enables the gadget. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 08:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
::: Use [[Extension:HeaderFooter]] perhaps? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 18:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

==Advanced Reading Restriction for Anonymous Users==
I am wondering if any extension can restrict the reading right of anonymous users. Examples may be that after specified pages viewing it would auto-direct anonymous users to register or it restricts the reading rate(ie, pages/hr ). I think that would be great to increase the proportion of registered users. Thanks for discussion.
:Note that those restrictions suck a lot and actually end up in teh other direction. I never register at sites (mostly forums) where content is hidden for visitors. I just leave. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
::However,that is why I dont use the original function of the Mediawiki,which can hide the information. I just want to give users a choice. You can just keep anonymous to get all information. For example, after 10 pages viewing, the extension directs user to register. But the anonymous user can go back to the normal page without any difficult.

==Gadget: User Sidebar==
A Gadget that (if enabled) will override the MediaWiki:Sidebar config with the user's very own config.
<br />The user's config list could be stored in a users subpage, e.g. in User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar.<br />A problem might be what the sidebar displays after enabling the gadget and the user's config page doesn't exist yet. A workaround could be: If enabled, use MediaWiki:Sidebar when User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar doesn't exist / is empty (User could clear). It could also created automatically (with default content) when a new user registers (using [[Extension:NewUserMessage]]) and to let a bot add it to the existing accounts.
<br/>See also [[Extension:SidebarEx]], [[Extension:SysopSidebar]]     --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

== Email Client ==
A extension that makes a special page for a E-mail client.

==Images in categories==
'''The problem''': When you categorize images into the same categories as articles they're listed on the category page as "Media files" below the articles. There's nothing wrong about it. The problem is the counting and the navigation of both.<br />The standard limit of 200 = articles + files. E.g. you have 183 articles and 30 images in the same category: On the bottom you'll have 17 images (200-183) reading "next 200" or you have 250 artciles and some images. The images won't appear until you click "next 200". How am I supposed to know there are images in the category when opening it?

'''Possible solutions''': Split the counting and navigation
*List all images below the articles. When browsing next 200 articles, only list the rest of the articles.
*List all images independetly from the article navigation but in a kinda iframe with vertical scrollbar. The frame could be 5 image boxes wide and 2 image boxes high and placed above the article links section.
*Split up article and image count and navigation. E.g. 500 articles and 500 images: When browsing forward to articles 401-500 still show images 1-200. When browsing now images 201-400 still keep articles 401-500. For a better navigation it may good to only list like 40 images but 200 article links.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 19:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

==User friendly way to flag/request pages==
'''The problem''': I am trying to develop a super user-friendly way for users to flag a page for review, and separately, request a page that doesn't exist (not create it per se, but request the page to be created by someone else). I realize this is as easy as adding some kind of "review" or "request" template to a page but what if I assume most of my users are not wiki-proficient. Is there a very simple way (ie clicking one button) for users to flag a page for review/request a page that does not exist yet.

'''Possible solutions''': Ideally any solution would require no editing on behalf of a user - just one click. Thanks!

==Move pages via find / replace==
A special page lists a find and a replace input box. The extension finds the page titles with the given word and moves the pages to the new title which replaced the word with the new one. The result should be a valid move (with redirect).<br />[[Extension:Replace Text]] does that for page content but not for titles. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

== Support docbook ==
Like some feature in [http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/ docbookwiki].

== Related news extension request==
Information of what extension will do: http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki/issues/detail?id=20 Hope someone develop it. Thanks

== Template Extension ==
is there an extension that can get me all the important templates like Infoboxes and tables, stuff like that..
I've tried importing those pages from wikipedia and other Wiki's but on the page it just has.. well alot of stuff that should not be there
so is there an extension for that or how do i do this?
--[[Special:Contributions/70.100.80.125|70.100.80.125]] 18:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

== Search Extension ==
As in our wiki we link not only images, but also some files .doc or .ppt or .pdf, is there an extension that makes it possible to search also into these files?
[[User:Cattest|Cattest]] 09:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

== WhiteBoard Extension ==
A simple freehand drawing tool, like a whiteboard, where authors can draw pictures.<br>
Minimum tool bar: freehand pencil, shapes, and Text tools.<br>
Newly created image file can be saved on the server and indexed.<br>
Old images can be added to or edited.<br>
Real-time multi-client draw control, to show many clients the image as it is being drawn, and who has the pen.<br>
Eventually multiple clients could draw at the same time.

==Edit Preview Redirect List==
I was editing my wiki when I got an idea. What about having an extension that lists the any redirect pages that are linked to on the current page when previewing an edit? I couldn't seem to find an existing extension like this. Sound good?--[[User:Mjr162006|Mjr162006]] 22:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)<br><small>PS: Could someone please archive the older parts of this page. It is very difficult to edit with it being so big.</small>

==Indent first line==
In formal writing, the first line of every paragraph is indented. However, the only options are either to use 8 HTML spaces or to use another line for separating paragraphs. However, the first one is messy and the second is harder to read. So my idea is for a special symbol (like [ind] or [indt]) to be automatically replaced by 8 HTML spaces or equivalent indent. Or simply make the ":" character indent ONLY the first line. (By the way, I'm requesting this as a result of "problems" at Novelas.)
:You can use CSS to solve this. Just modify your default style sheet or add a template like this <pre><p style="text-indent: 2em">...</p></pre>--[[User:Benjamin Garn|Benjamin Garn]] 19:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

== WikiFamily / Interwiki: sharing with just one Login ==
Is there a possible way to login once for multiple wikis?

I have installed three wikis, each for a language (e.g. English, German and Spanish). Each wiki has a different URL. Do you know a possible way to log in at the English wiki and then to switch to the spanish wiki and edit pages? (In my installation, Page-Edits are only possible after login).
:See [[Extension:CentralAuth]]. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 18:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

== Move section to Sub-Page ==
Does anyone have any suggestions to make the task of migrating large pages to sub pages?
I've seen talk of a bot which could break up a page based on H2 level tags, but can't find the source of it anywhere.

I would imagine an extra button on the edit section page "Make this section a sub-page". Then the full section contents would be pushed as a sub-page of the current page (with title=heading of the current section), and the full text of the current section would be replaced by a transclusion of the new page.

==Easier select and copy method==
I have noticed whenever some people have to copy a long code written on a wiki page, they have to wait a very long time for the whole code to be selected. So I am proposing a new button with an opacity of 50% on the top right corner of any code on a wiki page. Its function would be to select the code and copy it in a click. You can't use control + A for this since this method highlights everything on the page.
This extension should be called Extension:Autocopy. Worth looking into. --''''<font face="freestyle script">[[User:truetech|<span style="color: #CC1100;">Truetech</span>]]</font>''''' ''<font face="Imapct"><small>[[User Talk:Truetech|<span style="color: #AAAAAA;">(Talk)</span>]]</small></font>'' <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] [[Project:Support desk/Support team|'''''<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>''''']]</span> 23:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

==Record Search Queries==
I'm sure this isn't too hard to implement, but I'm drawing a blank on this one. I think a feature rich version of this would be very helpful to any mediawiki owner.

The reason I would like something like this:

*Build more pages based off of what people are looking for
*Create a list of commonly searched for phrases to help noobs
*creates a page full of key words (and misspellings) that get indexed by search engines
*Helps you learn more about your users

anyone willing to help out, please feel free to hit me up on my talk page.

-[[User:Theothertom|Theothertom]] 18:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
==Groupselection + Accountcreation==
I'm not so good in php and so on. Maybe someone can help me.
I need an extension which allowes me to select groups I want to be in while I'm creating an account

example:
A company with 3 groups (group1, group2 and group3)
A new user wants to create an account in the company he's in group1 so he wants to select group1 in the account creation.

Sorry for my bad english :D

==Allow user to delete only files he uploaded himself==
I'd like to see a wg that allows the group User to delete files the user uploaded himself (not other User's files). --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 22:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
:So if the user uploaded the file the [delete] button will appear on top so he can delete the complete thing like a sysop. Maybe add a message that deleting is not possible if the file is still used on other pages. -[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 14:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

==Blanking historical page versions==
I would appreciate an extension that allows the blanking of page versions, or more generally replace them with a chosen text like '(vandal)', while completely removing the orginal content from the database. This both for individual edits and for all edits by one user, and preferably also with the option to permanently remove a version if it is the last version of a page. We've had a lot of mass vandalism lately that inflated our database. Regards, [[User:Guido den Broeder|Guido den Broeder]] 16:39, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

:MW 1.12+ have the script maintenance/[[Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php|deleteOldRevisions.php]] for older versions check [[Extension:SpecialDeleteOldRevisions]]. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 15:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

==Disqus extension==
An extension to allow for Disqus comments to be added to a wiki page. Should allow for customization of comment layout through HTML template, CSS file, and extension configuration. Possible solution includes a checkbox on the mediawiki edit form to enable comments on this article or not.

==What Links Here extension==
A simple extension adding a box at the bottom of article with a list of max. (parameter=10) articles linking here.

Extension requests

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== [Implemented] - Google Translate feature via API ==
The working code for this has been posted here [[Extension:GoogleTranslate]] - '''this version can translate the text that you edit!''' --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 16:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

According Google it is perfectly possible to call their translation [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Examples Google AjAX-API]. For XSS security reasons it would be very constructive to be able to allow/implement various translations calls from within wiki:
* Translation on page level
* Translation of article texts, in Read mode
* Translation of article texts, in Edit mode (this is what I need currently.)
:* Special Feature: translate the unformated texts
:* Special Feature: Allow the original text to be saved
:* Special Feature: Allow to create new article based upon the translated text

I suggest that there should be a ways for the sysop, through localsetting.php to setup namespaces where google translation is an option. --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 13:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

== Media Category ==
is there extensions for creating a gallery off a category who includes media?
: <cgallery>Images</cgallery> or <cgallery limit"5">images</cgallery>
--[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 14:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)?

=== Programming Documentation and Extensions to copy from ===
* [[:Category:Ajax_extensions]] other ajax features
* [[Extension:Link_Suggest]], add a feature to the edit window and allows you to change the text.....
* [[Extension:Lockdown]], can be used to control usage?

== Simple Download System ==
I've looked everywhere and cannot find a download system like paFileDB for mediawiki!
Now I'm not looking for something like paFileDB, although I wouldn't mind it.
I was looking for something a little simpler that can be easily be designed without to much trouble!

I developed a proposal which you can download in .pdf format
http://www.designermotion.com/projects/web/mediawiki/docs/mediawiki_proposal_extension_download-v1.pdf

I'm hoping someone will be interested in creating such an extension as I'm planning to add over 400 download pages to my wiki.

Thanks for your time--[[User:unknown|unknown]] 02:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

==Dynamic page update from other pages==
Let's say on one page, we'll see page "Renee", I have the following wiki stuff (displayed in code here):

===Year 1===
*Spring: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
===Year 2===
*Spring: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in Teaching
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component

Just to give a rough example, at least. Now, let's say this goes on for some 20 years, and with potential to keep on going. It is also repeated (but with differences in what happens year to year) in other pages, like "Jariya", "Lea", "Nike", etc. Now, I want to know if there is an extension that can take the seasonal advancement, interwiki-style, and place them in a single page, we'll say "Advancement", with an output kinda like this:

===Year 1===
====Spring====
*Renee: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Jariya: Teaching
:Practice in teaching
:Exposure in influence
*Nike: etc etc

Now, I originally used [[Labeled_Section_Transclusion | Labeled section transclusion]] by wrapping everyone's year 1 spring as 'year1spr', then 'year1sum', then 'year1aut' and 'year1win', then 'year2spr'.... you get the idea, and including the transclusion on the advancement page. It worked, however, adding a new name is a pain. You need to write the new name, write the new transclusions, and when you have 10 years and growing of transclusions to rewrite from 'year1spr' to 'year3spr', then 4, 5, 6... then repeat for the other 3 seasons, it's annoying and not very efficient.

What I'd like to know is if there is an extension that could do what I'd like more easily? Especially if it could do it dynamically and automatically update like Transclusions did, but without needing to add 40 tweaked lines when adding someone or removing/renaming someone?

I thought I could maybe use the MySQL extension and have a DB with the changes in them, but that doesn't seem like it'll work too great overtime.
:Thanks

==Game rating system (0% => 100%)==
Does anyone know if there is a little extention that makes it possible to display a rating for a game, like normal gameratings, from 0 to 100%? And a little thing to let anyone give a rating (with IP check)?

== Google AJAX extension ==
An Extension that gets google search results with AJAX API presented by Google. The results should be gathered with wiki markups. For example with a text <googlesearch>britney</googlesearch>, the extension must turn the Google results within the page. --88.229.252.158 07:46, 13 January 2007

== Display Name ==

There should exist an extension to allow the admins or maybe even the users to select which name is displayed. Currently the username is used, but why not have an extension that allows all references to a username also allow for reference to a the Nickname, or the Real Name. (Example: Recent Changes page lists lots of users, but the admins could force it to display the Real Names instead of the usernames, or if the localsettings variable isn't set to force it, let the users select which name is displayed). --71.145.131.12 22:21, 14 January 2007

==Extensions to Enable Wiki of 3D Geometrical Models==
Hi, we would like to create a Wiki of 3D geometrical models which are built with a product called [http://www.zometool.com Zometool]. We already have the software to build the models and are working on a browser plug-in which will allow users to manipulate these models in their browser window.
We would need for users to be able to:

a) Publish their models on the wiki (even if they're noobs).

b) Access the browser plug-in from the wiki so they can see/manipulate the models in the wiki article.

The publishing aspect would require functionality similar to that requested by [[User:Blckdmnd99|Blckdmnd99]] in "File Upload as Part of Article Creation" and also [[User:Barrylb|Barrylb's]] "New Article Form".

The modeling program would export jpegs, csv files with a description of certain model parameters (number of parts, etc.) and the model file itself. Ideally, this would be transformed into part of a wiki article which would include the jpegs, a table with the required parts for assembling that specific model, categories (taken from the csv) and a link to the 3D model file itself.

The plug-in access, I would imagine, would be similar to adding quicktime or flash compatibility.

If anyone is interested in helping us out with this we would be willing to pay for the functionality.

Thanks, --[[User:Zomenut|Carlos]] 07:36, 30 January 2007 (edit) (undo)
Zomenut

:I already have something similar in Java called [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki3D Wiki3D] that might help you getting started. It is all open sourced under the BSD license.
:Regards, [[User:lyriarte|Luc]]

== Internal Article Social Tagging==
I would like an extension that puts a "Digg"-like tag on each page. By tagging those pages, there would be a special page or extension that allows those articles to be dynamically presented in order of votes. This is not the same as presenting a link to Digg itself or any other social bookmarking sites. This feature would allow a MediaWiki wiki to have its own pages rated by readers and then have a summary page that showed the relative rankings.

==Cladograms==
An extension to create graphic [[:en:cladogram|cladograms]]. This, with the right options, could have other obvious applications such as family trees (and similar material) and sports brackets. This could be based on [http://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree/ PhpSyntaxTree] and [[EasyTimeline]], both of which propose more or less similar possibilities. [[:en:User:Circeus]] --08:06, 26 June 2007

:see [[Extension:CategoryTree]] if you can model your data using categories. --[[User:Purodha|Purodha Blissenbach]] 10:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

==Drop Down Box==
I would love to have an extension that allows a drop down menu. Not to redirect to a different page, but just to change the status of item. If this is not enough information, feel free to drop me a line as this is quite important. [[User:129.57.10.6|129.57.10.6]] 19:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

gibsonmarshall_sg@yahoo.com

==Easier automatic categorization==
[[Extension:CategoryHook]] can do automatic categorization but it requires esoteric PHP coding and [[Extension talk:CategoryHook#User-friendliness|isn't very user-friendly]]. I'd like a more [[w:GUI|GUI]]-centered approach for, oh, 90% of users out there... -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

==Multi-select namespace search==
When [[Help:Searching|searching]], instead of all the checkboxes, which are nerve-wracking to select/deselect, why not a multi-select menu? -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

:My attempt: [[Extension:Multi-select Namespace Search]]--unfortunately, it doesn't work. :/ -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 17:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

::It works now (for a few weeks, actually, with the help of another user), but it's not a proper extension and just a hack. If someone can "extensionize" it, that'd be super. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

== Media Player ==

I'm Want to Suggest on Extension who allows To look at Videos And Listen on Music
This is Because i'm looked long for one Extension who can this!.
And its 2 different formats i'm want to have in this extension
'''Formats:'''
.mp3
.ogg
{{nosigr|August 13, 2007|62.128.243.228}}

:Check [[:Category:Media handling extensions]]. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 22:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

::Tryed but No one of them works - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 11:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

:::You tried [[Extension:Mp3]] and [[Extension:Player]]? —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes , And Many Others - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 13:11, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
: What happened? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 13:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Some of them dident show , And the one named player Did show but dident play it --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 14:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
::Are you sure that your browser supports it? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 10:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

==[Implemented] Redirects Here ==

I would LOVE to have a way for admins to see, at the top or bottom of each page, a simple list of pages which redirect to the current page. Just like [[Special:Whatlinkshere]], but listing ONLY the redirects, and appearing '''on the same page''' as the content (if the user is an admin) separated by an <nowiki><hr></nowiki> so I don't have to click through to it. I would also love to have a few text fields below the list of redirects where I could add multiple NEW redirects quickly. This would help in my projects immensely. -- [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 17:05, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
:Added to Bugzilla as [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11083 #11083]. [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]]
In response to my request for this, [[w:User:Splarka|Splarka]] put together a nice proof-of-concept at [[w:User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js]]. It adds a link to activate it in the '''toolbox''' (below the search box) and displays the results below the page title. – [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

::A feature that accomplishes this same task has been integrated into the whatlinkshere as of version 1.13.0.--[[User:Mjr162006|Matt]] 22:33, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
== Automatic Linking (with Bug) ==

I'd really like to have an extension that allows automatic linking as an option (because I can't ask all of my users to know of and link to every other page that exists in the wiki on their own... Can this be done? If anyone knows of a current way to do this please reply to this thread. Thanks. --[[User:129.111.144.30|129.111.144.30]] 17:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

: See [[Extension:AutoLink]]. [[User:89.52.129.174|89.52.129.174]] 12:25, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

:: There is a realy little bug in that [[Extension:AutoLink]] - but I don't know PHP to repair it. [[User:89.52.146.8|89.52.146.8]] 07:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension talk:AutoLink]]. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 12:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

:::: I did it with no success. Only <nowiki>[ ]</nowiki> has to be added to the to the mapIgnoringBlocks. But I don't now how to do it. Is here someone who knows php?[[User:89.52.137.94|89.52.137.94]] 06:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

:::::Do you mean a single set of brackets? If so, I added it (but haven't tested it) to [[extension:AutoLink#version which matches all pages]]. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

== Auto short URL links ==

You enter <nowiki>http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new</nowiki><br /> to an edit page and the system makes the article display [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]<br /> just as if you'd have entered <br /><nowiki>[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]</nowiki>. <br /> Shouldn't affect existing [url Alt text] entries but all URLs that are eneterd as above --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 13:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

== Frappr Extension ==

I assume its really easy, but I don't know php. I'd really like to be able to embed a frappr (www.frappr.com) map into my wiki so that users can mark where they are from.
If this is more simple than I realize please just email me. dave at consumersolidarity.org

[[User:75.111.44.66|75.111.44.66]] 02:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
:it seems to be shockwave flash, so [[Extension:Flash]] ought to work. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Advanced Linking ==

'''Tags:'''
<Addtextgotourl> - Start tag to activate the code
</Addtextgotourl> - End tag for the end of the code
</getpath> - The tag will be replaced with typed text in The text field, This tag gonna get the filepath who is typed in the text field
</getdomainname> - the tag will be replaced with typed text in the domainname text filed

'''Code:'''
<Addtextgotourl>
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Image= YPagename or no text
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name

</addtextgotourl>

'''Actions:'''
&action=edit&section=new - For editing a wiki page
noaction - If no is the action the text in the field willl be produeced in the link as notext

'''Other Commands'''
Pagebeforenter - you will enter a page with some information for the link place , And a directly link with the text enter
Linktext - if you select no pagebforenter you will get a link text like this <nowiki> [http://www.example.com link yourlinktext]
Namespace - Choose the namespace
Category - Choose the category
</nowiki>
Image - Image:file.format if you have a image you will use with the directly link or a link to the dynamic page pagebeforeenter!...

'''Parameters'''
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name
Image= Pagename or no text

'''This Idea is by [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Zizanzu Zizanzu]'''

Can this be a good idea?.it need to be little imrpoved
but a good start

== WhosOnline extension ==

I'm not sure if this request fits here fully or not. Anyways, I was trying to help someone over IRC to make [[Extension:Whos_online]] work on MediaWiki 1.10.x and we ended up here: [http://mediawiki.pastey.net/73126 code on Pasty.net]

The code is corrected, in regards to using the correct table and generating the correct text in $output variable. However, the way $wgOut->parse() is used, makes some gibberish text to be added to the page. I didn't know how to fix it, so I though I might ask others for help here. Practically, it may be only a few seconds for a developer to figure out what the problem is. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 20:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

== External Link - Redirecting ==

Is there possible to make one extension for redirecting to external links like
www.mediawiki.org!

Code:
#REDIRECT <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
or
#REDIRECT-awayfromwiki <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
THinked nothing like that
:I think you could maybe create a function in [[MediaWiki:monobook.js]] that looks for such redirects and changes window.location. Why would you need something instead of creating a simple link? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Delete Vandal - Delete a user and all pages that he edited/created ==

The purpose of this extension would be to make it easy to remove a vandal and any trace of what he did.<p>
I would like an extension that given a user name,
* will delete all pages that have been created by that user.
* reverts any edits by that user.
* blocks or deletes the user
* Puts him on a banned list (this is not critical since he is using random user names).

I would really like it it to be liked form the "Recent pages" page, along with the (Talk | Block) links.
:Practically, it is not that esaily achievable I guess. I'm not going to argue the usefulness of it here, just the possibility of performing the tasks yo mentioned:

1) There is no point in deleting the user account, and, I guess it is enough to block it. As far as I know, MediaWiki doens't support deletion of a user account, because if even a single edit is left by that member, deletion of the account can mess every thing up (read below too).

2) Reverting edits is not easily possible. Suppose that he edits a page and modifies several parts of it. After that, a second user makes some more changes (may be, without reverting the vandal's changes even). Then, we may reach a point where software would be unable to undo vandal's changes (I'm pretty certain everyone of us have faced a "cannot undo this change because conflicting intermediate edits"-like message several times). So as you see, some edits cannot be reverted.

My two cents. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 12:31, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

:Just because intermediate edits have taken place doesn't mean restoring a page to a previous state, with edits ''after'' that state, is not perfectly entirely possible since MediaWiki stores ''each'' difference between revisions. It's a mindless task of simply removing the unwanted revisions and combining the later revisions together. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

::Well, MediaWiki doesn't really store ''diffs''; it only stores revisions. Deleting a revision by a vandal only makes sense if all the changes made by him are reverted; otherwise, after the revision is deleted, it will look like the user who actually edited after the vandal has made the unreverted changes, which is wrong. Reverts are not possible in 100% of cases. That's what I know [[User:Huji|Huji]] 18:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:::MediaWiki shows differences which can be used to compare revisions and, hence, remove differences/revisions by (a) certain user(s). —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 02:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

::::When you say differences, what is meant? Display of differences is not the same as any merging feature that would need to know what to do with which side of the equation (e.g., what gets included/what gets removed in the merge). In addition, there is the challenge of information that is needed to be kept but is out of order on a given line. MediaWiki does not have this facility, even though it can display differences. --[[User:Jeffmcneill|Jeffmcneill]] 23:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

:::::The fact that not every change can be rolled back isn't enough to block a "Delete User" feature, be the user a vandal or not. The software can at least tell what it can roll back and what it can't (at least changes that are the latest for a page can certainly be rolled back). If the software can roll back everything, it does so and it deletes the user. Otherwise it could assign its changes that can't be rolled back to some sysop or other moderator account, roll back remaining changes, delete the user and notify the moderator. [[User:Lucrus|Lucrus]] 13:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

:It would seem that the desired functionalities all exist in some form, but just aren't in one central place. The [revert] links to undo each of the users' edits to pages where they had the last word are on [[special:contributions]], the mass-delete is in [[extension:nuke]] and the bannination is done from [[special:blockip]]. What's needed is to consolidate all of these tasks, so that one visit to [[special:blockip]] not only allows an admin to block the user, but also offers pre-checked checkboxes inviting the admin to revert the edits and delete the newly-created pages in the same one step - maybe even giving an option to protect them against re-creation. It would make the task of blocking open spambot proxies a few clicks shorter. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 17:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

::: Additionally, all versions edited by the vandal could get a hint like "the user that edited this version is tagged as vandal, so think twice before trusting its content". [Marc]

== Slideshow with Lightbox ==

I'd love to see an extension that would allow to activate a slideshow with [http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ Lightbox] like the one working on this page :
* [http://dialoguesenhumanite.free.fr/pmwiki.php5?n=Photos2006.Galerie Dialogues en Humanité - Galerie]

--[[User:Dieudo|Dieudo]] 14:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:My [[User:Alxndr/Lightbox2 hack|Lightbox2 hack]] can do this. It works best for only one image gallery; if there are multiple galleries, Lightbox will think they're part of the same slideshow. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 21:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:Hack is now an extension: '''[[Extension:LightboxThumbs|LightboxThumbs]]'''. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 05:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

== Watching Subpages ==

I'd like to see an extension that would add all subpages to your watchlist when the main page is added. In otherwords, if I were to add MAINPAGE to the watchlist, it would also include MAINPAGE/subpage in the watchlist and all associated talk pages.--[[User:Dukeruckley|Dukeruckley]] 15:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

== Category And Namespace... ==

----
*Category
**Category logo (upload image called Categorylogo:categoryname.png , The logo will be showne when your viewing a page with a namespace who have a logo (if not a logo,it will display wikilogo)
**Category Css (viewed from [[Mediawiki:skin/category:categoryname.css , if your viewing this category you get that css)
**Categorysidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __Categorysidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig)
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESICATEGORY=CATEGORYNAME}} you will get displayed how many pages in this Chossed Category</nowiki>
----
*Namespace
**Namespace logo (upload image called NS:namespacename.png Or Namespace:namespacename.png, The logo will be showen when your vieweing a page with a Namespace with a A Logo i(ff not a logo it will display wiki logo))
**Namespace Css (Made in [[Mediawiki:skin/Namespace:Namespacename.css]] )
**Namespace Sidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __NAMESPACEsidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig
**Recent changes on Namespace
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESINNAMESPACE=id}} you will get displayed how many pages in this namespace</nowiki>
----
*News
**A Option for turning up Message box in the localsettings.php £wguse Messagebox= True/false; ([[Extension:Message_Box]])

Here is some ideas i have for future extensions and Mediawiki!.... - --[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 13:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

==Lossless rotation of images==
As requested [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2007-September/002689.html here] an extension that is able to rotate images like the one on flickr. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
:[[Commons:User:Rotatebot]] meanwhile does this. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 14:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

::*I strongly support this request. I think it would be even better if not the file itself would be rotated, but if you could chose the orientation like the image size wherever you embed the image. Don't know if that is possible, but it would be really helpful. --[[User:Gollum|Gollum]] 23:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

:MediaWiki uses external utilities such as [http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=82 gd] or [http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php ImageMagick] to resize images. All of these have capabilities and functionality beyond that which MediaWiki currently exposes; for instance "ImageMagick supports about 100 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch; changing colours; stretching, rotating, and overlaying images; and overlaying text on images."
:The images are normally handled by core MediaWiki code (not extensions), but there are exceptions - such as extensions which use images as clickable links or embed external content. Perhaps there's something there that could be used as a starting point for new code? --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

===we need this===
:It would be a real asset to be able to temporary crop or rotate an image already on the Wiki. A tag could control how an existing image appears so we can make it appear rotated or indeed cropped or lightened to show an image. This way one image could be used instead of having to upload several. This would make it easier for non-graphic users to manipulate images. All very easy to do via Imagemagick.

:Something like
:<pre><imgcrop:Example.jpg|X Y H W> or <imgrotate:Example.jpg|90 180 270> <imggamma:Example.jpg|2.2></pre>

:How about it MediaWiki? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==User Notification on Article Edit==
This would be the inverse of the '''watch''' feature, in that the article text would define one or more usernames to notify whenever the article is changed. This is a '''"PUSH"''' as opposed to watching being a '''"PULL"'''. It would be very useful for meeting minutes which might contain action items or other information subject to change. The entire group would receive an e-mail notification as if they had selected that article to watch. The wiki text for this might be:

<notify caption="Attendees">
User:Username1
User:Username2
User:Username3
</notify>

This would also cause the listed user's names to be shown on the page, in a box similar to the '''Table of Contents''' box but with a specified caption, to serve as a reminder that these users are to be notified of changes. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 02:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

: After some further searching, this appears similar to [[Extension:Todo Tasks]]. Possibly that extension could be used along with a different template to achieve the above result. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 03:07, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

==Review Date==

An extension to whereby you can add a tag onto a article:-

<review>25.12.2010</review>

then create either a special page or a section on the Main Page of the wiki showing articles past or near their review date.

Useful when creating documentation for a particular project or something that needs to be regularly checked for relevance / accuracy.
--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 10:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:You could just create a <nowiki>{{review|25.12.2010}}</nowiki> template and add that to the article. The Review template would contain a date-parser function so that if the date given by the article (25.12.2010 in this case) was today or in the past, it would add <nowiki><includeonly>[[Category:Articles needing review]]</includeonly> to the article. Then keep tabs on that category and you'll always see what articles need to be reviewed. After review, change the review date in the <nowiki>{{review|}}</nowiki> call and the article will drop out of the category until the new review date comes up. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a go and see what happens.--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 19:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

: I suggest using [[Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]. It lets you define dates and can show a timeline (and much, much more very useful things). See [http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events] for an example. --[[User:Tbleher|Tbleher]] 10:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

==Viewcount by Date==
A list of page views per day for each page, so I can know whether or not to rearrange the structure of my wiki.
:You'd probably get more useful information by adding Google Analytics or another tracking service to your site. You can just add the tracking code to the bottom of /skins/MonoBook.php and that will cover nearly all of your users. Add it to the other skins if you think they're being used a lot. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

== Search statistics ==
Is there any decent method of tracking searches being run? I want a list, ordered by decreasing frequency, of the things my users have typed into the search box. I also want to be able to split this list into those terms for which there is an existing article, and those for which there is not. This would be immensely helpful in making sure that my users are finding the information they're looking for. This extension would also help contributors determine the desire for articles which don't exist yet.

For example, let's say that ''banana'', for which I have an excellent article, was entered 139 times in the last 30 days. However, without this extension, I don't know that ''bananna'' is entered 15 times and ''banananas'' is entered 4 times on my site, but I have redirects in place for neither of these, so all of these searches end up with no useful results. I can correct this problem once this extension has brought it to my attention. I also learn that 430 people searched for ''kiwi'', and I don't even have an article for that yet! --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 23:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
:I wrote a quick and dirty hack that logs every search with search term, ip address, search method and time. Unfortunately there is currently no [[Manual:Hooks|hook]] available when the search is started :( I will have a look at how my hack is working for some days and I'm going to post it afterwards. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:32, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
:: Any luck? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension:Log Searches]] for starters ... as I said ... dirty hack! --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
::::Has there been any progress on this? Frankly I'm amazed MW has no built in search statistics page yet. --[[Special:Contributions/134.129.146.183|134.129.146.183]] 07:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
::::: There is also a similar [[Extension:SearchLog]]. Don't know of any developments for a core MW special page --[[User:Zven|Zven]] 11:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

== Watermark ==
I need hack (extension), who can automaticaly add watermark on every pictur that has been bigger as 300 x 300 pixel. Thank you. --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 15:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:I don't think anyone believing in open source software will support such suggestions. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 18:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:: :/ --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 12:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

:Flo, I fail to see the dichotomy between open content licensing of images and adding a small watermark credit line to such images ''to ensure they are actually attributed as their license requires''. It is an uncontested fact that open content images are rampantly used without any attribution at all, to the great angst of creators, and that this has resulted in a strong disincentive for semi-pro and pro photographers and other image creators to release free images at all. If the watermark were minimalistic, a credit line, this extension would substantially ''increase'' the overall amount of high quality free content material available, because it would give a better assurance to such creators that they will actually be attributed if they release free images. You might say this extension is exactly what a lot are waiting for, even. [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 10:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

::Not every wiki is used in an "open" format anyway. There are many applications where an open format is totally inappropriate (propitiatory in-house documentation, etc).[[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

:This is a good idea. my wiki uses copyright and PD images. Imagemagick which Mediawiki uses can easily do this. I'd like to see a crop, rotate, gamma correct images in a wiki and a general purpose tag to get Imagemagick to control the display of images would cover all these bases. Be nice if it was built into MediaWiki as standard. I mean it uses Imagemagick already! :-)
--[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==three tracking pages==
There are often articles I don't want to keep on a watch list, but sometimes want to check up on. I envision these similar to Special:Contributions. First, Special:Created (for articles that the user created), Special:Contributionsunchanged (for articles where the user's edit serves as the most recent version), and Special:Articlestouched (like Special:Contributions with duplicates removed). Feel free to choose better names, though. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 15:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:These all sound quite useful. Good ideas. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 15:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:What about putting such articles on a page and checking them via "related changes"? --[[User:213.182.155.146|213.182.155.146]] 13:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
::That's manual updating of another "watch list", which is what I am hoping to avoid. These are the sort of things many people will often want to keep an eye on from time to time, but not so much that they want to be continually receiving notices like you do with watched pages. It ought to be straightforward (almost trivial) to implement, yet ''extremely'' convenient. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 18:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== Filter content by IP/hostname ==

I would like a way to display different content based on whether the user is coming from within or outside of my LAN, based on their IP. Something like this:

<nowiki> This is page content that shows up for everyone. <externalonly>This is page content that
shows up only for visitors outside the designated IP ranges.</externalonly><internalonly>This is page
content that shows up only for visitors inside the designated IP ranges.</internalonly> Here is some
more page content that everyone sees.</nowiki>

This is not intended to be a security measure, since the user could edit the page and see all of the content, but just one to make it easier to tell the user things that apply only to them. For example, my internal audience might know exactly which building to go to for an event, but the external audience might need more detailed information, maps, full phone numbers instead of just an extension, and so on. Is this even possible? Would there be a way to still cache pages? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== RSS / Atom Feeds on Related changes ==

Although you can subscribe to a feed on Recent changes and New pages, it would be very helpful to support feeds from Related changes pages. In particular, the Related changes from a Category page would allow a user to receive a feed for all changes made to articles within a specified category. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 19:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
:I also think it might be useful (actually, I has been asked this functionnality, for a corporate use) [[User:Gizmhail|Gizmhail]] 14:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

== automated e-mail obfuscation ==
I'd love to see an extension that automatically obfuscates any e-mail address included in an article. Maybe replacing all (or some) of the letters with images and/or HTML code. Other methods exist too... [[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

== Brainstorm feature ==

It will be very cool to have such feature in MediaWiki as it was done in Britannica.

[http://www.akappleug.org/reviews/2006/10/17/encyclopaedia-britannica-2007-deluxe-on-dvd/]

''A “brainstorm” feature maps relationships between ideas, subjects, and people as you go through the encyclopedia. It is fascinating to browse through subjects and watch a virtual brainstorm of related subjects coalesce around chosen articles, leading you to additional interesting paths to take.''

Screenshot (poor, though) is there: [http://akappleug.org/reviews/img/Reviewed/Oct06/britannica_pic2.jpg]

For what you are looking for first we need the semantic version of MediaWiki which is [[Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki]]. For SMW there are also extension and you need the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MOCA MOCA Extention]. See an implementation example on [http://frema.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Entities]

== Machine Translation Feature ==

Add a mechanism that sends the substantive content of an article to an online translation service (like Google Translate or Babelfish).

Bonus points if the translated text could somehow be integrated back into the original page, with a clear indication to the user that an automated translation has been performed.

== Block certain E-mail address domains ==

Dunno if this really needs an extension or if it could be set in SpecialUserlogin.php.<br />
I've set that users need to confirm their e-mail address in order to edit pages. Now it would be nice to block some free spam domains like [http://spam.la spam.la]. Possibilities:
* do not send such confirmation mails to blocked domains
* do not allow to enter blocked domains in Create Account ''and'' User Preferences

Thought about entering such a domain to $wgSpamRegex but it only controls page edits.
~~Subfader

== Block account creation if E-Mail address already exists ==
Have problem with a spam bot using the same mail address to create fake accounts for an attack session.
~~Subfader

==Category navigation - Change order==
I'd like to see an extension that gives you a little more features to the category listings, esp. when there are more than 200 subcategories or articles listed. E.g. switch order (ASC, DESC), or a drop-down menue to choose the number of listed items instead of 200 default for all and everyone. ~~Subfader
:Could maybe be done via Javascript. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
::Yeah I dunno how but I do know it's not hard to set up. It should be possible to also set a standard order in the category. (E.g. a special categoy page which I want to order descending instead of ascending as per default. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

== Flexible Watchlists ==
I'd love to see an extension that allows flexible lists just like the watchlist but without displaying the latest changes, e-mail notification on changes etc., primarily just to list the articles I have added to the list.<br />
Example: Many wikis are about collectable things. Let's assume a wiki about those pokemon cards. Each article of the main namespace stands for one unique pokemon card. Now it would be great if users could keep track of which they already have and which they want. So I imagine new tabs where the "watch" is located reading sth like: [own] [want].<br />
So combined with that, those lists should be located on top aswell where "my watchlist" is atm. In this example it would be "my collection" and "my wantlist". I could also imagine a list for "my favourite articles". Such a list itself should primarily list the articles which were added to it. Now even more awesome would be to search inside such personal list :)

Such a feature could also come with some added value for all users by giving out statistic lists like:<br />
On each article page: "X users own this" or "X users want this" or "X users boomarked this" etc. or "Hitlists" like most owned or most wanted. Or for personal use: List all articles not in my collection or not in my wantlist...

The names for those lists should be easily changable at one place of the code (sth like $list1name= and $list2name=). Note that eachlist has 2 names; one for adding it to the list and one name to display the list. Flexible names would be important cos of the different use of the wikis which may use it. E.g. in my wiki articles are not called articles. Or in the pokemon wiki "artcile" could be called "card page" etc.<br />
I hope I could demonstrate the variety of possibilities by such felxible watchlists. If anyone has an idea how to set this up, pls let me know!<br />
It would be great if such an extension would work on my MW 1.8.2 ;) --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category==
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. So a simple search box will pop up on every category page. It searches like the standard search, but it only considers articles in the according category. Combined with that a new search field could be added on the Multi-Category Search on top for normal text search... I post here cos I doubt the devs read their extension talk page. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 01:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

==Limit edits per minute for new users==
I am looking for a way of limiting the number of edits new users (say for the first week or two) can create per minute.
I am also looking for some way of identifying accounts that don't make any edits at all during that period. Any help is gratefully appreciated! [[Special:Contributions/217.65.158.124|217.65.158.124]] 10:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
:For the first part, you can use [[Manual:$wgRateLimits|$wgRateLimits]] with, for example, <code>$wgRateLimits['edit']['newbie'] = array( 2, 60 );</code> to allow new users (i.e. non autoconfirmed) to make 2 edits in one minute. This require caching, see [[Manual:$wgMainCacheType|$wgMainCacheType]].
:For the second part, you can run the <code>removeUnusedAccounts.php</code> script in the maintenance directory (it won't remove the account by default, it will just show it), but it lists all account that didn't make edits at all. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 11:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Encrypt / decrypt wiki content ==
Is it possible to create a MediaWiki extension which ables :

- to encrypt content with a public key on edit

- to decrypt content with a private key on display ? (I guess the user have to be prompted once to give the key)

Maybe such an extension already exists ?

Second question : Is it best to encrypt/decrypt client side with javascript for server performance reasons ?

Thanks for your help.

Vincent - [[Special:Contributions/83.137.240.218|83.137.240.218]] 12:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Register your collection / Bookmark Wiki pages ==
I partake in maintaining a wiki about comicbooks. Most (but not all) pages on the wiki detail individual comicbooks. I would love to let users ''register their comicbook collection'' on the wiki, by adding such pages to a list stored in their profile. Both for their own leisure, and if they want to: to show off to others.

So what I'd love is a "register your collection" extension that:
* when installed adds a tab to the tabrow called "Add this to your collection". When the tab is clicked -- like when "Watch" is clicked it turns to "Unwatch" -- it turns into "Remove from collection".
* adds an extra link to the top-right user area, called "my collection", which lists bookmarked pages.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<mycollection />", which users can add to their user pages. When doing that, other users would be able to see their collection.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<collectible />", which must be added to all pages that describe collectible items.
** because a single page could possibly detail two or more different editions of the same collectible, it would be nice to be able to distinguish betweeen editions by inserting two <collectible /> tags. For instance, <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, first edition" />, and <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, second edition" />.

I'm sure wikis such as Memory Alpha and Wookieepedia would love to let their users register their collection on their wikis, so I'm convinced there's an audience for this type of extension. Finally, I imagine the extension could also easily be used simply as a bookmarking extension. Your thoughts, and possibly your skills, are very welcome. [[User:Joen|Joen]] 19:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

:I want something similar: [[Extension_requests#Flexible_Watchlists]] --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 17:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

==Private Messages system==
Could be based on [[Extension:MediaWiki Bulletin Board]]. But I hate this extension cos the devs don't seem to care much about it. The PM system should use the following features additionally to what MWBB already features:
*load edit toolbar like on a normal edit page, including preview
*Inbox and Outbox (for sent messages)
*On a reply: load old message(s) like forum quotes, leave space on top of the edit field for the new reply (to force "latest on top" order)
*Option to delete selected messages in Inbox and Outbox
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:37, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

==Slideshare==
[[mw:Extension:SlideShare|Slideshare Extension]]
[[Special:Contributions/124.176.23.250|124.176.23.250]] 12:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

==Email Article to a Friend==
How about having an extension that will allow users to email articles to a friend? This can be achieved by having a small icon appear at the top right corner of each article. Once that icon is clicked the user can input his/her friends' emails. A link to the article is then sent to the list of friends.

==Proper Ajax Rating==
[[Extension:AjaxRatingScript]] is full of bugs and most people are not able to install it. Devs are only communicating on their own wiki which is horror. So pls don't tell me to suggest it there.<br />
I'd like a rating system that is fully integrated in the wiki:
*Option for admin to decide if only logged in users can rate or everybody (while considering only registered users is more safe against abuse)
*Each rating section on an article page should have some link "Details" (link to different page or better as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NavFrame collapsible NavFrame])
**See who else voted how (with linked users name and his ratings)
**Update your vote: see your own rating (simply bold in above "users who rated" list) and enable updating it by simply rating again
*Special page for
**"Best rated articles" listing the best 50 | 100 | 250 | 500 rated articles of the wiki
**Unrated articles
*Integration on user profile: A user should be able to add some code on his profile page so "My favourites" are displayed: (5 | 10 | 25 | 50) best rated atricles by User...
*Option for admin to display the rating behind article links on categories. Combined with that: Option to sort articles in a category by rating
*Some smart way to delete all votes by abusers (e.g. users who obviously rate everything worst or best to manipulate results)
:Why not consider [[Extension:JSKitRating]] ? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 13:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
::Cos I never saw exmaples using it and it cannot do what I requested above. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

==User View Statistics==
When establishing a new wiki it is useful to be able to gauge user uptake. [[Extension:Contribution Scores]] is great for giving a good overview of user edits but gives no appreciation of user view activity. [[Extension:UserPageViewTracker]] is too detailed in that it breaks down the stats on a per page basis making it difficult to compare all users. A simple view count for each registered user would be very useful. I would like to see this as an additional column in the report output by [[Extension:Contribution Scores]]. A helpful addition would be to also provide a count of page views for all unregistered users i.e. a single total NOT per IP address! A final possible enhancement would be to allow break down of the stats by namespace (so long as it didn't impact performance too much). --[[User:Phil Clark|Phil]] 10:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

==Simplified New Pages Embeding==
First of, excuse me if something to do this already exists. Ive looked all over the site and google without luck.
Im after an extension to embed a summery of the Special:Newpages on the main page of my wiki.

I know it is possible to limit the number of records displayed by using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages/5}}</nowiki> however it still provides alot of information that is unnecessary on the main page.

At present information is displayed in the normal format;

''05:30, 3 April 2008 ? Sandbox(hist) ?[746 bytes] ?Dargrotek (Talk | contribs) (create''')

However on a main page that can be very cluttering and want to change the format to something similar to the following.

''3 April 2008 -? "Sandbox" Created by ?Dargrotek''

Also the ability to limit what type of pages are displayed as well would be extremely usefull so that new images wont show up and so on. Can anyone help or point me in the direction of an existing extension? --[[User:Dargrotek|Dargrotek]] 19:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
: First off, images etc don't show up using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages}}</nowiki>. Hack /includes/SpecialNewpages.php to remove useless info. Not recommended but easy: In your case find <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$dm}{$plink} ({$hist}) {$dm}[{$length}] {$dm}{$ulink} {$comment}";</nowiki> and change to sth like <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$plink} created by {$ulink};";</nowiki><br />--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

==List all audio files==
I'd like to have an parser extension that enables listing audio files being uploaded to the wiki (mp3 only is ok):
*either all or per user
*enable defining an order of the upload date (sort by filename is useless for me)
*always list the pages on which it is used (What links here)
Something like this:
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|DESC}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded to the wiki (so I can place it whereever I want instead of a special page), order will be descending, all linked to pages are listed
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|Mike}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded by User:Mike (so Mike can put a list of his audio files on his user page for example), no order defined > ASC is default, all linked to pages are listed
The code which generates the output should be in wiki markup (maybe stored as a template). The reason is that I use a player extension (not listed on MW yet) that generates output for audio files already and the new extension should list it the same. I tried to use the html output of that player extension in it's php file but can't get it working. So the output should work like this:
*User Mike has uploaded 3 files. A.mp3, B.mp3, C.mp3
*The template for the output could read my player parser code including the audiolist parameter:<br />
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{paramFILE}}}}} - used on: {{{paramLinkedTo|<br />}}}</div></nowiki></code>
*So entering <code><nowiki>{{audiolist|all|Mike|DESC}}</nowiki></code> on some page should work like the following code was added manually to that page:
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{C.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article hdf]]<br />[[Article kghkh]]<br /></div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{B.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article sasxckh]]<br />[</div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{A.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article psdgfh]]<br />[[Article xdfa2o3]]<br />[[Article z9s84]]</div></nowiki></code>

Listing all could also be a Special page with search function, but using the same template.

Might be useful:
*[[Special:Imagelist]]
*[[Special:Log/upload]]
*[[Manual:Mime type detection]]
*[[Special:MIMEsearch]]
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 21:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Word substitution ==
I need an extension to do the same as [[Extension:AutoLink]] but that would be able to point to external pages.
The best thing I think would be an extension that:
# when an article is saved
# it parses the 'to-be-saved' text searching for strings existing in a dictionary
# if such a string is found in the 'to-be-saved' text it gets substituted with the 'translation' of it from the dictionary

I'll try to make myself clear with an example:

*I save an article containing the following text:<pre>bla hello bla bla wikipedia bla bla bla</pre>
*I then have a dictionary say called [[mediawiki:substitution]] containing the following:
<pre>wikipedia//[en.wikipedia.org wikipedia]
yahoo//[www.yahoo.com yahoo]
hello//greetings
whatever you want to translate//whatever you want to have instead</pre>
*the resulting page should be:<pre>bla greetings bla bla [en.wikipedia.org wikipedia] bla bla bla</pre>

Thank you,

--[[User:DonGiulio|DonGiulio]] 20:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

:Check what [[Extension:AutoLink]] can do for you. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

==AJAX Capability Testing==

We have $wgUseAjax to determine if AJAX is used on this wiki. But it would be nice to have a function that other extensions can call to check whether AJAX is likely to work.

If $wgUseAjax is off, this function would always give false. If it is on, the extension would add an option to the user preferences: "Use AJAX: yes/no/autodetect" (with autodetect being the default, I'd guess). If this was set to auto, the extension would first check the browser identification against a known list (maybe), and then if unsure it would send the user a simple chunk of javascript which calls an Ajax function to say "yes it works", and this data could be stored in session and/or cookie.

It could also be useful to have such an extension which knows (or can test) the different capabilities of different browsers, such that other extensions could check the availability of certain javascript functions. (For example, I believe I read that if sent an XML document as an ajax response, some browsers will parse it into a document object, but some don't have this functionality. In this case, it would be useful for an extension author to have a function they can call to determine which javascript to send the client) Of course in the case of $wgUseAjax being off or the user disabling javascript in their preferences, these functions could return false even if the client is actually capable.

[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

== Search results direct link ==
The Search button returns a list of all articles that include the term in the search box, and the list items include wikilinks to the pages. In order to find the search phrase, however, the user must follow the link to the page and then search again, either manually or with the browser's Find function. It would be helpful if the user could link directly to the first occurrence of the term in each page listing. --[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
:Have you seen [[Help:Search]] (GO function) and [[Extension:GoToCategory]]? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 16:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
::Neither of these seem to do what he was asking for. However, it sounds like it should be a fairly simple extension to write. I'll see what I can do if I have time tonight [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
:::The extension would require you to take the target page and drop an anchor on that search term - I'll be interested to see the implementation. ;-) [[User:Tim_Laqua|Tim Laqua]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Tim_Laqua|talk]]</small></sup> 02:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
::::Highlighting the search terms and wrapping anchors around the first instance isn't a big deal ... a crude implementation could do it using an OutputPageBeforeHTML handler, just run a preg_replace over the page text to insert anchors and highlighting. (I'm sure there's more refined ways to do it if you look)
::::The place I'm falling down is making the search results page generate links which contain the search terms. So far, the only solution I can find involves inserting a new hook in SpecialSearch::showHit (after line 364 in SpecialSearch.php, I added one line)
wfRunHooks('RenderSearchResult', &$link, &$t, &$extract, $size)
::::I'd rather not play with the core code, but I don't see any existing hooks which could enable this
::::-- [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 18:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Page creation in extention code ==

Hi, I'm writing an extension and I need to create a category and add some wikitext in it directly in the php code of my extention. I tried Article::doEdit, and the code below :
<code>

$newtitle = Title::newFromText($name, NS_CATEGORY);

$newcategory = new Article($newtitle);

$newtext = "<nowiki>[[Category:$parent_cat]]</nowiki>";

$newcat = $newcategory->doEdit($newtext,'Project', EDIT_NEW );

</code>
But I always get an error... (MyExtention::getContent() undefined for Article::doEdit and T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM for the second case).
I don't know if it's a good place to post this problem but I didn't know where to post it.

Regards, --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 08:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

: I think you mean $newcategory->doEdit ? --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 09:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, It's ok now ! --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 09:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

== MapLib extension ==

is posible to create a extension to add a iframe from MapLib like <maplib width="'''400'''" height="'''400'''">'''999999999'''</maplib> to do a:

<iframe src="<nowiki>http://www.maplib.net/fullmap.php?id=</nowiki>'''999999999'''" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="width:'''400'''px;height:'''400'''px;border:0px"></iframe>

thanks.

:Seems like a fairly simple extension, should only take a few minutes. I'll get back to you later today. --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 01:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

== Per user Statistics ==
Is possible to add a tab in user page with statistics like edit count, creation count, age, and so on, and also something like a personal page in which a user can descrive his preferences or other features

==Homepage/Portal==
I'd like to see an extension that gives a wiki the ability to allow its users to personalize the main page.
The content included within the main page modules could be either controlled by the site admin/bureaucrat, or if they allow, could include custom user made modules...

The idea is to make the main page look as professional as possible, allowing user personalization to entice them to use it more regularly as their 'home page', thus further contribute to the wiki and engage with the community.

A perfect example of what I am talking about is the [http://www.bbc.com BBC] site, with its movable and configurable modules.

Desired features:
*Designed for the main page
*Ajax modules movable, collapsible and able to be added/removed as chosen by user
*User settings remember user preferences
*Admin/bureaucrat acceptance required for user made custom modules (if allowed at all)
*Admin/bureaucrat control over allowing users to create and add their own custom modules
*Admin/bureaucrat control over what modules have to be displayed no matter what
*Content much still be readable/search-able by search engines

Examples of what is available, but meet different needs, but if combined, could make a user personalized homepage/portal
*[[Extension:My_portal|My Portal]] - Portal extension, poorly supported and based on user special page as opposed to main page.
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles#Andy.27s_AJAX_.2F_JavaScript_Skin Andy's Skin] - A skin using ajax that allows for users to move boxes, minimize/maximize them, and add favorites.
*[http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Userboxes_extension Wikia Userboxes Extension] - A extension that gives a user the ability to make custom modules for their user page

This I believe would take wikis the next step in personalization and presentation/skinning.

--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 03:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

==Save all the Content==
I search a solution to save all the content from my wiki with the ending ".pdf". (Like Extensios.pdf)
I imagine like i click on the "Save all!"-Button and all the Content is saved with the correct title in a folder on my server.
(sorry but my bad english)

--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 06:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
:Backing up the complete site on your server is not enough? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

::My problem is the content should be portable for everyone in our team when he/she doesn't have internet--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 12:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

== 'grab my edits' ==

I'd like to see an extension to allow a user to retroactively claim responsibility for their edits in case they forgot to login.

Essentially, you'd have a "claim my edits" tickbox on the login page, which associates your username with any anonymous edits coming from your IP address since you last logged in. (I'm currently doing this on my wiki by manually hacking the database)

== AJAX autocomplete ==

I'd like to see an extension that autocompletes page names. This is on my to-do list, but I'll post here in case it already exists, or someone has ideas to do it in a better way.

When you type '<nowiki>{{</nowiki>', it would produce a little pop-up box (preferably below the cursor) listing all the templates, most commonly used first. As you start typing a template name, it acts as a filter on the list. Each list entry would be clickable to complete it, and would also have "view template" (in popup window) and "edit template" links next to it. Once the user has typed '<nowiki>{{templatename|</nowiki>' or clicked one in the list, a popup appears listing common parameters for that template (possibly just searching the template for all <nowiki>{{{.*}}}</nowiki> blocks, possibly something a little more complex).

Similarly, typing '<nowiki>[[</nowiki>' would produce a popup list of pages. If the list of all pages is too long, it would only show pages which link to this one, until the user has typed enough letters to allow a sensible-sized list (or until they click a 'find all options' button).

:--[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

An extension is available on wikia, it's called LinkSuggest [http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Link_Suggest]. I've contacted the author Inez Korczynski who told me it's going to be released soon.
Cheers

==Addthis Social Boomarking==
[[Extension:Social Bookmarking]] uses [http://addthis.com Addthis] but the solutions is very unhandy.
*I'd like to see the Addthis button below the toolbox and for every page or defined namespaces.
*Enable via gadget for those who want to use it. Cos I think what keeps most admins from installing a social bookmarking feature is that it's annoying for those who don't use this. The extra loads for Addthis interrupts loading the wiki page (just like google ads do sometimes). Yes there other extensions with static buttons but Addthis is more complete (I don't need to worry about adding new sites) and is pretty handy.
*Additionally, when you have an account there it gives you click statistics(!). So adding / using the original script (with the addthis account name) in the extension is essential for me.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 07:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

:Don't know if this will suit you, but maybe a possibility...
:[http://jldupont.com/Widget:Addthis Widget:Addthis]
:You would need [http://jldupont.com/Extension:SecureWidgets Extension:SecureWidgets] for it to work.
:--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 06:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, but I want it appear on every page when user enables the gadget. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 08:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
::: Use [[Extension:HeaderFooter]] perhaps? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 18:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

==Advanced Reading Restriction for Anonymous Users==
I am wondering if any extension can restrict the reading right of anonymous users. Examples may be that after specified pages viewing it would auto-direct anonymous users to register or it restricts the reading rate(ie, pages/hr ). I think that would be great to increase the proportion of registered users. Thanks for discussion.
:Note that those restrictions suck a lot and actually end up in teh other direction. I never register at sites (mostly forums) where content is hidden for visitors. I just leave. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
::However,that is why I dont use the original function of the Mediawiki,which can hide the information. I just want to give users a choice. You can just keep anonymous to get all information. For example, after 10 pages viewing, the extension directs user to register. But the anonymous user can go back to the normal page without any difficult.

==Gadget: User Sidebar==
A Gadget that (if enabled) will override the MediaWiki:Sidebar config with the user's very own config.
<br />The user's config list could be stored in a users subpage, e.g. in User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar.<br />A problem might be what the sidebar displays after enabling the gadget and the user's config page doesn't exist yet. A workaround could be: If enabled, use MediaWiki:Sidebar when User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar doesn't exist / is empty (User could clear). It could also created automatically (with default content) when a new user registers (using [[Extension:NewUserMessage]]) and to let a bot add it to the existing accounts.
<br/>See also [[Extension:SidebarEx]], [[Extension:SysopSidebar]]     --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

== Email Client ==
A extension that makes a special page for a E-mail client.

==Images in categories==
'''The problem''': When you categorize images into the same categories as articles they're listed on the category page as "Media files" below the articles. There's nothing wrong about it. The problem is the counting and the navigation of both.<br />The standard limit of 200 = articles + files. E.g. you have 183 articles and 30 images in the same category: On the bottom you'll have 17 images (200-183) reading "next 200" or you have 250 artciles and some images. The images won't appear until you click "next 200". How am I supposed to know there are images in the category when opening it?

'''Possible solutions''': Split the counting and navigation
*List all images below the articles. When browsing next 200 articles, only list the rest of the articles.
*List all images independetly from the article navigation but in a kinda iframe with vertical scrollbar. The frame could be 5 image boxes wide and 2 image boxes high and placed above the article links section.
*Split up article and image count and navigation. E.g. 500 articles and 500 images: When browsing forward to articles 401-500 still show images 1-200. When browsing now images 201-400 still keep articles 401-500. For a better navigation it may good to only list like 40 images but 200 article links.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 19:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

==User friendly way to flag/request pages==
'''The problem''': I am trying to develop a super user-friendly way for users to flag a page for review, and separately, request a page that doesn't exist (not create it per se, but request the page to be created by someone else). I realize this is as easy as adding some kind of "review" or "request" template to a page but what if I assume most of my users are not wiki-proficient. Is there a very simple way (ie clicking one button) for users to flag a page for review/request a page that does not exist yet.

'''Possible solutions''': Ideally any solution would require no editing on behalf of a user - just one click. Thanks!

==Move pages via find / replace==
A special page lists a find and a replace input box. The extension finds the page titles with the given word and moves the pages to the new title which replaced the word with the new one. The result should be a valid move (with redirect).<br />[[Extension:Replace Text]] does that for page content but not for titles. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

== Support docbook ==
Like some feature in [http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/ docbookwiki].

== Related news extension request==
Information of what extension will do: http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki/issues/detail?id=20 Hope someone develop it. Thanks

== Template Extension ==
is there an extension that can get me all the important templates like Infoboxes and tables, stuff like that..
I've tried importing those pages from wikipedia and other Wiki's but on the page it just has.. well alot of stuff that should not be there
so is there an extension for that or how do i do this?
--[[Special:Contributions/70.100.80.125|70.100.80.125]] 18:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

== Search Extension ==
As in our wiki we link not only images, but also some files .doc or .ppt or .pdf, is there an extension that makes it possible to search also into these files?
[[User:Cattest|Cattest]] 09:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

== WhiteBoard Extension ==
A simple freehand drawing tool, like a whiteboard, where authors can draw pictures.<br>
Minimum tool bar: freehand pencil, shapes, and Text tools.<br>
Newly created image file can be saved on the server and indexed.<br>
Old images can be added to or edited.<br>
Real-time multi-client draw control, to show many clients the image as it is being drawn, and who has the pen.<br>
Eventually multiple clients could draw at the same time.

==Edit Preview Redirect List==
I was editing my wiki when I got an idea. What about having an extension that lists the any redirect pages that are linked to on the current page when previewing an edit? I couldn't seem to find an existing extension like this. Sound good?--[[User:Mjr162006|Mjr162006]] 22:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)<br><small>PS: Could someone please archive the older parts of this page. It is very difficult to edit with it being so big.</small>

==Indent first line==
In formal writing, the first line of every paragraph is indented. However, the only options are either to use 8 HTML spaces or to use another line for separating paragraphs. However, the first one is messy and the second is harder to read. So my idea is for a special symbol (like [ind] or [indt]) to be automatically replaced by 8 HTML spaces or equivalent indent. Or simply make the ":" character indent ONLY the first line. (By the way, I'm requesting this as a result of "problems" at Novelas.)
:You can use CSS to solve this. Just modify your default style sheet or add a template like this <pre><p style="text-indent: 2em">...</p></pre>--[[User:Benjamin Garn|Benjamin Garn]] 19:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

== WikiFamily / Interwiki: sharing with just one Login ==
Is there a possible way to login once for multiple wikis?

I have installed three wikis, each for a language (e.g. English, German and Spanish). Each wiki has a different URL. Do you know a possible way to log in at the English wiki and then to switch to the spanish wiki and edit pages? (In my installation, Page-Edits are only possible after login).
:See [[Extension:CentralAuth]]. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 18:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

== Move section to Sub-Page ==
Does anyone have any suggestions to make the task of migrating large pages to sub pages?
I've seen talk of a bot which could break up a page based on H2 level tags, but can't find the source of it anywhere.

I would imagine an extra button on the edit section page "Make this section a sub-page". Then the full section contents would be pushed as a sub-page of the current page (with title=heading of the current section), and the full text of the current section would be replaced by a transclusion of the new page.

==Easier select and copy method==
I have noticed whenever some people have to copy a long code written on a wiki page, they have to wait a very long time for the whole code to be selected. So I am proposing a new button with an opacity of 50% on the top right corner of any code on a wiki page. Its function would be to select the code and copy it in a click. You can't use control + A for this since this method highlights everything on the page.
This extension should be called Extension:Autocopy. Worth looking into. --''''<font face="freestyle script">[[User:truetech|<span style="color: #CC1100;">Truetech</span>]]</font>''''' ''<font face="Imapct"><small>[[User Talk:Truetech|<span style="color: #AAAAAA;">(Talk)</span>]]</small></font>'' <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] [[Project:Support desk/Support team|'''''<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>''''']]</span> 23:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

==Record Search Queries==
I'm sure this isn't too hard to implement, but I'm drawing a blank on this one. I think a feature rich version of this would be very helpful to any mediawiki owner.

The reason I would like something like this:

*Build more pages based off of what people are looking for
*Create a list of commonly searched for phrases to help noobs
*creates a page full of key words (and misspellings) that get indexed by search engines
*Helps you learn more about your users

anyone willing to help out, please feel free to hit me up on my talk page.

-[[User:Theothertom|Theothertom]] 18:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
==Groupselection + Accountcreation==
I'm not so good in php and so on. Maybe someone can help me.
I need an extension which allowes me to select groups I want to be in while I'm creating an account

example:
A company with 3 groups (group1, group2 and group3)
A new user wants to create an account in the company he's in group1 so he wants to select group1 in the account creation.

Sorry for my bad english :D

==Allow user to delete only files he uploaded himself==
I'd like to see a wg that allows the group User to delete files the user uploaded himself (not other User's files). --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 22:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
:So if the user uploaded the file the [delete] button will appear on top so he can delete the complete thing like a sysop. Maybe add a message that deleting is not possible if the file is still used on other pages. -[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 14:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

==Blanking historical page versions==
I would appreciate an extension that allows the blanking of page versions, or more generally replace them with a chosen text like '(vandal)', while completely removing the orginal content from the database. This both for individual edits and for all edits by one user, and preferably also with the option to permanently remove a version if it is the last version of a page. We've had a lot of mass vandalism lately that inflated our database. Regards, [[User:Guido den Broeder|Guido den Broeder]] 16:39, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

:MW 1.12+ have the script maintenance/[[Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php|deleteOldRevisions.php]] for older versions check [[Extension:SpecialDeleteOldRevisions]]. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 15:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

==Disqus extension==
An extension to allow for Disqus comments to be added to a wiki page. Should allow for customization of comment layout through HTML template, CSS file, and extension configuration. Possible solution includes a checkbox on the mediawiki edit form to enable comments on this article or not.

==What Links Here extension==
A simple extension adding a box at the bottom of article with a list of max. (parameter=10) articles linking here.

Extension requests

2008-10-19T12:05:44Z

Quatermass: /* Lossless rotation of images */

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== [Implemented] - Google Translate feature via API ==
The working code for this has been posted here [[Extension:GoogleTranslate]] - '''this version can translate the text that you edit!''' --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 16:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

According Google it is perfectly possible to call their translation [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Examples Google AjAX-API]. For XSS security reasons it would be very constructive to be able to allow/implement various translations calls from within wiki:
* Translation on page level
* Translation of article texts, in Read mode
* Translation of article texts, in Edit mode (this is what I need currently.)
:* Special Feature: translate the unformated texts
:* Special Feature: Allow the original text to be saved
:* Special Feature: Allow to create new article based upon the translated text

I suggest that there should be a ways for the sysop, through localsetting.php to setup namespaces where google translation is an option. --[[User:Asset|Asset]] 13:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

== Media Category ==
is there extensions for creating a gallery off a category who includes media?
: <cgallery>Images</cgallery> or <cgallery limit"5">images</cgallery>
--[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 14:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)?

=== Programming Documentation and Extensions to copy from ===
* [[:Category:Ajax_extensions]] other ajax features
* [[Extension:Link_Suggest]], add a feature to the edit window and allows you to change the text.....
* [[Extension:Lockdown]], can be used to control usage?

== Simple Download System ==
I've looked everywhere and cannot find a download system like paFileDB for mediawiki!
Now I'm not looking for something like paFileDB, although I wouldn't mind it.
I was looking for something a little simpler that can be easily be designed without to much trouble!

I developed a proposal which you can download in .pdf format
http://www.designermotion.com/projects/web/mediawiki/docs/mediawiki_proposal_extension_download-v1.pdf

I'm hoping someone will be interested in creating such an extension as I'm planning to add over 400 download pages to my wiki.

Thanks for your time--[[User:unknown|unknown]] 02:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

==Dynamic page update from other pages==
Let's say on one page, we'll see page "Renee", I have the following wiki stuff (displayed in code here):

===Year 1===
*Spring: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
===Year 2===
*Spring: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in Teaching
*Summer: Visit
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in area
*Autumn: Teaching
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in teaching
*Winter: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component

Just to give a rough example, at least. Now, let's say this goes on for some 20 years, and with potential to keep on going. It is also repeated (but with differences in what happens year to year) in other pages, like "Jariya", "Lea", "Nike", etc. Now, I want to know if there is an extension that can take the seasonal advancement, interwiki-style, and place them in a single page, we'll say "Advancement", with an output kinda like this:

===Year 1===
====Spring====
*Renee: Development
:Practice in dev
:Exposure in component
*Jariya: Teaching
:Practice in teaching
:Exposure in influence
*Nike: etc etc

Now, I originally used [[Labeled_Section_Transclusion | Labeled section transclusion]] by wrapping everyone's year 1 spring as 'year1spr', then 'year1sum', then 'year1aut' and 'year1win', then 'year2spr'.... you get the idea, and including the transclusion on the advancement page. It worked, however, adding a new name is a pain. You need to write the new name, write the new transclusions, and when you have 10 years and growing of transclusions to rewrite from 'year1spr' to 'year3spr', then 4, 5, 6... then repeat for the other 3 seasons, it's annoying and not very efficient.

What I'd like to know is if there is an extension that could do what I'd like more easily? Especially if it could do it dynamically and automatically update like Transclusions did, but without needing to add 40 tweaked lines when adding someone or removing/renaming someone?

I thought I could maybe use the MySQL extension and have a DB with the changes in them, but that doesn't seem like it'll work too great overtime.
:Thanks

==Game rating system (0% => 100%)==
Does anyone know if there is a little extention that makes it possible to display a rating for a game, like normal gameratings, from 0 to 100%? And a little thing to let anyone give a rating (with IP check)?

== Google AJAX extension ==
An Extension that gets google search results with AJAX API presented by Google. The results should be gathered with wiki markups. For example with a text <googlesearch>britney</googlesearch>, the extension must turn the Google results within the page. --88.229.252.158 07:46, 13 January 2007

== Display Name ==

There should exist an extension to allow the admins or maybe even the users to select which name is displayed. Currently the username is used, but why not have an extension that allows all references to a username also allow for reference to a the Nickname, or the Real Name. (Example: Recent Changes page lists lots of users, but the admins could force it to display the Real Names instead of the usernames, or if the localsettings variable isn't set to force it, let the users select which name is displayed). --71.145.131.12 22:21, 14 January 2007

==Extensions to Enable Wiki of 3D Geometrical Models==
Hi, we would like to create a Wiki of 3D geometrical models which are built with a product called [http://www.zometool.com Zometool]. We already have the software to build the models and are working on a browser plug-in which will allow users to manipulate these models in their browser window.
We would need for users to be able to:

a) Publish their models on the wiki (even if they're noobs).

b) Access the browser plug-in from the wiki so they can see/manipulate the models in the wiki article.

The publishing aspect would require functionality similar to that requested by [[User:Blckdmnd99|Blckdmnd99]] in "File Upload as Part of Article Creation" and also [[User:Barrylb|Barrylb's]] "New Article Form".

The modeling program would export jpegs, csv files with a description of certain model parameters (number of parts, etc.) and the model file itself. Ideally, this would be transformed into part of a wiki article which would include the jpegs, a table with the required parts for assembling that specific model, categories (taken from the csv) and a link to the 3D model file itself.

The plug-in access, I would imagine, would be similar to adding quicktime or flash compatibility.

If anyone is interested in helping us out with this we would be willing to pay for the functionality.

Thanks, --[[User:Zomenut|Carlos]] 07:36, 30 January 2007 (edit) (undo)
Zomenut

:I already have something similar in Java called [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki3D Wiki3D] that might help you getting started. It is all open sourced under the BSD license.
:Regards, [[User:lyriarte|Luc]]

== Internal Article Social Tagging==
I would like an extension that puts a "Digg"-like tag on each page. By tagging those pages, there would be a special page or extension that allows those articles to be dynamically presented in order of votes. This is not the same as presenting a link to Digg itself or any other social bookmarking sites. This feature would allow a MediaWiki wiki to have its own pages rated by readers and then have a summary page that showed the relative rankings.

==Cladograms==
An extension to create graphic [[:en:cladogram|cladograms]]. This, with the right options, could have other obvious applications such as family trees (and similar material) and sports brackets. This could be based on [http://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree/ PhpSyntaxTree] and [[EasyTimeline]], both of which propose more or less similar possibilities. [[:en:User:Circeus]] --08:06, 26 June 2007

:see [[Extension:CategoryTree]] if you can model your data using categories. --[[User:Purodha|Purodha Blissenbach]] 10:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

==Drop Down Box==
I would love to have an extension that allows a drop down menu. Not to redirect to a different page, but just to change the status of item. If this is not enough information, feel free to drop me a line as this is quite important. [[User:129.57.10.6|129.57.10.6]] 19:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

gibsonmarshall_sg@yahoo.com

==Easier automatic categorization==
[[Extension:CategoryHook]] can do automatic categorization but it requires esoteric PHP coding and [[Extension talk:CategoryHook#User-friendliness|isn't very user-friendly]]. I'd like a more [[w:GUI|GUI]]-centered approach for, oh, 90% of users out there... -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

==Multi-select namespace search==
When [[Help:Searching|searching]], instead of all the checkboxes, which are nerve-wracking to select/deselect, why not a multi-select menu? -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 03:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

:My attempt: [[Extension:Multi-select Namespace Search]]--unfortunately, it doesn't work. :/ -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 17:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

::It works now (for a few weeks, actually, with the help of another user), but it's not a proper extension and just a hack. If someone can "extensionize" it, that'd be super. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

== Media Player ==

I'm Want to Suggest on Extension who allows To look at Videos And Listen on Music
This is Because i'm looked long for one Extension who can this!.
And its 2 different formats i'm want to have in this extension
'''Formats:'''
.mp3
.ogg
{{nosigr|August 13, 2007|62.128.243.228}}

:Check [[:Category:Media handling extensions]]. -[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 22:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

::Tryed but No one of them works - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 11:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

:::You tried [[Extension:Mp3]] and [[Extension:Player]]? —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes , And Many Others - --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 13:11, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
: What happened? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 13:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Some of them dident show , And the one named player Did show but dident play it --[[User:62.128.243.228|62.128.243.228]] 14:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
::Are you sure that your browser supports it? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 10:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

==[Implemented] Redirects Here ==

I would LOVE to have a way for admins to see, at the top or bottom of each page, a simple list of pages which redirect to the current page. Just like [[Special:Whatlinkshere]], but listing ONLY the redirects, and appearing '''on the same page''' as the content (if the user is an admin) separated by an <nowiki><hr></nowiki> so I don't have to click through to it. I would also love to have a few text fields below the list of redirects where I could add multiple NEW redirects quickly. This would help in my projects immensely. -- [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 17:05, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
:Added to Bugzilla as [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11083 #11083]. [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]]
In response to my request for this, [[w:User:Splarka|Splarka]] put together a nice proof-of-concept at [[w:User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js]]. It adds a link to activate it in the '''toolbox''' (below the search box) and displays the results below the page title. – [[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

::A feature that accomplishes this same task has been integrated into the whatlinkshere as of version 1.13.0.--[[User:Mjr162006|Matt]] 22:33, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
== Automatic Linking (with Bug) ==

I'd really like to have an extension that allows automatic linking as an option (because I can't ask all of my users to know of and link to every other page that exists in the wiki on their own... Can this be done? If anyone knows of a current way to do this please reply to this thread. Thanks. --[[User:129.111.144.30|129.111.144.30]] 17:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

: See [[Extension:AutoLink]]. [[User:89.52.129.174|89.52.129.174]] 12:25, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

:: There is a realy little bug in that [[Extension:AutoLink]] - but I don't know PHP to repair it. [[User:89.52.146.8|89.52.146.8]] 07:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension talk:AutoLink]]. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 12:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

:::: I did it with no success. Only <nowiki>[ ]</nowiki> has to be added to the to the mapIgnoringBlocks. But I don't now how to do it. Is here someone who knows php?[[User:89.52.137.94|89.52.137.94]] 06:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

:::::Do you mean a single set of brackets? If so, I added it (but haven't tested it) to [[extension:AutoLink#version which matches all pages]]. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 07:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

== Auto short URL links ==

You enter <nowiki>http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new</nowiki><br /> to an edit page and the system makes the article display [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]<br /> just as if you'd have entered <br /><nowiki>[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Extension_requests&action=edit&section=new mediawiki.org]</nowiki>. <br /> Shouldn't affect existing [url Alt text] entries but all URLs that are eneterd as above --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 13:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

== Frappr Extension ==

I assume its really easy, but I don't know php. I'd really like to be able to embed a frappr (www.frappr.com) map into my wiki so that users can mark where they are from.
If this is more simple than I realize please just email me. dave at consumersolidarity.org

[[User:75.111.44.66|75.111.44.66]] 02:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
:it seems to be shockwave flash, so [[Extension:Flash]] ought to work. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Advanced Linking ==

'''Tags:'''
<Addtextgotourl> - Start tag to activate the code
</Addtextgotourl> - End tag for the end of the code
</getpath> - The tag will be replaced with typed text in The text field, This tag gonna get the filepath who is typed in the text field
</getdomainname> - the tag will be replaced with typed text in the domainname text filed

'''Code:'''
<Addtextgotourl>
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Image= YPagename or no text
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name

</addtextgotourl>

'''Actions:'''
&action=edit&section=new - For editing a wiki page
noaction - If no is the action the text in the field willl be produeced in the link as notext

'''Other Commands'''
Pagebeforenter - you will enter a page with some information for the link place , And a directly link with the text enter
Linktext - if you select no pagebforenter you will get a link text like this <nowiki> [http://www.example.com link yourlinktext]
Namespace - Choose the namespace
Category - Choose the category
</nowiki>
Image - Image:file.format if you have a image you will use with the directly link or a link to the dynamic page pagebeforeenter!...

'''Parameters'''
url=http://www.</getdomainname>/</Getpath>
Action= (&action=edit&section=new) To Edit the page | (noaction) For no Action
Pagebeforenter= Yes or no
Linktext=Pagename
Category= name
Namespace= Namespace name
Image= Pagename or no text

'''This Idea is by [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Zizanzu Zizanzu]'''

Can this be a good idea?.it need to be little imrpoved
but a good start

== WhosOnline extension ==

I'm not sure if this request fits here fully or not. Anyways, I was trying to help someone over IRC to make [[Extension:Whos_online]] work on MediaWiki 1.10.x and we ended up here: [http://mediawiki.pastey.net/73126 code on Pasty.net]

The code is corrected, in regards to using the correct table and generating the correct text in $output variable. However, the way $wgOut->parse() is used, makes some gibberish text to be added to the page. I didn't know how to fix it, so I though I might ask others for help here. Practically, it may be only a few seconds for a developer to figure out what the problem is. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 20:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

== External Link - Redirecting ==

Is there possible to make one extension for redirecting to external links like
www.mediawiki.org!

Code:
#REDIRECT <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
or
#REDIRECT-awayfromwiki <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki>
THinked nothing like that
:I think you could maybe create a function in [[MediaWiki:monobook.js]] that looks for such redirects and changes window.location. Why would you need something instead of creating a simple link? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Delete Vandal - Delete a user and all pages that he edited/created ==

The purpose of this extension would be to make it easy to remove a vandal and any trace of what he did.<p>
I would like an extension that given a user name,
* will delete all pages that have been created by that user.
* reverts any edits by that user.
* blocks or deletes the user
* Puts him on a banned list (this is not critical since he is using random user names).

I would really like it it to be liked form the "Recent pages" page, along with the (Talk | Block) links.
:Practically, it is not that esaily achievable I guess. I'm not going to argue the usefulness of it here, just the possibility of performing the tasks yo mentioned:

1) There is no point in deleting the user account, and, I guess it is enough to block it. As far as I know, MediaWiki doens't support deletion of a user account, because if even a single edit is left by that member, deletion of the account can mess every thing up (read below too).

2) Reverting edits is not easily possible. Suppose that he edits a page and modifies several parts of it. After that, a second user makes some more changes (may be, without reverting the vandal's changes even). Then, we may reach a point where software would be unable to undo vandal's changes (I'm pretty certain everyone of us have faced a "cannot undo this change because conflicting intermediate edits"-like message several times). So as you see, some edits cannot be reverted.

My two cents. [[User:Huji|Huji]] 12:31, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

:Just because intermediate edits have taken place doesn't mean restoring a page to a previous state, with edits ''after'' that state, is not perfectly entirely possible since MediaWiki stores ''each'' difference between revisions. It's a mindless task of simply removing the unwanted revisions and combining the later revisions together. —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 13:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

::Well, MediaWiki doesn't really store ''diffs''; it only stores revisions. Deleting a revision by a vandal only makes sense if all the changes made by him are reverted; otherwise, after the revision is deleted, it will look like the user who actually edited after the vandal has made the unreverted changes, which is wrong. Reverts are not possible in 100% of cases. That's what I know [[User:Huji|Huji]] 18:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:::MediaWiki shows differences which can be used to compare revisions and, hence, remove differences/revisions by (a) certain user(s). —[[User:Eep|Eep²]] 02:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

::::When you say differences, what is meant? Display of differences is not the same as any merging feature that would need to know what to do with which side of the equation (e.g., what gets included/what gets removed in the merge). In addition, there is the challenge of information that is needed to be kept but is out of order on a given line. MediaWiki does not have this facility, even though it can display differences. --[[User:Jeffmcneill|Jeffmcneill]] 23:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

:::::The fact that not every change can be rolled back isn't enough to block a "Delete User" feature, be the user a vandal or not. The software can at least tell what it can roll back and what it can't (at least changes that are the latest for a page can certainly be rolled back). If the software can roll back everything, it does so and it deletes the user. Otherwise it could assign its changes that can't be rolled back to some sysop or other moderator account, roll back remaining changes, delete the user and notify the moderator. [[User:Lucrus|Lucrus]] 13:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

:It would seem that the desired functionalities all exist in some form, but just aren't in one central place. The [revert] links to undo each of the users' edits to pages where they had the last word are on [[special:contributions]], the mass-delete is in [[extension:nuke]] and the bannination is done from [[special:blockip]]. What's needed is to consolidate all of these tasks, so that one visit to [[special:blockip]] not only allows an admin to block the user, but also offers pre-checked checkboxes inviting the admin to revert the edits and delete the newly-created pages in the same one step - maybe even giving an option to protect them against re-creation. It would make the task of blocking open spambot proxies a few clicks shorter. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 17:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

::: Additionally, all versions edited by the vandal could get a hint like "the user that edited this version is tagged as vandal, so think twice before trusting its content". [Marc]

== Slideshow with Lightbox ==

I'd love to see an extension that would allow to activate a slideshow with [http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ Lightbox] like the one working on this page :
* [http://dialoguesenhumanite.free.fr/pmwiki.php5?n=Photos2006.Galerie Dialogues en Humanité - Galerie]

--[[User:Dieudo|Dieudo]] 14:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

:My [[User:Alxndr/Lightbox2 hack|Lightbox2 hack]] can do this. It works best for only one image gallery; if there are multiple galleries, Lightbox will think they're part of the same slideshow. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 21:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:Hack is now an extension: '''[[Extension:LightboxThumbs|LightboxThumbs]]'''. —[[User:Alxndr|alxndr]] <span style="font-size:0.8em;">([[User talk:Alxndr|t]])</span> 05:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

== Watching Subpages ==

I'd like to see an extension that would add all subpages to your watchlist when the main page is added. In otherwords, if I were to add MAINPAGE to the watchlist, it would also include MAINPAGE/subpage in the watchlist and all associated talk pages.--[[User:Dukeruckley|Dukeruckley]] 15:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

== Category And Namespace... ==

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*Category
**Category logo (upload image called Categorylogo:categoryname.png , The logo will be showne when your viewing a page with a namespace who have a logo (if not a logo,it will display wikilogo)
**Category Css (viewed from [[Mediawiki:skin/category:categoryname.css , if your viewing this category you get that css)
**Categorysidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __Categorysidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig)
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESICATEGORY=CATEGORYNAME}} you will get displayed how many pages in this Chossed Category</nowiki>
----
*Namespace
**Namespace logo (upload image called NS:namespacename.png Or Namespace:namespacename.png, The logo will be showen when your vieweing a page with a Namespace with a A Logo i(ff not a logo it will display wiki logo))
**Namespace Css (Made in [[Mediawiki:skin/Namespace:Namespacename.css]] )
**Namespace Sidebar (And it wil come up a sidebar for the category in chossed place (it should be possible to writting nothing like __NAMESPACEsidebar__ in the sidebar for current place you gonna addig
**Recent changes on Namespace
**<nowiki> If you type down nothing like {{ALLPAGESINNAMESPACE=id}} you will get displayed how many pages in this namespace</nowiki>
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*News
**A Option for turning up Message box in the localsettings.php £wguse Messagebox= True/false; ([[Extension:Message_Box]])

Here is some ideas i have for future extensions and Mediawiki!.... - --[[User:Zizanzu|Zizanzu]] 13:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

==Lossless rotation of images==
As requested [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2007-September/002689.html here] an extension that is able to rotate images like the one on flickr. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
:[[Commons:User:Rotatebot]] meanwhile does this. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 14:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

::*I strongly support this request. I think it would be even better if not the file itself would be rotated, but if you could chose the orientation like the image size wherever you embed the image. Don't know if that is possible, but it would be really helpful. --[[User:Gollum|Gollum]] 23:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

:MediaWiki uses external utilities such as [http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=82 gd] or [http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php ImageMagick] to resize images. All of these have capabilities and functionality beyond that which MediaWiki currently exposes; for instance "ImageMagick supports about 100 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch; changing colours; stretching, rotating, and overlaying images; and overlaying text on images."
:The images are normally handled by core MediaWiki code (not extensions), but there are exceptions - such as extensions which use images as clickable links or embed external content. Perhaps there's something there that could be used as a starting point for new code? --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

===we need this===
:It would be a real asset to be able to temporary crop or rotate an image already on the Wiki. A tag could control how an existing image appears so we can make it appear rotated or indeed cropped or lightened to show an image. This way one image could be used instead of having to upload several. This would make it easier for non-graphic users to manipulate images. All very easy to do via Imagemagick.

:Something like
:<pre><imgcrop:Example.jpg|X Y H W> or <imgrotate:Example.jpg|90 180 270> <imggamma:Example.jpg|2.2></pre>

:How about it MediaWiki? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 12:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

==User Notification on Article Edit==
This would be the inverse of the '''watch''' feature, in that the article text would define one or more usernames to notify whenever the article is changed. This is a '''"PUSH"''' as opposed to watching being a '''"PULL"'''. It would be very useful for meeting minutes which might contain action items or other information subject to change. The entire group would receive an e-mail notification as if they had selected that article to watch. The wiki text for this might be:

<notify caption="Attendees">
User:Username1
User:Username2
User:Username3
</notify>

This would also cause the listed user's names to be shown on the page, in a box similar to the '''Table of Contents''' box but with a specified caption, to serve as a reminder that these users are to be notified of changes. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 02:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

: After some further searching, this appears similar to [[Extension:Todo Tasks]]. Possibly that extension could be used along with a different template to achieve the above result. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 03:07, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

==Review Date==

An extension to whereby you can add a tag onto a article:-

<review>25.12.2010</review>

then create either a special page or a section on the Main Page of the wiki showing articles past or near their review date.

Useful when creating documentation for a particular project or something that needs to be regularly checked for relevance / accuracy.
--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 10:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:You could just create a <nowiki>{{review|25.12.2010}}</nowiki> template and add that to the article. The Review template would contain a date-parser function so that if the date given by the article (25.12.2010 in this case) was today or in the past, it would add <nowiki><includeonly>[[Category:Articles needing review]]</includeonly> to the article. Then keep tabs on that category and you'll always see what articles need to be reviewed. After review, change the review date in the <nowiki>{{review|}}</nowiki> call and the article will drop out of the category until the new review date comes up. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a go and see what happens.--[[User:Nomis35|Nomis35]] 19:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

: I suggest using [[Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]]. It lets you define dates and can show a timeline (and much, much more very useful things). See [http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events] for an example. --[[User:Tbleher|Tbleher]] 10:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

==Viewcount by Date==
A list of page views per day for each page, so I can know whether or not to rearrange the structure of my wiki.
:You'd probably get more useful information by adding Google Analytics or another tracking service to your site. You can just add the tracking code to the bottom of /skins/MonoBook.php and that will cover nearly all of your users. Add it to the other skins if you think they're being used a lot. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 22:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

== Search statistics ==
Is there any decent method of tracking searches being run? I want a list, ordered by decreasing frequency, of the things my users have typed into the search box. I also want to be able to split this list into those terms for which there is an existing article, and those for which there is not. This would be immensely helpful in making sure that my users are finding the information they're looking for. This extension would also help contributors determine the desire for articles which don't exist yet.

For example, let's say that ''banana'', for which I have an excellent article, was entered 139 times in the last 30 days. However, without this extension, I don't know that ''bananna'' is entered 15 times and ''banananas'' is entered 4 times on my site, but I have redirects in place for neither of these, so all of these searches end up with no useful results. I can correct this problem once this extension has brought it to my attention. I also learn that 430 people searched for ''kiwi'', and I don't even have an article for that yet! --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 23:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
:I wrote a quick and dirty hack that logs every search with search term, ip address, search method and time. Unfortunately there is currently no [[Manual:Hooks|hook]] available when the search is started :( I will have a look at how my hack is working for some days and I'm going to post it afterwards. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:32, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
:: Any luck? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
:::Try [[Extension:Log Searches]] for starters ... as I said ... dirty hack! --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
::::Has there been any progress on this? Frankly I'm amazed MW has no built in search statistics page yet. --[[Special:Contributions/134.129.146.183|134.129.146.183]] 07:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
::::: There is also a similar [[Extension:SearchLog]]. Don't know of any developments for a core MW special page --[[User:Zven|Zven]] 11:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

== Watermark ==
I need hack (extension), who can automaticaly add watermark on every pictur that has been bigger as 300 x 300 pixel. Thank you. --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 15:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:I don't think anyone believing in open source software will support such suggestions. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 18:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
:: :/ --[[User:88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 12:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

:Flo, I fail to see the dichotomy between open content licensing of images and adding a small watermark credit line to such images ''to ensure they are actually attributed as their license requires''. It is an uncontested fact that open content images are rampantly used without any attribution at all, to the great angst of creators, and that this has resulted in a strong disincentive for semi-pro and pro photographers and other image creators to release free images at all. If the watermark were minimalistic, a credit line, this extension would substantially ''increase'' the overall amount of high quality free content material available, because it would give a better assurance to such creators that they will actually be attributed if they release free images. You might say this extension is exactly what a lot are waiting for, even. [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 10:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

::Not every wiki is used in an "open" format anyway. There are many applications where an open format is totally inappropriate (propitiatory in-house documentation, etc).[[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

==three tracking pages==
There are often articles I don't want to keep on a watch list, but sometimes want to check up on. I envision these similar to Special:Contributions. First, Special:Created (for articles that the user created), Special:Contributionsunchanged (for articles where the user's edit serves as the most recent version), and Special:Articlestouched (like Special:Contributions with duplicates removed). Feel free to choose better names, though. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 15:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:These all sound quite useful. Good ideas. --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 15:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
:What about putting such articles on a page and checking them via "related changes"? --[[User:213.182.155.146|213.182.155.146]] 13:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
::That's manual updating of another "watch list", which is what I am hoping to avoid. These are the sort of things many people will often want to keep an eye on from time to time, but not so much that they want to be continually receiving notices like you do with watched pages. It ought to be straightforward (almost trivial) to implement, yet ''extremely'' convenient. ? <span style="font-family: Eurostile, Charcoal, Virtue, Chicago;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 18:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== Filter content by IP/hostname ==

I would like a way to display different content based on whether the user is coming from within or outside of my LAN, based on their IP. Something like this:

<nowiki> This is page content that shows up for everyone. <externalonly>This is page content that
shows up only for visitors outside the designated IP ranges.</externalonly><internalonly>This is page
content that shows up only for visitors inside the designated IP ranges.</internalonly> Here is some
more page content that everyone sees.</nowiki>

This is not intended to be a security measure, since the user could edit the page and see all of the content, but just one to make it easier to tell the user things that apply only to them. For example, my internal audience might know exactly which building to go to for an event, but the external audience might need more detailed information, maps, full phone numbers instead of just an extension, and so on. Is this even possible? Would there be a way to still cache pages? --[[User:Jonathan Kovaciny|Jonathan Kovaciny]] 14:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== RSS / Atom Feeds on Related changes ==

Although you can subscribe to a feed on Recent changes and New pages, it would be very helpful to support feeds from Related changes pages. In particular, the Related changes from a Category page would allow a user to receive a feed for all changes made to articles within a specified category. [[User:Wmjohn6217|Bill Johnson]] 19:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
:I also think it might be useful (actually, I has been asked this functionnality, for a corporate use) [[User:Gizmhail|Gizmhail]] 14:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

== automated e-mail obfuscation ==
I'd love to see an extension that automatically obfuscates any e-mail address included in an article. Maybe replacing all (or some) of the letters with images and/or HTML code. Other methods exist too... [[User:70.103.216.66|70.103.216.66]] 21:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

== Brainstorm feature ==

It will be very cool to have such feature in MediaWiki as it was done in Britannica.

[http://www.akappleug.org/reviews/2006/10/17/encyclopaedia-britannica-2007-deluxe-on-dvd/]

''A “brainstorm” feature maps relationships between ideas, subjects, and people as you go through the encyclopedia. It is fascinating to browse through subjects and watch a virtual brainstorm of related subjects coalesce around chosen articles, leading you to additional interesting paths to take.''

Screenshot (poor, though) is there: [http://akappleug.org/reviews/img/Reviewed/Oct06/britannica_pic2.jpg]

For what you are looking for first we need the semantic version of MediaWiki which is [[Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki]]. For SMW there are also extension and you need the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MOCA MOCA Extention]. See an implementation example on [http://frema.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Entities]

== Machine Translation Feature ==

Add a mechanism that sends the substantive content of an article to an online translation service (like Google Translate or Babelfish).

Bonus points if the translated text could somehow be integrated back into the original page, with a clear indication to the user that an automated translation has been performed.

== Block certain E-mail address domains ==

Dunno if this really needs an extension or if it could be set in SpecialUserlogin.php.<br />
I've set that users need to confirm their e-mail address in order to edit pages. Now it would be nice to block some free spam domains like [http://spam.la spam.la]. Possibilities:
* do not send such confirmation mails to blocked domains
* do not allow to enter blocked domains in Create Account ''and'' User Preferences

Thought about entering such a domain to $wgSpamRegex but it only controls page edits.
~~Subfader

== Block account creation if E-Mail address already exists ==
Have problem with a spam bot using the same mail address to create fake accounts for an attack session.
~~Subfader

==Category navigation - Change order==
I'd like to see an extension that gives you a little more features to the category listings, esp. when there are more than 200 subcategories or articles listed. E.g. switch order (ASC, DESC), or a drop-down menue to choose the number of listed items instead of 200 default for all and everyone. ~~Subfader
:Could maybe be done via Javascript. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
::Yeah I dunno how but I do know it's not hard to set up. It should be possible to also set a standard order in the category. (E.g. a special categoy page which I want to order descending instead of ascending as per default. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

== Flexible Watchlists ==
I'd love to see an extension that allows flexible lists just like the watchlist but without displaying the latest changes, e-mail notification on changes etc., primarily just to list the articles I have added to the list.<br />
Example: Many wikis are about collectable things. Let's assume a wiki about those pokemon cards. Each article of the main namespace stands for one unique pokemon card. Now it would be great if users could keep track of which they already have and which they want. So I imagine new tabs where the "watch" is located reading sth like: [own] [want].<br />
So combined with that, those lists should be located on top aswell where "my watchlist" is atm. In this example it would be "my collection" and "my wantlist". I could also imagine a list for "my favourite articles". Such a list itself should primarily list the articles which were added to it. Now even more awesome would be to search inside such personal list :)

Such a feature could also come with some added value for all users by giving out statistic lists like:<br />
On each article page: "X users own this" or "X users want this" or "X users boomarked this" etc. or "Hitlists" like most owned or most wanted. Or for personal use: List all articles not in my collection or not in my wantlist...

The names for those lists should be easily changable at one place of the code (sth like $list1name= and $list2name=). Note that eachlist has 2 names; one for adding it to the list and one name to display the list. Flexible names would be important cos of the different use of the wikis which may use it. E.g. in my wiki articles are not called articles. Or in the pokemon wiki "artcile" could be called "card page" etc.<br />
I hope I could demonstrate the variety of possibilities by such felxible watchlists. If anyone has an idea how to set this up, pls let me know!<br />
It would be great if such an extension would work on my MW 1.8.2 ;) --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

==Search this category==
Had the idea when testing [[Extension:Multi-Category Search]]. So a simple search box will pop up on every category page. It searches like the standard search, but it only considers articles in the according category. Combined with that a new search field could be added on the Multi-Category Search on top for normal text search... I post here cos I doubt the devs read their extension talk page. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 01:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

==Limit edits per minute for new users==
I am looking for a way of limiting the number of edits new users (say for the first week or two) can create per minute.
I am also looking for some way of identifying accounts that don't make any edits at all during that period. Any help is gratefully appreciated! [[Special:Contributions/217.65.158.124|217.65.158.124]] 10:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
:For the first part, you can use [[Manual:$wgRateLimits|$wgRateLimits]] with, for example, <code>$wgRateLimits['edit']['newbie'] = array( 2, 60 );</code> to allow new users (i.e. non autoconfirmed) to make 2 edits in one minute. This require caching, see [[Manual:$wgMainCacheType|$wgMainCacheType]].
:For the second part, you can run the <code>removeUnusedAccounts.php</code> script in the maintenance directory (it won't remove the account by default, it will just show it), but it lists all account that didn't make edits at all. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 11:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Encrypt / decrypt wiki content ==
Is it possible to create a MediaWiki extension which ables :

- to encrypt content with a public key on edit

- to decrypt content with a private key on display ? (I guess the user have to be prompted once to give the key)

Maybe such an extension already exists ?

Second question : Is it best to encrypt/decrypt client side with javascript for server performance reasons ?

Thanks for your help.

Vincent - [[Special:Contributions/83.137.240.218|83.137.240.218]] 12:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

== Register your collection / Bookmark Wiki pages ==
I partake in maintaining a wiki about comicbooks. Most (but not all) pages on the wiki detail individual comicbooks. I would love to let users ''register their comicbook collection'' on the wiki, by adding such pages to a list stored in their profile. Both for their own leisure, and if they want to: to show off to others.

So what I'd love is a "register your collection" extension that:
* when installed adds a tab to the tabrow called "Add this to your collection". When the tab is clicked -- like when "Watch" is clicked it turns to "Unwatch" -- it turns into "Remove from collection".
* adds an extra link to the top-right user area, called "my collection", which lists bookmarked pages.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<mycollection />", which users can add to their user pages. When doing that, other users would be able to see their collection.
* adds a tag called, for instance, "<collectible />", which must be added to all pages that describe collectible items.
** because a single page could possibly detail two or more different editions of the same collectible, it would be nice to be able to distinguish betweeen editions by inserting two <collectible /> tags. For instance, <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, first edition" />, and <collectible title="Abraham Merrit, The Moon Pool, second edition" />.

I'm sure wikis such as Memory Alpha and Wookieepedia would love to let their users register their collection on their wikis, so I'm convinced there's an audience for this type of extension. Finally, I imagine the extension could also easily be used simply as a bookmarking extension. Your thoughts, and possibly your skills, are very welcome. [[User:Joen|Joen]] 19:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

:I want something similar: [[Extension_requests#Flexible_Watchlists]] --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 17:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

==Private Messages system==
Could be based on [[Extension:MediaWiki Bulletin Board]]. But I hate this extension cos the devs don't seem to care much about it. The PM system should use the following features additionally to what MWBB already features:
*load edit toolbar like on a normal edit page, including preview
*Inbox and Outbox (for sent messages)
*On a reply: load old message(s) like forum quotes, leave space on top of the edit field for the new reply (to force "latest on top" order)
*Option to delete selected messages in Inbox and Outbox
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:37, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

==Slideshare==
[[mw:Extension:SlideShare|Slideshare Extension]]
[[Special:Contributions/124.176.23.250|124.176.23.250]] 12:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

==Email Article to a Friend==
How about having an extension that will allow users to email articles to a friend? This can be achieved by having a small icon appear at the top right corner of each article. Once that icon is clicked the user can input his/her friends' emails. A link to the article is then sent to the list of friends.

==Proper Ajax Rating==
[[Extension:AjaxRatingScript]] is full of bugs and most people are not able to install it. Devs are only communicating on their own wiki which is horror. So pls don't tell me to suggest it there.<br />
I'd like a rating system that is fully integrated in the wiki:
*Option for admin to decide if only logged in users can rate or everybody (while considering only registered users is more safe against abuse)
*Each rating section on an article page should have some link "Details" (link to different page or better as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NavFrame collapsible NavFrame])
**See who else voted how (with linked users name and his ratings)
**Update your vote: see your own rating (simply bold in above "users who rated" list) and enable updating it by simply rating again
*Special page for
**"Best rated articles" listing the best 50 | 100 | 250 | 500 rated articles of the wiki
**Unrated articles
*Integration on user profile: A user should be able to add some code on his profile page so "My favourites" are displayed: (5 | 10 | 25 | 50) best rated atricles by User...
*Option for admin to display the rating behind article links on categories. Combined with that: Option to sort articles in a category by rating
*Some smart way to delete all votes by abusers (e.g. users who obviously rate everything worst or best to manipulate results)
:Why not consider [[Extension:JSKitRating]] ? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 13:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
::Cos I never saw exmaples using it and it cannot do what I requested above. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

==User View Statistics==
When establishing a new wiki it is useful to be able to gauge user uptake. [[Extension:Contribution Scores]] is great for giving a good overview of user edits but gives no appreciation of user view activity. [[Extension:UserPageViewTracker]] is too detailed in that it breaks down the stats on a per page basis making it difficult to compare all users. A simple view count for each registered user would be very useful. I would like to see this as an additional column in the report output by [[Extension:Contribution Scores]]. A helpful addition would be to also provide a count of page views for all unregistered users i.e. a single total NOT per IP address! A final possible enhancement would be to allow break down of the stats by namespace (so long as it didn't impact performance too much). --[[User:Phil Clark|Phil]] 10:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

==Simplified New Pages Embeding==
First of, excuse me if something to do this already exists. Ive looked all over the site and google without luck.
Im after an extension to embed a summery of the Special:Newpages on the main page of my wiki.

I know it is possible to limit the number of records displayed by using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages/5}}</nowiki> however it still provides alot of information that is unnecessary on the main page.

At present information is displayed in the normal format;

''05:30, 3 April 2008 ? Sandbox(hist) ?[746 bytes] ?Dargrotek (Talk | contribs) (create''')

However on a main page that can be very cluttering and want to change the format to something similar to the following.

''3 April 2008 -? "Sandbox" Created by ?Dargrotek''

Also the ability to limit what type of pages are displayed as well would be extremely usefull so that new images wont show up and so on. Can anyone help or point me in the direction of an existing extension? --[[User:Dargrotek|Dargrotek]] 19:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
: First off, images etc don't show up using <nowiki>{{Special:Newpages}}</nowiki>. Hack /includes/SpecialNewpages.php to remove useless info. Not recommended but easy: In your case find <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$dm}{$plink} ({$hist}) {$dm}[{$length}] {$dm}{$ulink} {$comment}";</nowiki> and change to sth like <br /><nowiki>return "{$time} {$plink} created by {$ulink};";</nowiki><br />--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

==List all audio files==
I'd like to have an parser extension that enables listing audio files being uploaded to the wiki (mp3 only is ok):
*either all or per user
*enable defining an order of the upload date (sort by filename is useless for me)
*always list the pages on which it is used (What links here)
Something like this:
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|DESC}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded to the wiki (so I can place it whereever I want instead of a special page), order will be descending, all linked to pages are listed
*<code><nowiki>{{#audiolist|all|Mike}}</nowiki></code> - will list all mp3's uploaded by User:Mike (so Mike can put a list of his audio files on his user page for example), no order defined > ASC is default, all linked to pages are listed
The code which generates the output should be in wiki markup (maybe stored as a template). The reason is that I use a player extension (not listed on MW yet) that generates output for audio files already and the new extension should list it the same. I tried to use the html output of that player extension in it's php file but can't get it working. So the output should work like this:
*User Mike has uploaded 3 files. A.mp3, B.mp3, C.mp3
*The template for the output could read my player parser code including the audiolist parameter:<br />
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{paramFILE}}}}} - used on: {{{paramLinkedTo|<br />}}}</div></nowiki></code>
*So entering <code><nowiki>{{audiolist|all|Mike|DESC}}</nowiki></code> on some page should work like the following code was added manually to that page:
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{C.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article hdf]]<br />[[Article kghkh]]<br /></div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{B.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article sasxckh]]<br />[</div></nowiki></code>
:<code><nowiki><div style="some:code">{{#mp3player|{{{A.mp3}}}|bla blubba}} - used on: [[Article psdgfh]]<br />[[Article xdfa2o3]]<br />[[Article z9s84]]</div></nowiki></code>

Listing all could also be a Special page with search function, but using the same template.

Might be useful:
*[[Special:Imagelist]]
*[[Special:Log/upload]]
*[[Manual:Mime type detection]]
*[[Special:MIMEsearch]]
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 21:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Word substitution ==
I need an extension to do the same as [[Extension:AutoLink]] but that would be able to point to external pages.
The best thing I think would be an extension that:
# when an article is saved
# it parses the 'to-be-saved' text searching for strings existing in a dictionary
# if such a string is found in the 'to-be-saved' text it gets substituted with the 'translation' of it from the dictionary

I'll try to make myself clear with an example:

*I save an article containing the following text:<pre>bla hello bla bla wikipedia bla bla bla</pre>
*I then have a dictionary say called [[mediawiki:substitution]] containing the following:
<pre>wikipedia//[en.wikipedia.org wikipedia]
yahoo//[www.yahoo.com yahoo]
hello//greetings
whatever you want to translate//whatever you want to have instead</pre>
*the resulting page should be:<pre>bla greetings bla bla [en.wikipedia.org wikipedia] bla bla bla</pre>

Thank you,

--[[User:DonGiulio|DonGiulio]] 20:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

:Check what [[Extension:AutoLink]] can do for you. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

==AJAX Capability Testing==

We have $wgUseAjax to determine if AJAX is used on this wiki. But it would be nice to have a function that other extensions can call to check whether AJAX is likely to work.

If $wgUseAjax is off, this function would always give false. If it is on, the extension would add an option to the user preferences: "Use AJAX: yes/no/autodetect" (with autodetect being the default, I'd guess). If this was set to auto, the extension would first check the browser identification against a known list (maybe), and then if unsure it would send the user a simple chunk of javascript which calls an Ajax function to say "yes it works", and this data could be stored in session and/or cookie.

It could also be useful to have such an extension which knows (or can test) the different capabilities of different browsers, such that other extensions could check the availability of certain javascript functions. (For example, I believe I read that if sent an XML document as an ajax response, some browsers will parse it into a document object, but some don't have this functionality. In this case, it would be useful for an extension author to have a function they can call to determine which javascript to send the client) Of course in the case of $wgUseAjax being off or the user disabling javascript in their preferences, these functions could return false even if the client is actually capable.

[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

== Search results direct link ==
The Search button returns a list of all articles that include the term in the search box, and the list items include wikilinks to the pages. In order to find the search phrase, however, the user must follow the link to the page and then search again, either manually or with the browser's Find function. It would be helpful if the user could link directly to the first occurrence of the term in each page listing. --[[User:Furboy|Furboy]] 18:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
:Have you seen [[Help:Search]] (GO function) and [[Extension:GoToCategory]]? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 16:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
::Neither of these seem to do what he was asking for. However, it sounds like it should be a fairly simple extension to write. I'll see what I can do if I have time tonight [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
:::The extension would require you to take the target page and drop an anchor on that search term - I'll be interested to see the implementation. ;-) [[User:Tim_Laqua|Tim Laqua]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Tim_Laqua|talk]]</small></sup> 02:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
::::Highlighting the search terms and wrapping anchors around the first instance isn't a big deal ... a crude implementation could do it using an OutputPageBeforeHTML handler, just run a preg_replace over the page text to insert anchors and highlighting. (I'm sure there's more refined ways to do it if you look)
::::The place I'm falling down is making the search results page generate links which contain the search terms. So far, the only solution I can find involves inserting a new hook in SpecialSearch::showHit (after line 364 in SpecialSearch.php, I added one line)
wfRunHooks('RenderSearchResult', &$link, &$t, &$extract, $size)
::::I'd rather not play with the core code, but I don't see any existing hooks which could enable this
::::-- [[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 18:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Page creation in extention code ==

Hi, I'm writing an extension and I need to create a category and add some wikitext in it directly in the php code of my extention. I tried Article::doEdit, and the code below :
<code>

$newtitle = Title::newFromText($name, NS_CATEGORY);

$newcategory = new Article($newtitle);

$newtext = "<nowiki>[[Category:$parent_cat]]</nowiki>";

$newcat = $newcategory->doEdit($newtext,'Project', EDIT_NEW );

</code>
But I always get an error... (MyExtention::getContent() undefined for Article::doEdit and T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM for the second case).
I don't know if it's a good place to post this problem but I didn't know where to post it.

Regards, --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 08:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

: I think you mean $newcategory->doEdit ? --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 09:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, It's ok now ! --[[User:Teriblus|Teriblus]] 09:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

== MapLib extension ==

is posible to create a extension to add a iframe from MapLib like <maplib width="'''400'''" height="'''400'''">'''999999999'''</maplib> to do a:

<iframe src="<nowiki>http://www.maplib.net/fullmap.php?id=</nowiki>'''999999999'''" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="width:'''400'''px;height:'''400'''px;border:0px"></iframe>

thanks.

:Seems like a fairly simple extension, should only take a few minutes. I'll get back to you later today. --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 01:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

== Per user Statistics ==
Is possible to add a tab in user page with statistics like edit count, creation count, age, and so on, and also something like a personal page in which a user can descrive his preferences or other features

==Homepage/Portal==
I'd like to see an extension that gives a wiki the ability to allow its users to personalize the main page.
The content included within the main page modules could be either controlled by the site admin/bureaucrat, or if they allow, could include custom user made modules...

The idea is to make the main page look as professional as possible, allowing user personalization to entice them to use it more regularly as their 'home page', thus further contribute to the wiki and engage with the community.

A perfect example of what I am talking about is the [http://www.bbc.com BBC] site, with its movable and configurable modules.

Desired features:
*Designed for the main page
*Ajax modules movable, collapsible and able to be added/removed as chosen by user
*User settings remember user preferences
*Admin/bureaucrat acceptance required for user made custom modules (if allowed at all)
*Admin/bureaucrat control over allowing users to create and add their own custom modules
*Admin/bureaucrat control over what modules have to be displayed no matter what
*Content much still be readable/search-able by search engines

Examples of what is available, but meet different needs, but if combined, could make a user personalized homepage/portal
*[[Extension:My_portal|My Portal]] - Portal extension, poorly supported and based on user special page as opposed to main page.
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles#Andy.27s_AJAX_.2F_JavaScript_Skin Andy's Skin] - A skin using ajax that allows for users to move boxes, minimize/maximize them, and add favorites.
*[http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Userboxes_extension Wikia Userboxes Extension] - A extension that gives a user the ability to make custom modules for their user page

This I believe would take wikis the next step in personalization and presentation/skinning.

--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 03:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

==Save all the Content==
I search a solution to save all the content from my wiki with the ending ".pdf". (Like Extensios.pdf)
I imagine like i click on the "Save all!"-Button and all the Content is saved with the correct title in a folder on my server.
(sorry but my bad english)

--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 06:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
:Backing up the complete site on your server is not enough? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

::My problem is the content should be portable for everyone in our team when he/she doesn't have internet--[[Special:Contributions/83.76.88.30|83.76.88.30]] 12:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

== 'grab my edits' ==

I'd like to see an extension to allow a user to retroactively claim responsibility for their edits in case they forgot to login.

Essentially, you'd have a "claim my edits" tickbox on the login page, which associates your username with any anonymous edits coming from your IP address since you last logged in. (I'm currently doing this on my wiki by manually hacking the database)

== AJAX autocomplete ==

I'd like to see an extension that autocompletes page names. This is on my to-do list, but I'll post here in case it already exists, or someone has ideas to do it in a better way.

When you type '<nowiki>{{</nowiki>', it would produce a little pop-up box (preferably below the cursor) listing all the templates, most commonly used first. As you start typing a template name, it acts as a filter on the list. Each list entry would be clickable to complete it, and would also have "view template" (in popup window) and "edit template" links next to it. Once the user has typed '<nowiki>{{templatename|</nowiki>' or clicked one in the list, a popup appears listing common parameters for that template (possibly just searching the template for all <nowiki>{{{.*}}}</nowiki> blocks, possibly something a little more complex).

Similarly, typing '<nowiki>[[</nowiki>' would produce a popup list of pages. If the list of all pages is too long, it would only show pages which link to this one, until the user has typed enough letters to allow a sensible-sized list (or until they click a 'find all options' button).

:--[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

An extension is available on wikia, it's called LinkSuggest [http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Link_Suggest]. I've contacted the author Inez Korczynski who told me it's going to be released soon.
Cheers

==Addthis Social Boomarking==
[[Extension:Social Bookmarking]] uses [http://addthis.com Addthis] but the solutions is very unhandy.
*I'd like to see the Addthis button below the toolbox and for every page or defined namespaces.
*Enable via gadget for those who want to use it. Cos I think what keeps most admins from installing a social bookmarking feature is that it's annoying for those who don't use this. The extra loads for Addthis interrupts loading the wiki page (just like google ads do sometimes). Yes there other extensions with static buttons but Addthis is more complete (I don't need to worry about adding new sites) and is pretty handy.
*Additionally, when you have an account there it gives you click statistics(!). So adding / using the original script (with the addthis account name) in the extension is essential for me.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 07:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

:Don't know if this will suit you, but maybe a possibility...
:[http://jldupont.com/Widget:Addthis Widget:Addthis]
:You would need [http://jldupont.com/Extension:SecureWidgets Extension:SecureWidgets] for it to work.
:--[[User:HTPCnz|HTPCnz]] 06:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks, but I want it appear on every page when user enables the gadget. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 08:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
::: Use [[Extension:HeaderFooter]] perhaps? [[user_talk:jldupont|Jean-Lou Dupont]] 18:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

==Advanced Reading Restriction for Anonymous Users==
I am wondering if any extension can restrict the reading right of anonymous users. Examples may be that after specified pages viewing it would auto-direct anonymous users to register or it restricts the reading rate(ie, pages/hr ). I think that would be great to increase the proportion of registered users. Thanks for discussion.
:Note that those restrictions suck a lot and actually end up in teh other direction. I never register at sites (mostly forums) where content is hidden for visitors. I just leave. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
::However,that is why I dont use the original function of the Mediawiki,which can hide the information. I just want to give users a choice. You can just keep anonymous to get all information. For example, after 10 pages viewing, the extension directs user to register. But the anonymous user can go back to the normal page without any difficult.

==Gadget: User Sidebar==
A Gadget that (if enabled) will override the MediaWiki:Sidebar config with the user's very own config.
<br />The user's config list could be stored in a users subpage, e.g. in User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar.<br />A problem might be what the sidebar displays after enabling the gadget and the user's config page doesn't exist yet. A workaround could be: If enabled, use MediaWiki:Sidebar when User:<nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki>/Sidebar doesn't exist / is empty (User could clear). It could also created automatically (with default content) when a new user registers (using [[Extension:NewUserMessage]]) and to let a bot add it to the existing accounts.
<br/>See also [[Extension:SidebarEx]], [[Extension:SysopSidebar]]     --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 12:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

== Email Client ==
A extension that makes a special page for a E-mail client.

==Images in categories==
'''The problem''': When you categorize images into the same categories as articles they're listed on the category page as "Media files" below the articles. There's nothing wrong about it. The problem is the counting and the navigation of both.<br />The standard limit of 200 = articles + files. E.g. you have 183 articles and 30 images in the same category: On the bottom you'll have 17 images (200-183) reading "next 200" or you have 250 artciles and some images. The images won't appear until you click "next 200". How am I supposed to know there are images in the category when opening it?

'''Possible solutions''': Split the counting and navigation
*List all images below the articles. When browsing next 200 articles, only list the rest of the articles.
*List all images independetly from the article navigation but in a kinda iframe with vertical scrollbar. The frame could be 5 image boxes wide and 2 image boxes high and placed above the article links section.
*Split up article and image count and navigation. E.g. 500 articles and 500 images: When browsing forward to articles 401-500 still show images 1-200. When browsing now images 201-400 still keep articles 401-500. For a better navigation it may good to only list like 40 images but 200 article links.
--[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 19:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

==User friendly way to flag/request pages==
'''The problem''': I am trying to develop a super user-friendly way for users to flag a page for review, and separately, request a page that doesn't exist (not create it per se, but request the page to be created by someone else). I realize this is as easy as adding some kind of "review" or "request" template to a page but what if I assume most of my users are not wiki-proficient. Is there a very simple way (ie clicking one button) for users to flag a page for review/request a page that does not exist yet.

'''Possible solutions''': Ideally any solution would require no editing on behalf of a user - just one click. Thanks!

==Move pages via find / replace==
A special page lists a find and a replace input box. The extension finds the page titles with the given word and moves the pages to the new title which replaced the word with the new one. The result should be a valid move (with redirect).<br />[[Extension:Replace Text]] does that for page content but not for titles. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 11:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

== Support docbook ==
Like some feature in [http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/ docbookwiki].

== Related news extension request==
Information of what extension will do: http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki/issues/detail?id=20 Hope someone develop it. Thanks

== Template Extension ==
is there an extension that can get me all the important templates like Infoboxes and tables, stuff like that..
I've tried importing those pages from wikipedia and other Wiki's but on the page it just has.. well alot of stuff that should not be there
so is there an extension for that or how do i do this?
--[[Special:Contributions/70.100.80.125|70.100.80.125]] 18:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

== Search Extension ==
As in our wiki we link not only images, but also some files .doc or .ppt or .pdf, is there an extension that makes it possible to search also into these files?
[[User:Cattest|Cattest]] 09:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

== WhiteBoard Extension ==
A simple freehand drawing tool, like a whiteboard, where authors can draw pictures.<br>
Minimum tool bar: freehand pencil, shapes, and Text tools.<br>
Newly created image file can be saved on the server and indexed.<br>
Old images can be added to or edited.<br>
Real-time multi-client draw control, to show many clients the image as it is being drawn, and who has the pen.<br>
Eventually multiple clients could draw at the same time.

==Edit Preview Redirect List==
I was editing my wiki when I got an idea. What about having an extension that lists the any redirect pages that are linked to on the current page when previewing an edit? I couldn't seem to find an existing extension like this. Sound good?--[[User:Mjr162006|Mjr162006]] 22:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)<br><small>PS: Could someone please archive the older parts of this page. It is very difficult to edit with it being so big.</small>

==Indent first line==
In formal writing, the first line of every paragraph is indented. However, the only options are either to use 8 HTML spaces or to use another line for separating paragraphs. However, the first one is messy and the second is harder to read. So my idea is for a special symbol (like [ind] or [indt]) to be automatically replaced by 8 HTML spaces or equivalent indent. Or simply make the ":" character indent ONLY the first line. (By the way, I'm requesting this as a result of "problems" at Novelas.)
:You can use CSS to solve this. Just modify your default style sheet or add a template like this <pre><p style="text-indent: 2em">...</p></pre>--[[User:Benjamin Garn|Benjamin Garn]] 19:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

== WikiFamily / Interwiki: sharing with just one Login ==
Is there a possible way to login once for multiple wikis?

I have installed three wikis, each for a language (e.g. English, German and Spanish). Each wiki has a different URL. Do you know a possible way to log in at the English wiki and then to switch to the spanish wiki and edit pages? (In my installation, Page-Edits are only possible after login).
:See [[Extension:CentralAuth]]. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 18:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

== Move section to Sub-Page ==
Does anyone have any suggestions to make the task of migrating large pages to sub pages?
I've seen talk of a bot which could break up a page based on H2 level tags, but can't find the source of it anywhere.

I would imagine an extra button on the edit section page "Make this section a sub-page". Then the full section contents would be pushed as a sub-page of the current page (with title=heading of the current section), and the full text of the current section would be replaced by a transclusion of the new page.

==Easier select and copy method==
I have noticed whenever some people have to copy a long code written on a wiki page, they have to wait a very long time for the whole code to be selected. So I am proposing a new button with an opacity of 50% on the top right corner of any code on a wiki page. Its function would be to select the code and copy it in a click. You can't use control + A for this since this method highlights everything on the page.
This extension should be called Extension:Autocopy. Worth looking into. --''''<font face="freestyle script">[[User:truetech|<span style="color: #CC1100;">Truetech</span>]]</font>''''' ''<font face="Imapct"><small>[[User Talk:Truetech|<span style="color: #AAAAAA;">(Talk)</span>]]</small></font>'' <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] [[Project:Support desk/Support team|'''''<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>''''']]</span> 23:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

==Record Search Queries==
I'm sure this isn't too hard to implement, but I'm drawing a blank on this one. I think a feature rich version of this would be very helpful to any mediawiki owner.

The reason I would like something like this:

*Build more pages based off of what people are looking for
*Create a list of commonly searched for phrases to help noobs
*creates a page full of key words (and misspellings) that get indexed by search engines
*Helps you learn more about your users

anyone willing to help out, please feel free to hit me up on my talk page.

-[[User:Theothertom|Theothertom]] 18:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
==Groupselection + Accountcreation==
I'm not so good in php and so on. Maybe someone can help me.
I need an extension which allowes me to select groups I want to be in while I'm creating an account

example:
A company with 3 groups (group1, group2 and group3)
A new user wants to create an account in the company he's in group1 so he wants to select group1 in the account creation.

Sorry for my bad english :D

==Allow user to delete only files he uploaded himself==
I'd like to see a wg that allows the group User to delete files the user uploaded himself (not other User's files). --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 22:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
:So if the user uploaded the file the [delete] button will appear on top so he can delete the complete thing like a sysop. Maybe add a message that deleting is not possible if the file is still used on other pages. -[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 14:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

==Blanking historical page versions==
I would appreciate an extension that allows the blanking of page versions, or more generally replace them with a chosen text like '(vandal)', while completely removing the orginal content from the database. This both for individual edits and for all edits by one user, and preferably also with the option to permanently remove a version if it is the last version of a page. We've had a lot of mass vandalism lately that inflated our database. Regards, [[User:Guido den Broeder|Guido den Broeder]] 16:39, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

:MW 1.12+ have the script maintenance/[[Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php|deleteOldRevisions.php]] for older versions check [[Extension:SpecialDeleteOldRevisions]]. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 15:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

==Disqus extension==
An extension to allow for Disqus comments to be added to a wiki page. Should allow for customization of comment layout through HTML template, CSS file, and extension configuration. Possible solution includes a checkbox on the mediawiki edit form to enable comments on this article or not.

==What Links Here extension==
A simple extension adding a box at the bottom of article with a list of max. (parameter=10) articles linking here.

Extension talk:CharInsert/Archive 1

2008-10-19T11:32:05Z

Quatermass: /* adding sub or superscript chars */

=2006=
== wikibits.js ==

I've removed the note about <tt>wikibits.js</tt>, since it was misleading several people into believing they had to replace core skin files to get the extension working. Unfortunately, this often caused several other things to break. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 18:17, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

=2007=
== It no works. ==

* MediaWiki: 1.6.8
* PHP: 5.2.0 (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 4.0.23a-log
* Extensions:
** Parser hooks:
*** CharInsert, allows creation of JavaScript box for inserting non-standard characters, by Brion Vibber
** Extension functions:
*** setupSpecialChars
** Parser extension tags:
*** <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki>
:I have no effects on my wiki. What is incorrect? --1 January 2007
:: Do you have an [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] page with content like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools?action=edit on Wikipedia]? -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

==NOWIKI failed on 1.6.10==
I'm using this script and wanted to extend its use by include:
<pre><charinsert>
#REDIRECT[[+]]
<nowiki>{{wiu|+}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki>
</charinsert></pre>
On the preview of [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] it returns the output I (almost) wanted. It only fails to listen to my NOWIKI elements in use of the real editpages. ''(note: <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki></code> is correctly connected to a MagicWord-hook and <code><nowiki>{{wiu}}</nowiki></code> is a existing Template)'' -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

: I fixed this -in a way- by translating to UTF8
:<pre>&#123;&#123;wiu|+&#125;&#125; &#123;&#123;{{CURRENTUSER}}&#125;&#125;</pre>
: -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 12:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

== newbie notes ==

As someone who is just starting out installing and using Wiki's (as in I just started today) I thought I'd add some notes for those who are just getting going and save the hour I just wasted trying to figure out what to do.

* Download the php file.
* Create a folder on your server in /extensions called CharInsert
* dump the php file there
* add the <nowiki>require_once("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php"); </nowiki> line to the LocalSettings.php file in your root.

Thats the install

Now to edit the Edit page

go to: index.php/MediaWiki:Edittools?action=edit

This brings up the editor interface allowing you to edit text that will be displayed at the bottom of every Edit page.

Put in this text and save.

<nowiki><charinsert> Á á Ć ć É é Í í Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ó ó Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ú ú Ý ý Ź ź </charinsert></nowiki>

--28 February 2007

:::OR ANY OTHER TEXT, e.g. the one you may have derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools MediaWiki: Edittools]
::: --[[User:Horst Salzwedel|Horst Salzwedel]] 23:52, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

: It is just does not work. I did everything like you. Added line in localsettings.php, put charinsert.php in charinsert newely created folder in extensions. Is it about permissions for file? I did changed permission to 777. Do not work. Please help.--[[User:71.111.53.144|71.111.53.144]] 20:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:: Thanks for the information! The part about editing the edit page should be on the main installation for further clarification. Note, you can also copy the source from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Edittools&action=edit for more options as well. [[User:159.39.19.254|159.39.19.254]] 16:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

== Using CharInsert for commonly-used images ==

Is it possible to extend CharInsert to provide a "palette" (for lack of a better term) for commonly-used images in a wiki? I'd like the box to show the actual image that will be inserted into the entry, and upon click, would insert the appropriate wiki code to insert the image into the article.

I've goofed around with it some, but it always displays the text of the insert, and never the image I'm trying to call. --[[User:Achernar Dni|Achernar Dni]] 04:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

== Some characters are not displayed correctly ==

I noticed that some characters weren't displaying at all and just gave me the usual � in FF (and rectangles in IE) that you would see if you lacked the fonts and/or language support necessary. I know that couldn't be the case, as they all displayed just fine on a Wikipedia edit page, and what I was using on my own wiki was a direct copy from what Wikipedia had.

The symbols in question that would not display for me were:

† à Š Ġ ム Π Р ɠ ˠ

While they would not display at all in the CharInsert toolbox, they do display just fine when viewed in the edit box or when written outside of the box. This same set of symbols exhibited the same behavior on another MediaWiki installation I have on another computer, also running on a Windows platform. --[[User:87.168.116.1|87.168.116.1]] 20:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

:Same here, it displays fine in the edit window but not when rendered outside of the window. Characters: ≠ † ɠ à and some more. Could that have something to do with the MySQL database? Is this a MySQL5 bug? --[[User:84.176.183.153|84.176.183.153]] 09:56, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

The problem exists only on a Windows-platform (and Solaris), it works fine on a Linux(debian) platform.

I tried to analyze it and I find that the problem arises from a wrong behaviour of the ''php'' function ''preg_split'' that recognizes as a white space one of the two byte-codes of utf-8 code of these characters.
So a workaround on a windows-platform is to substitute the following line (line 55 in file ''charinsert.php'')
<nowiki>preg_split( '/\\s+/', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );</nowiki>
with
<nowiki>split(' +', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );</nowiki>
It has one limit: you can use only a space as character-separator.

--[[Special:Contributions/85.18.66.28|85.18.66.28]] 16:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

:You can also use the following code with PHP 4.2.3 or higher:
preg_split( '/\\s+/u', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );
: The 'u' at the end of the pattern enables UTF-8 mode for the 'preg_split' function, solving the problem described above. --[[Special:Contributions/147.83.123.130|147.83.123.130]] 10:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

== Non-inserted but clickable text ==

Is there a way to add text within the charinsert tag that is shown but not inserted when clicked? For example, some IPA characters (such as stress marks) are very small and hard to click on. I'd like to have "stress mark - '" shown below the edit box, but only the ' mark inserted. --18 September 2007

===Tooltips for CharInsert===

Along the same lines... how about adding support for tooltips in CharInsert... I see it has been talked about in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3550 ... the discussion kinda got derailed by talk of where to lookup the names of symbols to display.... but that is beyond the point... the CharInsert Extension would benefit by supporting tooltips... the issue of where the tooltip text comes from can be left up to whoever is writing the <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki> tags.

In the case of the default <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki> tags, these titles could come from http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html as that is the set of characters we are really defacto limited to in HTML... the last part of each entity reference is probably the most appropriate for human consumption, so for example ¡ would get the title "inverted exclamation mark".

Specific installs of MediaWiki could add or modify the titles to suit their user base... so it should be part of the charinsert syntax

The reasons for this are:
* some charinsert characters are really small and difficult to see/distinguish - example:
** dashes –—−
** diacriticals úùüūǔǖǚǘ
** crossed lines łt
** these are Arabic - ِ-ً-ْ-ّ-ء-ﻫﻣوﻭﻮﺭ
* many people do not differentiate between an en-dash and an em-dash - a tooltip would help them do that
** apply the same reasoning to hundreds of other symbols that commonly get confused
* improved accessibility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Marcinjeske
--[[Special:Contributions/68.167.251.41|68.167.251.41]] 00:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

== Change main instructions... ==

Shouldn't this:
* <code>include("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php");</code>

actually be something like this?

* <code>require_once $IP . "/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php";</code>

When I used "include" mediawiki kept telling me that it was trying to redeclare it's own functions (but only when logging in for some reason.)

I would just edit it, but don't want to make anyone angry... --6 December 2007

== How Can I add space to the text that I want to insert ? ==

I found out the chars are separated with spaces,then how can I add space to my text?
I want to insert this text:
<nowiki>
<source lang="php"></source></nowiki>
but with charinser it divided to 2 objects: '''<source''' and '''lang="php"></source>''' please help me about this issue,
this is an example :

<charinsert><source lang="php">+</source></charinsert>

--[[User:Tofighi|Tofighi]] 06:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

:Ise <code><nowiki></code> tag. I've just added this info on the page. Btw you could just tak a look at the [[w:MediaWiki:Edittools]] source [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 23:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

=2008=
== Having some trouble..... ==

i am getting the following error when i try and load my special pages after installing this extension:
<pre>
Warning: MessageCache::require(/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/extensions/CharInsert.i18n.php) [function.MessageCache-require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes/MessageCache.php on line 699
Fatal error: MessageCache::require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/extensions/CharInsert.i18n.php' (include_path='/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki:/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes:/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/languages:.:/usr/local/share/pear') in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes/MessageCache.php on line 699
</pre>
--18 February 2008
:It appears CharInsert.i18n.php is missing in extensions/, which is where the software expects it... [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 23:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
::there is only one thing to download though on the extension page. where do i find that other file? [[Special:Contributions/74.181.117.58|74.181.117.58]] 05:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
:::I'll update the documentation. Cheers! [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 13:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

:I find that commenting out the line
:<pre>"$wgExtensionMessagesFiles['CharInsert'] = $dir . 'CharInsert.i18n.php';"</pre>
:fixes special pages without sacrificing functionality. --Markus 12:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
::Yep. You just removed i18n support from the extension. [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 22:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== New function request: To make a link that the surface text differs from the inserting text ==

Currently, surface text of CharInsert links is same with the text that will be inserted in text boxes. For instance, if a CharInsert link is a button to insert “<code>→</code>”, the surface text is always “<code>→</code>” not “<code>left-to-right arrow</code>”, etc.

This "enforcement of unity between texts" can cause a problem when making CharInsert links that input special characters (e.g. Combining Diacritical Marks[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf]). CharInsert button to insert those special characters should have different texts. Of course, we can alternate them to character reference codes, but it is not convenient. ― [[User:Yes0song|Yes0song]] 13:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

:See also [[MediaZilla:3821]]. ― [[User:Yes0song|Yes0song]] 13:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

== Real Javascript insert ==

You cannot use this to insert long text :( I would like to see it being a real javascript insert funtion:
<code><input type="button" value="Link text" title="Hover Text" onClick="insert('before cursor',' and after\ncursor')"></code><br />clicking the "Link text" link will insert <pre>before cursor| and after
cursor</pre> while | is your cursor position --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
:Please be more specific, "long text" is too vague. You can insert new lines with <code>&#13;</code>. —[[User:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 05:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
::Well, mainly I want to insert text like <nowiki>[[Category:X]]</nowiki>. All extensions i found supporting insert text "store the text on wiki pages what makes those pages included into the ctagories, e.g. Category:X. But they shouldn't show up ther and I cannot use <nowik> or <noinclude> cos those would be inserted... So the best may be to call the insert text from php files at the moment the extension is used. Is there a solution? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 19:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
:::Did you actually verify that <charinsert><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:X]]</charinsert> places the page in Category X? As far as I know, it doesn't. Even if it did, you ''can'' use <nowiki> inside <charinsert>. By the way, inserting <nowiki>[[Category:X]]</nowiki> doesn't make much sense because this extension doesn't support "example" part (unlike toolbar buttons on top), but that's a different limitation. —[[User:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 02:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
::::[[Extension_talk:CreateArticle#Problem:_Template_for_new_article_in_categories|Problem solved]]. Thanks anyway. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 10:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

== More than one place where text should be used ==

Hi, my question is the following:
I make heavily use of the namespaces. Because of that I often need to set a link like <nowiki>[[Movie:Title|Title]]</nowiki>. Is it possible to modify the extension in that way, that if you highlight TITLE it puts title before and after the |? i tried <nowiki><charinsert>[[Movie:+|+]]</charinsert></nowiki> but then anything behind the | dissapears.
--8 May 2008

==bug in CharInsert.i18n.php==

CharInsert.i18n.php has some ' on places that it shouldn't. Recent changes link (in navigation) doesn't function properly because this.

Curious why Mediawiki:edittools isn't effected.
[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 14:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

==Icons on top and bottom of this page==
This adit page has a fine toolbar.<br>
I discovered that it is called: edit page toolbar.<br>
But I have not the slightest idea where and how to get it on my own pages.<br>

The buttons below I did discover, and that's why I visited this page: you need the extensions from this page.<br>
Use and make [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]].<br>
Only when you want it to be as nicely as here, you need css as well.
Can anyone gife the code for:
* class="my-buttons"
and
* class="specialbasic"
In which css file should they be placed?
[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 18:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I discoverde after a tip that "my-buttons" is part of common.css.
And that installation of the "edit page toolbar" goes alond with it.

'''Remains the question where to find "specialbasic" and a way to edit the "edit page toolbar"'''
--[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==bug in [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]] ==

One bug I want to report in the 'buttons' of [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]]:
One of the 'actions' is this one:
<nowiki><charinsert>[[+|+]]</charinsert> ·</nowiki>
+ stands for the selected text. Double + should mean that the selected text is copied. But instead of doing this, it breaks of at the second +.
I see three possibilities:
# another script is needed to do this properly (in http://www.mediawiki.org/w/ the second + doesn't work either, but it doesn't brake of - the]] do appear)
# it's really a bug - the second + shouldn't be there
# it's really a bug: some code/script is forgotten or doesn't work properly
# I don't use it the way it is intended
--[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==Additional charsets?==

Can anyone advise on where to find extra character sets and the describe how to load them? Obviously, I think I would just type them using a keyboard that was configured for the characters and use the same coding format as for all the other sets.

I've never done something like that - so I am only guessing. Any further hints?

--[[User:Qaaz|Qaaz]] 6 June 2008

== adding sub or superscript chars ==

I've like to display just the superscript <sup>+</sup> character in CharInsert and then when the user clicks on it, it actually puts in the <nowiki><sup>+</sup></nowiki> string. Seeing the whole string listed takes up a lot of room in the edittool page!
The subscript 2,3, etc. are also used a lot in chemistry. Any clues how to do this? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 11:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

----

Extension talk:CharInsert/Archive 1

2008-10-19T11:30:08Z

Quatermass: /* adding superscript chars */

=2006=
== wikibits.js ==

I've removed the note about <tt>wikibits.js</tt>, since it was misleading several people into believing they had to replace core skin files to get the extension working. Unfortunately, this often caused several other things to break. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 18:17, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

=2007=
== It no works. ==

* MediaWiki: 1.6.8
* PHP: 5.2.0 (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 4.0.23a-log
* Extensions:
** Parser hooks:
*** CharInsert, allows creation of JavaScript box for inserting non-standard characters, by Brion Vibber
** Extension functions:
*** setupSpecialChars
** Parser extension tags:
*** <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki>
:I have no effects on my wiki. What is incorrect? --1 January 2007
:: Do you have an [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] page with content like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools?action=edit on Wikipedia]? -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

==NOWIKI failed on 1.6.10==
I'm using this script and wanted to extend its use by include:
<pre><charinsert>
#REDIRECT[[+]]
<nowiki>{{wiu|+}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki>
</charinsert></pre>
On the preview of [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] it returns the output I (almost) wanted. It only fails to listen to my NOWIKI elements in use of the real editpages. ''(note: <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki></code> is correctly connected to a MagicWord-hook and <code><nowiki>{{wiu}}</nowiki></code> is a existing Template)'' -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

: I fixed this -in a way- by translating to UTF8
:<pre>&#123;&#123;wiu|+&#125;&#125; &#123;&#123;{{CURRENTUSER}}&#125;&#125;</pre>
: -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 12:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

== newbie notes ==

As someone who is just starting out installing and using Wiki's (as in I just started today) I thought I'd add some notes for those who are just getting going and save the hour I just wasted trying to figure out what to do.

* Download the php file.
* Create a folder on your server in /extensions called CharInsert
* dump the php file there
* add the <nowiki>require_once("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php"); </nowiki> line to the LocalSettings.php file in your root.

Thats the install

Now to edit the Edit page

go to: index.php/MediaWiki:Edittools?action=edit

This brings up the editor interface allowing you to edit text that will be displayed at the bottom of every Edit page.

Put in this text and save.

<nowiki><charinsert> Á á Ć ć É é Í í Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ó ó Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ú ú Ý ý Ź ź </charinsert></nowiki>

--28 February 2007

:::OR ANY OTHER TEXT, e.g. the one you may have derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools MediaWiki: Edittools]
::: --[[User:Horst Salzwedel|Horst Salzwedel]] 23:52, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

: It is just does not work. I did everything like you. Added line in localsettings.php, put charinsert.php in charinsert newely created folder in extensions. Is it about permissions for file? I did changed permission to 777. Do not work. Please help.--[[User:71.111.53.144|71.111.53.144]] 20:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:: Thanks for the information! The part about editing the edit page should be on the main installation for further clarification. Note, you can also copy the source from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Edittools&action=edit for more options as well. [[User:159.39.19.254|159.39.19.254]] 16:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

== Using CharInsert for commonly-used images ==

Is it possible to extend CharInsert to provide a "palette" (for lack of a better term) for commonly-used images in a wiki? I'd like the box to show the actual image that will be inserted into the entry, and upon click, would insert the appropriate wiki code to insert the image into the article.

I've goofed around with it some, but it always displays the text of the insert, and never the image I'm trying to call. --[[User:Achernar Dni|Achernar Dni]] 04:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

== Some characters are not displayed correctly ==

I noticed that some characters weren't displaying at all and just gave me the usual � in FF (and rectangles in IE) that you would see if you lacked the fonts and/or language support necessary. I know that couldn't be the case, as they all displayed just fine on a Wikipedia edit page, and what I was using on my own wiki was a direct copy from what Wikipedia had.

The symbols in question that would not display for me were:

† à Š Ġ ム Π Р ɠ ˠ

While they would not display at all in the CharInsert toolbox, they do display just fine when viewed in the edit box or when written outside of the box. This same set of symbols exhibited the same behavior on another MediaWiki installation I have on another computer, also running on a Windows platform. --[[User:87.168.116.1|87.168.116.1]] 20:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

:Same here, it displays fine in the edit window but not when rendered outside of the window. Characters: ≠ † ɠ à and some more. Could that have something to do with the MySQL database? Is this a MySQL5 bug? --[[User:84.176.183.153|84.176.183.153]] 09:56, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

The problem exists only on a Windows-platform (and Solaris), it works fine on a Linux(debian) platform.

I tried to analyze it and I find that the problem arises from a wrong behaviour of the ''php'' function ''preg_split'' that recognizes as a white space one of the two byte-codes of utf-8 code of these characters.
So a workaround on a windows-platform is to substitute the following line (line 55 in file ''charinsert.php'')
<nowiki>preg_split( '/\\s+/', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );</nowiki>
with
<nowiki>split(' +', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );</nowiki>
It has one limit: you can use only a space as character-separator.

--[[Special:Contributions/85.18.66.28|85.18.66.28]] 16:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

:You can also use the following code with PHP 4.2.3 or higher:
preg_split( '/\\s+/u', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );
: The 'u' at the end of the pattern enables UTF-8 mode for the 'preg_split' function, solving the problem described above. --[[Special:Contributions/147.83.123.130|147.83.123.130]] 10:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

== Non-inserted but clickable text ==

Is there a way to add text within the charinsert tag that is shown but not inserted when clicked? For example, some IPA characters (such as stress marks) are very small and hard to click on. I'd like to have "stress mark - '" shown below the edit box, but only the ' mark inserted. --18 September 2007

===Tooltips for CharInsert===

Along the same lines... how about adding support for tooltips in CharInsert... I see it has been talked about in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3550 ... the discussion kinda got derailed by talk of where to lookup the names of symbols to display.... but that is beyond the point... the CharInsert Extension would benefit by supporting tooltips... the issue of where the tooltip text comes from can be left up to whoever is writing the <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki> tags.

In the case of the default <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki> tags, these titles could come from http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html as that is the set of characters we are really defacto limited to in HTML... the last part of each entity reference is probably the most appropriate for human consumption, so for example ¡ would get the title "inverted exclamation mark".

Specific installs of MediaWiki could add or modify the titles to suit their user base... so it should be part of the charinsert syntax

The reasons for this are:
* some charinsert characters are really small and difficult to see/distinguish - example:
** dashes –—−
** diacriticals úùüūǔǖǚǘ
** crossed lines łt
** these are Arabic - ِ-ً-ْ-ّ-ء-ﻫﻣوﻭﻮﺭ
* many people do not differentiate between an en-dash and an em-dash - a tooltip would help them do that
** apply the same reasoning to hundreds of other symbols that commonly get confused
* improved accessibility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Marcinjeske
--[[Special:Contributions/68.167.251.41|68.167.251.41]] 00:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

== Change main instructions... ==

Shouldn't this:
* <code>include("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php");</code>

actually be something like this?

* <code>require_once $IP . "/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php";</code>

When I used "include" mediawiki kept telling me that it was trying to redeclare it's own functions (but only when logging in for some reason.)

I would just edit it, but don't want to make anyone angry... --6 December 2007

== How Can I add space to the text that I want to insert ? ==

I found out the chars are separated with spaces,then how can I add space to my text?
I want to insert this text:
<nowiki>
<source lang="php"></source></nowiki>
but with charinser it divided to 2 objects: '''<source''' and '''lang="php"></source>''' please help me about this issue,
this is an example :

<charinsert><source lang="php">+</source></charinsert>

--[[User:Tofighi|Tofighi]] 06:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

:Ise <code><nowiki></code> tag. I've just added this info on the page. Btw you could just tak a look at the [[w:MediaWiki:Edittools]] source [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 23:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

=2008=
== Having some trouble..... ==

i am getting the following error when i try and load my special pages after installing this extension:
<pre>
Warning: MessageCache::require(/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/extensions/CharInsert.i18n.php) [function.MessageCache-require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes/MessageCache.php on line 699
Fatal error: MessageCache::require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/extensions/CharInsert.i18n.php' (include_path='/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki:/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes:/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/languages:.:/usr/local/share/pear') in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes/MessageCache.php on line 699
</pre>
--18 February 2008
:It appears CharInsert.i18n.php is missing in extensions/, which is where the software expects it... [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 23:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
::there is only one thing to download though on the extension page. where do i find that other file? [[Special:Contributions/74.181.117.58|74.181.117.58]] 05:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
:::I'll update the documentation. Cheers! [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 13:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

:I find that commenting out the line
:<pre>"$wgExtensionMessagesFiles['CharInsert'] = $dir . 'CharInsert.i18n.php';"</pre>
:fixes special pages without sacrificing functionality. --Markus 12:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
::Yep. You just removed i18n support from the extension. [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 22:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== New function request: To make a link that the surface text differs from the inserting text ==

Currently, surface text of CharInsert links is same with the text that will be inserted in text boxes. For instance, if a CharInsert link is a button to insert “<code>→</code>”, the surface text is always “<code>→</code>” not “<code>left-to-right arrow</code>”, etc.

This "enforcement of unity between texts" can cause a problem when making CharInsert links that input special characters (e.g. Combining Diacritical Marks[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf]). CharInsert button to insert those special characters should have different texts. Of course, we can alternate them to character reference codes, but it is not convenient. ― [[User:Yes0song|Yes0song]] 13:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

:See also [[MediaZilla:3821]]. ― [[User:Yes0song|Yes0song]] 13:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

== Real Javascript insert ==

You cannot use this to insert long text :( I would like to see it being a real javascript insert funtion:
<code><input type="button" value="Link text" title="Hover Text" onClick="insert('before cursor',' and after\ncursor')"></code><br />clicking the "Link text" link will insert <pre>before cursor| and after
cursor</pre> while | is your cursor position --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
:Please be more specific, "long text" is too vague. You can insert new lines with <code>&#13;</code>. —[[User:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 05:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
::Well, mainly I want to insert text like <nowiki>[[Category:X]]</nowiki>. All extensions i found supporting insert text "store the text on wiki pages what makes those pages included into the ctagories, e.g. Category:X. But they shouldn't show up ther and I cannot use <nowik> or <noinclude> cos those would be inserted... So the best may be to call the insert text from php files at the moment the extension is used. Is there a solution? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 19:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
:::Did you actually verify that <charinsert><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:X]]</charinsert> places the page in Category X? As far as I know, it doesn't. Even if it did, you ''can'' use <nowiki> inside <charinsert>. By the way, inserting <nowiki>[[Category:X]]</nowiki> doesn't make much sense because this extension doesn't support "example" part (unlike toolbar buttons on top), but that's a different limitation. —[[User:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 02:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
::::[[Extension_talk:CreateArticle#Problem:_Template_for_new_article_in_categories|Problem solved]]. Thanks anyway. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 10:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

== More than one place where text should be used ==

Hi, my question is the following:
I make heavily use of the namespaces. Because of that I often need to set a link like <nowiki>[[Movie:Title|Title]]</nowiki>. Is it possible to modify the extension in that way, that if you highlight TITLE it puts title before and after the |? i tried <nowiki><charinsert>[[Movie:+|+]]</charinsert></nowiki> but then anything behind the | dissapears.
--8 May 2008

==bug in CharInsert.i18n.php==

CharInsert.i18n.php has some ' on places that it shouldn't. Recent changes link (in navigation) doesn't function properly because this.

Curious why Mediawiki:edittools isn't effected.
[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 14:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

==Icons on top and bottom of this page==
This adit page has a fine toolbar.<br>
I discovered that it is called: edit page toolbar.<br>
But I have not the slightest idea where and how to get it on my own pages.<br>

The buttons below I did discover, and that's why I visited this page: you need the extensions from this page.<br>
Use and make [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]].<br>
Only when you want it to be as nicely as here, you need css as well.
Can anyone gife the code for:
* class="my-buttons"
and
* class="specialbasic"
In which css file should they be placed?
[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 18:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I discoverde after a tip that "my-buttons" is part of common.css.
And that installation of the "edit page toolbar" goes alond with it.

'''Remains the question where to find "specialbasic" and a way to edit the "edit page toolbar"'''
--[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==bug in [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]] ==

One bug I want to report in the 'buttons' of [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]]:
One of the 'actions' is this one:
<nowiki><charinsert>[[+|+]]</charinsert> ·</nowiki>
+ stands for the selected text. Double + should mean that the selected text is copied. But instead of doing this, it breaks of at the second +.
I see three possibilities:
# another script is needed to do this properly (in http://www.mediawiki.org/w/ the second + doesn't work either, but it doesn't brake of - the]] do appear)
# it's really a bug - the second + shouldn't be there
# it's really a bug: some code/script is forgotten or doesn't work properly
# I don't use it the way it is intended
--[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==Additional charsets?==

Can anyone advise on where to find extra character sets and the describe how to load them? Obviously, I think I would just type them using a keyboard that was configured for the characters and use the same coding format as for all the other sets.

I've never done something like that - so I am only guessing. Any further hints?

--[[User:Qaaz|Qaaz]] 6 June 2008

== adding sub or superscript chars ==

I've like to display just the superscript <sup>+</sup> character in CharInsert and then when the user clicks on it, it actually puts in the <nowiki><sup>+</sup></nowiki> string. Seeing the whole string listed takes up a lot of room in the edittool page!
The subscript 2,3, etc. are also used a lot. they're used a lot in chemistry. Any clues how to do this? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 11:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

----

Extension talk:CharInsert/Archive 1

2008-10-19T11:25:00Z

Quatermass: /* adding superscript chars */ new section

=2006=
== wikibits.js ==

I've removed the note about <tt>wikibits.js</tt>, since it was misleading several people into believing they had to replace core skin files to get the extension working. Unfortunately, this often caused several other things to break. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 18:17, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

=2007=
== It no works. ==

* MediaWiki: 1.6.8
* PHP: 5.2.0 (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 4.0.23a-log
* Extensions:
** Parser hooks:
*** CharInsert, allows creation of JavaScript box for inserting non-standard characters, by Brion Vibber
** Extension functions:
*** setupSpecialChars
** Parser extension tags:
*** <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki>
:I have no effects on my wiki. What is incorrect? --1 January 2007
:: Do you have an [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] page with content like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools?action=edit on Wikipedia]? -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

==NOWIKI failed on 1.6.10==
I'm using this script and wanted to extend its use by include:
<pre><charinsert>
#REDIRECT[[+]]
<nowiki>{{wiu|+}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki>
</charinsert></pre>
On the preview of [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] it returns the output I (almost) wanted. It only fails to listen to my NOWIKI elements in use of the real editpages. ''(note: <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTUSER}}</nowiki></code> is correctly connected to a MagicWord-hook and <code><nowiki>{{wiu}}</nowiki></code> is a existing Template)'' -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

: I fixed this -in a way- by translating to UTF8
:<pre>&#123;&#123;wiu|+&#125;&#125; &#123;&#123;{{CURRENTUSER}}&#125;&#125;</pre>
: -[[User:Sent|Sent]] 12:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

== newbie notes ==

As someone who is just starting out installing and using Wiki's (as in I just started today) I thought I'd add some notes for those who are just getting going and save the hour I just wasted trying to figure out what to do.

* Download the php file.
* Create a folder on your server in /extensions called CharInsert
* dump the php file there
* add the <nowiki>require_once("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php"); </nowiki> line to the LocalSettings.php file in your root.

Thats the install

Now to edit the Edit page

go to: index.php/MediaWiki:Edittools?action=edit

This brings up the editor interface allowing you to edit text that will be displayed at the bottom of every Edit page.

Put in this text and save.

<nowiki><charinsert> Á á Ć ć É é Í í Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ó ó Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ú ú Ý ý Ź ź </charinsert></nowiki>

--28 February 2007

:::OR ANY OTHER TEXT, e.g. the one you may have derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools MediaWiki: Edittools]
::: --[[User:Horst Salzwedel|Horst Salzwedel]] 23:52, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

: It is just does not work. I did everything like you. Added line in localsettings.php, put charinsert.php in charinsert newely created folder in extensions. Is it about permissions for file? I did changed permission to 777. Do not work. Please help.--[[User:71.111.53.144|71.111.53.144]] 20:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:: Thanks for the information! The part about editing the edit page should be on the main installation for further clarification. Note, you can also copy the source from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Edittools&action=edit for more options as well. [[User:159.39.19.254|159.39.19.254]] 16:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

== Using CharInsert for commonly-used images ==

Is it possible to extend CharInsert to provide a "palette" (for lack of a better term) for commonly-used images in a wiki? I'd like the box to show the actual image that will be inserted into the entry, and upon click, would insert the appropriate wiki code to insert the image into the article.

I've goofed around with it some, but it always displays the text of the insert, and never the image I'm trying to call. --[[User:Achernar Dni|Achernar Dni]] 04:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

== Some characters are not displayed correctly ==

I noticed that some characters weren't displaying at all and just gave me the usual � in FF (and rectangles in IE) that you would see if you lacked the fonts and/or language support necessary. I know that couldn't be the case, as they all displayed just fine on a Wikipedia edit page, and what I was using on my own wiki was a direct copy from what Wikipedia had.

The symbols in question that would not display for me were:

† à Š Ġ ム Π Р ɠ ˠ

While they would not display at all in the CharInsert toolbox, they do display just fine when viewed in the edit box or when written outside of the box. This same set of symbols exhibited the same behavior on another MediaWiki installation I have on another computer, also running on a Windows platform. --[[User:87.168.116.1|87.168.116.1]] 20:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

:Same here, it displays fine in the edit window but not when rendered outside of the window. Characters: ≠ † ɠ à and some more. Could that have something to do with the MySQL database? Is this a MySQL5 bug? --[[User:84.176.183.153|84.176.183.153]] 09:56, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

The problem exists only on a Windows-platform (and Solaris), it works fine on a Linux(debian) platform.

I tried to analyze it and I find that the problem arises from a wrong behaviour of the ''php'' function ''preg_split'' that recognizes as a white space one of the two byte-codes of utf-8 code of these characters.
So a workaround on a windows-platform is to substitute the following line (line 55 in file ''charinsert.php'')
<nowiki>preg_split( '/\\s+/', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );</nowiki>
with
<nowiki>split(' +', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );</nowiki>
It has one limit: you can use only a space as character-separator.

--[[Special:Contributions/85.18.66.28|85.18.66.28]] 16:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

:You can also use the following code with PHP 4.2.3 or higher:
preg_split( '/\\s+/u', charInsertArmor( $data ) ) ) );
: The 'u' at the end of the pattern enables UTF-8 mode for the 'preg_split' function, solving the problem described above. --[[Special:Contributions/147.83.123.130|147.83.123.130]] 10:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

== Non-inserted but clickable text ==

Is there a way to add text within the charinsert tag that is shown but not inserted when clicked? For example, some IPA characters (such as stress marks) are very small and hard to click on. I'd like to have "stress mark - '" shown below the edit box, but only the ' mark inserted. --18 September 2007

===Tooltips for CharInsert===

Along the same lines... how about adding support for tooltips in CharInsert... I see it has been talked about in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3550 ... the discussion kinda got derailed by talk of where to lookup the names of symbols to display.... but that is beyond the point... the CharInsert Extension would benefit by supporting tooltips... the issue of where the tooltip text comes from can be left up to whoever is writing the <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki> tags.

In the case of the default <nowiki><charinsert></nowiki> tags, these titles could come from http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html as that is the set of characters we are really defacto limited to in HTML... the last part of each entity reference is probably the most appropriate for human consumption, so for example ¡ would get the title "inverted exclamation mark".

Specific installs of MediaWiki could add or modify the titles to suit their user base... so it should be part of the charinsert syntax

The reasons for this are:
* some charinsert characters are really small and difficult to see/distinguish - example:
** dashes –—−
** diacriticals úùüūǔǖǚǘ
** crossed lines łt
** these are Arabic - ِ-ً-ْ-ّ-ء-ﻫﻣوﻭﻮﺭ
* many people do not differentiate between an en-dash and an em-dash - a tooltip would help them do that
** apply the same reasoning to hundreds of other symbols that commonly get confused
* improved accessibility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Marcinjeske
--[[Special:Contributions/68.167.251.41|68.167.251.41]] 00:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

== Change main instructions... ==

Shouldn't this:
* <code>include("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php");</code>

actually be something like this?

* <code>require_once $IP . "/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php";</code>

When I used "include" mediawiki kept telling me that it was trying to redeclare it's own functions (but only when logging in for some reason.)

I would just edit it, but don't want to make anyone angry... --6 December 2007

== How Can I add space to the text that I want to insert ? ==

I found out the chars are separated with spaces,then how can I add space to my text?
I want to insert this text:
<nowiki>
<source lang="php"></source></nowiki>
but with charinser it divided to 2 objects: '''<source''' and '''lang="php"></source>''' please help me about this issue,
this is an example :

<charinsert><source lang="php">+</source></charinsert>

--[[User:Tofighi|Tofighi]] 06:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

:Ise <code><nowiki></code> tag. I've just added this info on the page. Btw you could just tak a look at the [[w:MediaWiki:Edittools]] source [[User:Alex Smotrov|Alex Smotrov]] 23:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

=2008=
== Having some trouble..... ==

i am getting the following error when i try and load my special pages after installing this extension:
<pre>
Warning: MessageCache::require(/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/extensions/CharInsert.i18n.php) [function.MessageCache-require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes/MessageCache.php on line 699
Fatal error: MessageCache::require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/extensions/CharInsert.i18n.php' (include_path='/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki:/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes:/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/languages:.:/usr/local/share/pear') in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nautf.com/httpdocs/mkportal/modules/mediawiki/includes/MessageCache.php on line 699
</pre>
--18 February 2008
:It appears CharInsert.i18n.php is missing in extensions/, which is where the software expects it... [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 23:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
::there is only one thing to download though on the extension page. where do i find that other file? [[Special:Contributions/74.181.117.58|74.181.117.58]] 05:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
:::I'll update the documentation. Cheers! [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 13:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

:I find that commenting out the line
:<pre>"$wgExtensionMessagesFiles['CharInsert'] = $dir . 'CharInsert.i18n.php';"</pre>
:fixes special pages without sacrificing functionality. --Markus 12:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
::Yep. You just removed i18n support from the extension. [[User:Siebrand|Siebrand]] 22:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== New function request: To make a link that the surface text differs from the inserting text ==

Currently, surface text of CharInsert links is same with the text that will be inserted in text boxes. For instance, if a CharInsert link is a button to insert “<code>→</code>”, the surface text is always “<code>→</code>” not “<code>left-to-right arrow</code>”, etc.

This "enforcement of unity between texts" can cause a problem when making CharInsert links that input special characters (e.g. Combining Diacritical Marks[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf]). CharInsert button to insert those special characters should have different texts. Of course, we can alternate them to character reference codes, but it is not convenient. ― [[User:Yes0song|Yes0song]] 13:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

:See also [[MediaZilla:3821]]. ― [[User:Yes0song|Yes0song]] 13:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

== Real Javascript insert ==

You cannot use this to insert long text :( I would like to see it being a real javascript insert funtion:
<code><input type="button" value="Link text" title="Hover Text" onClick="insert('before cursor',' and after\ncursor')"></code><br />clicking the "Link text" link will insert <pre>before cursor| and after
cursor</pre> while | is your cursor position --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 20:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
:Please be more specific, "long text" is too vague. You can insert new lines with <code>&#13;</code>. —[[User:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 05:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
::Well, mainly I want to insert text like <nowiki>[[Category:X]]</nowiki>. All extensions i found supporting insert text "store the text on wiki pages what makes those pages included into the ctagories, e.g. Category:X. But they shouldn't show up ther and I cannot use <nowik> or <noinclude> cos those would be inserted... So the best may be to call the insert text from php files at the moment the extension is used. Is there a solution? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 19:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
:::Did you actually verify that <charinsert><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:X]]</charinsert> places the page in Category X? As far as I know, it doesn't. Even if it did, you ''can'' use <nowiki> inside <charinsert>. By the way, inserting <nowiki>[[Category:X]]</nowiki> doesn't make much sense because this extension doesn't support "example" part (unlike toolbar buttons on top), but that's a different limitation. —[[User:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 02:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
::::[[Extension_talk:CreateArticle#Problem:_Template_for_new_article_in_categories|Problem solved]]. Thanks anyway. --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 10:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

== More than one place where text should be used ==

Hi, my question is the following:
I make heavily use of the namespaces. Because of that I often need to set a link like <nowiki>[[Movie:Title|Title]]</nowiki>. Is it possible to modify the extension in that way, that if you highlight TITLE it puts title before and after the |? i tried <nowiki><charinsert>[[Movie:+|+]]</charinsert></nowiki> but then anything behind the | dissapears.
--8 May 2008

==bug in CharInsert.i18n.php==

CharInsert.i18n.php has some ' on places that it shouldn't. Recent changes link (in navigation) doesn't function properly because this.

Curious why Mediawiki:edittools isn't effected.
[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 14:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

==Icons on top and bottom of this page==
This adit page has a fine toolbar.<br>
I discovered that it is called: edit page toolbar.<br>
But I have not the slightest idea where and how to get it on my own pages.<br>

The buttons below I did discover, and that's why I visited this page: you need the extensions from this page.<br>
Use and make [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]].<br>
Only when you want it to be as nicely as here, you need css as well.
Can anyone gife the code for:
* class="my-buttons"
and
* class="specialbasic"
In which css file should they be placed?
[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 18:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I discoverde after a tip that "my-buttons" is part of common.css.
And that installation of the "edit page toolbar" goes alond with it.

'''Remains the question where to find "specialbasic" and a way to edit the "edit page toolbar"'''
--[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==bug in [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]] ==

One bug I want to report in the 'buttons' of [[Mediawiki:Edittools.js]]:
One of the 'actions' is this one:
<nowiki><charinsert>[[+|+]]</charinsert> ·</nowiki>
+ stands for the selected text. Double + should mean that the selected text is copied. But instead of doing this, it breaks of at the second +.
I see three possibilities:
# another script is needed to do this properly (in http://www.mediawiki.org/w/ the second + doesn't work either, but it doesn't brake of - the]] do appear)
# it's really a bug - the second + shouldn't be there
# it's really a bug: some code/script is forgotten or doesn't work properly
# I don't use it the way it is intended
--[[User:Livingtale|Livingtale]] 08:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==Additional charsets?==

Can anyone advise on where to find extra character sets and the describe how to load them? Obviously, I think I would just type them using a keyboard that was configured for the characters and use the same coding format as for all the other sets.

I've never done something like that - so I am only guessing. Any further hints?

--[[User:Qaaz|Qaaz]] 6 June 2008

== adding superscript chars ==

I've like to display the superscript <sup>+</sup> character in CharInsert and then when the user clicks on it, it actually puts in the <nowiki><sup>+</sup></nowiki> string. It's used a lot in chemistry. Any clues how to do this? --[[User:Quatermass|Stuart Halliday]] 11:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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User:Quatermass

2008-09-19T19:12:55Z

Quatermass: New page: My name is Stuart Halliday and I live in Livingston, Scotland. Administrator of [http://theaquariumwiki.com/ The Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia]

My name is Stuart Halliday and I live in Livingston, Scotland.

Administrator of [http://theaquariumwiki.com/ The Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia]

Extension talk:EditImage

2008-09-19T19:09:03Z

Quatermass: /* Suggestions */ new section

This is really awesome idea. I've thought of it before but never had time to try to build something like this. One question--are the images diff-able yet? Diff is an integral part of the wiki experience.
Also I think that it'd be even better if images were able to be edited while inside a wiki page. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 16:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

:No, images are not diffable yet (which would be cool, but should probably be a separate (core) development to this extension). At the very least, having them side by side would be useful. Beyond that I have difficulty imagining how the diff page could highlight differences. I'm sure there are some interesting possibilities though.

:Regarding "editing images while inside a wiki page", I don't know that would be desirable because it could have unintended effects, if the image takes on your edits everywhere it is used. There have been proposals for extending the image syntax though - something like <tt><nowiki>[[Image:foo.jpg|crop=100x200]]</nowiki></tt> or something...not really changing the image, just the thumbnail that is displayed when it is embedded for that page. --[[User:Pfctdayelise|pfctdayelise]] 04:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

== Suggestions ==

What I've always wanted on a Wiki is to be able to reuse an existing image on [http://theaquariumwiki.com/ my Wiki] on another page but with it showing the cropped area.

For example, the original image may have two objects on it. I'd then use the crop extension to use the image again on a second image tag (or on a different page) to show the 2nd object.

Alternatively I could use it to have tow image tag on a page. The first one shows the full image and the second image shows a zoomed up area of that image.

I'd not want to create a permanent 2nd image using the crop function, just a cached version to save disc space.

What do you think?

I guess it would mean a tool to crop/edit and a new Image: tag to show the modified image.

ie CropImage:Image.jpg|x1|y1|x2|y2|width|height|etc..

Comments?

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 19:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

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Project:Support desk/Sections/Miscellaneous

2008-07-08T18:13:01Z

Quatermass: /* Printing comment */

<noinclude>__TOC__
__NEWSECTIONLINK__</noinclude>
= [[Project:Support desk/Sections/Unsorted|Unsorted Threads]] =

== (RESOLVED) Terminology - Call ==
*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Would it be correct to say that index.php "calls" the Logo image, calls the menus, etc? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 22:32, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

:I would say "define", and please, Smaug, use the [[Template:Support desk notes|template]] to post your topic. -[[User:PatPeter|Pat]][[User talk:PatPeter|Peter]], <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]'''''[[Project:Support desk/Support team|<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>]]'''''</span> 19:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
::The logo image path is defined in LocalSettings.php which is ''included'' by index.php --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 21:40, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
::: Thank you. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 18:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Lost sysop access ==
*MediaWiki: 1.10.1
*PHP: 5.1.4
*MySQL: 4.1.22
*URL: I'm too embarrassed to release this!
OH CRAP!!!!! I was trying to figure out how to turn on uploads (still haven't figured that one out yet: documentation is not easily found on this site) and I accidentally killed my bureaucrat privileges on the Userrights Page. Poof! How do I restore them???? No one else is a Bureaucrat and I can't find anything on this site to help me fix this.

I'm just starting to learn the ins and now especially the outs of PHP and SQL...is there a way of fixing this in MySQL? or in one of the myriad of PHP files?

Thanks!

—[[User:Keng|Keng]] 23:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
:You'll need to update the database directly with the following query. First login and go to Special:Preferences to get your user id number (I've used 999 in the example below, so replace that with your own user id), then shell in to your server or do a query with whatever means you have of accessing your database. Also note that if you're using a table prefix you'll need to prepend that to the ''user_groups'' table name.
INSERT INTO user_groups (ug_user,ug_group) VALUES(999,'sysop');
:--[[User:Nad|Nad]] 02:18, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
::Also regarding uploads, you need to set [[Manual:$wgEnableUploads|$wgEnableUploads]] to ''true'' in your LocalSettings.php. There are also a number of other settings relating to uploads, see [[:Category:Upload variables]]. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 02:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

==HTML inclusion==
Is it possible to include the HTML code below in a wiki page without installing Google Maps extension ?

<iframe width="300" height="300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111661609153203707973.0004483c89c42b99a25b1&s=AARTsJps3Johc7PJJ8zbVh-pexd4N2zOPg&ll=-25.45118,-49.236774&spn=0.046501,0.051498&z=13&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111661609153203707973.0004483c89c42b99a25b1&ll=-25.45118,-49.236774&spn=0.046501,0.051498&z=13&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

—[[Special:Contributions/201.21.160.180|201.21.160.180]] 15:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

== How to integrate media wiki log in with website? (user reply needed)==

How to integrate media wiki log in with website.? Please help ....

: You mean how do you sync the MW login with non-MW login elsewhere on your site? It depends on how the rest of your website logs users in. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 18:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

== Fatal Error on 'Recent Changes' ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.?
*MySQL: 4.?
*URL: [http://www.wyfopedia.org.uk Wyfopedia]

My wiki has just stopped working. I can get ftp to it. Help!

-[[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 21:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi I have created an MediaWiki account now. IF you want to know what versions I'm on then please instruct me on how to find out. I'm worried that I have lost my database. I can see my wiki images. If I can download the database and images, I don't mind re-installing again from scratch.
-[[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 21:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
:You appear to have some problems with your rewrites. As a first measure you can set <tt>$wgUsePathInfo</tt> to false in your LocalSettings.php. [[User:Bryan Tong Minh|Bryan Tong Minh]] 20:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

:Thank you for your help Bryan Tong Minh. [[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 20:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I have backed up the database and image files, and upgraded to v. 1.12.0. The site now seems to be working again. However, I have the following error on 'Recent Changes':

'Fatal error: Class 'ChangesList' not found in /home/fhlinux182/w/wyfopedia.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/SpecialRecentchanges.php on line 221'

-[[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 20:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

== Pages imported by ImportTextFile.php NOT searchable ==

*MediaWiki: 1.8.3
*PHP: 5.2.0
*MySQL: 5.0.27
*URL:

I am using ImportTextFile.php to import a number of pages and they show up in Recent Changes.

But if I do a search on some text that I know is in the pages, the results are NOT showing them.

Is there a way that I can ensure that these pages are also searchable?

Thanks.

—[[Special:Contributions/68.147.72.69|68.147.72.69]] 06:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

:Run the updateSearchIndex.php [[Manual:Maintenance_scripts|maintenance script]]. [[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]] 02:23, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

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That didn't work for imported pages as these pages were not selected during the run of the updateSearchIndex.php. The problem seems to be in the SELECT statement in updateSearchIndex.inc where "iaisrecentchanges" and "iaispage" tables are matched up to find the pages to be updated. The original SELECT statement is
SELECT ... FROM $recentchanges JOIN $page on
rc_cur_id=page_id AND rc_this_oldid=page_latest
and since an imported page has a clean slate of attributes, they are NOT selected.

Looking at the actual attributes in the imported pages, rc_last_oldid is always set to 0, thus by changing the SELECT statement to
SELECT ... FROM $recentchanges JOIN $page on
rc_cur_id=page_id AND (rc_this_oldid=page_latest OR rc_last_oldid=0)
then those imported pages are also selected.

I also believe that newer versions of mediawiki might have fixed this.

[[Special:Contributions/68.147.72.69|68.147.72.69]] 16:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== Changing sidebar according to article-language ==

*MediaWiki: 1.10.1
*PHP: 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.27
*URL: [http://www.GS-500.info www.GS-500.info]

Hi,

I'm currently translating my wiki from German to both English and Spanish. I'm happy with the solution to swap between the three languages, but as I modified the sidebar: Is there any possibility to indicate the article-language and change the sidebar accordingly?
I already looked at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LanguageSelector Extension:LanguageSelector], [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Multilang Extension:Multilang] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiLanguageManager Extension: MultiLanguageManager] but they all don't seem to tackle my problem as they assume the usage of an unchanged sidebar.

Kind regards,
Timo

—[[Special:Contributions/82.11.169.246|82.11.169.246]] 11:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Nobody any idea?<br>
Timo --[[Special:Contributions/82.11.169.246|82.11.169.246]] 12:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

:Hm. The example of http://www.art122-5.net/ given at [[Extension:MultiLanguageManager]] works with different languages in the sidebar (though I don't know if this is still MediaWiki). Elegant solution would be three wikis :-). What about additional sidebars added to [[Mediawiki:Sidebar]]? IMHO the most simple solution – there's just one "disadvantage": they will always show up together. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.156.49|89.55.156.49]] 19:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Currently in contact with the developer of the [[Extension:MultiLanguageManager]]. There might be a solution, I keep you posted.<br>
Timo --[[Special:Contributions/82.11.169.246|82.11.169.246]] 06:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

==(RESOLVED) questions / mass actions ==

I have many questions :

- How can I create many pages automatically ?
If I can't, is there another solution ? IS there a programm for injecting pages ( created by scripting shell)
- How can I know all the pages depending on a page ?
- How can I delete all the page created the same day ?

Thanks —[[Special:Contributions/192.54.193.51|192.54.193.51]] 09:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Importing_from_other_types_of_files

if you look through this site or use google you will find many helpful articles like that one [[User:JohnShep|JohnShep]] 20:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

== CheckUser weirdness - please investigate ==

*MediaWiki: 1.13alpha from SVN
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: it's on a localhost

I got CheckUser working, as well as Oversight and Makesysop, and surprisingly, despite what the [[CheckUser]] page here tells me, I didn't need run the command-line to get it working (to be honest, though, I actually had no PHP commandline utilities on XAMPP. Just added the SQL queries, and then copied the files to extensions directory, and for some reason, it actually worked and did a query. Is this a bug or is this meant to happen?? Should this go to Bugzilla?? Thanks, AP @ —[[Special:Contributions/82.42.237.84|82.42.237.84]] 15:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

* How did en.wikipedia.org grant the rollback extension in the user rights log?? nothing in [[Special:Version]] about it. Thanks, AP @ --[[Special:Contributions/82.42.237.84|82.42.237.84]] 15:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

::If you ran the SQL queries that the installation script includes, then you've done its job.

::The non-sysop rollback functionality has been in the core code since version 1.11 ([[Manual:User_rights_management#GiveRollback]]). [[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]] 02:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

* OK, so doing what I did above actually gets it working and it's not a bug?? Confused. AP @ --[[Special:Contributions/82.42.237.84|82.42.237.84]] 11:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

:If it's actually working, then yeah. The installation script just happens to be more convenient (and less error-prone) than running the queries directly. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 01:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

== Subcategories with the same name (resolved)==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.2
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 5.0.45
*URL: not ready

For example,I want create 3 categories:
-Slackware
-Ubuntu
-openSuse
I want,that each category must have the subcategory called "Script".
But the slackware's script,must be different from ubuntu's script and suse's script.
It is possible?How?

—[[Special:Contributions/79.3.253.38|79.3.253.38]] 19:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

: Maybe you could just call the ubuntu subcategory "Ubuntu script" and the suse subcategory "suse script". I don't know if doing what you want to do is possible. Is this a suitable workaround? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 19:39, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes is a fine solution.
But if I want only one category called Script foreach category(Slackware,suse,ubuntu...)it is possible?There are methods or extension that make this?
thanks
:The categories are identified by their names. How should it work with more categories using one and the same name? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Ajax Search doesn't work since 1.12.0 upgrade ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.51
*URL: I don't have URL because it is internal

Hi all,

I've upgrade MediaWiki 1.11.2 to 1.12.0 and everything went fine until I tested the AjaxSearch. It is not working anymore. In my LocalSettings.php I have $wgAjaxSearch = true; and to be sure I added $wgUseAjax = true;. I thought the problem may have been because of the upgrade, so I did a fresh install, but this did not helped at all.

Is there something new we need to do, so that the AjaxSearch actually works? Or is there a bug. I know AjaxSearch received some bugfix since the patch 1.12.0.

Thank you for your help.

Maxime.

—[[Special:Contributions/199.243.65.6|199.243.65.6]] 14:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

It seems like we now need to activate the AjaxSearch in the preferences of the user in the Search tab...
Also, the new version of this Ajax search is bugged... I'll need to use the one from 1.11 + 1.12 to have a functional Search.

--[[Special:Contributions/199.243.65.6|199.243.65.6]] 14:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

== Reading passwords of users (resolved) ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5
*MySQL: 4.1
*URL: www.wikilh.tk

Hi. I have question. How I can read the password of my users? I dont want to change them, but i need to read them. I need fast answer. Thank you.

drake

—[[Special:Contributions/83.26.71.3|83.26.71.3]] 20:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
:You can't. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 21:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
:: I don't know the answer, but I must assume that since they are stored somewhere in the database, there must be some way to read them, even if it requires some decryption. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 00:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:::MediaWiki salts its MD5-hashed passwords, which, as far as I know, makes decryption impractical, if not impossible.

:::The only sort of counsel that I'll offer is that this is not ethical, and you're wasting your time anyway. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 05:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

== MediaWiki optimization ==
*MediaWiki: 1.10.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
*URL: http://www.fan history.com/ Fan History Wiki

My wiki had problems with pages loading where we ended up with a few thousand articles in a category. This caused these pages either not to load or to load slowly. I queried my host about this. They said, among other things:

<blockquote>We tested the above mentioned URLs and managed to re-create the issue on our end. It is most likely caused by the timeout settings of our shared hosting servers, especially if the problematic pages contain lots of links with reference to your application's database.

Upon further investigation, we found out that the home page of your wiki is also loading a little bit slowly, due to the 274 links on this page. It loads for more than 2 seconds locally on the server, which it should not load for more than 1 second.

We will recommend you to contact a developer which is familiar with the source code of your application and possesses the required knowledge for optimizing it. The optimization usually involves reducing the number of links on the pages, reducing the overall size of the application's database, creating indexes for each table in the database, etc.</blockquote>

I switched to a VPS which makes some pages which previously wouldn't load now load. I also optimized the database on phpMyAdmin. I removed a few of the http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People extensions which were not being used actively. But if some pages link to certain categories, like http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People Category:People, new pages won't create and will time out. What more can be done to optimize things, fix the overly large category problem or just generally make the wiki load faster? I really want to continue to grow Fan History but this has thrown me for a loop. Is this something I can fix myself?

—[[User:PurplePopple|PurplePopple]] 02:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

:Your site doesn't load for me, so I can't take a look at your categories, but we just had [http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7244 a similar query] on the MWusers forums, and the simple answer was "caching." —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 05:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

::The whole site doesn't load or just those pages? I've added the caching elements by adding $wgUseFileCache = true; and $wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; to the local settings but it doesn't seem to make the load any faster. I've removed a few more extensions. I've removed Google Analytics. It is still taking about 15 seconds for me to get http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People Category:People to load and about 3 to get http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Main_Page the main page to load. If I remove

<nowiki>## Shared memory settings
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();
$wgUseFileCache = true;
$wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; </nowiki>

::It actually seems to load a bit faster but not much. :/ (On a completely unrelated note, my host seems to have disabled image uploads... *sighs*) --[[User:PurplePopple|PurplePopple]] 12:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

==Help==
This is what i get on my website.

[[wikipedia:Image:Mediawikiproblem123Pie.jpg]]

Can somebody help me?

I will copy the text in the background for you.

<pre>
, 2006 Rob Church # http://www.mediawiki.org/ # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html error_reporting( E_ALL ); header( "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8" ); @ini_set( "display_errors", true ); # In case of errors, let output be clean. $wgRequestTime = microtime( true ); # Attempt to set up the include path, to fix problems with relative includes $IP = dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ); define( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH', $IP ); # Define an entry point and include some files define( "MEDIAWIKI", true ); define( "MEDIAWIKI_INSTALL", true ); // Run version checks before including other files // so people don't see a scary parse error. require_once( "$IP/install-utils.inc" ); install_version_checks(); require_once( "$IP/includes/Defines.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/AutoLoader.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/MagicWord.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/Namespace.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/ProfilerStub.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/GlobalFunctions.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/Hooks.php" ); # If we get an exception, the user needs to know # all the details $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; ## Databases we support: $ourdb = array(); $ourdb['mysql']['fullname'] = 'MySQL'; $ourdb['mysql']['havedriver'] = 0; $ourdb['mysql']['compile'] = 'mysql'; $ourdb['mysql']['bgcolor'] = '#ffe5a7'; $ourdb['mysql']['rootuser'] = 'root'; $ourdb['postgres']['fullname'] = 'PostgreSQL'; $ourdb['postgres']['havedriver'] = 0; $ourdb['postgres']['compile'] = 'pgsql'; $ourdb['postgres']['bgcolor'] = '#aaccff'; $ourdb['postgres']['rootuser'] = 'postgres'; ?>
MediaWiki Installation
Setup has completed, your wiki is configured.

Please delete the /config directory for extra security.
" ); } if( file_exists( "./LocalSettings.php" ) ) { writeSuccessMessage(); dieout( '' ); } if( !is_writable( "." ) ) { dieout( "
Can't write config file, aborting

In order to configure the wiki you have to make the config subdirectory writable by the web server. Once configuration is done you'll move the created LocalSettings.php to the parent directory, and for added safety you can then remove the config subdirectory entirely.

To make the directory writable on a Unix/Linux system:

cd /path/to/wiki
chmod a+w config

Afterwards retry to start the setup.
" ); } require_once( "$IP/install-utils.inc" ); require_once( "$IP/maintenance/updaters.inc" ); class ConfigData { function getEncoded( $data ) { # removing latin1 support, no need... return $data; } function getSitename() { return $this->getEncoded( $this->Sitename ); } function getSysopName() { return $this->getEncoded( $this->SysopName ); } function getSysopPass() { return $this->getEncoded( $this->SysopPass ); } function setSchema( $schema, $engine ) { $this->DBschema = $schema; if ( !preg_match( '/^\w*$/', $engine ) ){ $engine = 'InnoDB'; } switch ( $this->DBschema ) { case 'mysql5': $this->DBTableOptions = "ENGINE=$engine, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'true'; break; case 'mysql5-binary': $this->DBTableOptions = "ENGINE=$engine, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'true'; break; default: $this->DBTableOptions = "TYPE=$engine"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'false'; } $this->DBengine = $engine; # Set the global for use during install global $wgDBTableOptions; $wgDBTableOptions = $this->DBTableOptions; } } ?>

* Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list.

Checking environment...

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

PHP " . phpversion() . " installed\n"; error_reporting( 0 ); $phpdatabases = array(); foreach (array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { $compname = $ourdb[$db]['compile']; if( extension_loaded( $compname ) || ( mw_have_dl() && dl( "{$compname}." . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX ) ) ) { array_push($phpdatabases, $db); $ourdb[$db]['havedriver'] = 1; } } error_reporting( E_ALL ); if (!$phpdatabases) { print "Could not find a suitable database driver!
o "; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) AS $db) { $comp = $ourdb[$db]['compile']; $full = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; print "For $full, compile PHP using --with-$comp, " ."or install the $comp.so module
\n"; } dieout( "

# " ); } print "Found database drivers for:"; $DefaultDBtype = ''; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) AS $db) { if ($ourdb[$db]['havedriver']) { if ( $DefaultDBtype == '' ) { $DefaultDBtype = $db; } print " ".$ourdb[$db]['fullname']; } } print "
# \n"; if( wfIniGetBool( "register_globals" ) ) { ?>
Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can.
MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities.
# Fatal: magic_quotes_runtime is active! This option corrupts data input unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
# Fatal: magic_quotes_sybase is active! This option corrupts data input unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
# Fatal: mbstring.func_overload is active! This option causes errors and may corrupt data unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
# Fatal: zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is active! This option causes horrible bugs with MediaWiki; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.

Cannot install MediaWiki.
" ); } if( wfIniGetBool( "safe_mode" ) ) { $conf->safeMode = true; ?>
# Warning: PHP's safe mode is active. You may have problems caused by this, particularly if using image uploads.
# safeMode = false; } $sapi = php_sapi_name(); print "PHP server API is $sapi; "; $script = defined('MW_INSTALL_PHP5_EXT') ? 'index.php5' : 'index.php'; if( $wgUsePathInfo ) { print "ok, using pretty URLs ($script/Page_Title)"; } else { print "using ugly URLs ($script?title=Page_Title)"; } print "
# \n"; $conf->xml = function_exists( "utf8_encode" ); if( $conf->xml ) { print "Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
# \n"; } else { dieout( "PHP's XML module is missing; the wiki requires functions in this module and won't work in this configuration. If you're running Mandrake, install the php-xml package." ); } # Check for session support if( !function_exists( 'session_name' ) ) dieout( "PHP's session module is missing. MediaWiki requires session support in order to function." ); # session.save_path doesn't *have* to be set, but if it is, and it's # not valid/writable/etc. then it can cause problems $sessionSavePath = mw_get_session_save_path(); $ssp = htmlspecialchars( $sessionSavePath ); # Warn the user if it's not set, but let them proceed if( !$sessionSavePath ) { print "Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini. If the default value causes problems with saving session data, set it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web server is running under.
# "; } elseif ( is_dir( $sessionSavePath ) && is_writable( $sessionSavePath ) ) { # All good? Let the user know print "Session save path ({$ssp}) appears to be valid.
# "; } else { # Something not right? Warn the user, but let them proceed print "Warning: Your session.save_path value ({$ssp}) appears to be invalid or is not writable. PHP needs to be able to save data to this location for correct session operation.
# "; } # Check for PCRE support if( !function_exists( 'preg_match' ) ) dieout( "The PCRE support module appears to be missing. MediaWiki requires the Perl-compatible regular expression functions." ); $memlimit = ini_get( "memory_limit" ); $conf->raiseMemory = false; if( empty( $memlimit ) || $memlimit == -1 ) { print "PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
# \n"; } else { print "PHP's memory_limit is " . htmlspecialchars( $memlimit ) . ". "; $n = intval( $memlimit ); if( preg_match( '/^([0-9]+)[Mm]$/', trim( $memlimit ), $m ) ) { $n = intval( $m[1] * (1024*1024) ); } if( $n < 20*1024*1024 ) { print "Attempting to raise limit to 20M... "; if( false === ini_set( "memory_limit", "20M" ) ) { print "failed.
" . htmlspecialchars( $memlimit ) . " seems too low, installation may fail!"; } else { $conf->raiseMemory = true; print "ok."; } } print "
# \n"; } $conf->turck = function_exists( 'mmcache_get' ); if ( $conf->turck ) { print "Turck MMCache installed
# \n"; } $conf->xcache = function_exists( 'xcache_get' ); if( $conf->xcache ) print "XCache installed
# "; $conf->apc = function_exists('apc_fetch'); if ($conf->apc ) { print "APC installed
# "; } $conf->eaccel = function_exists( 'eaccelerator_get' ); if ( $conf->eaccel ) { $conf->turck = 'eaccelerator'; print "eAccelerator installed
# \n"; } $conf->dba = function_exists( 'dba_open' ); if( !( $conf->turck || $conf->eaccel || $conf->apc || $conf->xcache ) ) { echo( 'Couldn\'t find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
# ' ); } $conf->diff3 = false; $diff3locations = array_merge( array( "/usr/bin", "/usr/local/bin", "/opt/csw/bin", "/usr/gnu/bin", "/usr/sfw/bin" ), explode( PATH_SEPARATOR, getenv( "PATH" ) ) ); $diff3names = array( "gdiff3", "diff3", "diff3.exe" ); $diff3versioninfo = array( '$1 --version 2>&1', 'diff3 (GNU diffutils)' ); foreach ($diff3locations as $loc) { $exe = locate_executable($loc, $diff3names, $diff3versioninfo); if ($exe !== false) { $conf->diff3 = $exe; break; } } if ($conf->diff3) print "Found GNU diff3: $conf->diff3.
# "; else print "GNU diff3 not found.
# "; $conf->ImageMagick = false; $imcheck = array( "/usr/bin", "/opt/csw/bin", "/usr/local/bin", "/sw/bin", "/opt/local/bin" ); foreach( $imcheck as $dir ) { $im = "$dir/convert"; if( @file_exists( $im ) ) { print "Found ImageMagick: $im; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
# \n"; $conf->ImageMagick = $im; break; } } $conf->HaveGD = function_exists( "imagejpeg" ); if( $conf->HaveGD ) { print "Found GD graphics library built-in"; if( !$conf->ImageMagick ) { print ", image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads"; } print ".
# \n"; } else { if( !$conf->ImageMagick ) { print "Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled.
# \n"; } } $conf->IP = dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ); print "Installation directory: " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->IP ) . "
# \n"; // PHP_SELF isn't available sometimes, such as when PHP is CGI but // cgi.fix_pathinfo is disabled. In that case, fall back to SCRIPT_NAME // to get the path to the current script... hopefully it's reliable. SIGH $path = ($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] === '') ? $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] : $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; $conf->ScriptPath = preg_replace( '{^(.*)/config.*$}', '$1', $path ); print "Script URI path: " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->ScriptPath ) . "
# \n"; // We may be installing from *.php5 extension file, if so, print message $conf->ScriptExtension = '.php'; if (defined('MW_INSTALL_PHP5_EXT')) { $conf->ScriptExtension = '.php5'; print "Installing MediaWiki with php5 file extensions
# \n"; } else { print "Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
# \n"; } print "Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
# \n"; $conf->posted = ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"); $conf->Sitename = ucfirst( importPost( "Sitename", "" ) ); $defaultEmail = empty( $_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"] ) ? 'root@localhost' : $_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"]; $conf->EmergencyContact = importPost( "EmergencyContact", $defaultEmail ); $conf->DBtype = importPost( "DBtype", $DefaultDBtype ); ?> DBserver = importPost( "DBserver", "localhost" ); $conf->DBname = importPost( "DBname", "wikidb" ); $conf->DBuser = importPost( "DBuser", "wikiuser" ); $conf->DBpassword = importPost( "DBpassword" ); $conf->DBpassword2 = importPost( "DBpassword2" ); $conf->SysopName = importPost( "SysopName", "WikiSysop" ); $conf->SysopPass = importPost( "SysopPass" ); $conf->SysopPass2 = importPost( "SysopPass2" ); $conf->RootUser = importPost( "RootUser", "root" ); $conf->RootPW = importPost( "RootPW", "" ); $useRoot = importCheck( 'useroot', false ); $conf->LanguageCode = importPost( "LanguageCode", "en" ); ## MySQL specific: $conf->DBprefix = importPost( "DBprefix" ); $conf->setSchema( importPost( "DBschema", "mysql4" ), importPost( "DBengine", "InnoDB" ) ); ## Postgres specific: $conf->DBport = importPost( "DBport", "5432" ); $conf->DBmwschema = importPost( "DBmwschema", "mediawiki" ); $conf->DBts2schema = importPost( "DBts2schema", "public" ); /* Check for validity */ $errs = array(); if( preg_match( '/^$|^mediawiki$|#/i', $conf->Sitename ) ) { $errs["Sitename"] = "Must not be blank or \"MediaWiki\" and may not contain \"#\""; } if( $conf->DBuser == "" ) { $errs["DBuser"] = "Must not be blank"; } if( ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') && (strlen($conf->DBuser) > 16) ) { $errs["DBuser"] = "Username too long"; } if( $conf->DBpassword == "" && $conf->DBtype != "postgres" ) { $errs["DBpassword"] = "Must not be blank"; } if( $conf->DBpassword != $conf->DBpassword2 ) { $errs["DBpassword2"] = "Passwords don't match!"; } if( !preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z_0-9]*$/', $conf->DBprefix ) ) { $errs["DBprefix"] = "Invalid table prefix"; } error_reporting( E_ALL ); /** * Initialise $wgLang and $wgContLang to something so we can * call case-folding methods. Per Brion, this is English for * now, although we could be clever and initialise to the * user-selected language. */ $wgContLang = Language::factory( 'en' ); $wgLang = $wgContLang; /** * We're messing about with users, so we need a stub * authentication plugin... */ $wgAuth = new AuthPlugin(); /** * Validate the initial administrator account; username, * password checks, etc. */ if( $conf->SysopName ) { # Check that the user can be created $u = User::newFromName( $conf->SysopName ); if( is_a($u, 'User') ) { // please do not use instanceof, it breaks PHP4 # Various password checks if( $conf->SysopPass != '' ) { if( $conf->SysopPass == $conf->SysopPass2 ) { if( !$u->isValidPassword( $conf->SysopPass ) ) { $errs['SysopPass'] = "Bad password"; } } else { $errs['SysopPass2'] = "Passwords don't match"; } } else { $errs['SysopPass'] = "Cannot be blank"; } unset( $u ); } else { $errs['SysopName'] = "Bad username"; } } $conf->License = importRequest( "License", "none" ); if( $conf->License == "gfdl" ) { $conf->RightsUrl = "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"; $conf->RightsText = "GNU Free Documentation License 1.2"; $conf->RightsCode = "gfdl"; $conf->RightsIcon = '${wgScriptPath}/skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png'; } elseif( $conf->License == "none" ) { $conf->RightsUrl = $conf->RightsText = $conf->RightsCode = $conf->RightsIcon = ""; } else { $conf->RightsUrl = importRequest( "RightsUrl", "" ); $conf->RightsText = importRequest( "RightsText", "" ); $conf->RightsCode = importRequest( "RightsCode", "" ); $conf->RightsIcon = importRequest( "RightsIcon", "" ); } $conf->Shm = importRequest( "Shm", "none" ); $conf->MCServers = importRequest( "MCServers" ); /* Test memcached servers */ if ( $conf->Shm == 'memcached' && $conf->MCServers ) { $conf->MCServerArray = array_map( 'trim', explode( ',', $conf->MCServers ) ); foreach ( $conf->MCServerArray as $server ) { $error = testMemcachedServer( $server ); if ( $error ) { $errs["MCServers"] = $error; break; } } } else if ( $conf->Shm == 'memcached' ) { $errs["MCServers"] = "Please specify at least one server if you wish to use memcached"; } /* default values for installation */ $conf->Email = importRequest("Email", "email_enabled"); $conf->Emailuser = importRequest("Emailuser", "emailuser_enabled"); $conf->Enotif = importRequest("Enotif", "enotif_allpages"); $conf->Eauthent = importRequest("Eauthent", "eauthent_enabled"); if( $conf->posted && ( 0 == count( $errs ) ) ) { do { /* So we can 'continue' to end prematurely */ $conf->Root = ($conf->RootPW != ""); /* Load up the settings and get installin' */ $local = writeLocalSettings( $conf ); echo "\n"; echo "

Generating configuration file...
\n"; echo "
\n"; $wgCommandLineMode = false; chdir( ".." ); $ok = eval( $local ); if( $ok === false ) { dieout( "Errors in generated configuration; " . "most likely due to a bug in the installer... " . "Config file was: " . "

" .
htmlspecialchars( $local ) .
"

# " . "" ); } $conf->DBtypename = ''; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { if ($conf->DBtype === $db) $conf->DBtypename = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; } if ( ! strlen($conf->DBtype)) { $errs["DBpicktype"] = "Please choose a database type"; continue; } if (! $conf->DBtypename) { $errs["DBtype"] = "Unknown database type '$conf->DBtype'"; continue; } print "Database type: {$conf->DBtypename}
# \n"; $dbclass = 'Database'.ucfirst($conf->DBtype); $wgDBtype = $conf->DBtype; $wgDBadminuser = "root"; $wgDBadminpassword = $conf->RootPW; ## Mysql specific: $wgDBprefix = $conf->DBprefix; ## Postgres specific: $wgDBport = $conf->DBport; $wgDBmwschema = $conf->DBmwschema; $wgDBts2schema = $conf->DBts2schema; $wgCommandLineMode = true; if (! defined ( 'STDERR' ) ) define( 'STDERR', fopen("php://stderr", "wb")); $wgUseDatabaseMessages = false; /* FIXME: For database failure */ require_once( "$IP/includes/Setup.php" ); chdir( "config" ); $wgTitle = Title::newFromText( "Installation script" ); error_reporting( E_ALL ); print "Loading class: $dbclass"; $dbc = new $dbclass; if( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql' ) { $mysqlOldClient = version_compare( mysql_get_client_info(), "4.1.0", "lt" ); if( $mysqlOldClient ) { print "
# PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.
# \n"; } $ok = true; # Let's be optimistic # Decide if we're going to use the superuser or the regular database user $conf->Root = $useRoot; if( $conf->Root ) { $db_user = $conf->RootUser; $db_pass = $conf->RootPW; } else { $db_user = $wgDBuser; $db_pass = $wgDBpassword; } # Attempt to connect echo( "Attempting to connect to database server as $db_user..." ); $wgDatabase = Database::newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $db_user, $db_pass, '', 1 ); # Check the connection and respond to errors if( $wgDatabase->isOpen() ) { # Seems OK $ok = true; $wgDBadminuser = $db_user; $wgDBadminpassword = $db_pass; echo( "success.
# \n" ); $wgDatabase->ignoreErrors( true ); $myver = $wgDatabase->getServerVersion(); } else { # There were errors, report them and back out $ok = false; $errno = mysql_errno(); $errtx = htmlspecialchars( mysql_error() ); switch( $errno ) { case 1045: case 2000: echo( "failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords." ); if( $conf->Root ) { # The superuser details are wrong $errs["RootUser"] = "Check username"; $errs["RootPW"] = "and password"; } else { # The regular user details are wrong $errs["DBuser"] = "Check username"; $errs["DBpassword"] = "and password"; } break; case 2002: case 2003: default: # General connection problem echo( "failed with error [$errno] $errtx.\n" ); $errs["DBserver"] = "Connection failed"; break; } # switch } #conn. att. if( !$ok ) { continue; } } else /* not mysql */ { error_reporting( E_ALL ); $wgSuperUser = ''; ## Possible connect as a superuser if( $useRoot ) { $wgDBsuperuser = $conf->RootUser; echo( "Attempting to connect to database \"postgres\" as superuser \"$wgDBsuperuser\"..." ); $wgDatabase = $dbc->newFromParams($wgDBserver, $wgDBsuperuser, $conf->RootPW, "postgres", 1); if (!$wgDatabase->isOpen()) { print " error: " . $wgDatabase->lastError() . "
# \n"; $errs["DBserver"] = "Could not connect to database as superuser"; $errs["RootUser"] = "Check username"; $errs["RootPW"] = "and password"; continue; } $wgDatabase->initial_setup($conf->RootPW, 'postgres'); } echo( "Attempting to connect to database \"$wgDBname\" as \"$wgDBuser\"..." ); $wgDatabase = $dbc->newFromParams($wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1); if (!$wgDatabase->isOpen()) { print " error: " . $wgDatabase->lastError() . "
# \n"; } else { $myver = $wgDatabase->getServerVersion(); } $wgDatabase->initial_setup('', $wgDBname); } if ( !$wgDatabase->isOpen() ) { $errs["DBserver"] = "Couldn't connect to database"; continue; } print "Connected to $myver"; if ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { if( version_compare( $myver, "4.0.14" ) < 0 ) { dieout( " -- mysql 4.0.14 or later required. Aborting." ); } $mysqlNewAuth = version_compare( $myver, "4.1.0", "ge" ); if( $mysqlNewAuth && $mysqlOldClient ) { print "; You are using MySQL 4.1 server, but PHP is linked to old client libraries; if you have trouble with authentication, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help."; } if( $wgDBmysql5 ) { if( $mysqlNewAuth ) { print "; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode"; } else { print "; MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode enabled, but older version detected; will likely fail."; } } print "
# \n"; @$sel = $wgDatabase->selectDB( $wgDBname ); if( $sel ) { print "Database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . " exists
\n"; } else { $err = mysql_errno(); $databaseSafe = htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ); if( $err == 1102 /* Invalid database name */ ) { print "

* {$databaseSafe} is not a valid database name.

"; continue; } elseif( $err != 1049 /* Database doesn't exist */ ) { print "

* Error selecting database {$databaseSafe}: {$err} "; print htmlspecialchars( mysql_error() ) . "

# "; continue; } print "Attempting to create database...
# "; $res = $wgDatabase->query( "CREATE DATABASE `$wgDBname`" ); if( !$res ) { print "Couldn't create database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . "; try with root access or check your username/pass.
# \n"; $errs["RootPW"] = "<- Enter"; continue; } print "Created database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . "
# \n"; } $wgDatabase->selectDB( $wgDBname ); } else if ($conf->DBtype == 'postgres') { if( version_compare( $myver, "PostgreSQL 8.0" ) < 0 ) { dieout( " Postgres 8.0 or later is required. Aborting." ); } } if( $wgDatabase->tableExists( "cur" ) || $wgDatabase->tableExists( "revision" ) ) { print "There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...
# \n"; if ( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { # Determine existing default character set if ( $wgDatabase->tableExists( "revision" ) ) { $revision = $wgDatabase->escapeLike( $conf->DBprefix . 'revision' ); $res = $wgDatabase->query( "SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE '$revision'" ); $row = $wgDatabase->fetchObject( $res ); if ( !$row ) { echo "SHOW TABLE STATUS query failed!
# \n"; $existingSchema = false; $existingEngine = false; } else { if ( preg_match( '/^latin1/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql4'; } elseif ( preg_match( '/^utf8/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql5'; } elseif ( preg_match( '/^binary/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql5-binary'; } else { $existingSchema = false; echo "Warning: Unrecognised existing collation
# \n"; } if ( isset( $row->Engine ) ) { $existingEngine = $row->Engine; } else { $existingEngine = $row->Type; } } if ( $existingSchema && $existingSchema != $conf->DBschema ) { print "Warning: you requested the {$conf->DBschema} schema, " . "but the existing database has the $existingSchema schema. This upgrade script ". "can't convert it, so it will remain $existingSchema.
# \n"; $conf->setSchema( $existingSchema, $conf->DBengine ); } if ( $existingEngine && $existingEngine != $conf->DBengine ) { print "Warning: you requested the {$conf->DBengine} storage " . "engine, but the existing database uses the $existingEngine engine. This upgrade " . "script can't convert it, so it will remain $existingEngine.
# \n"; $conf->setSchema( $conf->DBschema, $existingEngine ); } } # Create user if required if ( $conf->Root ) { $conn = $dbc->newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1 ); if ( $conn->isOpen() ) { print "DB user account ok
# \n"; $conn->close(); } else { print "Granting user permissions..."; if( $mysqlOldClient && $mysqlNewAuth ) { print " If the next step fails, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help."; } print "
\n"; dbsource( "../maintenance/users.sql", $wgDatabase ); } } } print "

\n";
chdir( ".." );
flush();
do_all_updates();
chdir( "config" );
print "

\n"; print "

* Finished update checks.
* \n"; } else { # Determine available storage engines if possible if ( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql' && version_compare( $myver, "4.1.2", "ge" ) ) { $res = $wgDatabase->query( 'SHOW ENGINES' ); $found = false; while ( $row = $wgDatabase->fetchObject( $res ) ) { if ( $row->Engine == $conf->DBengine ) { $found = true; break; } } $wgDatabase->freeResult( $res ); if ( !$found && $conf->DBengine != 'MyISAM' ) { echo "Warning: {$conf->DBengine} storage engine not available, " . "using MyISAM instead
* \n"; $conf->setSchema( $conf->DBschema, 'MyISAM' ); } } # FIXME: Check for errors print "Creating tables..."; if ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { dbsource( "../maintenance/tables.sql", $wgDatabase ); dbsource( "../maintenance/interwiki.sql", $wgDatabase ); } else if ($conf->DBtype == 'postgres') { $wgDatabase->setup_database(); } else { $errs["DBtype"] = "Do not know how to handle database type '$conf->DBtype'"; continue; } print " done.
* \n"; print "Initializing statistics...
* \n"; $wgDatabase->insert( 'site_stats', array ( 'ss_row_id' => 1, 'ss_total_views' => 0, 'ss_total_edits' => 1, # Main page first edit 'ss_good_articles' => 0, # Main page is not a good article - no internal link 'ss_total_pages' => 1, # Main page 'ss_users' => $conf->SysopName ? 1 : 0, # Sysop account, if created 'ss_admins' => $conf->SysopName ? 1 : 0, # Sysop account, if created 'ss_images' => 0 ) ); # Set up the "regular user" account *if we can, and if we need to* if( $conf->Root and $conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { # See if we need to $wgDatabase2 = $dbc->newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1 ); if( $wgDatabase2->isOpen() ) { # Nope, just close the test connection and continue $wgDatabase2->close(); echo( "User $wgDBuser exists. Skipping grants.
* \n" ); } else { # Yes, so run the grants echo( "Granting user permissions to $wgDBuser on $wgDBname..." ); dbsource( "../maintenance/users.sql", $wgDatabase ); echo( "success.
* \n" ); } } if( $conf->SysopName ) { $u = User::newFromName( $conf->getSysopName() ); if ( !$u ) { print "Warning: Skipped sysop account creation - invalid username!
* \n"; } else if ( 0 == $u->idForName() ) { $u->addToDatabase(); $u->setPassword( $conf->getSysopPass() ); $u->saveSettings(); $u->addGroup( "sysop" ); $u->addGroup( "bureaucrat" ); print "Created sysop account " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->SysopName ) . ".
* \n"; } else { print "Could not create user - already exists!
* \n"; } } else { print "Skipped sysop account creation, no name given.
* \n"; } $titleobj = Title::newFromText( wfMsgNoDB( "mainpage" ) ); $article = new Article( $titleobj ); $newid = $article->insertOn( $wgDatabase ); $revision = new Revision( array( 'page' => $newid, 'text' => wfMsg( 'mainpagetext' ) . "\n\n" . wfMsgNoTrans( 'mainpagedocfooter' ), 'comment' => '', 'user' => 0, 'user_text' => 'MediaWiki default', ) ); $revid = $revision->insertOn( $wgDatabase ); $article->updateRevisionOn( $wgDatabase, $revision ); } /* Write out the config file now that all is well */ print "\n"; print "

Creating LocalSettings.php...
\n\n"; $localSettings = "<" . "?php$endl$local"; // Fix up a common line-ending problem (due to CVS on Windows) $localSettings = str_replace( "\r\n", "\n", $localSettings ); $f = fopen( "LocalSettings.php", 'xt' ); if( $f == false ) { dieout( "

Couldn't write out LocalSettings.php. Check that the directory permissions are correct and that there isn't already a file of that name here...
\n" . "

Here's the file that would have been written, try to paste it into place manually:
\n" . "

\n" . htmlspecialchars( $localSettings ) . "

\n" ); } if(fwrite( $f, $localSettings ) ) { fclose( $f ); print "

\n"; writeSuccessMessage(); } else { fclose( $f ); die("

An error occured while writing the config/LocalSettings.php file. Check user rights and disk space then try again.
\n"); print "\n"; } } while( false ); } ?> posted ) { echo "

Something's not quite right yet; make sure everything below is filled out correctly.
\n"; } ?>
Site config

Preferably a short word without punctuation, i.e. "Wikipedia".
Will appear as the namespace name for "meta" pages, and throughout the interface.

Displayed to users in some error messages, used as the return address for password reminders, and used as the default sender address of e-mail notifications.
Language:

Select the language for your wiki's interface. Some localizations aren't fully complete. Unicode (UTF-8) is used for all localizations.
Copyright/license:

*
*
* ScriptPath}/config/$script?License=cc&RightsUrl=[license_url]&RightsText=[license_name]&RightsCode=[license_code]&RightsIcon=[license_button]" ); $icon = urlencode( "$wgServer$wgUploadPath/wiki.png" ); $ccApp = htmlspecialchars( "http://creativecommons.org/license/?partner=$partner&exit_url=$exit&partner_icon_url=$icon" ); print "choose"; ?> License == "cc" ) { ?>
o RightsIcon ) . "\" alt='(Creative Commons icon)' />", "hidden" ); ?>
o RightsText ), "hidden" ); ?>
o RightsCode ), "hidden" ); ?>
o RightsUrl ) . "\">" . htmlspecialchars( $conf->RightsUrl ) . "", "hidden" ); ?>

A notice, icon, and machine-readable copyright metadata will be displayed for the license you pick.

An admin can lock/delete pages, block users from editing, and do other maintenance tasks.
A new account will be added only when creating a new wiki database.

The password cannot be the same as the username.
Object caching:

*
* turck ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "Turck MMCache", "radio", "turck" ); echo "
* "; } if( $conf->xcache ) { echo( '' ); aField( $conf, 'Shm', 'XCache', 'radio', 'xcache' ); echo( '
* ' ); } if ( $conf->apc ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "APC", "radio", "apc" ); echo "
* "; } if ( $conf->eaccel ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "eAccelerator", "radio", "eaccel" ); echo "
* "; } if ( $conf->dba ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "DBA (not recommended)", "radio", "dba" ); echo "
* "; } ?>

An object caching system such as memcached will provide a significant performance boost, but needs to be installed. Provide the server addresses and ports in a comma-separated list.

MediaWiki can also detect and support eAccelerator, Turck MMCache, APC, and XCache, but these should not be used if the wiki will be running on multiple application servers.

DBA (Berkeley-style DB) is generally slower than using no cache at all, and is only recommended for testing.
E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup
E-mail features (global):

*
*

Use this to disable all e-mail functions (password reminders, user-to-user e-mail, and e-mail notifications) if sending mail doesn't work on your server.
User-to-user e-mail:

*
*

The user-to-user e-mail feature (Special:Emailuser) lets the wiki act as a relay to allow users to exchange e-mail without publicly advertising their e-mail address.
E-mail notification about changes:

*
*
*

For this feature to work, an e-mail address must be present for the user account, and the notification options in the user's preferences must be enabled. Also note the authentication option below. When testing the feature, keep in mind that your own changes will never trigger notifications to be sent to yourself.

There are additional options for fine tuning in /includes/DefaultSettings.php; copy these to your LocalSettings.php and edit them there to change them.
E-mail address authentication:

*
*

If this option is enabled, users have to confirm their e-mail address using a magic link sent to them whenever they set or change it, and only authenticated e-mail addresses can receive mails from other users and/or change notification mails. Setting this option is recommended for public wikis because of potential abuse of the e-mail features above.
Database config
Database type: $errs[DBpicktype]\n"; ?>

If your database server isn't on your web server, enter the name or IP address here.

If you only have a single user account and database available, enter those here. If you have database root access (see below) you can specify new accounts/databases to be created. This account will not be created if it pre-exists. If this is the case, ensure that it has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE permissions on the MediaWiki database.
Superuser account: checked="checked" /> Use superuser account

If the database user specified above does not exist, or does not have access to create the database (if needed) or tables within it, please check the box and provide details of a superuser account, such as root, which does.

If you need to share one database between multiple wikis, or between MediaWiki and another web application, you may choose to add a prefix to all the table names to avoid conflicts.

Avoid exotic characters; something like mw_ is good.
Storage Engine
Select one:

*
*

InnoDB is best for public web installations, since it has good concurrency support. MyISAM may be faster in single-user installations. MyISAM databases tend to get corrupted more often than InnoDB databases.
Database character set
Select one:

*
*
*

EXPERIMENTAL: You can enable explicit Unicode charset support for MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 servers. This is not well tested and may cause things to break. If upgrading an older installation, leave in backwards-compatible mode.

The username specified above (at "DB username") will have its search path set to the above schemas, so it is recommended that you create a new user. The above schemas are generally correct: only change them if you are sure you need to.

Installation successful!

To complete the installation, please do the following:

1. Download config/LocalSettings.php with your FTP client or file manager
2. Upload it to the parent directory
3. Delete config/LocalSettings.php
4. Start using your wiki!

If you are in a shared hosting environment, do not just move LocalSettings.php remotely. LocalSettings.php is currently owned by the user your webserver is running under, which means that anyone on the same server can read your database password! Downloading it and uploading it again will hopefully change the ownership to a user ID specific to you.
EOT; } else { echo <<

Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

You should change file permissions for LocalSettings.php as required to prevent other users on the server reading passwords and altering configuration data.
# EOT; } } function escapePhpString( $string ) { if ( is_array( $string ) || is_object( $string ) ) { return false; } return strtr( $string, array( "\n" => "\\n", "\r" => "\\r", "\t" => "\\t", "\\" => "\\\\", "\$" => "\\\$", "\"" => "\\\"" )); } function writeLocalSettings( $conf ) { $conf->PasswordSender = $conf->EmergencyContact; $magic = ($conf->ImageMagick ? "" : "# "); $convert = ($conf->ImageMagick ? $conf->ImageMagick : "/usr/bin/convert" ); $rights = ($conf->RightsUrl) ? "" : "# "; $hashedUploads = $conf->safeMode ? '' : '# '; switch ( $conf->Shm ) { case 'memcached': $cacheType = 'CACHE_MEMCACHED'; $mcservers = var_export( $conf->MCServerArray, true ); break; case 'turck': case 'xcache': case 'apc': case 'eaccel': $cacheType = 'CACHE_ACCEL'; $mcservers = 'array()'; break; case 'dba': $cacheType = 'CACHE_DBA'; $mcservers = 'array()'; break; default: $cacheType = 'CACHE_NONE'; $mcservers = 'array()'; } if ( $conf->Email == 'email_enabled' ) { $enableemail = 'true'; $enableuseremail = ( $conf->Emailuser == 'emailuser_enabled' ) ? 'true' : 'false' ; $eauthent = ( $conf->Eauthent == 'eauthent_enabled' ) ? 'true' : 'false' ; switch ( $conf->Enotif ) { case 'enotif_usertalk': $enotifusertalk = 'true'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; break; case 'enotif_allpages': $enotifusertalk = 'true'; $enotifwatchlist = 'true'; break; default: $enotifusertalk = 'false'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; } } else { $enableuseremail = 'false'; $enableemail = 'false'; $eauthent = 'false'; $enotifusertalk = 'false'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; } $file = @fopen( "/dev/urandom", "r" ); if ( $file ) { $secretKey = bin2hex( fread( $file, 32 ) ); fclose( $file ); } else { $secretKey = ""; for ( $i=0; $i<8; $i++ ) { $secretKey .= dechex(mt_rand(0, 0x7fffffff)); } print "Warning: \$wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually.
# \n"; } # Add slashes to strings for double quoting $slconf = array_map( "escapePhpString", get_object_vars( $conf ) ); if( $conf->License == 'gfdl' ) { # Needs literal string interpolation for the current style path $slconf['RightsIcon'] = $conf->RightsIcon; } $localsettings = " # This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki installer. # If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you need to # recreate them later. # # See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings # and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_ # file, not there. # If you customize your file layout, set \$IP to the directory that contains # the other MediaWiki files. It will be used as a base to locate files. if( defined( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) ) { \$IP = MW_INSTALL_PATH; } else { \$IP = dirname( __FILE__ ); } \$path = array( \$IP, \"\$IP/includes\", \"\$IP/languages\" ); set_include_path( implode( PATH_SEPARATOR, \$path ) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path() ); require_once( \"\$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php\" ); # If PHP's memory limit is very low, some operations may fail. " . ($conf->raiseMemory ? '' : '# ' ) . "ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );" . " if ( \$wgCommandLineMode ) { if ( isset( \$_SERVER ) && array_key_exists( 'REQUEST_METHOD', \$_SERVER ) ) { die( \"This script must be run from the command line\\n\" ); } } ## Uncomment this to disable output compression # \$wgDisableOutputCompression = true; \$wgSitename = \"{$slconf['Sitename']}\"; ## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki; ## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this. \$wgScriptPath = \"{$slconf['ScriptPath']}\"; \$wgScriptExtension = \"{$slconf['ScriptExtension']}\"; ## For more information on customizing the URLs please see: ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL \$wgEnableEmail = $enableemail; \$wgEnableUserEmail = $enableuseremail; \$wgEmergencyContact = \"{$slconf['EmergencyContact']}\"; \$wgPasswordSender = \"{$slconf['PasswordSender']}\"; ## For a detailed description of the following switches see ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification ## and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification ## There are many more options for fine tuning available see ## /includes/DefaultSettings.php ## UPO means: this is also a user preference option \$wgEnotifUserTalk = $enotifusertalk; # UPO \$wgEnotifWatchlist = $enotifwatchlist; # UPO \$wgEmailAuthentication = $eauthent; \$wgDBtype = \"{$slconf['DBtype']}\"; \$wgDBserver = \"{$slconf['DBserver']}\"; \$wgDBname = \"{$slconf['DBname']}\"; \$wgDBuser = \"{$slconf['DBuser']}\"; \$wgDBpassword = \"{$slconf['DBpassword']}\"; # MySQL specific settings \$wgDBprefix = \"{$slconf['DBprefix']}\"; # MySQL table options to use during installation or update \$wgDBTableOptions = \"{$slconf['DBTableOptions']}\"; # Experimental charset support for MySQL 4.1/5.0. \$wgDBmysql5 = {$conf->DBmysql5}; # Postgres specific settings \$wgDBport = \"{$slconf['DBport']}\"; \$wgDBmwschema = \"{$slconf['DBmwschema']}\"; \$wgDBts2schema = \"{$slconf['DBts2schema']}\"; ## Shared memory settings \$wgMainCacheType = $cacheType; \$wgMemCachedServers = $mcservers; ## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory ## is writable, then set this to true: \$wgEnableUploads = false; {$magic}\$wgUseImageMagick = true; {$magic}\$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = \"{$convert}\"; ## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode, ## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and ## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment ## this, if it's not already uncommented: {$hashedUploads}\$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; ## If you have the appropriate support software installed ## you can enable inline LaTeX equations: \$wgUseTeX = false; \$wgLocalInterwiki = \$wgSitename; \$wgLanguageCode = \"{$slconf['LanguageCode']}\"; \$wgProxyKey = \"$secretKey\"; ## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic ## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook': \$wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook'; ## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an ## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation ## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far. {$rights}\$wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true; \$wgRightsPage = \"\"; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright \$wgRightsUrl = \"{$slconf['RightsUrl']}\"; \$wgRightsText = \"{$slconf['RightsText']}\"; \$wgRightsIcon = \"{$slconf['RightsIcon']}\"; # \$wgRightsCode = \"{$slconf['RightsCode']}\"; # Not yet used \$wgDiff3 = \"{$slconf['diff3']}\"; # When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make # sure that cached pages are cleared. \$wgCacheEpoch = max( \$wgCacheEpoch, gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) ) ); "; ## End of setting the $localsettings string // Keep things in Unix line endings internally; // the system will write out as local text type. return str_replace( "\r\n", "\n", $localsettings ); } function dieout( $text ) { die( $text . "\n\n\n" ); } function importVar( &$var, $name, $default = "" ) { if( isset( $var[$name] ) ) { $retval = $var[$name]; if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) { $retval = stripslashes( $retval ); } } else { $retval = $default; } return $retval; } function importPost( $name, $default = "" ) { return importVar( $_POST, $name, $default ); } function importCheck( $name ) { return isset( $_POST[$name] ); } function importRequest( $name, $default = "" ) { return importVar( $_REQUEST, $name, $default ); } $radioCount = 0; function aField( &$conf, $field, $text, $type = "text", $value = "", $onclick = '' ) { global $radioCount; if( $type != "" ) { $xtype = "type=\"$type\""; } else { $xtype = ""; } $id = $field; $nolabel = ($type == "radio") || ($type == "hidden"); if ($type == 'radio') $id .= $radioCount++; if( $nolabel ) { echo "\t\t"; } else { echo "\t\t$text\n"; } if( $type == "radio" && $value == $conf->$field ) { $checked = "checked='checked'"; } else { $checked = ""; } echo "\t\t$field ); } echo "\" />\n"; if( $nolabel ) { echo " $text\n"; } global $errs; if(isset($errs[$field])) echo "" . $errs[$field] . "\n"; } function getLanguageList() { global $wgLanguageNames, $IP; if( !isset( $wgLanguageNames ) ) { require_once( "$IP/languages/Names.php" ); } $codes = array(); $d = opendir( "../languages/messages" ); /* In case we are called from the root directory */ if (!$d) $d = opendir( "languages/messages"); while( false !== ($f = readdir( $d ) ) ) { $m = array(); if( preg_match( '/Messages([A-Z][a-z_]+)\.php$/', $f, $m ) ) { $code = str_replace( '_', '-', strtolower( $m[1] ) ); if( isset( $wgLanguageNames[$code] ) ) { $name = $code . ' - ' . $wgLanguageNames[$code]; } else { $name = $code; } $codes[$code] = $name; } } closedir( $d ); ksort( $codes ); return $codes; } #Check for location of an executable # @param string $loc single location to check # @param array $names filenames to check for. # @param mixed $versioninfo array of details to use when checking version, use false for no version checking function locate_executable($loc, $names, $versioninfo = false) { if (!is_array($names)) $names = array($names); foreach ($names as $name) { $command = "$loc".DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."$name"; if (@file_exists($command)) { if (!$versioninfo) return $command; $file = str_replace('$1', $command, $versioninfo[0]); if (strstr(`$file`, $versioninfo[1]) !== false) return $command; } } return false; } # Test a memcached server function testMemcachedServer( $server ) { $hostport = explode(":", $server); $errstr = false; $fp = false; if ( !function_exists( 'fsockopen' ) ) { $errstr = "Can't connect to memcached, fsockopen() not present"; } if ( !$errstr && count( $hostport ) != 2 ) { $errstr = 'Please specify host and port'; } if ( !$errstr ) { list( $host, $port ) = $hostport; $errno = 0; $fsockerr = ''; $fp = @fsockopen( $host, $port, $errno, $fsockerr, 1.0 ); if ( $fp === false ) { $errstr = "Cannot connect to memcached on $host:$port : $fsockerr"; } } if ( !$errstr ) { $command = "version\r\n"; $bytes = fwrite( $fp, $command ); if ( $bytes != strlen( $command ) ) { $errstr = "Cannot write to memcached socket on $host:$port"; } } if ( !$errstr ) { $expected = "VERSION "; $response = fread( $fp, strlen( $expected ) ); if ( $response != $expected ) { $errstr = "Didn't get correct memcached response from $host:$port"; } } if ( $fp ) { fclose( $fp ); } if ( !$errstr ) { echo "Connected to memcached on $host:$port successfully"; } return $errstr; } function database_picker($conf) { global $ourdb; print "\n"; foreach(array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { if ($ourdb[$db]['havedriver']) { print "
# "; aField( $conf, "DBtype", $ourdb[$db]['fullname'], 'radio', $db, 'onclick'); print "
\n"; } } print "\n"; } function database_switcher($db) { global $ourdb; $color = $ourdb[$db]['bgcolor']; $full = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; print "
# $full specific options\n"; } function printListItem( $item ) { print "$item
"; } ?>

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Thank you! – [[wikipedia:User talk:123Pie|i123Pie]] <sub>[[wikipedia:User:123Pie|bio]]</sub><sup>[[wikipedia:Special:Contributions/123Pie|contribs]]</sup> 20:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC) --[[Special:Contributions/172.189.160.70|172.189.160.70]] 20:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:Either you copied something really strange or your server doesn't execute .php files. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 17:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) help deleting pages==

I took a wiki class a while ago and we created some test pages in class. I found them when I did a circuit search on validation. How can I delete these?

user: jchackba

—[[Special:Contributions/134.134.136.5|134.134.136.5]] 19:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

: Log in as a user with the 'delete' privilege (such as administrator) and press the delete tab (up on the level of the edit tab). [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 20:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Mediawiki Programmierer gesucht / Mediawiki programmersearch ==

*MediaWiki: newest
*PHP: 5.X
*MySQL: 5.X
*URL: local

'''English:''' We look for a German-language Mediawikiprogrammer how makes the Plugin working on our Mediawiki installation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields

'''German:'''
Wir suchen einen deutschsprachigen Mediawikiprogrammierer der uns das Plugin http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields zum Laufen bringt.

Kontakt: info@gerald-mann.com

—[[Special:Contributions/91.17.80.214|91.17.80.214]] 07:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 
:Tested with [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields/CustomEdit.php&diff=prev&oldid=180376 this one] and it worked. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 17:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

==$wgShowExceptionDetails==
Hello, i'm the administrator of [http://www.spiriwiki.com spiriwiki.com] and have a problem with the <edit> on the right. I get the error:

'''Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.'''

But.. I already did that. Still i got this error ?!?
Great thanks.
—[[User:Spiriwiki.com|Spiriwiki.com]] 09:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
:Have you tried Clearing your browsers cache? [[Special:Contributions/172.212.163.21|172.212.163.21]] 16:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) enforcing user login ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11
*PHP: 5.1.2 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.18
*URL: 

Hello to all helpers,<br />
I want to ask you, if there is a chance to enforce an userlogin on mediawiki.<br />
This wiki is planned to be used only from signed users.<br />
We want to prevent anonymous users even from reading posts in the wiki.<br />
<br />
What can I do to enforce an userlogin before entering any post?<br />
<br />
Thanks for your help and best regards<br />
Marco Rudzuck

—[[Special:Contributions/77.178.58.147|77.178.58.147]] 15:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
:[[Manual:preventing access]] should help. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== "This page has been accessed ''X'' times" ==

Hi,

Can anyone tell me ''exactly'' what the counters at the bottom of the page measure? And also on the statistics page, where it lists "total pageviews", what exactly does that include? For instance, would it include PDFs stored in external file folders? All namespace pageviews? Other pages on a part of the server that hosts the wiki, but not the wiki itself? What about cache and repeated pageviews? If someone accessed a page 10 times a day, it only counts 1? If they keep accessing, when does it reset to count again, once a day? I ask these questions (a) because I want to know, and (b) because I track visitor stats using other tools such as Google Analytics and others, and occasionally I see some very strange behavior with the Mediawiki counters which are not always or usually reflected by the other tools, so should I take the Mediawiki counters to be the most accurate? One discrepancy e.g. occurred when there was a temporary jump about 10- to 20-fold in total pageviews and pageviews of most specific pages, for a period of about 24-36 hours, but this wasn't picked up by Google Analytics or the others. I have been assuming it was some kind of slashdot effect from a link on some external site, but I don't have software set up that tells me the referring URLs (yet), so I can't know that. Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/69.45.178.143|69.45.178.143]] 19:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

:I would recommend you [[Manual:$wgDisableCounters|disable the counter]] and rely on other tools (Google Analytics, AWStats, whatever), if only for performance reasons. (That's not really a direct answer, I know, but it's the best I've got.) —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 18:27, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

:: On a side note, which of the alternative tools do you reccomend/use, Emufarmers? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 01:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

:::I use Analytics, although statistics from server logs are going to be more accurate, strictly speaking, since they include users or robots with JavaScript turned off. Stats have mostly been more like interesting diversions than useful metrics for the relatively small sites I've run; with such sites the [[Extension:SearchLog|SearchLog extension]] could help me make sure people find what they search for (if I consulted it more often). —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 01:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks for the input, Emufarmers. The reason I ask also is that the "counters" from the MediaWiki software give me numbers that are an order of magnitude different from what I get from both Google Analytics and StatCounter, the 2 tools I use. For example, both Google Analytics and StatCounter show me getting roughly 200-250 unique visitors and about 400-500 pageviews per day. Yet the MediaWiki "counter" is showing I'm getting '''5,000-10,000''' total pageviews per day?? Besides the anomalous "jump" I described above, the MediaWiki counter tends to have risen (relative to itself) more consistently over time then the Analytics or StatCounter (although those have risen as well). The only conclusion I can come to to resolve the discrepancy is that they're using drastically different definitions of what a "pageview" is. I have been able to find out what definition Analytics and StatCounter use, but not MediaWiki, so that's why I ask. If the MediaWiki counter stats trends over time are reliable, then I'd like to keep tracking it for a while, even if it disagrees with the other 2. Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/66.233.225.115|66.233.225.115]] 21:15, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

:::Views from search engine bots might explain the discrepancy: Bots don't usually have JavaScript, so Analytics will miss them (and it might do some automatic filtering of known bots anyway). MediaWiki's built-in counter probably can't discriminate much. If you install software that analyzes your server's logs, you should be able to see what's really going on. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 21:36, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

== Highlight Cite (aka references) ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.2
*PHP: php 5
*MySQL: 4.**
*URL: http://l3ga.ferrywijsman.nl

How does Wikipedia let references links highlight at the References part?
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna (film), when I click on [1], the references called become blue.

I want to embed it at my website too.

[[Special:Contributions/86.90.194.103|86.90.194.103]] 19:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

: There is an addition to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]:

/* Highlight clicked reference in blue to help navigation */
ol.references > li:target {
background-color: #DEF;
}

sup.reference:target {
background-color: #DEF;
}

: But I don't know, if this is all. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.156.49|89.55.156.49]] 20:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

==(RESOLVED) Internal error ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0rc1
*PHP: 5.0.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.11-Debian_4sarge7-log
*URL: [http://cli.ir/test]

* when the page has just one section
it can be edited with this urls:

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit
<br />or<br />
http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit&section=0

if i try any invalid section number, i get <nowiki>{{MediaWiki:Nosuchsectiontext}}</nowiki> message.

* when the page has more than one section,
this url work correctly:

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit

but when i use this url i take a internal error:

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit&section=0

i also take this error when i use any other valid or invalid section number, such as 1, 5, 137 etc...

'''The error:'''<br />
internal error:<br />
Invalid h node passed to PPNode_DOM::splitHeading<br />
Backtrace:<br />
0 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Parser.php(4605): PPNode_DOM->splitHeading()<br />
1 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Parser.php(4675): Parser->extractSections('<div style="dir...', '55', 'get', false)<br />
2 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(193): Parser->getSection('<div style="dir...', '55', false)<br />
3 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(982): EditPage->getContent(false)<br />
4 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(473): EditPage->initialiseForm()<br />
5 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(323): EditPage->edit()<br />
6 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Wiki.php(444): EditPage->submit()<br />
7 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Wiki.php(48): MediaWiki->performAction(Object(OutputPage), Object(Article), Object(Title), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))<br />
8 /home/www/cli-ir/index.php(90): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))<br />
9 {main}<br />

—[[wikipedia:fa:user:sepehrnoush|sepehrnoush]] 19:02, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

: Try this [http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24492&postcount=2 link]. I had the same problem and it worked. --[[User:Baumanns|Baumanns]] 17:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks. It worked for me too. :) —[[wikipedia:fa:user:sepehrnoush|sepehrnoush]] 13:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

== Need help migrating an existing Wiki to a new network domain ==

* MediaWiki: 1.9.0
* PHP: 5.2.0 (apache2handler)
* MySQL: 5.0.27-community-nt
* URL: http://systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net/wikipedia/index.php/Main_Page (this is an internal network and is not reachable from outside our company's network)

Our company recently revamped our internal network, changing IP addressing scheme as well as initializing a new internal network specifically meant to be used by our System Test team. The Wiki itself is hosted on a Windows XP machine running XAMPP (machine hostname "systemtest"). Anyway, I'd like to migrate the System Test Wiki from the old domain (hosted at systemtest.azteknetworks.net) to the new domain (systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net). Currently, the main Wiki page is viewable (http://systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net/wikipedia/index.php/Main_Page), but clicking any of the other page links in there results in a 404 Not Found error. This is because the hyperlinks are apparently hard coded to point to the old domain instead of the new one. Unfortunately, it doesn't just seem to be a matter of changing a bunch of html files; I searched in C:\Program Files\xampp for all instances of "systemtest.azteknetworks.net" and it seems as if the web pages are stored in a database or some binary format (the search hits were on files ending in extension .MYD and .MYI).

Can you please help me to migrate our Wiki?

Thanks in advance,

- Jeffrey Wright
- System Test Engineering Manager
- Aztek Networks, Inc.
- jwright@azteknetworks.net

—[[Special:Contributions/72.25.144.182|72.25.144.182]] 17:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
:Tried changing the path at [[LocalSettings.php]]? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Licensing Per Page ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community
*URL: en.codevwiki.org

Is their an extension or modification that is made that can allow licensing to be done on a page by page basis. ie When a new page is started the author can choose the license or licenses he/she wants to use. They can change the licenses from any new revision if 1) they are the only author or 2) all the authors agree to change the licensing effective from a new revision. The license(s) for the revision you are viewing would be shown by icons off to the right of the page. Subpages would be licensed the same automatically as the root page.--[[Special:Contributions/168.156.174.63|168.156.174.63]] 23:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:So does a modification like this exist? If not could someone make one...name your price.--[[Special:Contributions/71.217.200.78|71.217.200.78]] 16:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

:: I don't think so. But you can create license templates and show the users how to insert them. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

::: Good idea. I reccomend using a single template where a parameter determines what license is shown. I think there would be less chance of a singele page being double-licensed that way.
::: Then again, the fault in using a template is that any user can come along and change it. I know some MW members have made extensions that give extra rights to the creator of a page, so although it might be difficult to do it seems like it would be possible. But for now you may want to use a work around, like having a site-wide or namespace-wide license.
::: That gives me an idea. Would it work for the license of a page to be determined by namespace? You could have "PublicDomain:yowassup" and "CopyLeft:apage". [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 19:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
::::Namespace based licensing isn't exactly what I was hoping for but seems like a good workaround.--[[Special:Contributions/71.217.200.78|71.217.200.78]] 00:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

== Desperately need help on AE wiki! ==

*MediaWiki: 1.9.3
*PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.28-enterprise-gpl-log
*URL: http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I am a user on the Activating Evolution site. We desperately need some help.

There appears to be NO administrator or sysops. We are being over run with spammers. So far, I myself have cleaned well over 1500 pages that were spammed. It is a daily (if not hourly) problem, with no way to either block these yahoos or ban them.

All of the main pages are changed daily, and there are several of us that are trying to keep on top of all the cleanup, but as soon as we clean up a page, it gets spammed again. We have set up a Catagory for spammers, and don't know how to stop them with no admin or sysop on board.

Here is a link to the main page: http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

You can check out the special page for Recent Changes and see what we are going thru. Please fee free to check out my user page (Sheba98) and see how many "contributions" I've made since February. Another good one to check is Psych-Gen. And Wireless.

Is there ANY way you all can help? We have emailed NBC with absolutely no response. We are at wit's end, and hate to see the site go to trash.

Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated!

Sheba98
[[Special:Contributions/98.194.216.187|98.194.216.187]] 00:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Well....the bottom line is that you cannot do things admins or sysops can do without being an admin or sysop yourself. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

:::I am very much aware of that. The supposed Admin of the site does not even have a valid email address. We have no admin or sysop or bureaucrat. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. I just hate to see the site go down hill, and am asking for help to point me in the right direction as to who to contact to get help. Sheba98 [[Special:Contributions/98.194.216.187|98.194.216.187]] 01:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

::::Nothing can be done then. Unless you can telepathiclly tell the owner of the site to get some wiki admins.--[[Special:Contributions/71.217.200.78|71.217.200.78]] 03:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
:::::I threw an AVB on your site - (User:Avb) for the time being. Should take care of that spam while you guys are tracking down the real admins. [[User:Tim_Laqua|Tim Laqua]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Tim_Laqua|talk]]</small></sup> 18:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

::::You could try doing a WHOIS query on the site, and contact the registered owner (since it's an "official" link from the NBC site, you may get a response there). [[Wikipedia:User:Dansiman|Dansiman]] ([[Wikipedia:User talk:Dansiman|talk]]) 06:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

== Formatting Errors in IE 7 ==

*MediaWiki: Version 1.12
*PHP: PHP 5
*MySQL: MySQL 5
*URL: http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki/

I recently installed Media Wiki 1.12 on my site (http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki, with PHP5 and MySQL 5, Hosted on Linux thru Powweb) and make most of my updates on Mac OS X. My home PC uses IE 7, and I noticed tonight that the page formatting (for some pages) is incorrect when viewed in IE 7.

Here is a sample page that shows the error in IE7 (Win XP SP2) but not in Firefox or Safari (on Mac):<br />
http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki/index.php?title=Doctor_Who

Suggestions and corrections are welcomed and appreciated. Thank you, in advance!<br />
Email: captain_mills(at)yahoo(dot)com

:Taken Care of... Thanks anyway! :) - CMills

—[[Special:Contributions/71.36.6.253|71.36.6.253]] 06:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

== Offensive signature and SQL help (user response needed)==

*MediaWiki: 1.13alpha
*PHP: latest version
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

How do I edit the signatures in old revisions?? A user had particularly offensive signatures, and we need to keep his old edits, per GFDL. I renamed the user via the database, since Renameuser wasn't installed at the time, but all his old edits show with the offensive old signature. I went to the text table in phpmyAdmin but couldn't find it... anyone know how to fix this so I can edit the old revision?? any MySQL commands? —[[User:G Bowker|G Bowker]] 09:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

* I also need to be able to edit the old revisions as well, via the [[database]]. Any advice appreciated, thanks! --[[User:G Bowker|G Bowker]] 09:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

: For now, edit the page normally to get rid of it. Then there is either an extension or built-in function that allows for the deletion of revisions. If you search around for it you'll find it, Wikipedia makes use of it for similar purposes as yours. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 21:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

* Thanks. Tried the oversight extension.... but it doesn't remove block logs or isn't able to edit offensive old signatures. --[[User:G Bowker|G Bowker]] 12:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Why do you need to remove block logs? Signatures aren't displayed in the logs, are they? And what do you mean isn't able to edit old signatures? (I've also never used the extension.) [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Viewing a list of entries? ==

Is it possible to see a list of all pages , maybe in alphabetical order?
—[[Special:Contributions/128.113.54.152|128.113.54.152]] 13:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
David Doria

: [[Special:Allpages]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 19:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Templates: replace paramter if ... ==

Parameters: I use [[:File:{{{1}}}|(desc)]] to create a link to desc page of {{{1}}} which is the file name. Now sometimes it can happen that this parameter is an external link. In this case the desc link shouldn't show up. I dunno much about #if so is there a way to e.g. if param1 = http... then "(desc)" = "-" or something? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23ifeq: The #ifeq]] parser function may be able to do what you want. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 13:11, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
::Thanks checking. Didn't know these options. I also see #if. Yay ;) --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 21:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Main page title==
Hello, how to remove page title and subtitle from the main page (likes mediawiki.org or en.wiki). Thank you. Rytis; [[Special:Contributions/88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 14:10, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
:Don't know how they do it, but [[Extension:NoTitle]] might work as well. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 12:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
:: See this section of the FAQ: [[Manual:FAQ#Mediawiki_version_1.9.2B.2C_solution_to_hide_the_main_page_title]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

== The logs look wrong ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

I preferred it when the logs were in the old format of:
10 Jan 2008 22:54 Admin blocked User1 with an expiry time of infinite (test)
rather than the current design seen here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=

Where do I report this bug?? Thanks, AP aka —[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 17:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

:That's pretty much the format logs are in now (though I could be missing something obvious). Could you be specific about exactly what you're referring to? —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 01:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

* It was being discussed [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=prev&oldid=204247752 on Wikipedia (the English one)] but someone on SVN has reverted them back, which was probably a good move. The new-look logs in that revision probably weren't good. Thanks, AP aka --[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 16:07, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

== (UNRESOLVED) Coding a [[wikipedia:Template:Navbox|Navbox]] from scratch ==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.1
*PHP: 5.2.5 (isapi)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
*URL: http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Template:Navbox The Official Exalted Wiki]

Is there any guide/suggestions/example code that would help someone code a collapsible navbox from scratch? - [[User:Bodhisattva|Bodhisattva]] 16:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

:You have to configure your [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] and install [[Extension:ParserFunctions]] to get your Navbox to work correctly. I did this but I still have extra div and span tags, :( -[[User:PatPeter|Pat]][[User talk:PatPeter|Peter]], <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]'''''[[Project:Support desk/Support team|<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>]]'''''</span> 06:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

:I gave full installation instructions [http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Exalted_Wiki_talk:Sandbox/Navbox here]. -[[User:PatPeter|Pat]][[User talk:PatPeter|Peter]], <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]'''''[[Project:Support desk/Support team|<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>]]'''''</span> 21:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

:: [[User:Bodhisattva|Bodhisattva]] 22:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC): I appreciate the full instructions. However, I'm also getting extra <nowiki></span> and </div></nowiki> tags, and I'm not getting the Show/Hide link, so the template isn't displaying the contents. :(

[[User:Bodhisattva|Bodhisattva]] 20:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC): Can I please get some follow-up help on this?

== Installing LaTex ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.51a-log
*URL: http://www.mathace.net/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page

I have been trying to install LaTeX on my MediaWiki site, but I have had some difficulty since I am on a shared web server and cannot use SSH or run command lines. How can I get LaTeX and all of the necessary executables to work given these limitations, if possible?

—[[Special:Contributions/24.16.117.203|24.16.117.203]] 21:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
:If you want to install the [[Extension:Wiki2LaTeX]] you need to have LaTeX installed before. This can only be done by your administrator. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

== Mailto Links ==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.1
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt

Mailto links do not parse - inputting the wikitext

<pre>
[mailto:me@myserver.com]
</pre>

spits out this in plain text on the wiki page

<pre>
[mailto:me@myserver.com]
</pre>

same with

<pre>
[mailto:me@myserver.com EMAILME]
</pre>

also just spits out plain text.

This happens even if I disable all extensions. I did have the FCKeditor installed and running, and i'm not sure if it would have borked something. That's about all I can think of.

—[[User:Killinggameshow|Killinggameshow]] 21:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

: Do normal external links work? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 22:09, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Edited Sidebar not displaying in 1.9.3 ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP:  1.9.3
*MySQL:  5.2.4 (apache)
*URL:  5.0.51a

Hello,

I edited the sidebar page to:

* navigation
** Blackboard
** CourseCompass
** Hard Media
** Pegasus

saved changes, emptied cache and refreshed but sidebar doesn't update
Other changes (Icon, permissions etc) have worked for me.

Added to LocalSettings.php:

## When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make
## sure that cached pages are cleared.
$configdate = gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) );
$wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, $configdate );
$wgStyleVersion = '42x';

I'm at a loss at this stage
:Did you change [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] or something else? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 17:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Solved. Discovered I wasn't using pipes and wasn't editing MediaWiki:Sidebar just Sidebar.

== SVN download ==

*MediaWiki: as used on Wikimedia sites
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 
I downloaded the latest version from SVN, (which is r33047) - how would I go back to the previous revision in SVN using the SVN client I have - TortoiseSVN?? Thanks, AP aka -[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 13:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
:In the contextual menu of TortoiseSVN (right click and then TortoiseSVN) you have a option called "Update to revision...". When you click there, select "Revision" radio button (i.e. not "HEAD"), put the revision you want to have and click OK. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 13:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

* Anyone know where a list of all the revisions of MediaWiki are in SVN?? That way I can revert back-and-forward if I need to... I'm currently testing it on a XAMPP server at the moment. Thanks, AP aka --[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

== (Resolved) [[Manual:Preventing access|Preventing access]] to blocked users ==

*MediaWiki: 1.6-1.12
Any ideas how to disable blocked users from logging in or reading? ''Please reply at [[Manual_talk:Preventing_access#Keeping_blocked_users_from_reading]].'' Thanks. —[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 06:24, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
:: Resolved by changing address and password --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:09, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

== Adding Custom Tags ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log
*URL: [http://iyeru42.info/wiki Wiki of Iyeru]

I want to know how to make a custom tag like <autocolumn> or <userboxsamples> like on the hrwiki.org wiki. I also would rather have answers sent in e-mail, because I '''will never''' check back here. Please e-mail me with answers at iyeru42 [/a/t/] gmail.com, I'm serious too.

Right now, instead of [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Userbox#Templates HRwiki's userbox samples], I'm using [http://iyeru42.info/wiki/index.php/Wiki_of_Iyeru:Userbox this] right now, which is broken and very bulky.

I repeat again: I WILL NOT check back here. IT IS recommended you e-mail via the address above.
—[[Special:Contributions/198.150.12.32|198.150.12.32]] 18:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

== template:clickpic ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12alpha (r26409) (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.50sp1a-enterprise-gpl-log 
*URL: [http://runescape.wikia.com RuneScape wikia]

Hello, i am an editor on one of the Wiki's (RuneScape) and i mentioned the TEMPLATE:CLICKPIC template. Can you change the code to get a ''hover over image'' added?

([http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User:Buzz_9_1990 Buzz 9 1990])

—[[Special:Contributions/192.249.36.3|192.249.36.3]] 09:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

== snippet or piece of code, that show the content of each article ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.0
*PHP: 5.0
*MySQL: 4.1.10

my questions are

which is the snippet or piece of code, that show the content of each article?

and which is the snippet or piece of code, that save this content in the database?

thanks

--[[Special:Contributions/200.77.227.68|200.77.227.68]] 21:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion] might help you. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Change skin in installation that has skins tab disabled? ==
*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.27
*URL: [http://abiliwiki.com/ AbiliWiki]

The creators of AbiliWiki have configured their MediaWiki installation to hide the Skins tab in Special:Preferences. I know you can manually apply a skin to an individual page with the URL, as in http://abiliwiki.com/index.php?title=Home&useskin=monobook , but is there any way to permanently apply a skin to my preferences when they are hidden this way, either through URL syntax as above, or through a form submission? I'd be willing to create an HTML document on my hard drive with a simple form that will send the appropriate data to AbiliWiki's server when I click submit. I know this is kind of an advanced technical question but I sure hope there's someone who can answer it.

P.S. Please notify me at [[Wikipedia:User:Dansiman]] when this question is answered or if you need additional information. Thanks,

—[[Special:Contributions/71.113.146.96|71.113.146.96]] 06:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I received an email from a fellow AbiliWikian that helped me workaround the problem. I am sharing it here in case anyone else has this issue with their own wiki in the future.
<div style="color:blue; border:blue 1px solid;">
:Go to the Preferences page, and save the source code, editing to add this near the top:

:<pre><base href="http://abiliwiki.com/"></pre>

:and then this in the form:

:<pre><input type='text' name='wpSkin' value="monobook" /></pre>

:then submit.</div>
—[[Special:Contributions/71.113.146.96|71.113.146.96]] 01:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

== Theme or Template Issue ==

Ok...I feel lost here and probably wont know how to get back here to get an answer. My email address is admin@onlinechristiancenter.com

I need to know if there is a way to make a theme be for all my Wordpress pages instead of just the first page.

I'm code illiterate. Please help if you can.

Thanks in advance.

Janet

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Product Version
MediaWiki 1.12.0
PHP 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.41

I would like to embed an Excel File which is sitting on our File Server directly into a Wiki page as an OLE object. Is this possible?

—[[Special:Contributions/217.5.177.110|217.5.177.110]] 12:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Embedding an Excel File as OLE into a Wiki page ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Product Version
MediaWiki 1.12.0
PHP 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.41

I would like to embed an Excel File which is sitting on our File Server directly into a Wiki page as an OLE object. Is this possible?

—[[Special:Contributions/217.5.177.110|217.5.177.110]] 12:53, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Error using $wgWhitelistRead ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Dear,

My MediaWiki is function, but I need to restricted access to other users. Using $wgWhitelistRead I could do it but my main page isn't load with anonymous access. Ps. my main page are in portuguese name "Página principal" and these (I think) it's my problem.

Juliana Calado

—[[Special:Contributions/200.195.42.2|200.195.42.2]] 16:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== [file:// does not work ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 5.0.51a
*URL: 

Hello,

I just successfully migrated my Wiki to a new server. Everything works, except the external links. I have several places where I use
[file://server/directory/file] to open directly a PDF file. It still works fine on my old server, but not on the new one. It is just getting displayed as text. Is there a special setting i have to activate?

—[[Special:Contributions/217.5.177.110|217.5.177.110]] 13:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 



—[[User:Cowboy|Cowboy]] 04:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Permission to show recent Changes for anonymous users ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.0-8+etch10 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch5-log
*URL: [http://ephedra.hip.uni-heidelberg.de/bromwiki/en/index.php/Main_Page BromWiki]

Hi Folks,

I have just upgraded my old 1.4 mediwiki to the recent version 1.12.0 and still having some minor troubles to fully understand the new user permission system.
I have left most permission to the default settings. My changes in the LocalSettings.php are as followed:
# Restrict editing by all non-sysop users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;

/** Show the amount of changed characters in recent changes */
$wgRCShowChangedSize = false;

My question: How can I get anonymous users to see the recent changes ? When I log in, I can see them, but a default visitor sees nothing.

I did '''not''' change the DefaultSettings.php, so
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true;

is still the rule.
Which variable do I have to change ?
'''
THX allready in advance,'''
Timm from germany

—[[Special:Contributions/85.216.119.59|85.216.119.59]] 17:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

: Although I do not know exactly what you have to change, I went to your site. On the recent changes page, there was the text "Below are the last '''0''' changes in the last '''0''' days." So somewhere it's set to show the 0 most recent changes. And so it does. Clicking "show last [http://ephedra.hip.uni-heidelberg.de/bromwiki/en/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=50&days=0 50]", for example, causes the changes to appear. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Hi Smaug, THX for your answer
::Maybe I did not express exactly what I meant. I know of course that button, but is there a variable where I can set that default value to for instance 7 days ? If I remember correctly in the older versions by clicking on the "recent changes" button as a anonymous user the wiki has allways shown the changes of the last week. A lot of those folks who are visiting my wiki are not very familiar with this software. And if they just click "recent changes" and see nothing, they leave. I have checked the manual here allready but I cannot find any that helps.
:: Timm

:::Hi to all, I found the solution. One needs to edit the LocalSettings.php and add the following lines:

$wgDefaultUserOptions = array(
'rcdays' => 7,
'rclimit' => 50,
);
::: Greetings, Timm
:::--[[Special:Contributions/85.216.119.59|85.216.119.59]] 16:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

== How can I get my wiki faster? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.51
*URL: [http://www.mediadesign-group.de/c_dj.wiki/index.php5 DJs-ONLY-Wiki]

Hello, if someone of you may take a look on my wiki, you'll see, that it takes a time until it loads complete. So, what can I do to get this faster? Thanks for your help. Best Regards. Mirko.

== change Link color ==

*MediaWiki: 1.7.1
*PHP: 5
*MySQL: 5

Hello,
is it possible, to change the linkcolor? I have a Textfield with Backgroundcolor but in the area you can not read the Text which is a link. I want now change only the linkcolor for this Link not for the whole Page.
It this possible?
Thanks
:Does no one has any Idea for me???:-(

—[[Special:Contributions/87.154.139.191|87.154.139.191]] 10:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

: I have just tested a little bit with [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] (on 1.9.6). Try something like

a {color: ''color'';}
#bodyContent a.external {color: ''color'';} /* for external links */
#bodyContent a.new {color: ''color'';} /* for pages not yet created */

: where ''color'' is a defined color name, color hexadecimal code or color rgb code. But without any warranty. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.188.43|89.55.188.43]] 09:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

== I'm looking for a forum widget for my blog. Can anyone help. ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

—[[Special:Contributions/208.208.47.100|208.208.47.100]] 12:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

: Does this have anything to do with MW? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 18:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

==Batch Enrolling Of Users==
*MediaWiki: 1.10.1
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 4.1.22

I have a list of users which i woiuld like to import into MediaWiki. Is this at all possible? Or Would i have to get each and every user to create an account individually?

--[[User:Adam.phillips | Adam Phillips]] Thursday 1st May 2008 14:23 (GMT)
: Something like this [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImportUsers]???--[[Special:Contributions/87.154.137.197|87.154.137.197]] 04:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

==Trouble with Wikimapia==
I'm having trouble loading wikimapia. I was wondering if anyone else is too? Is there a bug or has someone hacked into the system? It started with missing areas (places) and then, I tried reloading the maps by closing my browser, and now nothing will load. (May 1st 14:26 EST [[w:User:CyclePat]])

== create an admin ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

—[[Special:Contributions/72.8.67.211|72.8.67.211]] 22:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

: You need to log in with a bureaucrat account (that's usually the first account installed when installing MediaWiki, default is WikiSysop as far as I know) and then use special page [[Special:Userrights]] to assign another user admin's rights (simply with check boxes). But you have to create this user account first by special page [[Special:UserLogin]] if it does not exist. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.188.43|89.55.188.43]] 08:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

== How do I require an email address when creating an account? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12
*PHP: 2.5.2
*MySQL: 4.11
*URL: http://www.kokosing.com

How do I require an email address for the 'create an account' page? I noticed in the code there is a variable called 'emailrequired' that, if set, does not display the 'e-mail address is optional' message but rather something else.

I need this because I have set the wiki to be only readable to people with authenticated email addresses.

Thanks for your help!

Dave

—[[User:Dk253|Dk253]] 01:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

== help kill spammers please ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Would someone with power please take a look at this wiki http://wiki.okopipi.org/wiki/Main_Page spammers as using it as there own personal forum.
Irony aside its hard to keep blanking pages with out any admins left who are active. The project is dead and just needs to be shutdown

—[[Special:Contributions/75.172.105.209|75.172.105.209]] 20:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

== Serious Update from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 ==
*MediaWiki: 1.4.3 to 1.11.1
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

We updated our wiki from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 by running those two programs upgrade1_5.php and update.php. After that, still things are not working as we expected. Some pages are displaying the records from mkt_text table, while we expect them fom mkt_cur table; some pages are just missing. I realiz that 1.4 is really old and some tables no long in use. I can see we missed a few important steps, can anyone give me a direction here? how to upgrade the mediawiki from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 correctly?

thanks



—[[Special:Contributions/12.165.188.130|12.165.188.130]] 19:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) How to get influence on print output (e.g. subpress system messages)? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.9.6
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community
*URL: http://joergmaske.de/wikip/

Hello!

When printing out a page from MediaWiki, there is not only put the pages text content on this output, but also the page's footer and some additional system messages (I think I can identify them as [[MediaWiki:Tagline]] and [[MediaWiki:Retrievedfrom]]). How can I influence these outputs (subpress footer and system messages)? I found some lines in skin.php, but as a non-programmer I don't dare to try it on my own in those heart files. Regards JörgM

—[[Special:Contributions/89.55.189.229|89.55.189.229]] 08:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
:Okay, I have found a solution by adding some lines to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] now :-), something like

@media print{
h1.firstHeading, h3#siteSub, div#contentSub, div.printfooter, #footer {
display: none;
}
}

:(IDs and classes found at source text of a page.) --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.153.223|89.55.153.223]] 20:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

== Infobox Help ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.3 (cgi-fcgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.24a-standard-

Hi, I was wondering how do you create an infobox?

I have searched mediawiki, wikimedia, and wikipedia. And all the answers I get aren't clear.
All the answers that I get are like "enter such and such code on a template, and you should get this result" and when I do it, the results are not the same.

I tried making a table, but it ends up not being on the right side, where an infobox should go.

Is there a clear step by step instructions of creating an infobox?

—[[Special:Contributions/169.233.29.252|169.233.29.252]] 07:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

: As far as I know infoboxes on Wikipedia are a combination between a template with a special table and cascading style sheets (css). For example, on German Wikipedia there is the template [[:w:de:Vorlage:Infobox]] and css code at least at [[:w:de:MediaWiki:Common.css]], but I don't know if there is some more css code which you need located in other files. Perhaps ask some members of [[:w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes]] to get some more specific help? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.188.43|89.55.188.43]] 07:51, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
: Additionally I realized that in those infoboxes there are used functions ("#if" & co), for example to hide elements which are not filled in. Those functions need the [[Extension:ParserFunctions]]. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.140.95|89.55.140.95]] 06:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

== White screen of death ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12
*PHP: 5.1.6-15 el5
*MySQL: 5.0.22
*URL:

I am getting a whitescreen when I finished installing the DB and copied the Localsetting.php file. I am Running RHEL 5.1, have installed the MySQL and PHP through YUM installer, have also installed dotproject, working fine except when the php is used?

I am suspecting the php is at fault but is new to it so can't exactly say what is cooking there.

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP?

THANKS!
—[[Special:Contributions/165.146.96.91|165.146.96.91]] 08:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

:You probably have a PHP error. You can check the PHP logs of your webserver or turn on the display_errors PHP setting to figure out what the error is. See [[Manual:Errors and Symptoms#You see a Blank Page]] for more information. --[[User:Cneubauer|Cneubauer]] 19:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

== How to Make "Random Page" Select Only Pages from a Certain Category? ==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.1
*PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.51a
*URL: [http://www.dishiwiki.com DishiWiki]

My wiki is a recipe wiki. I have changed the label for ''Random Page'' in the ''navigation'' sidebar to read "Random Recipe." Of course, it randomly :) brings up a page that is not a recipe. All pages that are recipes have a category tag of <nowiki>[[Category:Recipes]]</nowiki>.

'''So how can I structure the ''Random page'' link to pull up only pages categorized as recipes?''' I have explored but am not ready to create a custom Namespace for recipe pages.

I think this "trick" would be very useful for many types of wikis! Thanks for all the help here on MediaWiki and elsewhere. -[[User:Brian7632416|Brian7632416]] 23:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

:Probably the SQL query in SpecialRandompage.php (directory "includes") has to be rewritten, but I don't know much about SQL, and my trial this morning wasn't successful. (Tried to involve the MySQL table "categorylinks" with "cl_to" into the SQL query.) Meanwhile alternatives may be
:* usage of an extension like in [[:Category:Random content extensions]]
:* usage of [[Manual:$wgExtraRandompageSQL|$wgExtraRandompageSQL]]
:but both probably with a lot of pages to include or exclude manually. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.152.75|89.55.152.75]] 20:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks. I, too, tried massaging MySQL table "categorylinks" column "cl_to." I looked at SpecialRandomPage.php but don't want to mess with it yet. $wgExtraRandompageSQL is unwieldy as long as it is wired for "page_title," but I couldn't find the category variable to substitute for "page_title." I will now look at Random conent extensions. Thanks so much. [[User:Brian7632416|Brian7632416]] 21:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC) [Edit:] Nothing in that group of "random" extensions is what I need.

:::The SQL query of SpecialRandompage.php is limited to the "page" table, as far as I can see; the $wgExtraRandompageSQL variable is part of this SQL query, so it's not possible to involve parts of other tables with it (like the "cl_to" row of "categorylinks"). That's why I said that probably this SQL query has to be rewritten for this purpose.
:::You could use $wgExtraRandompageSQL in LocalSettings.php like the following:
$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "Main_Page" AND page_title != "Page_1" AND page_title != "Page_2" AND page_title != "Page_3" AND page_title != "Page_4" AND page_title != "Page_5"';
:::but you would have to EXclude all the non-recipe pages this way. Using "OR" instead of "AND" and "=" instead of "!=" should be the other way (INcluding all the pages you want), but as there are much more recipes than other pages this would not be the way of choice, I think. Surprisingly I could not prevent the Main page to be shown this way.
:::I tried it also with the extension [[Extension:RandomInclude]] this morning, created 5 test pages (Testseite 1 bis Testseite 5) and included them on a randomtest page as templates (with <nowiki>{{:Testseite 1}}</nowiki>). Works on 1.9.6 (look at http://joergmaske.de/wikip/ and the link Randomtest in the navigation bar), of course showing just the content of the page, not the selected page's name, and I had to disable the cache like mentioned on the short manual. Disadvantages: You have to include all the pages you want to have selectable for random, and the disabled cache. Advantage: You have more control on which pages you don't want to show without using $wgExtraRandompageSQL or changing categories (if this would work sometime). --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.189.114|89.55.189.114]] 08:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

::::Thanks for your work. I see your Randomtest link, and I can use that extension for something else. I'm beginning to think I need a namespace for Recipes, which I have been avoiding.

::::In the meantime, I will try:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "*Tips"';

::::to try to exclude "Kitchen Tips" pages, which have titles like: "Citrus Tips," "Egg Tips," etc. Will the wild card * work, I wonder? If so, I could add "Recipe" to the title of all recipe pages and use:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title = "*Recipe"';

::::but I've never wanted pages to be so "fully titled." Like you, I have just discovered that Main_Page is not being excluded with:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "Main_Page"';

::::so I give up for now. - [[User:Brian7632416|Brian7632416]] 18:20, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

==How to stop text from overlapping==

* MediaWiki: 1.12
* PHP: 5.0
* MySQL: 5.0.22
* URL: www.leetpwned.com[http://www.leetpwned.com]
Hello,
I am attempting to learn how to use the MediaWiki Software and I have run into a problem. The text of the wiki entry is overlapping with my infobox. How do I prevent text from overlapping with my infobox or any other images?

Here is the sample entry I having a problem with
[http://leetpwned.com/index.php?title=BioShock]

I would like the sample entry to look like this page
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock]

Thank you in advance for your help.
:Hm. Installed totally new in the afternoon??? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.153.223|89.55.153.223]] 20:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

::You seem to have fixed this since you posted. The link looks good to me. Still having problems? --[[User:Cneubauer|Cneubauer]] 19:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

:::I was able to solve the problem, thank you everyone for all your help and support. -LeetPwned Admin

== Recurring issue logging in various MediaWikis ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Logging in to various wikis powered by MediaWiki is too often a frustrating experience. I use a password manager, KeePass, so when I register at a wiki (or any other site) I create a new entry and have KeePass generate a high-security password for me. I drag-and-drop this password into the registration form.

So there should be no excuse for my password to be rejected as incorrect when I go to log in and drag-and-drop my login information, or paste from clipboard.

The current problem is with http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page . I've successfully logged in there before... even earlier today! But it's suddenly rejecting my login as having an incorrect password. Grrrrrrr!!!

This time I'm not going to go through the whole process of requesting a new password and creating yet ANOTHER password to be able to log in again, because first I want to know exactly what's going on. If someone could please e-mail me at foxcole@yahoo.com, I'd like to know what the wiki thinks my password ought to be and where that password came from... or, if it does have my correct password, why exactly my login is being rejected.

I would like to note that after I go through all the motions to reset and create another new password, I generally have no further problems with that site. But I shouldn't have to be going through all this in the first place. My original login should be valid forever until I change it myself.

—[[Special:Contributions/63.64.39.28|63.64.39.28]] 21:39, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

== A Wiki protected by htaccess gives an internal error 500 when accessing through a Proxyserver ==

* MediaWiki: 1.11.0
* PHP: 5.2.5-pl1-gentoo (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 4.1.22-log page)
I have may Wiki htaccess protected for educational and research reasons. However after a couple month it was not accessible anymore through a Proxy server feeding only one IP adress to the internet from our company. The server with the wiki on is outside the company. Actually some pages are readable but log in is impossible. Has this problem to do with the WIki settings or with the proxy settings. The access to the Wiki without Proxy works perfectly well.

—[[Special:Contributions/85.1.21.79|85.1.21.79]] 20:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

== Creator special rights ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12
*PHP: -
*MySQL: -
*URL: local

I would like to know if there is a simple way to allow only the creator of a new page to edit it.
In fact, when creating a new page, I would like the author to be able to choose whether the page can be edited by everyone, by registered users or only by himself.

I read a lot on user rights and user rights management but I could'nt find how to define a group including only the creator of a page.

Thanks for your help...

—[[Special:Contributions/81.220.36.67|81.220.36.67]] 09:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

:[[Manual:Preventing access]] tells that "MediaWiki was not written to provide per-page access restrictions". Perhaps have a look at [[Extension:EditOwn]]? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.180.141|89.55.180.141]] 10:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

== I accidentally deleted the LocalSettings.php folder ==

Hi,
I accidentally deleted the LocalSettings.php folder, and I think that's why that I can't replace the Media Wiki image on the top left corner... How can I get it back?

I changed it on the /includes/common/images/wiki.png and doesn't do anything.
:I wonder if your wiki will do anything if you have deleted LocalSettings.php? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.165.22|89.55.165.22]] 06:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

:: LocalSettings.php is a file, not a folder. Do you mean you deleted the folder it was in? I'm not going to try it out, but I think if a wiki has no LocalSettings.php it will not work. Anyway, if you are missing a LocalSettings.php and it's not in the folder where it is supposed to be, I guess I would say just download a new one. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 18:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

== interact with Asp.Net application ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

I want to use MediaWiki in my application.

Can you please suggest me which mediawiki i have to use and let me know How does MediaWiki used in or interact with Asp.Net application?

:MediaWiki requires PHP. I don't believe PHP and ASP can be run together so you probably can't do what you are trying to do. You can try looking at [[w:Comparison of wiki software]] for a list of wiki software that runs on ASP. --[[User:Cneubauer|Cneubauer]] 19:49, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

== link back to mediawiki from external page?==

*MediaWiki:] 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5
*URL: http://internalsite/socwiki/ ((internal))

I've installed Mediawiki and in order to have a dynamic collapsible menu I created a menu page and dropped it in http://internalsite/socwiki/clientlisting/menu.html.
The functionality I want is to have the menu links reload the page inside the wiki with data from the wiki.

For instance

- menu title (expanded)
- [[Location0]]
- [[Location1]]
- [[Location2]]

When you click on Location0 it will take you to http://172.26.50.211/socwiki/index.php/Location0

I just couldn't find any other way to get the collapsible menu to work in a page other than using an IFrame - but when I link back now - it basically reloads the whole wiki into the content space. so it's like two wikis nested within each other.

Any Help/Info is appreciated.

—[[Special:Contributions/75.127.66.250|75.127.66.250]] 16:58, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

== How to login and link to mediawiki from another web application? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45
*URL: http://flinqe.com:8010/wiki/ FlinqEpedia

I am writing a web application and I want to provide access to my copy of mediawiki via links to specific pages in the wiki. I already have a password protection scheme of my own, and would like to automatically login to mediawiki as or before I start mediawiki in a separate window. I'd also like to be able to create new mediawiki users and new pages with personalized empty-page messages.

I am a php newbie, but program in other languages including perl and C++.
I have been trying to get the Api:Login working using Snoopy as suggested in the Api:Login documentation, which references this information:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2007-October/000117.html

The example 2 there works as advertised, but after completing the login, I want to start a particular mediawiki page as the now-logged-in user, preferably in a new window. Using a HREF link on the resulting page doesn't work; I get there but the user is not logged in. Using Snoopy to fetch the page and print_r the snoopy->results gets me to the page, which tells me I'm logged in. But links to new pages, such as "edit", don't maintain the login.

I'm guessing that the problem involves sessions, and in-memory cookies. I would prefer in-memory cookies for their security advantages, but can live with ordinary cookies if necessary.

I've tried searching the web for a solution, but all I've found is complex approaches (like Drupel) which I don't understand, and which seem to require extensive patches to mediawiki.

—[[Special:Contributions/75.147.32.154|75.147.32.154]] 03:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

== How to validate fully upgraded wiki ? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.2 (apache)
*MySQL: 4.1.21-log
(* URL: internal project)

Hello, I'm quite new to this forum even though I've been using wiki for some time now, but I've recently moved from one ISP to another and at that time from a Windowsbased host to a Linuxbased one. Well, I had everything up and running smoothly on my new host, the wiki worked fine (don't remember the version but it was quite old) and I upgraded to version 1.11.2 without any problems, everything still worked fine.

But then I noticed there was a version 1.12.0 and I set out to upgrade to it. Now here's the tricky part, previously on Windows I had shell access and used to run the upgrade.php scripts, but now I don't, so I tried the reinstallation option, backed up everything, made copies of localsettings.php etc and launched the setup.

It immediately failed with some kind of script error about $wfIniGetBool not being correctly defined on line xx in /config/index.php. After some checking of access rights and everything I could think of I decided that oh well, before restoring backups I might just try to get around this and removed the checks for wfIniGetBool. This let me run the upgrader, the database checks were executed and some upgrades were reported, and then the installation was supposed to create a new localsettings.php which again failed since I had missed commenting out one section of wfIniGetBool commands.

This really didn't matter since I was going to replace it with the backup, after which done the site is working happily again and now reporting 1.12.0 as version, but this prompts my question(s).

a) what could possibly be the cause for this failure, I never saw anything about that when upgrading to 1.11.2 ?
b) Was the installer supposed to do something more after creating the localsettings.php ? Is there something I might have missed that I should check for ?
c) Is there some way for me to verify that my site is working correctly, i.e. both that the version now is fully upgraded and also to possibly prevent future issues like this one ?

Best regards // Mike

—[[Special:Contributions/213.114.35.125|213.114.35.125]] 15:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Mikael R.

== Removing link markers in print; request for span element ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

I've run into a problem in Cite.i18n.php. I've been doing some [http://www.princexml.com/samples/#wiki experiments] to create print-quality PDF documents from Wikipedia. In the current markup in the generated list of references, visible markers (^, a, b etc.) are added to allow users to click their way back to the source of the reference. In print, however, these markers should not be visible. Given the current markup, it's impossible to remove the markers by way of CSS as there is no wrapper element around them. I therefore suggest adding a "span" element with a class name of "backlink" or something so that one could remove these markers when printing the document.

—[[User:Howcome|Howcome]] 21:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

: I suggest to move this request to [[Extension talk:Cite]] or at least to add it there. -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.182.231|89.55.182.231]] 07:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

::Done, thanks — [[User:Howcome|Howcome]] 13:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

==Extensions==
Hi. I am looking for extension wchih will allow me to upload images from url, not only from hdd. Is there any? pogo

== How to force all users to use the monobook style ==

* MediaWiki: 1.11
* PHP: 5.2.3
* MySQL: 5.0.41

Hi there I was wondering if there's an easy way to force all users to use the monobook style, making impossible for them to change the style at the user's preferences. Leaving the style as it's defined in the LocalSettings.php file.
Thanks in advance.
—[[User:Juanan|Juanan]] 22:40, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

: Put some thing like

$wgSkipSkins = array("chick", "cologneblue", "myskin", "nostalgia", "simple", "standard");

into LocalSettings.php, with all the skins included in the array aside from monobook skins. Then users won't have any other option. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

==Navigation Tabs?==
Does anyone know how to integrate this feature into a wiki? I've tried copying code into the MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js, failing to work at every attempt.

E.g. [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Bawolff/tabber.js]<br>
example of use: [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Doldrums/Main_page]<br>
original source code: [http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/tabber/]

Help? --[[Special:Contributions/90.200.52.124|90.200.52.124]] 11:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

==control User Preferences==
Does anyone know how to globally change a custom user preference?
this is the code i belief that is adding the check box to the special:preferences / misc. page: <pre> public function onUserToggles( &$extraToggles ) {
$extraToggles[] = 'riched_disable';
$extraToggles = array_merge($extraToggles, self::$nsToggles);
return true;</pre>
But I can't seem to have 'riched_disable' checked by default. [[User:Mlong212|Matt]] 19:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

== QUESTION: How to EXPORT to WORD format ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Is there a way to EXPORT an .xml wiki page to WORD .doc or .docx format?

—[[Special:Contributions/129.219.57.164|129.219.57.164]] 21:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

: There seems to be just a [[Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus|project]] (?) the other way (Word → Wiki). Additionally, I have just found a shareware converter on the web so far, and I don't know if it will meet your needs. But isn't WORD able to import web pages? (Sorry, the latest version I have used is WORD 2000, and that's a long time ago ...) Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.190.92|89.55.190.92]] 08:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Must be logged in to edit pages. How? ==

How do I set my wiki so that guests can't edit the pages. They must be logged in. <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:203.9.156.1|203.9.156.1]] ([[User talk:203.9.156.1|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.9.156.1|contribs]]) 23:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC). Please sign your posts with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>!</small>

: See [[Manual:Preventing access#Restrict anonymous editing]]. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.190.92|89.55.190.92]] 08:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Embedding external media without extensions ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.0
*PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 4.1.20-standard-log

My organization runs a secure MediaWiki wiki. Users must be on a list of allowed users to read or edit wiki content. Authentication is handled with an Apache module and a wrapper for MW.

With these security features in place, we decided that rather than installing extensions to help us with embedding YouTube videos or Google maps in MW articles, we would set the configuration variable $wgRawHtml to true. Since we've done that, we are able to put a larger range of HTML tags in our MW articles.

However, it doesn't work with the "object" tags for embedding a YouTube video or the "iframe" tags for embedding a Google map. Instead, MW just displays the HTML in the article. Using "nowiki" tags around the HTML doesn't help, either.

How can I make this work?

—[[User:Lsloan|Lance E Sloan]] 16:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Permission Issue ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. If I type a path directly to the index.php file I get this:

phpMyAdmin - Error

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

Even former solutions offered have not helped. I installed php with the IIS install. I must use IIS because I also have .net on my computer. PHP works fine. I have run a phpinfo page. I installed phpMyAdmin but when I try to run it I get the above messages.

I have tried the solutions offered in different forum. Including this one: Right click on CMD.exe and "Run as administrator" and then type the commands below

icacls %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\AppData\Local\Temp /grant Users:(CI)(S,WD,AD,X)

icacls %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\AppData\Local\Temp /grant "CREATOR OWNER":(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)

I got a message: 'icacls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

I also right clicked the phpMyAdmin file and set permissions to read. It asked if I wanted it to apply to the child index.php as well I clicked yes.

I stll get the above messages. What now?

just a quick question, is this server side? if so, use a ftp client and right click on your root folder that the php files are in and CHMOD it by typing in 777 into the box. i know filezilla requires you to right click, others actually have option in the file menu for this as well.

edit: when you right click there should be a "setup permisisons" dialog box on the right click menu.

I am still very much a novice so some of that went over my head. I am doing what could be server side, but on my own machine. I really don't know what you mean by ftp client, unless I was accessing it from another computer, which I am not. When I right click on it I don't get a box of any sort that I can type in or any "set up permissions" dialogue box, but a box that says open, search, search, refresh thumbnail.. etc. at the bottom is properties.

Ok, I see now. It looks to me you are using your own computer as a server with IIS, my mistake. Well, first and foremost, you do have php installed on your machine, correct? then you will need mySql along with it. here is a great tutorial I found:

Installing phpmyadmin http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/install_and_configure_phpmyadmin_on_iis

you also need to change the code $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''; in your config.in.php file to $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''yourpathhere";

for example: $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''localhost/ASP/admin";

and change to

register_Global=ON

This post has been edited by duritz: May 20 2008, 10:53

--------------------

Yes MySQL is installed.

It said that $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';. is an option. I might not need to actually do that. I did anyway. The instructions say, "log into your new phpMyAdmin install using the root account" That does not happen. I still get the error message! I still get the error message! I still get the error message!

In Internet Explorer it looks like this:
The website declined to show this webpage
HTTP 403
Most likely causes:
This website requires you to log in.

What you can try:
Go back to the previous page.

More information

This error (HTTP 403 Forbidden) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but it does not have permission to view the webpage.

For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.

I can mess around with the configuration all i want, but I still don't have permission.

I found no "$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''; " so I added that command. I also added the "register_Global=ON" cause it wasn't there either.

—[[Special:Contributions/71.82.6.222|71.82.6.222]] 19:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Unable to add OpenSearch from my wiki to my browser ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.6 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard
*URL: [http://network.the-orc.com/wikimini http://network.the-orc.com/wikimini]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to add my wiki's (details above) OpenSearch to the search engines my browser uses, and am failing miserably.

On IE7 (7.0.5730.11), I get the following error message when trying to add the provider:
“Internet Explorer could not install this search provider. There was a problem with the search provider's information.”

On Mozilla Firefox 2 (2.0.0.14), it just fails silently.

I’ve trying to save the output of opensearch_desc.php to a local file and add it from there, but it fails with the same error(s), although to my naked eye, the format seems fine.

Any bright ideas?

Thanks in advance<BR>
—[[User:OgmiosProject|OgmiosProject]] 18:04, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

: Some more info - I set FireFox's logging of Search Providers to true, and gave it another shot. The interesting part of the error console is as follows:

:_onLoad: Couldn't convert byte array!
:Error: [Exception... "'Failure' when calling method: [nsIStreamListener::onStopRequest]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "<unknown>" data: no]

:Off hand, I'd say it's some sort of odd encoding problem.
:Any ideas?

:Thanks,<BR>
:[[User:OgmiosProject|OgmiosProject]] 13:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

== Password protected? ==
Hey, guys, is there any way to create a password protected page? I only want my group members to edit it [[User:Pingsong|Pingsong]] 17:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC) pandean
:: no one knows?

:::"Page" means the whole wiki or just a single page within a wiki? However, have a look at [[Manual:Preventing access]]. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 08:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== Add Groups ==

Does simply adding a group in LocalSettings.php cause MediaWiki to allow users to be added?

:Yes. [[User:86.138.46.182|86.138.46.182]] 17:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

And how to add a group? I can't find anything about adding groups to mediawiki.

:I found that you can add groups simply by creating permissions for them in localsettings.php. For example entering:
"$wgGroupPermissions['internaluser']['read'] = true;"
:Will create the group "internaluser", and also provide them with read access.

::This is not very correct. It's correct that this way a user group "internaluser" is created. But this group has the user rights of the standard group "user" as well, so you don't need to give them read access additionally – except when you denied read access to the standard "user" group (which is not very senseful :-) ). If you want to give standard users less rights than they have in a standard installation, but to have special users who have these rights again, first deny the right to the "user" group, then give the right back to the special group, e. g.:
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['internaluser']['createpage'] = true;
::At least this is the way how it works in my 1.9.x installations. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 08:15, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== Executing external code ==

How can a link be used to execute other code (PHP, java etc)? I would like to allow the user to click something on the page (button, link, whatever) which would then cause an external program to run.

: There are various methods of executing external code. You may want to investigate writing an extension (see [[Manual:MediaWiki hooks]] for some further information, or try Google). A more specific question detailing what you are actually trying to achieve would be helpful. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 14:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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== Mediawiki-logo ==
If I run my own wiki, is it necessary that I show a link to www.mediawiki.org on my site or to note that my site was set up by using mediqiki-software? I tried to figure this out by reading the GPL but didn't find anything about that. As far as I have come I wouldn't need to mention this ... what do you say??
--[[User:149.148.230.94|149.148.230.94]] 18:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

:MediaWiki itself adds a "powered by" icon to all skins and the version page has copyright information. Under the GPL, I believe this attribution is required. [[User:86.138.46.182|86.138.46.182]] 17:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
::Could someone confirm whether or not the MediaWiki logo is supposed to be kept in place? I could not find any mention in the supplied documentation that this is requested to remain. Thus I have removed it on my Wiki, but will glady re-add it if it is requested by the creators. Furthermoor, there is no mention of leaving the copyright in place on the [[Footer]] editing page. -- A User 16:04, 04 Oct 2006 (UTC)
:::(Could this be added to the FAQ as well) To change/edit/add the powered by or copyright logos, the code is located around lines 1090 (copyright) and 1112. Just change the $url to your url. This should work for all skins that use the normal getPoweredBy and getCopyrightIcon functions. [[User:Adammw|Adammw]] 12:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
To change the logo in 1.11, place this line in LocalSettings.php: $wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/skins/common/images/mywikilogo.png"; In this example, "mywikilogo.png" would be placed at C:\wamp\www\mywikipedia\skins\common\images. The $wgLogo line should be placed at the end of the file. [[User:Svanslyck|Svanslyck]] 14:20, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
:::::There is no obligation to show the logo, the GPL applies specifically to the code and requires that the licence not be removed or modified from any of the code it appears in. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 21:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

== Special Symbols for Editing Screen ==

A colleague from my university's computer center helped me download mediawiki to our provider because I'd like to use it for linguistic projects. However, in the editing mode the table of special characters and symbols that you find in Wikipedia is not available. How can we get that? Can anybody help us? Thanks. --Joachim [[User:132.180.7.27|132.180.7.27]] 15:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

:You need the Charinsert extension. Look at [[w:MediaWiki_talk:Edittools/Archive_02#Technical question: <charinsert>?]]. [[User:Bradleyb|Bradleyb]] 23:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

== Editing template sections ==

Hey all, I help maintain a WIKI dealing with game archive formats ([http://wiki.xentax.com XeNTaXWIKI]), and I recently started implementing a new layout that makes extensive use of templates. However, I've run into a bit of trouble - when trying to edit a section, it takes you to the template edit screen instead of that for the page. I have looked at the documentation here, but haven't found a solution to this. Is there any way around it, apart from either using a seperate template for each section, or hitting the main 'Edit' link every time?

:-Dinoguy1000

: Anytime a template uses a section header, clicking the edit link for that section will take you to the template. The easiest workaround is to not include the section headers in the templates--only show the content of the section--and then put the headers in the page itself. Alternatively, you can include the magicword <nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki> (double underscores on each side) anywhere in the page (even on the templates being included) and you will not have the edit section links appear anywhere in the page. --[[User:76.215.127.150|76.215.127.150]] 15:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Changing the interface text / updating to 1.6.6 ==

Changing the interface text as described in the FAQ (via editing system messages listed in [[Special:Allmessages]]) works well. However, while updating from MW 1.6.5 to 1.6.6 today, I realised that the MediaWiki namespaces was re-initialised, thus '''blowing away all changes I had carefully made!''' Note that this did not happen while upgrading from 1.6.3 to 1.6.5 only weeks ago!

There was nothing I could do but to go back to my (luckily) backed-up 1.6.5 installation.

Is there any way to make the update script leave the MW namespace untouched?
:Already answered you [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:FAQ/de&diff=28454&oldid=28418 here]. Greetings --[[User:Bdk|<span style="color:#116611">:Bdk:</span>]] 00:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

== Images not showing after upgrading to 1.6.5 ==
Greetings, this isn't a problem I'm having but more-so a post hoping to help anyone else who ran into the same problem I did after upgrading. I also posted this in the [[Project:Forum]] page as well. If this is in the wrong place, my apologies admins but I wanted to share this information for anyone else who might have had this problem.

After I upgraded from 1.4.5 to 1.6.5 none of my images worked, thumbed or normal. The weird part was if I reuploaded the file, I received the standard warning that the image already existed. If I proceeded to reupload it, the image would then show normally. I ran the rebuildImages.php script both with and without the --missing switch but no luck.

What it boiled down to was I had to move all of my images. They were in sub folders in images like /1/10, /1/11 etc. I had to move all of the files from those folders to the root folder images/.
* Example: opera.jpg is in images/o/o2/opera.jpg. Move it from images/o/o2 to just images/.
Once this was done, every image loaded up just fine without having to take any further action. Anything with the |thumb option regenerated a new thumbnail into the root of the folder thumbs/. To avoid wasting space, I deleted all of the sub folders in my thumbs/ folder since they were not being referenced and were duplicates anyways. --[[User:Brownc4|Brownc4]] 02:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

:In future, check the effective value of <code>$wgHashedUploadDirectory</code> and set it to true, to see if that helps. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== Smiley ==

How can I add smiley functionality so that if I write :P or :lol: it will be replaced automatically with the appropriate image? Thx<br>[[User:Semut|Semut]] 18:35, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

: No such functionality exists. -- [[User:Sysy|Sysy]] / <sup>[[User_Talk:Sysy|(talk)]]</sup> 16:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

:: This functionality is not available in MediaWiki, and will not be added. However, an extension may be available to do this. If not, you could try writing your own. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 12:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Hook the pre-save transform, rip out <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> sections etc. then do a regular expression replacement. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== Running maintenance scripts from command line ==

Why are maintenance scripts restricted to running from comand line? Could not it be left up to the administrator (with a suggestion that it should better be done from the command line)?

I, for example, don't have a command line access to my site on a shared host, so I cannot do all those maintenances! For example - how to change a language? You write in the FAQ: change the language variable and run "rebuildMessages.php". So, how do I run it?... --[[User:Knakts|Knakts]] 17:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

:Have you looked at [http://mgeisler.net/php-shell phpShell]? The scripts have to be run from the command line for a mixture of security and because certain scripts will take a longer time to run than PHP is allowed when running over the web. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== How do I rename my wiki? ==

I would like to change the name of my wiki. Is it possible to do this without re-installing everything?

The essential thing is:

1) Edit LocalSettings.php and change the $wgSitename setting.

You may also wish to:

2) run maintenance/rebuildMessages.php --update to re-source localized messages. Shouldn't be strictly required with current versions of MediaWiki, but some older versions hardcoded information into the wiki at install time.

3) Run maintenance/namespaceDupes.php --fix in case your new name produced any namespace conflicts which could make existing pages inaccessible.

4) Run maintenance/refreshLinks.php to update link tables.

5) Check Special:Allmessages and Special:Allpages for pages which might need to be moved and links that need to be fixed

Thanks to Brion Vibber on the mailing list. This info is presumed to be accurate as of MediaWiki 1.6. I have not tested it. -- [[User:Sy|Sy]] / <sup>[[User_Talk:Sy|(talk)]]</sup> 15:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

== Importing large amounts of existing material? ==

I'm new to wiki in general and mediawiki in particular. I'm skilled in SQL but unskilled in PHP. My company has a large amount of existing information in online help files, customer support databases, etc. Are there any guides to converting that information to wiki format? I've looked at amazon and bookpool for books that cover these topics, but it looks like the best book is outdated (Perl-based) and the others don't address conversion very much.

: Try http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:WordToWiki or Import, Export function http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Export http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import - Lesiu

== Making cleanup template look like wikipedia's==

I'm trying to figure out why I cannot make the cleanup template look like Wikipedia's. I took the template text, so that it has the same information, although the blue box is not appearing as well. How do I add the blue box? [[User:12.223.26.3|12.223.26.3]] 06:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

== Going direct to Edit page when article does not yet exist from link or search ==

Just set up a new Wiki last week, and during initial customization I found instructions on how to configure it to automatically bring up an edit page with text editor whenever a page is not found. Sounded efficient, so I did it. Since our users are all Wiki Newbies, it turned out not to be so good an idea, after all, but now I can't find the instructions in order to set it back! I would have sworn this info was in the FAQ, but during install and setup I was bouncing back and forth between meta, here, and some third-party sites trying to figure out what to do next, so I could very well be wrong. Can someone please tell me how to set this feature back to the default, and perhaps it should be included in the faq. Thanks.

:It's <code>$wgGoToEdit</code>; remove the override line from LocalSettings.php or set it to false. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 12:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== Protect Namespace ==

Only sysops can add pages to Mediawiki namespace. Is it possible to create new namespace, where only sysops will have permission in adding and editing pages? Or change preferences for existing namespace, i.e. Help: ?
:[[meta:Setting user rights in MediaWiki]] and [[meta:Hidden pages]]. [[User:Seb35|Seb35]] 16:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fast answer! I've never use and don't know php language, but I found in includes/Title.php this code:
<pre> if( NS_MEDIAWIKI == $this->mNamespace &&
!$wgUser->isAllowed('editinterface') ) {
wfProfileOut( $fname );
return false;
}</pre>I copied it again, and changed ''NS_MEDIAWIKI'' in i.e. ''100'' - number of my custom namespace. And it works! - Only sysops can add and edit pages in this namespace, but everyone can read it. I would like to ask you - is it good and safe solution? 21:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

: Yes, but you will lose the change when you next upgrade your copy of MediaWiki, unless you take care. Make sure you note the changes you have made to a separate (new) file so that you can re-apply them after an upgrade. Also be sure to lock your wiki when you perform an upgrade, otherwise there will be a period of time between upgrading to the new version and re-applying your fix when these pages will be editable by everyone! Note that subsequent versions of MediaWiki may not work in the same way, so your fix is not guaranteed to work in the future, however I don't know of any method of achieving the above using the existing settings so unless I am mistaken then hacking the code is the best way, for now. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 12:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Editing 'Expand this page' ==

How do i change the 'expand this page' html, that is how do i change what it says when i use the <nowiki>{{expand}}</nowiki> command? [[User:24.110.3.148|24.110.3.148]] 08:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
:Edit [[Template:Expand]] -- [[User:Barrylb|Barrylb]] 18:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

== Error when clicking "Please '''setup the wiki''' first." ==

I get this error when trying to install:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NEW in /includes/MagicWord.php on line 203

Please give response or email fvercuiel@gmail.com

:You're using an older version of PHP that MediaWiki 1.7 does not support. MediaWiki 1.7.0 and later require PHP 5 (5.1.x is recommended). '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 12:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
::I get the same error with PHP 5.0.5 (specifically, 5.0.5-2ubuntu1.4, built 7 Sep 2006 08:02:47).

== Change the mulitple-links-to-one-host-style ==

How can I keep the wiki from translating multiple links to the same host to [1], [2], ...? I try to use the Mediawiki as an Intranet and therefore Documentations often reside on the same host but I still want to provide a visible Link-Title. --[[User:VVA|VVA]] 08:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

:Either use the labelled external link syntax, e.g. <code><nowiki>[http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</nowiki></code> or investigate the use of interwiki links which allow linking such as <code><nowiki>[[m:Main Page]]</nowiki></code>. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

===How do I change a user's password?===
Assuming that <var>$wgPasswordSalt</var> is set to true (the default), you can use the following SQL query:

UPDATE user SET user_password = MD5(CONCAT(user_id, '-',
MD5('somepass'))) WHERE user_name = 'someuser';
Where obviously "somepass" is changed to the password you want to set and "someuser" is changed to the user name as it is listed in the table "user".

Note: the user_id in the CONCAT string is a column name and is not meant to be replaced with 'someuser'

Note: For error of table 'dbname.user' does not exist, please check the LocalSettings.php for $wgDBPrefix, the user table might be named to ($wgDBPreix)user.

== Underscore in title ==

I want to use MediaWiki for a manual and reference. As several of my functions have '_' within their name, it would be nice if the name of the function would be displayed with _ instead of blank especially in the title of the page. Is there any possibility to tell MediaWiki that the lemma must have a _ instead of a blank? --[[User:87.78.154.2|87.78.154.2]] 15:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

:No. [[User:164.11.204.56|164.11.204.56]] 01:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

== 1.7.1 and $wgDBtransactions ==

After a fresh Mediawiki 1.7.1 install and albeit many tables use the 'InnoDB' storage engine, the default '$wgDBtransactions' remains at its historical 'false' value. It is used in 'includes/Article.php' clauses.

May I set "$wgDBtransactions = true" in LocalSettings.php? Is this variable obsolete?

Thank you [[User:Natmaka|Natmaka]] 16:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

==Hiding some titles==

How is Wikipedia hiding the main page's title but not the titles within? I would like to be able to choose whether the title is shown, but cannot figure out how it is done, despite Wikipedia clearly doing so on the main page. I know how to hide the titles completely using my .php file for my skin, but I am not figuring out how to make the title disappear at will. It would be nice to have a <nowiki>__NOTITLE__</nowiki> magic word that would just do this for me.

:Short answer; JavaScript. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.js. A magic word as discussed was not implemented because some of the developers felt it would be abused and was not needed. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

==Content Migration from different existing wikis to one==
We do have some wikis in our organization (all mediawiki but different server, different versions, mostly v. 1.3.x)) and now plan to insatll one (media)wiki (v 1.7.1) instead. Of course there's lots of content we dont't want to loose, but also old stuff that does not need to be transferred to the new wiki.
Is there a user friendly way of selecting specific pages and transfer those to the new wiki (instead of copy&paste or some work in MySQL (which cannot be done by the users))?

I know of the Special:Export page. Only that Import is not working for older versions and I Don't know whether Export from 1.3.wiki works for import in wiki 1.7.

18 July 2006

:The XML format from earlier versions should be 100% compatible with the current development, release and the most recent legacy (1.6) branches. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

==Delete a file==
We just installed a wiki at work and I need to know how to delete a file as the steps aren't in the article yet. Thanks. [[User:Rlevse|Rlevse]] 13:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
:Also, how to delete a user and reset a password.[[User:140.32.75.204|140.32.75.204]] 18:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

From the mysql prompt:

mysql> DELETE FROM user WHERE user_name = 'Jcarr';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Note that mediawiki seems to like to capitalize the first letter of your login name. If you don't have the username correct, mysql will return "Query OK, 0 rows affected" [[User:Jeff Carr|Jeff Carr]] 20:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:Note that deleting users in that manner does not remove the copious references to them from the rest of the database, and ''could'' cause odd problems later. A safer method is to run <tt>'''reassignEdits.php'''</tt> on the account, assign the edits to a name that does not exist, and then delete the account. As an alternative, consider blocking the user or scrambling their password.

:To delete a page, log in as an administrator, and select the ''Delete'' option from the context menu which appears, in the Monobook (default) skin, at the top of each page.

:To reset a user's password, the simpler option is to ensure there's an email address associated with the account, and ask the user to click "lost password" when logging in. If this is not an option, then look at the <tt>'''maintenance/changePassword.php'''</tt> script or [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mediawiki+password+md5 search the web for '''mediawiki password md5''']. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

==Sessions errors==
I've been trying to fix our install of MediaWiki, and have found that some pages (main page, in particular) do not show up correctly unless logged in. I attempted to edit the page to see if that would fix it, and I got this error:

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in.

and the edits never go through. In getting the wiki to work again, I had copied data from a new objectcache to and older one, could this be related? Thanks very much!
--[[User:128.113.63.60|128.113.63.60]] 13:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

:The first problem sounds like caching. Set <tt>'''$wgCacheEpoch'''</tt> in <tt>'''LocalSettings.php'''</tt> as follows to force MediaWiki to clear old caches:

::<code>$wgCacheEpoch = '20060812042000';</code>

:The second problem, if the edits aren't being saved, could be due to PHP not saving session data in the right location. Check the value of <tt>'''session.save_path'''</tt> in the <tt>'''php.ini'''</tt> configuration file and check it points to a valid, writable path. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

== Semi-protection and time limit ==

I've searched for it quite extensively, but I cannot find it anywhere. How to implement a 4 day waiting period for registered users to be able to edit semi-protected pages, like it is the case in en.w? If someone could point me to the place (which I am almost sure exists) on how to implement that, I'd appreciate it.

:Set <tt>'''$wgAutoConfirmAge'''</tt>, e.g.

::<code>$wgAutoConfirmAge = 4 * 86400;</code>

:in <tt>'''LocalSettings.php'''</tt>. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

== change the font size ==

Hi. How can I change the font size of my own wiki? I cannot find the place to change that.

:Browse to the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page on your wiki and add in your CSS as usual, e.g.

::<code>#content p {<br />   font-size: 11pt;<br />}</code>

:[[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

== Passing a space as argument to an extension ==

Don't know if this is the right space to discuss this. If not, please point me ...

I am trying to pass a space as an argument to an extension.

Example:
<pre>
<extension argument=" ">
text
</extension>
</pre>

The extension code registering the extension is as follows:
<pre>
function extension() {
global $wgParser;
$wgParser->setHook( 'extension', 'doit' );
}

function doit( $input, $args, &$parser ) {

...

}
</pre>

The $args in the function 'doit' are already space free. It seems that the arguments get trimmed(), because something like <code>argument=". ."</code> goes through but <code>argument=" | "</code> results in just a single <code>|</code> without leading and trailing space.

Is there a way to avoid this?

--[[User:83.171.153.127|83.171.153.127]] 22:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

==Remove Edit tab for non logged in users==
Ok, I've read the FAQ, but I can't seem to understand it. Can someone show me how the final code should look when its done? I use the MonoBook skin.--[[User:70.33.138.121|70.33.138.121]] 23:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
:Oops, this is me, didnt realize I wasnt logged in.--[[User:Trek84|Trek84]] 23:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
:Does this item make sense anymore anyway? "How can I prevent editing by anonymous users?" looks more like one actually wants and the "Remove Edit tab" tip does only remove the edit tab but not the in page section edit links anyway [[User:Hholzgra|Hholzgra]] 21:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
:: Well, you can hide it in your global CSS by modifying the skin files, or you could just disable page editing by anonymous users, and they would get the "View source" tab instead of the "edit" tab. [[User:Titoxd|Tito]][[:en:User:Titoxd|<font color="#008000">xd</font>]]<sup>([[:en:User talk:Titoxd|?!?]])</sup> 08:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

== differences between 1.5x, 1.6x, 1.7x ==

Where can I find a list of the main differences between the version 1.5x, 1.6x, 1.7x ?

:Compare the release notes in each version. The release notes shipped with 1.6.0 detail changes since the 1.5 branch, for instance. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 02:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

== Sign Up as an Administrator ==
How do I sign up as an administrator? How can I create an sysop account?
:If you are the system administrator of the wiki, when you has create your wiki the installation script should ask you the pseudo and the password for a sysop-and-bucreaucrat account. You can use this account for give sysop rights to other users.
:If you aren't system admin, you must ask a bureaucrat the sysop rights or perhaps be eleted. ~ [[User:Seb35|Seb35]] 18:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
::The 1.8 MediaWiki installation script does not ask for this information, it sets up the first user as the administrator. To make an account a sysop you may want to look into the Makesysop extension used here on Mediawiki (which surprising has no page at all describing it nor including the code). Also a good resource is here at [[Help:Managing_user_rights|Managing User Rights]], however as that currently redirects you to Meta you can go directly here: [[meta:Help:User_levels|Meta: Help:User Levels]] --[[User:Grymwulf|Grymwulf]] 04:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

== Transclusion ==
Is there a way of Transcluding a template only if that temaplte exists? I don't want to get the red link if it doesn't exist.

The reason I want to do this is as follows:

I want to use templates on my wiki's main page <nowiki>{{this week{{CURRENTWEEK}}}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{today{{CURRENTDAY}}}}</nowiki> which will display any special information for that day. If nothing is happening on that day then I don't want anything to show up.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zabdiel Zabdiel]] 15:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
:I don't know if it's possible, but you can hack with the [[meta:ParserFunctions|ParserFunctions]] (you must install this on your wiki) :
:Create an intermediate template <tt>Template:DisplayTemplate</tt> (or other name) with
:<code><nowiki>{{#ifexist:Template:{{{templat|}}}|{{{{{templat}}}}}}}</nowiki></code>
:You use <code>{{DisplayTemplate|today{{CURRENTDAY}}}}</code> and will display only if <tt>Template:today{{CURRENTDAY}}</tt>
:~ [[User:Seb35|Seb35]] 18:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

== How to change the date format ? ==

I want to change the date format on the footer

this page was last modifed 16:24, etc I want to remove the timestamp and leave just the date

how would I do this ?

== How to remove the title of "Main Page"==

Hi, I would like to remove the title from the Main Page the same way as in Wikipedia.
I searched google and found a solution, which included editing monobook.js, but couldn't get it working.

== I've got a ? ==

what is the newest version of MediaWiki that works on PHP 4.4.4?
:[[Important Release Notes|MW 1.6.8]] --[[User:Bdk|<span style="color:#116611">:Bdk:</span>]] 22:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

== Thumbnail Image File Size Not Optimized ==

I have noticed that thumbnail image sizes are not optimized. For example, a PNG image that is 63KB turns into a thumbnail that is approximatly 53KB. But when I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro, I can further reduce the size of the thumbnail to 16KB with no noticeable quality loss. How do I make it so thumbnail file sizes become more optimized?

==Linking to .mov files (Quick Time) won't work==
After: allowing uploading of .mov files to my wiki, successfully uploading a certain .mov file and watching it from the page I've been directed to, I found my wiki won't link to it.
If I type, for instance, [[Media:Example.mov]] (assuming my .mov file's named ''Example''), I'd get a red link, leading to "Upload file" page. What am I doing wrong? --[[User:87.69.58.71|87.69.58.71]] 17:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
: Check your apache error logs. Most likely you're running into PHP's 8MB upload limit. I came across this discussion because I was searching for a way around it, which I still haven't found. --Anonymous User, 16 November 2006

==Search in different wikis==
[[User:Proth|Proth]] 16:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
*Hello, I would like to know if there is a way to, from one wiki, search words also in a different wiki and have all the results shown in the first Wiki?
**ex: Type words to search in Wiki A, wiki A search in itself and also in Wiki B and show all the results in Wiki A.
Many thanks in advance.

==Search spécial characters==
[[User:Proth|Proth]] 16:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
*Hello, We still have a recurent problem in searching for special caracters, like accents, in Wiki.
**ex: Search for word "eglise" doesn't give articles containing word "église".
*We can't find any information/solution for this problem. If anybody have a idea...
Many thanks in advance.

:I'm currently working on an extension, [[Extension:DidYouMean|DidYouMean]] that finds titles which differ only by capitalisation, hyphenation, and use of accents and ligatures. It's primarily for the English Wiktionary but once it exists people will be able to massage it into something more general for other wikis. — [[User:Hippietrail|Hippietrail]] 12:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

== Does Webscapia's Coconut CMS work with MediaWiki? ==
Yes, to run mediawiki side-by-side with Coconut CMS you must have version 1.2+ installed! After you have ensured that version 1.2+ is installed, do the following:
1. Login as administrator in the admin panel.
2. Click on modules, and click on the software install tab.
3. Select mediawiki.
4. DO NOT CLICK ON DOWNLOAD. Under the mediawiki click on integration and wait for the installer to configure Coconut CMS.
5. And your done. A new tab should appear in the main menu called Wiki. If this does not happen make sure in /Coconut/admin_cp/functions/func_menucreate.php has a chmod of 777. And then run the integration installer once again.

== setup not working ==

* PHP 5.2.0 installed
* Found database drivers for: MySQL
* PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
* Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
* Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used.
* GNU diff3 not found.
* Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
* Installation directory: C:\Apache\htdocs\w
* Script URI path: /w
* Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
* Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually.

Generating configuration file...
* Database type: MySQL
* Loading class: DatabaseMysql
* Attempting to connect to database server as wikiuser...success.
* Connected to 5.0.27-community-nt
* Database wikidb exists
* Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, user_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', user_password tinyblob NOT NULL default '', user_newpassword tinyblob NOT NULL default '', user_email tinytext NOT NULL default '', user_options blob NOT NULL default '', user_touched char(14) binary NOT NULL default '', user_token char(32) binary NOT NULL default '', user_email_authenticated char(14) binary, user_email_token char(32) binary, user_email_token_expires char(14) binary, user_registration char(14) binary, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) TYPE=InnoDB " failed with error code "BLOB/TEXT column 'user_password' can't have a default value (localhost)".

i fixed it by turning off strict mode

:Please submit this to the [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Bug Tracker] --[[User:Grymwulf|Grymwulf]] 05:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

== Edit sidebar, part 2 ==

I understand how to edit the sidebar above the search box, by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar, But how do I edit the sidebar below it. Some wiki's have an additional box below the toolbox section, for seperate links, such as "Site in a different langusge" or containing Google Adsense.

--[[User:PlantPhotos|Steve Gallagher]] 22:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

:To do this edit '''MediaWiki:Sidebar-lower'''. I dont know if this works in all versions.--[[User:George Drummond|George Drummond]] 22:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

== How do I use the same user-table for different wikis? ==

How do I use the same users table for differents wikis that use the same datebase?
(Asked by [[User:Eloy|Eloy]] 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC))
:Could this be answered please? --[[User:Zervon|Zervon]] 18:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
::Maybe you can create a view with [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-view.html MySQL 5.x]:
::create view schema1.user as select * from schema2.user --[[User:Maletin|Maletin]] 14:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

== Upgrades ==

I just upgraded MW v1.9 to 1.9.2.
<br />Background: My server has php5 installed but it runs php4 as a default. So, I had to do a little trick to install the MW v.1.9 originall by adding .access file and <code>AddType x-mapp-php5 .php</code> and place it at the root directory of my server to tell it to use php5 instead of php4.
;The update instruction tells you to go to command line and type <code>$ php update.php</code>
*So, as simpleminded as I was, I typed <code>$ php update.php</code> but it didn't work
;It's because I should have ignored $ symbol at the command line
*So, I typed <code>php update.php</code>, but I got the message that this MW version requires php5 but my server is running on php4.
;I found out that I had to type <code>php5 update.php</code> in my case.
*So, I typed <code>php5 update.php</code> but now it told me I had to have a LocalConfig.php -- well I am a total beginner, so I just followed the instruction and there was no mention of creating a LocalSettings.php before the update command, but it make sense that I had to have the file...to come to think of it. My bad.
;So, I moved my LocalSettings.php file along with all the customized files into the new wiki files.
*This time it told me that it couldn't connect to the database and told me to check the database name, user name, and password.
;This, I couldn't figure out why it didn't work as all the information on my LocalSettings.php were correct.
*I gave up on update and went for install -- good news is that this worked and I didn't loose anything other than the time I spent on trying to update -- I had the database backed up just in case.
<br ?>I hope this helps others save their time and alleviate pain.--[[User:Kohyin|Kohyin]] 09:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

== How can i remove the external.png arrow from appearing next to external links? ==
In /skins/monobook/main.css Ctrl+F "this can be used in the content area to switch off" and uncomment (remove the #). Also remove the following code:<br />
<nowiki>#</nowiki>bodyContent a.external,<br />
<nowiki>#</nowiki>bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {<br />
background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat;<br />
padding-right: 13px;<br />
}

== Blank Pages despite successful installation ==

Am trying to use MediaWiki on WIMP. Win2k Prof, IIS 6, MySQL 4.1.22, PHP 5.2.1. Downloaded MediaWiki 1.9.3. Installation is successful and main page has come up. But clicking on any link on the Main page is displaying a blank page in IE. What could be the problem. Pls help. Am trying to figure it out for the last 3 days and haven't found a solution. - Radha

: what do the error logs of IIS and PHP say? -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|?]] 12:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how to interpret the log. sorry. But these are the last 2 entries:
12:03:17 127.0.0.1 GET /enlighten/index.php 301
12:03:17 127.0.0.1 GET /enlighten/index.php 200
Today, I reinstalled PHP, recreated the vdir in IIS and put in $wgCachePages = false; in localsetttings.php. And guess what? The main page is itself blank. :( Don't know what to do. - Radha

== Bug in hide section editing? (3.16) ==
<code>$wgDefaultUserOptions ['editsection'] = 0;</code>

works fine for deactivating the section editing links. But if the "raw" action is disabled, the section editing links show up again.

<code>$wgDisabledActions = array('raw');</code>

Why is that?

== Promote user MySQL statement update ==

For MediaWiki version 1.9.3 the mysql command to promote a user to a sysop is incorrect.
INSERT INTO user_group SET ug_id = youruserid, ug_group = "sysop"<br>
the table is now 'user_groups' and the ug_id field has changed to ug_user, hence the correct command would be:
INSERT INTO user_groups SET ug_user = <int, user_userid>, ug_group = "sysop"

Also, you would probably want to do a <br>
select user_id, user_name from user;<br>
first, so you can find the correct user_id value
: Thanks! Interestingly enough, that SQL must have been wrong since the beginning, because I don't see any changes that were done to that table... [[User:Titoxd|Tito]][[:en:User:Titoxd|<font color="#008000">xd</font>]]<sup>([[:en:User talk:Titoxd|?!?]])</sup> 04:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

== Thumbnails do not work ==

http://www.khakain.com/wiki2/index.php?title=Special:Newimages

As you can see, only a few images can been seen in their thumbnail form. This has been going on for over a year. Would upgrading solve this problem? If this isn't the right place to ask, please tell me a good place to go. I've been trying for months to find the reason for this.

note: I don't want to see this on any interwiki pages, by the way.

== How can I make the categories box appear on top of an article page instead of the bottom? ==

This is handled by the "catlinks". Edit the skin. E.g. skins/Monobook.php: Find this section:
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" style="border-collapse:collapse;"
|-valign="top"
|
<nowiki></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php if($this->data['catlinks']) { ?><div id="catlinks"><?php $this->html('catlinks') ?></div><?php } ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php $this->html('bodytext') ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki></nowiki>
|}
Switch the 2 lines to:
{| border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse;"
|-valign="top"
|
<nowiki></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php $this->html('bodytext') ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php if($this->data['catlinks']) { ?><div id="catlinks"><?php $this->html('catlinks') ?></div><?php } ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki></nowiki>
|}

== Using deleteOldRevisions.php ==

It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to use this:
* Run PuTTY
* cd yourdomain
* cd yourwikidirectory
* cd maintenance
* If you're using php5 then type in: /usr/local/php5/bin/php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete
* If you're using php4 then you can just type: php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete

This procedure will work for all of the scripts in the maintenance directory. Make sure you download and look at the script before running it to see if it has any notes or usage guidelines. [[User:David Shenk|David Shenk]] 18:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

== making mediawiki faster? ==

I remember during install it asked me if I had certain things on my server to make the software faster. In the future, if I do get these things, how do I implement them into my wiki later on? Also, I can't recall the names of them? Sorry for my ignorance, any help is appreciated. [[User:66.192.186.99|66.192.186.99]] 19:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

==Removing logo picture==
To remove logo removing of '''wgLogo''' variable and setting
#column-one { padding-top: 21px; }
'''NOT''' works if you splitted navigation bar into two parts, you have to set this too:
#p-logo {
display:none;
height: 0px;
width: 0px;
}
otherwise it redirects you to logo link when you click on first few links in (new splitted) navigation bar

--[[User:Betlista|Betlista]] 15:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

== How can I force users to preview before they save in version 1.10? ==

Does anyone know how to fix [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_can_I_force_users_to_preview_before_they_save.3F this issue] (How can I force users to preview before they save) for MediaWiki 1.10? Thanks in advance. /Minken

:I do it this way on my wiki: (in diff format) --[[User:203.217.47.76|203.217.47.76]], aka [[en:User:Jeremy.Visser]] 22:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Index: includes/EditPage.php
===================================================================
--- includes/EditPage.php (revision 22056)
+++ includes/EditPage.php (working copy)
@@ -1152,6 +1152,10 @@
$checkboxhtml = implode( $checkboxes, "\n" );

$buttons = $this->getEditButtons( $tabindex );
+
+ if ( $this->formtype !== 'preview' )
+ unset($buttons['save']);
+
$buttonshtml = implode( $buttons, "\n" );

$safemodehtml = $this->checkUnicodeCompliantBrowser()

::Thank you very much, Jeremy Visser. It works fine! /Minken

==Removing Edit Tab Doesn't Work==

i'm trying to remove the edit tab so that users who do not have an account cannot edit information on my wiki. i've tried exactly what the FAQ answer says to do. My wiki is a default wiki at the moment. i'm wondering if anyone who comes to the site is logged in by default with their IP address being their username. The IP Address shows up next to the login/signup link at the top right with a "my talk" page link next to it. Does this have anything to do with it my "edit tab" problem? Thanks, [[User:Lefedy|Lefedy]] 14:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

==Title Extension==
What is the name of the Extension that allows you to change the titles of pages? [[User:Plumber|Plumber]] 23:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

== How to start over ==

As a first-time creator of a wiki, I am unsure about some choices on the MediaWiki site config form. Will I be able to go back and do any of them over again, without having to drop all tables in the database and starting from a fresh copy of the MediaWiki software? Are those two steps enough to ensure a fresh start?

== How do I remove the "Talk for this IP" link at the top right when $wgDisableAnonTalk is true ==

When I add this in 1.10, after I log in I get an error on getText(). any ideas? [[User:68.4.226.3|68.4.226.3]] 05:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

test

== Changing tabs? ==

How do I change the tabs on the header above, like "manual" "discussion" "edit" "history".
I´d like to use my own labels for these expressions...

== Background color on namespaces ==

Hi,

How do we change the background color on namespaces? For example, on mediawiki the "Manual" namespace has a grey background, and normal articles has a white one. It's the same on wikipedia. So how can we do this?

Thank you.

--[[User:83.68.199.212|83.68.199.212]] 19:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

== mail features ==

Howto set up mail features?

* The easy way (need to be able to install stuff on the server)

::#install the package php-pear : apt-get install php-pear
::#then as root : pear install --alldeps mail
::#then edit LocalSettings.php and add :<nowiki>$wgSMTP = array(
'host' => "smtp.yourprovider.com",
'IDHost' => "domain for MessageID",
'port' => 25,
'auth' => false,
'username' => "my_user_name",
'password' => "my_password"
);</nowiki>
::#then you will be able to send email confirmation or else

* the hard way (need to have a MTA installed)

::* don't know how to do that

== Disable editing ==

How do I disable editing?

== Category "Access Denied" ==

I doubt I'll get a response here, given the lack of responses to many previous questions, but here goes. I can't add categories (or even links to categories) on my MediaWiki site. I get an "Access Denied" error. [[User:Eep|Eep²]] 11:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
:Consider moving this question to [[Project:Support desk]]. Does that only happen with categories or with all articles? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

::Well, I don't have any existing categories and was/am trying to create new ones. Oddly, the "Access Denied" only happens if I enter summary text but if I leave the summary blank, the category links show up fine. I don't get it... [[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

== Basil White is Too Stupid to Load MediaWiki ==

I give up. I have no administrative control over a shared S:/ drive. I want to load a "blank Wikipedia" on S:/ with all the enabling software at S:/wiki so people who can get to S:/ can build wiki topics under S:/ and link to files in "parallel" directories, like s:/abc, s:/schedule, etc. I loaded WAMP5 and followed the instructions as best I could and looked at what I loaded at http://basilwhite.com/WAMP5/www/ to figure out how to actually create pages of content. I'd use pbwiki but I don't want any content to exist anywhere than on the S:/drive. I've read all the directions in mediawiki.org, and to this Liberal Arts major, they read like quotes from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/quotes THX-1138]. Won't you help a Liberal Arts major? --> basilwhite @7 basilwhite d0Oo7 c0Oom [[User:Basilwhite|Basilwhite]] 08:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

:: http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/117121.html sent me to http://lifehacker.com/software/wikipedia/geek-to-live-set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php

:: ...which I'll try, but it's not the same as Wikipedia. Sigh... [[User:Basilwhite|Basilwhite]] 00:33, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

== How can I make DefaultSettings.php to Localsttings.php? ==
I have a question: How can I make DefaultSettings.php to Localsttings.php?

==PLEASE make this page editable==

there is no explanation in the hide the main title section '''where''' you should add this code. I was going to add this:

:Paste the following code into your [[Special:Mypage/monobook.js|user:''username''/monobook.js]] page

I also wanted to add this link:

:*[[:w:Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives|Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives]]

Can someone do this? [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 00:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

== What is this Wiki? ==

What type of Wiki is this?([[Special:Contributions/76.247.222.101|76.247.222.101]] 08:38, 22 November 2007 (UTC))
:See [[About this site]]--[[User:BrianOregon|Brian]] 22:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

== Change the value of $wgLogo to point to the URL of your own logo image does not work. ==

I changed the URL to point my Logo.jpg but it only shows on random pages.

[[Special:Contributions/88.115.194.214|88.115.194.214]] 12:00, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

==Search for short words not working after proposed changes==
I've changed the fulltext index to 2 and 2 for both mysql variables and rebuilt the indexes (using the maintenance script), but this did '''not''' fix the problem. I still don't find anything when searching for XY or XYZ, even though the pages containing these words are in the searchindex table. Anything else I can do about that?

== Can you hide the titles of namespaces a user doesnt have access to in the search page? ==

Does anyone know of a way to hide namespaces to which a user has no access in the search page where you select the namespaces to be searched? I've modified the search so the results don't contain text from hidden pages, but it would be nice to hide the fact that a namespace exists at all to avoid hacking attempts. It would also be nice to just hide some of the inherent mediawiki namespaces to have less clutter. I thought I read how to do this somewhere awhile back but I just can't find it now! Thanks for any help.

:I user the extension "Blacklist" to hide my special-pages (and others) from the users (admin has to place a userdefined list into the LocalSettings.php), and this works properly. It should also work with specified namespaces.--[[User:FSLEP|FSLEP]] 08:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

== How Can I Change the Text on the Create Account Page? ==

Specifically, I want to change the "Already got an account? Log in." text.
:Mark some text from a row, copy it, search/find it on Special:Allmessages --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 02:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

== How can I change User Links on top? ==

I'd like to add a new User Link on the very right top of the page and remove some. Where can I change it? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 00:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

== How do I add more buttons on the edit page? - Does not work ==

Hello,

i added in two different wikis the same for additional buttons in MediaWiki:Common.js, but in one the buttons do not appear. is there any variable that needs to be added to local setting to support additional buttons or what else might be the reason?<br><br>
thanks in advance<br>
kind regards<br>
--[[User:TurboKanne|TurboKanne]] 11:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

== Using DPL, how do I get a listing of "lastedited" for a specific month? ==

Using DPL, how do I get a listing of "lastedited" for a specific month?

==Recentchanges only shows max. 7 days???? ==
<u>My machine:</u><br />
MediaWiki: 1.11.1 <br />
PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler) <br />
MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt <br />

My problem:

the function Recentchanges only shows maximum the last changes of the last 7 days, even if you change to "show the last changes of the last 30 days" (&days=30), result: only the last 7 days are displayed.
example:<br />
<nowiki>http://[...]/dewiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Letzte_%C3%84nderungen&limit=500&days=30</nowiki><br />
(there are not many changes, the limit of 500 is enough)

Am I doing something wrong?

Is it a bug?

Is there a "hidden" maximum anywhere, maybe in the LocalSettings.php, or somewhere else?--[[User:FSLEP|FSLEP]] 07:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

: 7 days is the default, yes -- it's called ''recent'' changes for a reason :) The limit can be configured using [[Manual:$wgRCMaxAge]].
: The fact that there's a "30 days" link on the page even if the DB only has 7 is confusing though. -- [[Special:Contributions/217.234.218.114|217.234.218.114]] 09:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
:: Thanks for your answers. This seems to be the solution for my problem.<br />
:: Is it to be placed in the LocalSetting.php? <br />
:: Example: <tt>$wgRCMaxAge= "7 * 24 * 3600 ";</tt> --[[User:FSLEP|FSLEP]] 06:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

== Imaging problem ==

* MediaWiki: [http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page wiki-site.com]
* PHP: ?
* MySQL: no
* URL: http://nuclearvacuum.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page

Whenever an image is uploaded to my Wiki, it uploads OK, but it will not thumb into any other size other then the one it currently is. What code would this be and how could I fix this? -- [[User:NuclearVacuum|Nuclear]][[User talk:NuclearVacuum|Vacuum]] 00:48, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

:I do not believe that this is happening simply because I did not download it to my desktop. It seems to be working fine on others using the same site (and at the same level as mine). What is the problem here, and please answer me. Here is a [http://nuclearvacuum.wiki-site.com/index.php/United_States_of_Europe link] to one of my articles that I put a picture on, so I can show you what it looks like. When I try to resize or put the picture in a thumb, it just says "Error creating thumbnail:" and does not show the picture. -- [[User:NuclearVacuum|Nuclear]][[User talk:NuclearVacuum|Vacuum]] 00:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::Which OS and platform? — [[User:VasilievVV|VasilievVV]] 17:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

:::My OC is '''Microsoft Windows''' and my platform (I believe) is '''Java'''. Does this help you out? -- {{user|NuclearVacuum}} 17:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
::::Try to set <code>$wgUseImageMagick = true;</code> — [[User:VasilievVV|VasilievVV]] 17:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Where is this found? -- {{user|NuclearVacuum}} 17:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

: Add the line to your LocalSettings.php. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

::Where is my LocalSettings.php? Where would it be found? [[User:NuclearVacuum|NuclearVacuum]] 17:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
::: В папке, в которую Вы поставили MediaWiki — [[User:VasilievVV|VasilievVV]] 17:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

::::I did not download this wiki. It does not require me to download it. I have no folder for it. [http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page] -- [[User:NuclearVacuum|NuclearVacuum]] 17:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
::::: *Notices your url.* You seem to be on a wiki-farm. You should [http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/Support_contact contact wiki-site] and get them to help you, since they have access to your LocalSettings.php and other files if you don't. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

== Uneeded Copyright removal ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.6(cgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.51-log
*URL: http://osirius.co.uk/wiki/

I don't own the afformentioned wiki, but I was wondering, how can I tell the owner how to removed the second copyright he has on the bottom of every page? He has it loading on the bottom left of every page, in addition to the pre-loaded copyright notice, so, could I given step by step instructions on how to remove this uneeded copyright? Thanks! —[[User:Logestic|Logestic]] 20:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

PS: Is there anything I can add to my common.css to make it disappear? - [[User:Logestic|Logestic]] 20:43, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

:When looking at the source code, I find out that a gnu-fdl.png should be shown there instead of just the gnu-fdl link. Perhaps this image is not in the location where it should be so just the alternate text is shown:
<pre><nowiki><div id="f-copyrightico"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">
<img src="/w/skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png" alt='GNU Free Documentation License 1.2' /></a></div></nowiki></pre>
:To remove it from being displayed using common.css this should work:
div#f-copyrightico {display: none;}
:Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 09:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== How to change the destination of the login/register link on the right top of the screen ==

* MediaWiki: 1.11
* PHP: 5.2.3
* MySQL: 5.0.41

Hi there mates i'm trying to force that when you click on this link it will redirect you to another site i have on my localhost system. So i can log in thru CAS authentication. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks a lot!

—[[User:Juanan|Juanan]] 10:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

==[RESOLVED] Upgrade Problems==

*MediaWiki: 1.9.2 / 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.6
*PostgreSQL: 8.2.7
*URL: [http://www.vampiregame.co.uk/ Title]

I recently upgraded my MediaWiki installation from 1.9.2 to 1.12.0.

After upgrading, I found that no page was visible. A quick search for DOMDocument revealed that I need to install php-xml. So I ran the command:

yum install php-xml

This took a while to execute (including quite a few updates for dependancies). After the update, postgres failed to start. I checked the documentation, and found that postgres had been updated from 8.1.0 to 8.2.7 (which have incompatible data formats).

Luckily, I had run pg_dumpall before trying to upgrade mediawiki. I restored this dump in the usual way. But now, mediawiki just gives me:

A database error has occurred Query: SELECT * FROM page_restrictions WHERE pr_page = '1' Function: Title::loadRestrictions Error: 1 ERROR: relation "page_restrictions" does not exist
Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/wiki/includes/Database.php(799): DatabasePostgres->reportQueryError('ERROR: relatio...', 1, 'SELECT * FROM...', 'Title::loadRest...', false)
#1 /var/www/wiki/includes/Database.php(1244): Database->query('SELECT * FROM...', 'Title::loadRest...')
#2 /var/www/wiki/includes/Title.php(1725): Database->select('page_restrictio...', '*', Array, 'Title::loadRest...')
#3 /var/www/wiki/includes/Article.php(312): Title->loadRestrictions('')
#4 /var/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(256): Article->loadPageData(Object(stdClass))
#5 /var/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(46): MediaWiki->initializeArticle(Object(Title), Object(WebRequest))
#6 /var/www/wiki/index.php(90): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(StubObject), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
#7 {main}

Can anyone suggest what the problem might be here, or how to fix it? The table page_restrictions appears to exist as far as I can tell.

—[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

:OK, I should have figured this one out sooner. I ran the upgrade script after dumping the database, so I need to do it again. However, I now get an authentication failure for user 'dracula'@'localhost' (Using password: YES)
:I've tried logging in to the database using the same username and password specified in LocalSettings.php, and it works fine. I have no idea if the problem is with MW, PHP or postgres now.
:--[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

::Resolved - turned out to be a postgres config error --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

== Interwiki SQL error ==

*MediaWiki: 1.13alpha trunk version
*PHP: 5
*MySQL: 
*URL: 
I installed the latest version successfully on my localhost wiki, for testing. However, interwiki links do not work from the interwiki-sql file. This is the error message I get:
<pre>
SQL query:

(
'zh', 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-cfr', 'http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-classical', 'http://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-cn', 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-min-nan', 'http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-tw', 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-yue', 'http://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zu', 'http://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
),

MySQL said: Documentation
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''zh','http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('zh-cfr','http://zh-min-nan.wikiped' at line 1
</pre>

I did this via phpMyAdmin, since it is hard for me to use maintenance scripts with XAMPP (the platform I am hosting this on!) If anyone can help me, it's much appreciated!!
Thanks, AP aka —[[User:Sunstar|Sunstar]] 18:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

—[[Special:Contributions/193.134.254.145|193.134.254.145]] 14:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

== display used templates ==

Hello,

can someone help me on this.
If I click edit on a page, I can see all templates used in this page. It displays all pages (sections) I've included with #section-h. Exactly this list I'd like to include in my wiki document. On the bottom of the page I'd like to have a section displaying links to all the pages I've included sections from.

is there a way to display something like this?

Thanks

—[[Special:Contributions/193.134.254.145|193.134.254.145]] 14:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

== search engine optimisation/indexing ==

*MediaWiki: latest
*PHP: im sorry i'm new to wikis i dont know what to write here..
*MySQL: as above
*URL: not yet online

Hello,

hopefully i'm doing this correctly, deleting the lines saying delete etc, heres my question

how do i get my site indexed with google? I can do it in html but the index page for media wiki is in php and i dont want to change any of it for fear of braking it.

Is there a way of adding tags, keywords & descriptions to the wiki ''through'' the actual wiki ?

please help soon

Thanks

james

—[[Special:Contributions/81.151.156.227|81.151.156.227]] 15:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
:Setting
$wgRawHtml = true;
:in LocalSettings.php gives you the power to use all the HTML tags (some are allowed also in false mode), but have a look at the warnings at [[Manual:$wgRawHtml]]. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 09:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
:PS: Have a look at special page [[Special:Version]] on your wiki for finding out the versions required above.
:: I would reccomend against using $wgRawHtml unless you must. This question has been [[Project:Support_desk/Archive_20#.28RESOLVED.29_code_question.2F_how_to_change_the_code_for_a_wiki_page.3F|asked before]], so have a look there. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 13:16, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== Email related problem (How to set SMTP mode and how to get log for an error) ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.Orc1
*PHP: 5.2.5(apache2handler)
*MySQL: 4.1.12
*URL:http://192.168.1.122/index.php/Main_Page

I am facing problem in Email notifications.How to set the SMTP mode in DefaultSettings.php.

1. After changing the SMTP Mode according to our requirements and after uncomment the code i am getting an error in these lines.
So how to uncomment these lines so that these lines will also run.

/**
* SMTP Mode
* For using a direct (authenticated) SMTP server connection.
* Default to false or fill an array :
* <code>
* "host" => '192.168.1.123',
* "IDHost" => '192.168.1.123',
* "port" => "25",
* "auth" => true,
* "username" =>myusername ,
* "password" =>password
* </code>
*
* @global mixed $wgSMTP
*/
$wgSMTP= true;

What all other changes we need to do enable Email notification.

2. How to get log files for any error.Is there any option which need to be set.

--[[User:Neelam.jain|Neelam.jain]] 05:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

==How do I create a second database==
Hi, I would like to create a second database with exactly the same structure as the first, and also using the same Mediawiki installation for both. The purpose is to have two different types of contents. How do I go about doing it and what's the disadvantage, if any. — [[User:PM Poon|PM Poon]] 20:58, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

: What is your goal? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 03:51, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

:: If only I know, LOL. Actually, I was thinking of having two sections, one for me to write exclusively, and another for the community. — [[Special:Contributions/219.95.193.61|219.95.193.61]] 23:06, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

::: You could protect an individual namespace with [[Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection|$wgNamespaceProtection]]. Would that give you what you need? Otherwise, if you just want to have two wikis, you could just install MediaWiki in two different directories with different databases. Or else see [[Manual:Wiki_family]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 14:58, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

==Link to other Languages on sidebar==
Hello, I have down loaded MediaWiki and installed 2 languages are Thai and English.
I would like to know If I have the topic in Thai language , then I would like to link to the topic in English language in to sidebar. How can I do ? [[User:Wondermoon|Wondermoon]] 13:41, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

==Display the edit links inside of the page==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.2
*PHP: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.1
*MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
*URL: private network

How can you make it so that the edit links inside of the article appear even if the page is protected?? I have a page that is protected but uses templates to get the information that is desplayed on the main page... I want to have everyone edit the actual templates but not the main page... Thanks

—[[Special:Contributions/63.77.141.66|63.77.141.66]] 13:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

== leveraging OS permissions for files used as links ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Is there some way to leverage file permissions, like read, write, etc. when using documents and spreadsheets, etc as links from wiki pages? Example: a named wiki user can only read certain spreadsheets, but write onto others. I think I saw a piece about configuring Apache for this purpose(??) but not for IIS. I am using IIS. THANKS

—[[Special:Contributions/68.178.62.32|68.178.62.32]] 20:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

==Unable to enable HTML in wiki==

Product Version
MediaWiki 1.12.0
PHP 5.2.2 (apache)
MySQL 5.0.51a-community
URL: www.danda-comics.co.uk/wiki

OK i've created an FaQ for a game i play inside of a wiki and, although its against the idea of the wiki somewhat i've locked off other users from registering without permission etc so as to save the pages getting vandalised by ingrates. However there are certain things i would like to do which i can't do with the wiki formatting. So i had the intention of enabling HTML so as i could do some additional edditing that way, however Whenever i attempt to input ANY html code into one of my pages, i'm redirected from the wiki to the base page.

I have the following at the bottom of my localsettings.php (i'm typring this in so it may not be accurate in here)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgAllowExternalImages = true;
$wgAllowHtml = true;

Far as i can tell i SHOULD be able to use html with that code in there, but i have no idea why i'm being redirected out of the page, anny assistance would be appreciated (i'm sure its something mind numbingly simple)

—[[Special:Contributions/193.63.197.246|193.63.197.246]] 03:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

:Dunno about redirecting, but the variable is called [[Manual:$wgRawHtml|$wgRawHtml]], not $wgAllowHtml. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 04:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Whelp i've tried changing that (the allowhtml must've been a previous version or something. ( but still the same problem, whenever i edit a page and put in some html the edit won't stick and i'm sent back to the main site and not the wiki.

== Delete ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Can someone delete my account?

—[[User:Tm93|Tm93]] 23:18, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

: Ask on [[Project:Requests]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 15:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

== New Page ==

How do you add a new page?!

: See [[Help:Starting a new page]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 15:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

== How do I upgrade? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.6.8
*PHP: 5.2.4 (apache)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community
*URL: [http://www.evolution-rpg.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page SW: Evolution Database]

How do I upgrade the mediawiki from version 1.6.8 to version 1.12.0? There's a lot of information stored, as well as quite a few modifications having been made with extensions and the theme. I don't want to lose any of it. Is there an easy-to-follow guide that will take me through the process step-by-step?

—[[Special:Contributions/97.115.227.196|97.115.227.196]] 01:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I am the sysop for my wiki site. The problem is that I made some changes in my preferences a while back. Afterwards the page for my sysop account changed. The logo appears on the right, the search page is on the bottom of the Main Page, and I can no longer find my preferences or any other items that should be at the top right of the page. How can I reset this? The history for the page has no record changes being made to my preferences so I cannot seem to solve the problem that way.
Help

== Interwiki Transcluding ==
*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 5.0.51a

I have a problem when transcluding a template into another site, using $wgEnableScaryTranscluding - What happens: A double linebreak appears before the loaded template. This doesn't happen when i use the template on the same site that it is created.

When i check the sourcecode for the page with the linebreaks, it has added <nowiki><p> <br /> </p></nowiki>. Why is this added and how do i remove it? Not a big problem, but it messes up the layout. --[[User:Aroekene|Aroekene]] 09:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

==Please delete this page==
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SortableTable there is no way to get the code for this extension, because the link has changed. [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 18:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

*MediaWiki: mediawiki-1.12.0
*PHP: 2.11.4
*MySQL: 5.0.51a

Hey every one!

I have installed all the necessary softwares for math support and generated texvc.exe.And made all the changes mentioned in math.php and localsettings.php. Also, the mediawiki on windows asks to make changes in the image.php file, but there is no such file available in the mediawiki version that I downloaded.

I get the error "Failed to parse (unknown error):"

Please help!

Thanks a lot!!!

== Math support ==

*MediaWiki: mediawiki-1.12.0
*PHP: 2.11.4
*MySQL: 5.0.51a

Hey every one!

I have installed all the necessary softwares for math support and generated texvc.exe.And made all the changes mentioned in math.php and localsettings.php. Also, the mediawiki on windows asks to make changes in the image.php file, but there is no such file available in the mediawiki version that I downloaded.

I get the error "Failed to parse (unknown error):"

Please help!

Thanks a lot!!!

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

how can I send an email to a whole grup of users? i.e. I want to tell everybody of the bot-group via email to force their work in the wiki.
thanks
—[[Special:Contributions/84.188.198.121|84.188.198.121]] 13:10, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

== I have a UId - but I cannot comeback - I have my internal number ==

I am lost out and very sorry if I am writing things in the wrong place.

I have a UId - tarcisio and I have asked a new pass to be sent to me, but - perhaps -
I used an e-mail that has been dropped since a time.

I have my internal number. Would I put it here ? I do not think so!

How can I manage to come back?

Tarcisio
tarcisio@member.ams.org

== (RESOLVED) Changing amount of items in a Category ==

I'm using

MediaWiki 1.12.0 (r16740)

PHP 5.2.5 (cgi)

MySQL 5.0.51a-community

http://theaquariumwiki.com/

My Category listings show 200 items at a time. I'd like to change this number to say 300.

Can someone tell me what I need to edit to do this?
:-)

—[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 13:54, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Update: I've discovered that placing variable '''$wgCategoryPagingLimit = 300;''' in LocalSettings.php will alter the number of categories shown to 300.
Pity it's not a per-user setting of course. Maybe next time guys?

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 18:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
----

==Printing comment==
I would like to print this String in Wiki < !--pdf--> (without whitespace between < and !).

how can I do it?

can I mask the comment tag?

You tried the HTML character set of 4 characters for a left angle bracket?

ie 

See edit window for the characters.

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 18:13, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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Project:Support desk/Sections/Miscellaneous

2008-07-08T18:08:56Z

Quatermass: /* (RESOLVED) Changing amount of items in a Category */

Project:Support desk/Sections/Miscellaneous

2008-07-07T13:54:19Z

Quatermass: /* Changing amount of items in a Category */ new section

<noinclude>__TOC__
__NEWSECTIONLINK__</noinclude>
= [[Project:Support desk/Sections/Unsorted|Unsorted Threads]] =

== (RESOLVED) Terminology - Call ==
*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Would it be correct to say that index.php "calls" the Logo image, calls the menus, etc? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 22:32, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

:I would say "define", and please, Smaug, use the [[Template:Support desk notes|template]] to post your topic. -[[User:PatPeter|Pat]][[User talk:PatPeter|Peter]], <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]'''''[[Project:Support desk/Support team|<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>]]'''''</span> 19:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
::The logo image path is defined in LocalSettings.php which is ''included'' by index.php --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 21:40, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
::: Thank you. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 18:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Lost sysop access ==
*MediaWiki: 1.10.1
*PHP: 5.1.4
*MySQL: 4.1.22
*URL: I'm too embarrassed to release this!
OH CRAP!!!!! I was trying to figure out how to turn on uploads (still haven't figured that one out yet: documentation is not easily found on this site) and I accidentally killed my bureaucrat privileges on the Userrights Page. Poof! How do I restore them???? No one else is a Bureaucrat and I can't find anything on this site to help me fix this.

I'm just starting to learn the ins and now especially the outs of PHP and SQL...is there a way of fixing this in MySQL? or in one of the myriad of PHP files?

Thanks!

—[[User:Keng|Keng]] 23:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
:You'll need to update the database directly with the following query. First login and go to Special:Preferences to get your user id number (I've used 999 in the example below, so replace that with your own user id), then shell in to your server or do a query with whatever means you have of accessing your database. Also note that if you're using a table prefix you'll need to prepend that to the ''user_groups'' table name.
INSERT INTO user_groups (ug_user,ug_group) VALUES(999,'sysop');
:--[[User:Nad|Nad]] 02:18, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
::Also regarding uploads, you need to set [[Manual:$wgEnableUploads|$wgEnableUploads]] to ''true'' in your LocalSettings.php. There are also a number of other settings relating to uploads, see [[:Category:Upload variables]]. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 02:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

==HTML inclusion==
Is it possible to include the HTML code below in a wiki page without installing Google Maps extension ?

<iframe width="300" height="300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111661609153203707973.0004483c89c42b99a25b1&s=AARTsJps3Johc7PJJ8zbVh-pexd4N2zOPg&ll=-25.45118,-49.236774&spn=0.046501,0.051498&z=13&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111661609153203707973.0004483c89c42b99a25b1&ll=-25.45118,-49.236774&spn=0.046501,0.051498&z=13&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

—[[Special:Contributions/201.21.160.180|201.21.160.180]] 15:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

== How to integrate media wiki log in with website? (user reply needed)==

How to integrate media wiki log in with website.? Please help ....

: You mean how do you sync the MW login with non-MW login elsewhere on your site? It depends on how the rest of your website logs users in. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 18:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

== Fatal Error on 'Recent Changes' ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.?
*MySQL: 4.?
*URL: [http://www.wyfopedia.org.uk Wyfopedia]

My wiki has just stopped working. I can get ftp to it. Help!

-[[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 21:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi I have created an MediaWiki account now. IF you want to know what versions I'm on then please instruct me on how to find out. I'm worried that I have lost my database. I can see my wiki images. If I can download the database and images, I don't mind re-installing again from scratch.
-[[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 21:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
:You appear to have some problems with your rewrites. As a first measure you can set <tt>$wgUsePathInfo</tt> to false in your LocalSettings.php. [[User:Bryan Tong Minh|Bryan Tong Minh]] 20:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

:Thank you for your help Bryan Tong Minh. [[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 20:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I have backed up the database and image files, and upgraded to v. 1.12.0. The site now seems to be working again. However, I have the following error on 'Recent Changes':

'Fatal error: Class 'ChangesList' not found in /home/fhlinux182/w/wyfopedia.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/SpecialRecentchanges.php on line 221'

-[[User:Wyfopedia|Wyfopedia]] 20:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

== Pages imported by ImportTextFile.php NOT searchable ==

*MediaWiki: 1.8.3
*PHP: 5.2.0
*MySQL: 5.0.27
*URL:

I am using ImportTextFile.php to import a number of pages and they show up in Recent Changes.

But if I do a search on some text that I know is in the pages, the results are NOT showing them.

Is there a way that I can ensure that these pages are also searchable?

Thanks.

—[[Special:Contributions/68.147.72.69|68.147.72.69]] 06:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

:Run the updateSearchIndex.php [[Manual:Maintenance_scripts|maintenance script]]. [[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]] 02:23, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

----
That didn't work for imported pages as these pages were not selected during the run of the updateSearchIndex.php. The problem seems to be in the SELECT statement in updateSearchIndex.inc where "iaisrecentchanges" and "iaispage" tables are matched up to find the pages to be updated. The original SELECT statement is
SELECT ... FROM $recentchanges JOIN $page on
rc_cur_id=page_id AND rc_this_oldid=page_latest
and since an imported page has a clean slate of attributes, they are NOT selected.

Looking at the actual attributes in the imported pages, rc_last_oldid is always set to 0, thus by changing the SELECT statement to
SELECT ... FROM $recentchanges JOIN $page on
rc_cur_id=page_id AND (rc_this_oldid=page_latest OR rc_last_oldid=0)
then those imported pages are also selected.

I also believe that newer versions of mediawiki might have fixed this.

[[Special:Contributions/68.147.72.69|68.147.72.69]] 16:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== Changing sidebar according to article-language ==

*MediaWiki: 1.10.1
*PHP: 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.27
*URL: [http://www.GS-500.info www.GS-500.info]

Hi,

I'm currently translating my wiki from German to both English and Spanish. I'm happy with the solution to swap between the three languages, but as I modified the sidebar: Is there any possibility to indicate the article-language and change the sidebar accordingly?
I already looked at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LanguageSelector Extension:LanguageSelector], [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Multilang Extension:Multilang] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiLanguageManager Extension: MultiLanguageManager] but they all don't seem to tackle my problem as they assume the usage of an unchanged sidebar.

Kind regards,
Timo

—[[Special:Contributions/82.11.169.246|82.11.169.246]] 11:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Nobody any idea?<br>
Timo --[[Special:Contributions/82.11.169.246|82.11.169.246]] 12:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

:Hm. The example of http://www.art122-5.net/ given at [[Extension:MultiLanguageManager]] works with different languages in the sidebar (though I don't know if this is still MediaWiki). Elegant solution would be three wikis :-). What about additional sidebars added to [[Mediawiki:Sidebar]]? IMHO the most simple solution – there's just one "disadvantage": they will always show up together. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.156.49|89.55.156.49]] 19:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Currently in contact with the developer of the [[Extension:MultiLanguageManager]]. There might be a solution, I keep you posted.<br>
Timo --[[Special:Contributions/82.11.169.246|82.11.169.246]] 06:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

==(RESOLVED) questions / mass actions ==

I have many questions :

- How can I create many pages automatically ?
If I can't, is there another solution ? IS there a programm for injecting pages ( created by scripting shell)
- How can I know all the pages depending on a page ?
- How can I delete all the page created the same day ?

Thanks —[[Special:Contributions/192.54.193.51|192.54.193.51]] 09:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Importing_from_other_types_of_files

if you look through this site or use google you will find many helpful articles like that one [[User:JohnShep|JohnShep]] 20:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

== CheckUser weirdness - please investigate ==

*MediaWiki: 1.13alpha from SVN
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: it's on a localhost

I got CheckUser working, as well as Oversight and Makesysop, and surprisingly, despite what the [[CheckUser]] page here tells me, I didn't need run the command-line to get it working (to be honest, though, I actually had no PHP commandline utilities on XAMPP. Just added the SQL queries, and then copied the files to extensions directory, and for some reason, it actually worked and did a query. Is this a bug or is this meant to happen?? Should this go to Bugzilla?? Thanks, AP @ —[[Special:Contributions/82.42.237.84|82.42.237.84]] 15:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

* How did en.wikipedia.org grant the rollback extension in the user rights log?? nothing in [[Special:Version]] about it. Thanks, AP @ --[[Special:Contributions/82.42.237.84|82.42.237.84]] 15:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

::If you ran the SQL queries that the installation script includes, then you've done its job.

::The non-sysop rollback functionality has been in the core code since version 1.11 ([[Manual:User_rights_management#GiveRollback]]). [[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]] 02:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

* OK, so doing what I did above actually gets it working and it's not a bug?? Confused. AP @ --[[Special:Contributions/82.42.237.84|82.42.237.84]] 11:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

:If it's actually working, then yeah. The installation script just happens to be more convenient (and less error-prone) than running the queries directly. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 01:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

== Subcategories with the same name (resolved)==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.2
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 5.0.45
*URL: not ready

For example,I want create 3 categories:
-Slackware
-Ubuntu
-openSuse
I want,that each category must have the subcategory called "Script".
But the slackware's script,must be different from ubuntu's script and suse's script.
It is possible?How?

—[[Special:Contributions/79.3.253.38|79.3.253.38]] 19:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

: Maybe you could just call the ubuntu subcategory "Ubuntu script" and the suse subcategory "suse script". I don't know if doing what you want to do is possible. Is this a suitable workaround? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 19:39, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes is a fine solution.
But if I want only one category called Script foreach category(Slackware,suse,ubuntu...)it is possible?There are methods or extension that make this?
thanks
:The categories are identified by their names. How should it work with more categories using one and the same name? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Ajax Search doesn't work since 1.12.0 upgrade ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.51
*URL: I don't have URL because it is internal

Hi all,

I've upgrade MediaWiki 1.11.2 to 1.12.0 and everything went fine until I tested the AjaxSearch. It is not working anymore. In my LocalSettings.php I have $wgAjaxSearch = true; and to be sure I added $wgUseAjax = true;. I thought the problem may have been because of the upgrade, so I did a fresh install, but this did not helped at all.

Is there something new we need to do, so that the AjaxSearch actually works? Or is there a bug. I know AjaxSearch received some bugfix since the patch 1.12.0.

Thank you for your help.

Maxime.

—[[Special:Contributions/199.243.65.6|199.243.65.6]] 14:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

It seems like we now need to activate the AjaxSearch in the preferences of the user in the Search tab...
Also, the new version of this Ajax search is bugged... I'll need to use the one from 1.11 + 1.12 to have a functional Search.

--[[Special:Contributions/199.243.65.6|199.243.65.6]] 14:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

== Reading passwords of users (resolved) ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5
*MySQL: 4.1
*URL: www.wikilh.tk

Hi. I have question. How I can read the password of my users? I dont want to change them, but i need to read them. I need fast answer. Thank you.

drake

—[[Special:Contributions/83.26.71.3|83.26.71.3]] 20:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
:You can't. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 21:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
:: I don't know the answer, but I must assume that since they are stored somewhere in the database, there must be some way to read them, even if it requires some decryption. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 00:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:::MediaWiki salts its MD5-hashed passwords, which, as far as I know, makes decryption impractical, if not impossible.

:::The only sort of counsel that I'll offer is that this is not ethical, and you're wasting your time anyway. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 05:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

== MediaWiki optimization ==
*MediaWiki: 1.10.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
*URL: http://www.fan history.com/ Fan History Wiki

My wiki had problems with pages loading where we ended up with a few thousand articles in a category. This caused these pages either not to load or to load slowly. I queried my host about this. They said, among other things:

<blockquote>We tested the above mentioned URLs and managed to re-create the issue on our end. It is most likely caused by the timeout settings of our shared hosting servers, especially if the problematic pages contain lots of links with reference to your application's database.

Upon further investigation, we found out that the home page of your wiki is also loading a little bit slowly, due to the 274 links on this page. It loads for more than 2 seconds locally on the server, which it should not load for more than 1 second.

We will recommend you to contact a developer which is familiar with the source code of your application and possesses the required knowledge for optimizing it. The optimization usually involves reducing the number of links on the pages, reducing the overall size of the application's database, creating indexes for each table in the database, etc.</blockquote>

I switched to a VPS which makes some pages which previously wouldn't load now load. I also optimized the database on phpMyAdmin. I removed a few of the http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People extensions which were not being used actively. But if some pages link to certain categories, like http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People Category:People, new pages won't create and will time out. What more can be done to optimize things, fix the overly large category problem or just generally make the wiki load faster? I really want to continue to grow Fan History but this has thrown me for a loop. Is this something I can fix myself?

—[[User:PurplePopple|PurplePopple]] 02:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

:Your site doesn't load for me, so I can't take a look at your categories, but we just had [http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7244 a similar query] on the MWusers forums, and the simple answer was "caching." —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 05:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

::The whole site doesn't load or just those pages? I've added the caching elements by adding $wgUseFileCache = true; and $wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; to the local settings but it doesn't seem to make the load any faster. I've removed a few more extensions. I've removed Google Analytics. It is still taking about 15 seconds for me to get http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People Category:People to load and about 3 to get http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Main_Page the main page to load. If I remove

<nowiki>## Shared memory settings
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();
$wgUseFileCache = true;
$wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; </nowiki>

::It actually seems to load a bit faster but not much. :/ (On a completely unrelated note, my host seems to have disabled image uploads... *sighs*) --[[User:PurplePopple|PurplePopple]] 12:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

==Help==
This is what i get on my website.

[[wikipedia:Image:Mediawikiproblem123Pie.jpg]]

Can somebody help me?

I will copy the text in the background for you.

<pre>
, 2006 Rob Church # http://www.mediawiki.org/ # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html error_reporting( E_ALL ); header( "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8" ); @ini_set( "display_errors", true ); # In case of errors, let output be clean. $wgRequestTime = microtime( true ); # Attempt to set up the include path, to fix problems with relative includes $IP = dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ); define( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH', $IP ); # Define an entry point and include some files define( "MEDIAWIKI", true ); define( "MEDIAWIKI_INSTALL", true ); // Run version checks before including other files // so people don't see a scary parse error. require_once( "$IP/install-utils.inc" ); install_version_checks(); require_once( "$IP/includes/Defines.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/AutoLoader.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/MagicWord.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/Namespace.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/ProfilerStub.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/GlobalFunctions.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/Hooks.php" ); # If we get an exception, the user needs to know # all the details $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; ## Databases we support: $ourdb = array(); $ourdb['mysql']['fullname'] = 'MySQL'; $ourdb['mysql']['havedriver'] = 0; $ourdb['mysql']['compile'] = 'mysql'; $ourdb['mysql']['bgcolor'] = '#ffe5a7'; $ourdb['mysql']['rootuser'] = 'root'; $ourdb['postgres']['fullname'] = 'PostgreSQL'; $ourdb['postgres']['havedriver'] = 0; $ourdb['postgres']['compile'] = 'pgsql'; $ourdb['postgres']['bgcolor'] = '#aaccff'; $ourdb['postgres']['rootuser'] = 'postgres'; ?>
MediaWiki Installation
Setup has completed, your wiki is configured.

Please delete the /config directory for extra security.
" ); } if( file_exists( "./LocalSettings.php" ) ) { writeSuccessMessage(); dieout( '' ); } if( !is_writable( "." ) ) { dieout( "
Can't write config file, aborting

In order to configure the wiki you have to make the config subdirectory writable by the web server. Once configuration is done you'll move the created LocalSettings.php to the parent directory, and for added safety you can then remove the config subdirectory entirely.

To make the directory writable on a Unix/Linux system:

cd /path/to/wiki
chmod a+w config

Afterwards retry to start the setup.
" ); } require_once( "$IP/install-utils.inc" ); require_once( "$IP/maintenance/updaters.inc" ); class ConfigData { function getEncoded( $data ) { # removing latin1 support, no need... return $data; } function getSitename() { return $this->getEncoded( $this->Sitename ); } function getSysopName() { return $this->getEncoded( $this->SysopName ); } function getSysopPass() { return $this->getEncoded( $this->SysopPass ); } function setSchema( $schema, $engine ) { $this->DBschema = $schema; if ( !preg_match( '/^\w*$/', $engine ) ){ $engine = 'InnoDB'; } switch ( $this->DBschema ) { case 'mysql5': $this->DBTableOptions = "ENGINE=$engine, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'true'; break; case 'mysql5-binary': $this->DBTableOptions = "ENGINE=$engine, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'true'; break; default: $this->DBTableOptions = "TYPE=$engine"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'false'; } $this->DBengine = $engine; # Set the global for use during install global $wgDBTableOptions; $wgDBTableOptions = $this->DBTableOptions; } } ?>

* Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list.

Checking environment...

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

PHP " . phpversion() . " installed\n"; error_reporting( 0 ); $phpdatabases = array(); foreach (array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { $compname = $ourdb[$db]['compile']; if( extension_loaded( $compname ) || ( mw_have_dl() && dl( "{$compname}." . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX ) ) ) { array_push($phpdatabases, $db); $ourdb[$db]['havedriver'] = 1; } } error_reporting( E_ALL ); if (!$phpdatabases) { print "Could not find a suitable database driver!
o "; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) AS $db) { $comp = $ourdb[$db]['compile']; $full = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; print "For $full, compile PHP using --with-$comp, " ."or install the $comp.so module
\n"; } dieout( "

# " ); } print "Found database drivers for:"; $DefaultDBtype = ''; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) AS $db) { if ($ourdb[$db]['havedriver']) { if ( $DefaultDBtype == '' ) { $DefaultDBtype = $db; } print " ".$ourdb[$db]['fullname']; } } print "
# \n"; if( wfIniGetBool( "register_globals" ) ) { ?>
Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can.
MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities.
# Fatal: magic_quotes_runtime is active! This option corrupts data input unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
# Fatal: magic_quotes_sybase is active! This option corrupts data input unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
# Fatal: mbstring.func_overload is active! This option causes errors and may corrupt data unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
# Fatal: zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is active! This option causes horrible bugs with MediaWiki; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.

Cannot install MediaWiki.
" ); } if( wfIniGetBool( "safe_mode" ) ) { $conf->safeMode = true; ?>
# Warning: PHP's safe mode is active. You may have problems caused by this, particularly if using image uploads.
# safeMode = false; } $sapi = php_sapi_name(); print "PHP server API is $sapi; "; $script = defined('MW_INSTALL_PHP5_EXT') ? 'index.php5' : 'index.php'; if( $wgUsePathInfo ) { print "ok, using pretty URLs ($script/Page_Title)"; } else { print "using ugly URLs ($script?title=Page_Title)"; } print "
# \n"; $conf->xml = function_exists( "utf8_encode" ); if( $conf->xml ) { print "Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
# \n"; } else { dieout( "PHP's XML module is missing; the wiki requires functions in this module and won't work in this configuration. If you're running Mandrake, install the php-xml package." ); } # Check for session support if( !function_exists( 'session_name' ) ) dieout( "PHP's session module is missing. MediaWiki requires session support in order to function." ); # session.save_path doesn't *have* to be set, but if it is, and it's # not valid/writable/etc. then it can cause problems $sessionSavePath = mw_get_session_save_path(); $ssp = htmlspecialchars( $sessionSavePath ); # Warn the user if it's not set, but let them proceed if( !$sessionSavePath ) { print "Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini. If the default value causes problems with saving session data, set it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web server is running under.
# "; } elseif ( is_dir( $sessionSavePath ) && is_writable( $sessionSavePath ) ) { # All good? Let the user know print "Session save path ({$ssp}) appears to be valid.
# "; } else { # Something not right? Warn the user, but let them proceed print "Warning: Your session.save_path value ({$ssp}) appears to be invalid or is not writable. PHP needs to be able to save data to this location for correct session operation.
# "; } # Check for PCRE support if( !function_exists( 'preg_match' ) ) dieout( "The PCRE support module appears to be missing. MediaWiki requires the Perl-compatible regular expression functions." ); $memlimit = ini_get( "memory_limit" ); $conf->raiseMemory = false; if( empty( $memlimit ) || $memlimit == -1 ) { print "PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
# \n"; } else { print "PHP's memory_limit is " . htmlspecialchars( $memlimit ) . ". "; $n = intval( $memlimit ); if( preg_match( '/^([0-9]+)[Mm]$/', trim( $memlimit ), $m ) ) { $n = intval( $m[1] * (1024*1024) ); } if( $n < 20*1024*1024 ) { print "Attempting to raise limit to 20M... "; if( false === ini_set( "memory_limit", "20M" ) ) { print "failed.
" . htmlspecialchars( $memlimit ) . " seems too low, installation may fail!"; } else { $conf->raiseMemory = true; print "ok."; } } print "
# \n"; } $conf->turck = function_exists( 'mmcache_get' ); if ( $conf->turck ) { print "Turck MMCache installed
# \n"; } $conf->xcache = function_exists( 'xcache_get' ); if( $conf->xcache ) print "XCache installed
# "; $conf->apc = function_exists('apc_fetch'); if ($conf->apc ) { print "APC installed
# "; } $conf->eaccel = function_exists( 'eaccelerator_get' ); if ( $conf->eaccel ) { $conf->turck = 'eaccelerator'; print "eAccelerator installed
# \n"; } $conf->dba = function_exists( 'dba_open' ); if( !( $conf->turck || $conf->eaccel || $conf->apc || $conf->xcache ) ) { echo( 'Couldn\'t find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
# ' ); } $conf->diff3 = false; $diff3locations = array_merge( array( "/usr/bin", "/usr/local/bin", "/opt/csw/bin", "/usr/gnu/bin", "/usr/sfw/bin" ), explode( PATH_SEPARATOR, getenv( "PATH" ) ) ); $diff3names = array( "gdiff3", "diff3", "diff3.exe" ); $diff3versioninfo = array( '$1 --version 2>&1', 'diff3 (GNU diffutils)' ); foreach ($diff3locations as $loc) { $exe = locate_executable($loc, $diff3names, $diff3versioninfo); if ($exe !== false) { $conf->diff3 = $exe; break; } } if ($conf->diff3) print "Found GNU diff3: $conf->diff3.
# "; else print "GNU diff3 not found.
# "; $conf->ImageMagick = false; $imcheck = array( "/usr/bin", "/opt/csw/bin", "/usr/local/bin", "/sw/bin", "/opt/local/bin" ); foreach( $imcheck as $dir ) { $im = "$dir/convert"; if( @file_exists( $im ) ) { print "Found ImageMagick: $im; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
# \n"; $conf->ImageMagick = $im; break; } } $conf->HaveGD = function_exists( "imagejpeg" ); if( $conf->HaveGD ) { print "Found GD graphics library built-in"; if( !$conf->ImageMagick ) { print ", image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads"; } print ".
# \n"; } else { if( !$conf->ImageMagick ) { print "Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled.
# \n"; } } $conf->IP = dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ); print "Installation directory: " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->IP ) . "
# \n"; // PHP_SELF isn't available sometimes, such as when PHP is CGI but // cgi.fix_pathinfo is disabled. In that case, fall back to SCRIPT_NAME // to get the path to the current script... hopefully it's reliable. SIGH $path = ($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] === '') ? $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] : $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; $conf->ScriptPath = preg_replace( '{^(.*)/config.*$}', '$1', $path ); print "Script URI path: " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->ScriptPath ) . "
# \n"; // We may be installing from *.php5 extension file, if so, print message $conf->ScriptExtension = '.php'; if (defined('MW_INSTALL_PHP5_EXT')) { $conf->ScriptExtension = '.php5'; print "Installing MediaWiki with php5 file extensions
# \n"; } else { print "Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
# \n"; } print "Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
# \n"; $conf->posted = ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"); $conf->Sitename = ucfirst( importPost( "Sitename", "" ) ); $defaultEmail = empty( $_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"] ) ? 'root@localhost' : $_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"]; $conf->EmergencyContact = importPost( "EmergencyContact", $defaultEmail ); $conf->DBtype = importPost( "DBtype", $DefaultDBtype ); ?> DBserver = importPost( "DBserver", "localhost" ); $conf->DBname = importPost( "DBname", "wikidb" ); $conf->DBuser = importPost( "DBuser", "wikiuser" ); $conf->DBpassword = importPost( "DBpassword" ); $conf->DBpassword2 = importPost( "DBpassword2" ); $conf->SysopName = importPost( "SysopName", "WikiSysop" ); $conf->SysopPass = importPost( "SysopPass" ); $conf->SysopPass2 = importPost( "SysopPass2" ); $conf->RootUser = importPost( "RootUser", "root" ); $conf->RootPW = importPost( "RootPW", "" ); $useRoot = importCheck( 'useroot', false ); $conf->LanguageCode = importPost( "LanguageCode", "en" ); ## MySQL specific: $conf->DBprefix = importPost( "DBprefix" ); $conf->setSchema( importPost( "DBschema", "mysql4" ), importPost( "DBengine", "InnoDB" ) ); ## Postgres specific: $conf->DBport = importPost( "DBport", "5432" ); $conf->DBmwschema = importPost( "DBmwschema", "mediawiki" ); $conf->DBts2schema = importPost( "DBts2schema", "public" ); /* Check for validity */ $errs = array(); if( preg_match( '/^$|^mediawiki$|#/i', $conf->Sitename ) ) { $errs["Sitename"] = "Must not be blank or \"MediaWiki\" and may not contain \"#\""; } if( $conf->DBuser == "" ) { $errs["DBuser"] = "Must not be blank"; } if( ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') && (strlen($conf->DBuser) > 16) ) { $errs["DBuser"] = "Username too long"; } if( $conf->DBpassword == "" && $conf->DBtype != "postgres" ) { $errs["DBpassword"] = "Must not be blank"; } if( $conf->DBpassword != $conf->DBpassword2 ) { $errs["DBpassword2"] = "Passwords don't match!"; } if( !preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z_0-9]*$/', $conf->DBprefix ) ) { $errs["DBprefix"] = "Invalid table prefix"; } error_reporting( E_ALL ); /** * Initialise $wgLang and $wgContLang to something so we can * call case-folding methods. Per Brion, this is English for * now, although we could be clever and initialise to the * user-selected language. */ $wgContLang = Language::factory( 'en' ); $wgLang = $wgContLang; /** * We're messing about with users, so we need a stub * authentication plugin... */ $wgAuth = new AuthPlugin(); /** * Validate the initial administrator account; username, * password checks, etc. */ if( $conf->SysopName ) { # Check that the user can be created $u = User::newFromName( $conf->SysopName ); if( is_a($u, 'User') ) { // please do not use instanceof, it breaks PHP4 # Various password checks if( $conf->SysopPass != '' ) { if( $conf->SysopPass == $conf->SysopPass2 ) { if( !$u->isValidPassword( $conf->SysopPass ) ) { $errs['SysopPass'] = "Bad password"; } } else { $errs['SysopPass2'] = "Passwords don't match"; } } else { $errs['SysopPass'] = "Cannot be blank"; } unset( $u ); } else { $errs['SysopName'] = "Bad username"; } } $conf->License = importRequest( "License", "none" ); if( $conf->License == "gfdl" ) { $conf->RightsUrl = "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"; $conf->RightsText = "GNU Free Documentation License 1.2"; $conf->RightsCode = "gfdl"; $conf->RightsIcon = '${wgScriptPath}/skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png'; } elseif( $conf->License == "none" ) { $conf->RightsUrl = $conf->RightsText = $conf->RightsCode = $conf->RightsIcon = ""; } else { $conf->RightsUrl = importRequest( "RightsUrl", "" ); $conf->RightsText = importRequest( "RightsText", "" ); $conf->RightsCode = importRequest( "RightsCode", "" ); $conf->RightsIcon = importRequest( "RightsIcon", "" ); } $conf->Shm = importRequest( "Shm", "none" ); $conf->MCServers = importRequest( "MCServers" ); /* Test memcached servers */ if ( $conf->Shm == 'memcached' && $conf->MCServers ) { $conf->MCServerArray = array_map( 'trim', explode( ',', $conf->MCServers ) ); foreach ( $conf->MCServerArray as $server ) { $error = testMemcachedServer( $server ); if ( $error ) { $errs["MCServers"] = $error; break; } } } else if ( $conf->Shm == 'memcached' ) { $errs["MCServers"] = "Please specify at least one server if you wish to use memcached"; } /* default values for installation */ $conf->Email = importRequest("Email", "email_enabled"); $conf->Emailuser = importRequest("Emailuser", "emailuser_enabled"); $conf->Enotif = importRequest("Enotif", "enotif_allpages"); $conf->Eauthent = importRequest("Eauthent", "eauthent_enabled"); if( $conf->posted && ( 0 == count( $errs ) ) ) { do { /* So we can 'continue' to end prematurely */ $conf->Root = ($conf->RootPW != ""); /* Load up the settings and get installin' */ $local = writeLocalSettings( $conf ); echo "\n"; echo "

Generating configuration file...
\n"; echo "
\n"; $wgCommandLineMode = false; chdir( ".." ); $ok = eval( $local ); if( $ok === false ) { dieout( "Errors in generated configuration; " . "most likely due to a bug in the installer... " . "Config file was: " . "

" .
htmlspecialchars( $local ) .
"

# " . "" ); } $conf->DBtypename = ''; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { if ($conf->DBtype === $db) $conf->DBtypename = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; } if ( ! strlen($conf->DBtype)) { $errs["DBpicktype"] = "Please choose a database type"; continue; } if (! $conf->DBtypename) { $errs["DBtype"] = "Unknown database type '$conf->DBtype'"; continue; } print "Database type: {$conf->DBtypename}
# \n"; $dbclass = 'Database'.ucfirst($conf->DBtype); $wgDBtype = $conf->DBtype; $wgDBadminuser = "root"; $wgDBadminpassword = $conf->RootPW; ## Mysql specific: $wgDBprefix = $conf->DBprefix; ## Postgres specific: $wgDBport = $conf->DBport; $wgDBmwschema = $conf->DBmwschema; $wgDBts2schema = $conf->DBts2schema; $wgCommandLineMode = true; if (! defined ( 'STDERR' ) ) define( 'STDERR', fopen("php://stderr", "wb")); $wgUseDatabaseMessages = false; /* FIXME: For database failure */ require_once( "$IP/includes/Setup.php" ); chdir( "config" ); $wgTitle = Title::newFromText( "Installation script" ); error_reporting( E_ALL ); print "Loading class: $dbclass"; $dbc = new $dbclass; if( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql' ) { $mysqlOldClient = version_compare( mysql_get_client_info(), "4.1.0", "lt" ); if( $mysqlOldClient ) { print "
# PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.
# \n"; } $ok = true; # Let's be optimistic # Decide if we're going to use the superuser or the regular database user $conf->Root = $useRoot; if( $conf->Root ) { $db_user = $conf->RootUser; $db_pass = $conf->RootPW; } else { $db_user = $wgDBuser; $db_pass = $wgDBpassword; } # Attempt to connect echo( "Attempting to connect to database server as $db_user..." ); $wgDatabase = Database::newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $db_user, $db_pass, '', 1 ); # Check the connection and respond to errors if( $wgDatabase->isOpen() ) { # Seems OK $ok = true; $wgDBadminuser = $db_user; $wgDBadminpassword = $db_pass; echo( "success.
# \n" ); $wgDatabase->ignoreErrors( true ); $myver = $wgDatabase->getServerVersion(); } else { # There were errors, report them and back out $ok = false; $errno = mysql_errno(); $errtx = htmlspecialchars( mysql_error() ); switch( $errno ) { case 1045: case 2000: echo( "failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords." ); if( $conf->Root ) { # The superuser details are wrong $errs["RootUser"] = "Check username"; $errs["RootPW"] = "and password"; } else { # The regular user details are wrong $errs["DBuser"] = "Check username"; $errs["DBpassword"] = "and password"; } break; case 2002: case 2003: default: # General connection problem echo( "failed with error [$errno] $errtx.\n" ); $errs["DBserver"] = "Connection failed"; break; } # switch } #conn. att. if( !$ok ) { continue; } } else /* not mysql */ { error_reporting( E_ALL ); $wgSuperUser = ''; ## Possible connect as a superuser if( $useRoot ) { $wgDBsuperuser = $conf->RootUser; echo( "Attempting to connect to database \"postgres\" as superuser \"$wgDBsuperuser\"..." ); $wgDatabase = $dbc->newFromParams($wgDBserver, $wgDBsuperuser, $conf->RootPW, "postgres", 1); if (!$wgDatabase->isOpen()) { print " error: " . $wgDatabase->lastError() . "
# \n"; $errs["DBserver"] = "Could not connect to database as superuser"; $errs["RootUser"] = "Check username"; $errs["RootPW"] = "and password"; continue; } $wgDatabase->initial_setup($conf->RootPW, 'postgres'); } echo( "Attempting to connect to database \"$wgDBname\" as \"$wgDBuser\"..." ); $wgDatabase = $dbc->newFromParams($wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1); if (!$wgDatabase->isOpen()) { print " error: " . $wgDatabase->lastError() . "
# \n"; } else { $myver = $wgDatabase->getServerVersion(); } $wgDatabase->initial_setup('', $wgDBname); } if ( !$wgDatabase->isOpen() ) { $errs["DBserver"] = "Couldn't connect to database"; continue; } print "Connected to $myver"; if ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { if( version_compare( $myver, "4.0.14" ) < 0 ) { dieout( " -- mysql 4.0.14 or later required. Aborting." ); } $mysqlNewAuth = version_compare( $myver, "4.1.0", "ge" ); if( $mysqlNewAuth && $mysqlOldClient ) { print "; You are using MySQL 4.1 server, but PHP is linked to old client libraries; if you have trouble with authentication, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help."; } if( $wgDBmysql5 ) { if( $mysqlNewAuth ) { print "; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode"; } else { print "; MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode enabled, but older version detected; will likely fail."; } } print "
# \n"; @$sel = $wgDatabase->selectDB( $wgDBname ); if( $sel ) { print "Database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . " exists
\n"; } else { $err = mysql_errno(); $databaseSafe = htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ); if( $err == 1102 /* Invalid database name */ ) { print "

* {$databaseSafe} is not a valid database name.

"; continue; } elseif( $err != 1049 /* Database doesn't exist */ ) { print "

* Error selecting database {$databaseSafe}: {$err} "; print htmlspecialchars( mysql_error() ) . "

# "; continue; } print "Attempting to create database...
# "; $res = $wgDatabase->query( "CREATE DATABASE `$wgDBname`" ); if( !$res ) { print "Couldn't create database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . "; try with root access or check your username/pass.
# \n"; $errs["RootPW"] = "<- Enter"; continue; } print "Created database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . "
# \n"; } $wgDatabase->selectDB( $wgDBname ); } else if ($conf->DBtype == 'postgres') { if( version_compare( $myver, "PostgreSQL 8.0" ) < 0 ) { dieout( " Postgres 8.0 or later is required. Aborting." ); } } if( $wgDatabase->tableExists( "cur" ) || $wgDatabase->tableExists( "revision" ) ) { print "There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...
# \n"; if ( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { # Determine existing default character set if ( $wgDatabase->tableExists( "revision" ) ) { $revision = $wgDatabase->escapeLike( $conf->DBprefix . 'revision' ); $res = $wgDatabase->query( "SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE '$revision'" ); $row = $wgDatabase->fetchObject( $res ); if ( !$row ) { echo "SHOW TABLE STATUS query failed!
# \n"; $existingSchema = false; $existingEngine = false; } else { if ( preg_match( '/^latin1/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql4'; } elseif ( preg_match( '/^utf8/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql5'; } elseif ( preg_match( '/^binary/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql5-binary'; } else { $existingSchema = false; echo "Warning: Unrecognised existing collation
# \n"; } if ( isset( $row->Engine ) ) { $existingEngine = $row->Engine; } else { $existingEngine = $row->Type; } } if ( $existingSchema && $existingSchema != $conf->DBschema ) { print "Warning: you requested the {$conf->DBschema} schema, " . "but the existing database has the $existingSchema schema. This upgrade script ". "can't convert it, so it will remain $existingSchema.
# \n"; $conf->setSchema( $existingSchema, $conf->DBengine ); } if ( $existingEngine && $existingEngine != $conf->DBengine ) { print "Warning: you requested the {$conf->DBengine} storage " . "engine, but the existing database uses the $existingEngine engine. This upgrade " . "script can't convert it, so it will remain $existingEngine.
# \n"; $conf->setSchema( $conf->DBschema, $existingEngine ); } } # Create user if required if ( $conf->Root ) { $conn = $dbc->newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1 ); if ( $conn->isOpen() ) { print "DB user account ok
# \n"; $conn->close(); } else { print "Granting user permissions..."; if( $mysqlOldClient && $mysqlNewAuth ) { print " If the next step fails, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help."; } print "
\n"; dbsource( "../maintenance/users.sql", $wgDatabase ); } } } print "

\n";
chdir( ".." );
flush();
do_all_updates();
chdir( "config" );
print "

\n"; print "

* Finished update checks.
* \n"; } else { # Determine available storage engines if possible if ( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql' && version_compare( $myver, "4.1.2", "ge" ) ) { $res = $wgDatabase->query( 'SHOW ENGINES' ); $found = false; while ( $row = $wgDatabase->fetchObject( $res ) ) { if ( $row->Engine == $conf->DBengine ) { $found = true; break; } } $wgDatabase->freeResult( $res ); if ( !$found && $conf->DBengine != 'MyISAM' ) { echo "Warning: {$conf->DBengine} storage engine not available, " . "using MyISAM instead
* \n"; $conf->setSchema( $conf->DBschema, 'MyISAM' ); } } # FIXME: Check for errors print "Creating tables..."; if ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { dbsource( "../maintenance/tables.sql", $wgDatabase ); dbsource( "../maintenance/interwiki.sql", $wgDatabase ); } else if ($conf->DBtype == 'postgres') { $wgDatabase->setup_database(); } else { $errs["DBtype"] = "Do not know how to handle database type '$conf->DBtype'"; continue; } print " done.
* \n"; print "Initializing statistics...
* \n"; $wgDatabase->insert( 'site_stats', array ( 'ss_row_id' => 1, 'ss_total_views' => 0, 'ss_total_edits' => 1, # Main page first edit 'ss_good_articles' => 0, # Main page is not a good article - no internal link 'ss_total_pages' => 1, # Main page 'ss_users' => $conf->SysopName ? 1 : 0, # Sysop account, if created 'ss_admins' => $conf->SysopName ? 1 : 0, # Sysop account, if created 'ss_images' => 0 ) ); # Set up the "regular user" account *if we can, and if we need to* if( $conf->Root and $conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { # See if we need to $wgDatabase2 = $dbc->newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1 ); if( $wgDatabase2->isOpen() ) { # Nope, just close the test connection and continue $wgDatabase2->close(); echo( "User $wgDBuser exists. Skipping grants.
* \n" ); } else { # Yes, so run the grants echo( "Granting user permissions to $wgDBuser on $wgDBname..." ); dbsource( "../maintenance/users.sql", $wgDatabase ); echo( "success.
* \n" ); } } if( $conf->SysopName ) { $u = User::newFromName( $conf->getSysopName() ); if ( !$u ) { print "Warning: Skipped sysop account creation - invalid username!
* \n"; } else if ( 0 == $u->idForName() ) { $u->addToDatabase(); $u->setPassword( $conf->getSysopPass() ); $u->saveSettings(); $u->addGroup( "sysop" ); $u->addGroup( "bureaucrat" ); print "Created sysop account " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->SysopName ) . ".
* \n"; } else { print "Could not create user - already exists!
* \n"; } } else { print "Skipped sysop account creation, no name given.
* \n"; } $titleobj = Title::newFromText( wfMsgNoDB( "mainpage" ) ); $article = new Article( $titleobj ); $newid = $article->insertOn( $wgDatabase ); $revision = new Revision( array( 'page' => $newid, 'text' => wfMsg( 'mainpagetext' ) . "\n\n" . wfMsgNoTrans( 'mainpagedocfooter' ), 'comment' => '', 'user' => 0, 'user_text' => 'MediaWiki default', ) ); $revid = $revision->insertOn( $wgDatabase ); $article->updateRevisionOn( $wgDatabase, $revision ); } /* Write out the config file now that all is well */ print "\n"; print "

Creating LocalSettings.php...
\n\n"; $localSettings = "<" . "?php$endl$local"; // Fix up a common line-ending problem (due to CVS on Windows) $localSettings = str_replace( "\r\n", "\n", $localSettings ); $f = fopen( "LocalSettings.php", 'xt' ); if( $f == false ) { dieout( "

Couldn't write out LocalSettings.php. Check that the directory permissions are correct and that there isn't already a file of that name here...
\n" . "

Here's the file that would have been written, try to paste it into place manually:
\n" . "

\n" . htmlspecialchars( $localSettings ) . "

\n" ); } if(fwrite( $f, $localSettings ) ) { fclose( $f ); print "

\n"; writeSuccessMessage(); } else { fclose( $f ); die("

An error occured while writing the config/LocalSettings.php file. Check user rights and disk space then try again.
\n"); print "\n"; } } while( false ); } ?> posted ) { echo "

Something's not quite right yet; make sure everything below is filled out correctly.
\n"; } ?>
Site config

Preferably a short word without punctuation, i.e. "Wikipedia".
Will appear as the namespace name for "meta" pages, and throughout the interface.

Displayed to users in some error messages, used as the return address for password reminders, and used as the default sender address of e-mail notifications.
Language:

Select the language for your wiki's interface. Some localizations aren't fully complete. Unicode (UTF-8) is used for all localizations.
Copyright/license:

*
*
* ScriptPath}/config/$script?License=cc&RightsUrl=[license_url]&RightsText=[license_name]&RightsCode=[license_code]&RightsIcon=[license_button]" ); $icon = urlencode( "$wgServer$wgUploadPath/wiki.png" ); $ccApp = htmlspecialchars( "http://creativecommons.org/license/?partner=$partner&exit_url=$exit&partner_icon_url=$icon" ); print "choose"; ?> License == "cc" ) { ?>
o RightsIcon ) . "\" alt='(Creative Commons icon)' />", "hidden" ); ?>
o RightsText ), "hidden" ); ?>
o RightsCode ), "hidden" ); ?>
o RightsUrl ) . "\">" . htmlspecialchars( $conf->RightsUrl ) . "", "hidden" ); ?>

A notice, icon, and machine-readable copyright metadata will be displayed for the license you pick.

An admin can lock/delete pages, block users from editing, and do other maintenance tasks.
A new account will be added only when creating a new wiki database.

The password cannot be the same as the username.
Object caching:

*
* turck ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "Turck MMCache", "radio", "turck" ); echo "
* "; } if( $conf->xcache ) { echo( '' ); aField( $conf, 'Shm', 'XCache', 'radio', 'xcache' ); echo( '
* ' ); } if ( $conf->apc ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "APC", "radio", "apc" ); echo "
* "; } if ( $conf->eaccel ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "eAccelerator", "radio", "eaccel" ); echo "
* "; } if ( $conf->dba ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "DBA (not recommended)", "radio", "dba" ); echo "
* "; } ?>

An object caching system such as memcached will provide a significant performance boost, but needs to be installed. Provide the server addresses and ports in a comma-separated list.

MediaWiki can also detect and support eAccelerator, Turck MMCache, APC, and XCache, but these should not be used if the wiki will be running on multiple application servers.

DBA (Berkeley-style DB) is generally slower than using no cache at all, and is only recommended for testing.
E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup
E-mail features (global):

*
*

Use this to disable all e-mail functions (password reminders, user-to-user e-mail, and e-mail notifications) if sending mail doesn't work on your server.
User-to-user e-mail:

*
*

The user-to-user e-mail feature (Special:Emailuser) lets the wiki act as a relay to allow users to exchange e-mail without publicly advertising their e-mail address.
E-mail notification about changes:

*
*
*

For this feature to work, an e-mail address must be present for the user account, and the notification options in the user's preferences must be enabled. Also note the authentication option below. When testing the feature, keep in mind that your own changes will never trigger notifications to be sent to yourself.

There are additional options for fine tuning in /includes/DefaultSettings.php; copy these to your LocalSettings.php and edit them there to change them.
E-mail address authentication:

*
*

If this option is enabled, users have to confirm their e-mail address using a magic link sent to them whenever they set or change it, and only authenticated e-mail addresses can receive mails from other users and/or change notification mails. Setting this option is recommended for public wikis because of potential abuse of the e-mail features above.
Database config
Database type: $errs[DBpicktype]\n"; ?>

If your database server isn't on your web server, enter the name or IP address here.

If you only have a single user account and database available, enter those here. If you have database root access (see below) you can specify new accounts/databases to be created. This account will not be created if it pre-exists. If this is the case, ensure that it has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE permissions on the MediaWiki database.
Superuser account: checked="checked" /> Use superuser account

If the database user specified above does not exist, or does not have access to create the database (if needed) or tables within it, please check the box and provide details of a superuser account, such as root, which does.

If you need to share one database between multiple wikis, or between MediaWiki and another web application, you may choose to add a prefix to all the table names to avoid conflicts.

Avoid exotic characters; something like mw_ is good.
Storage Engine
Select one:

*
*

InnoDB is best for public web installations, since it has good concurrency support. MyISAM may be faster in single-user installations. MyISAM databases tend to get corrupted more often than InnoDB databases.
Database character set
Select one:

*
*
*

EXPERIMENTAL: You can enable explicit Unicode charset support for MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 servers. This is not well tested and may cause things to break. If upgrading an older installation, leave in backwards-compatible mode.

The username specified above (at "DB username") will have its search path set to the above schemas, so it is recommended that you create a new user. The above schemas are generally correct: only change them if you are sure you need to.

Installation successful!

To complete the installation, please do the following:

1. Download config/LocalSettings.php with your FTP client or file manager
2. Upload it to the parent directory
3. Delete config/LocalSettings.php
4. Start using your wiki!

If you are in a shared hosting environment, do not just move LocalSettings.php remotely. LocalSettings.php is currently owned by the user your webserver is running under, which means that anyone on the same server can read your database password! Downloading it and uploading it again will hopefully change the ownership to a user ID specific to you.
EOT; } else { echo <<

Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

You should change file permissions for LocalSettings.php as required to prevent other users on the server reading passwords and altering configuration data.
# EOT; } } function escapePhpString( $string ) { if ( is_array( $string ) || is_object( $string ) ) { return false; } return strtr( $string, array( "\n" => "\\n", "\r" => "\\r", "\t" => "\\t", "\\" => "\\\\", "\$" => "\\\$", "\"" => "\\\"" )); } function writeLocalSettings( $conf ) { $conf->PasswordSender = $conf->EmergencyContact; $magic = ($conf->ImageMagick ? "" : "# "); $convert = ($conf->ImageMagick ? $conf->ImageMagick : "/usr/bin/convert" ); $rights = ($conf->RightsUrl) ? "" : "# "; $hashedUploads = $conf->safeMode ? '' : '# '; switch ( $conf->Shm ) { case 'memcached': $cacheType = 'CACHE_MEMCACHED'; $mcservers = var_export( $conf->MCServerArray, true ); break; case 'turck': case 'xcache': case 'apc': case 'eaccel': $cacheType = 'CACHE_ACCEL'; $mcservers = 'array()'; break; case 'dba': $cacheType = 'CACHE_DBA'; $mcservers = 'array()'; break; default: $cacheType = 'CACHE_NONE'; $mcservers = 'array()'; } if ( $conf->Email == 'email_enabled' ) { $enableemail = 'true'; $enableuseremail = ( $conf->Emailuser == 'emailuser_enabled' ) ? 'true' : 'false' ; $eauthent = ( $conf->Eauthent == 'eauthent_enabled' ) ? 'true' : 'false' ; switch ( $conf->Enotif ) { case 'enotif_usertalk': $enotifusertalk = 'true'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; break; case 'enotif_allpages': $enotifusertalk = 'true'; $enotifwatchlist = 'true'; break; default: $enotifusertalk = 'false'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; } } else { $enableuseremail = 'false'; $enableemail = 'false'; $eauthent = 'false'; $enotifusertalk = 'false'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; } $file = @fopen( "/dev/urandom", "r" ); if ( $file ) { $secretKey = bin2hex( fread( $file, 32 ) ); fclose( $file ); } else { $secretKey = ""; for ( $i=0; $i<8; $i++ ) { $secretKey .= dechex(mt_rand(0, 0x7fffffff)); } print "Warning: \$wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually.
# \n"; } # Add slashes to strings for double quoting $slconf = array_map( "escapePhpString", get_object_vars( $conf ) ); if( $conf->License == 'gfdl' ) { # Needs literal string interpolation for the current style path $slconf['RightsIcon'] = $conf->RightsIcon; } $localsettings = " # This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki installer. # If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you need to # recreate them later. # # See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings # and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_ # file, not there. # If you customize your file layout, set \$IP to the directory that contains # the other MediaWiki files. It will be used as a base to locate files. if( defined( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) ) { \$IP = MW_INSTALL_PATH; } else { \$IP = dirname( __FILE__ ); } \$path = array( \$IP, \"\$IP/includes\", \"\$IP/languages\" ); set_include_path( implode( PATH_SEPARATOR, \$path ) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path() ); require_once( \"\$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php\" ); # If PHP's memory limit is very low, some operations may fail. " . ($conf->raiseMemory ? '' : '# ' ) . "ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );" . " if ( \$wgCommandLineMode ) { if ( isset( \$_SERVER ) && array_key_exists( 'REQUEST_METHOD', \$_SERVER ) ) { die( \"This script must be run from the command line\\n\" ); } } ## Uncomment this to disable output compression # \$wgDisableOutputCompression = true; \$wgSitename = \"{$slconf['Sitename']}\"; ## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki; ## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this. \$wgScriptPath = \"{$slconf['ScriptPath']}\"; \$wgScriptExtension = \"{$slconf['ScriptExtension']}\"; ## For more information on customizing the URLs please see: ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL \$wgEnableEmail = $enableemail; \$wgEnableUserEmail = $enableuseremail; \$wgEmergencyContact = \"{$slconf['EmergencyContact']}\"; \$wgPasswordSender = \"{$slconf['PasswordSender']}\"; ## For a detailed description of the following switches see ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification ## and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification ## There are many more options for fine tuning available see ## /includes/DefaultSettings.php ## UPO means: this is also a user preference option \$wgEnotifUserTalk = $enotifusertalk; # UPO \$wgEnotifWatchlist = $enotifwatchlist; # UPO \$wgEmailAuthentication = $eauthent; \$wgDBtype = \"{$slconf['DBtype']}\"; \$wgDBserver = \"{$slconf['DBserver']}\"; \$wgDBname = \"{$slconf['DBname']}\"; \$wgDBuser = \"{$slconf['DBuser']}\"; \$wgDBpassword = \"{$slconf['DBpassword']}\"; # MySQL specific settings \$wgDBprefix = \"{$slconf['DBprefix']}\"; # MySQL table options to use during installation or update \$wgDBTableOptions = \"{$slconf['DBTableOptions']}\"; # Experimental charset support for MySQL 4.1/5.0. \$wgDBmysql5 = {$conf->DBmysql5}; # Postgres specific settings \$wgDBport = \"{$slconf['DBport']}\"; \$wgDBmwschema = \"{$slconf['DBmwschema']}\"; \$wgDBts2schema = \"{$slconf['DBts2schema']}\"; ## Shared memory settings \$wgMainCacheType = $cacheType; \$wgMemCachedServers = $mcservers; ## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory ## is writable, then set this to true: \$wgEnableUploads = false; {$magic}\$wgUseImageMagick = true; {$magic}\$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = \"{$convert}\"; ## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode, ## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and ## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment ## this, if it's not already uncommented: {$hashedUploads}\$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; ## If you have the appropriate support software installed ## you can enable inline LaTeX equations: \$wgUseTeX = false; \$wgLocalInterwiki = \$wgSitename; \$wgLanguageCode = \"{$slconf['LanguageCode']}\"; \$wgProxyKey = \"$secretKey\"; ## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic ## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook': \$wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook'; ## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an ## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation ## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far. {$rights}\$wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true; \$wgRightsPage = \"\"; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright \$wgRightsUrl = \"{$slconf['RightsUrl']}\"; \$wgRightsText = \"{$slconf['RightsText']}\"; \$wgRightsIcon = \"{$slconf['RightsIcon']}\"; # \$wgRightsCode = \"{$slconf['RightsCode']}\"; # Not yet used \$wgDiff3 = \"{$slconf['diff3']}\"; # When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make # sure that cached pages are cleared. \$wgCacheEpoch = max( \$wgCacheEpoch, gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) ) ); "; ## End of setting the $localsettings string // Keep things in Unix line endings internally; // the system will write out as local text type. return str_replace( "\r\n", "\n", $localsettings ); } function dieout( $text ) { die( $text . "\n\n\n" ); } function importVar( &$var, $name, $default = "" ) { if( isset( $var[$name] ) ) { $retval = $var[$name]; if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) { $retval = stripslashes( $retval ); } } else { $retval = $default; } return $retval; } function importPost( $name, $default = "" ) { return importVar( $_POST, $name, $default ); } function importCheck( $name ) { return isset( $_POST[$name] ); } function importRequest( $name, $default = "" ) { return importVar( $_REQUEST, $name, $default ); } $radioCount = 0; function aField( &$conf, $field, $text, $type = "text", $value = "", $onclick = '' ) { global $radioCount; if( $type != "" ) { $xtype = "type=\"$type\""; } else { $xtype = ""; } $id = $field; $nolabel = ($type == "radio") || ($type == "hidden"); if ($type == 'radio') $id .= $radioCount++; if( $nolabel ) { echo "\t\t"; } else { echo "\t\t$text\n"; } if( $type == "radio" && $value == $conf->$field ) { $checked = "checked='checked'"; } else { $checked = ""; } echo "\t\t$field ); } echo "\" />\n"; if( $nolabel ) { echo " $text\n"; } global $errs; if(isset($errs[$field])) echo "" . $errs[$field] . "\n"; } function getLanguageList() { global $wgLanguageNames, $IP; if( !isset( $wgLanguageNames ) ) { require_once( "$IP/languages/Names.php" ); } $codes = array(); $d = opendir( "../languages/messages" ); /* In case we are called from the root directory */ if (!$d) $d = opendir( "languages/messages"); while( false !== ($f = readdir( $d ) ) ) { $m = array(); if( preg_match( '/Messages([A-Z][a-z_]+)\.php$/', $f, $m ) ) { $code = str_replace( '_', '-', strtolower( $m[1] ) ); if( isset( $wgLanguageNames[$code] ) ) { $name = $code . ' - ' . $wgLanguageNames[$code]; } else { $name = $code; } $codes[$code] = $name; } } closedir( $d ); ksort( $codes ); return $codes; } #Check for location of an executable # @param string $loc single location to check # @param array $names filenames to check for. # @param mixed $versioninfo array of details to use when checking version, use false for no version checking function locate_executable($loc, $names, $versioninfo = false) { if (!is_array($names)) $names = array($names); foreach ($names as $name) { $command = "$loc".DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."$name"; if (@file_exists($command)) { if (!$versioninfo) return $command; $file = str_replace('$1', $command, $versioninfo[0]); if (strstr(`$file`, $versioninfo[1]) !== false) return $command; } } return false; } # Test a memcached server function testMemcachedServer( $server ) { $hostport = explode(":", $server); $errstr = false; $fp = false; if ( !function_exists( 'fsockopen' ) ) { $errstr = "Can't connect to memcached, fsockopen() not present"; } if ( !$errstr && count( $hostport ) != 2 ) { $errstr = 'Please specify host and port'; } if ( !$errstr ) { list( $host, $port ) = $hostport; $errno = 0; $fsockerr = ''; $fp = @fsockopen( $host, $port, $errno, $fsockerr, 1.0 ); if ( $fp === false ) { $errstr = "Cannot connect to memcached on $host:$port : $fsockerr"; } } if ( !$errstr ) { $command = "version\r\n"; $bytes = fwrite( $fp, $command ); if ( $bytes != strlen( $command ) ) { $errstr = "Cannot write to memcached socket on $host:$port"; } } if ( !$errstr ) { $expected = "VERSION "; $response = fread( $fp, strlen( $expected ) ); if ( $response != $expected ) { $errstr = "Didn't get correct memcached response from $host:$port"; } } if ( $fp ) { fclose( $fp ); } if ( !$errstr ) { echo "Connected to memcached on $host:$port successfully"; } return $errstr; } function database_picker($conf) { global $ourdb; print "\n"; foreach(array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { if ($ourdb[$db]['havedriver']) { print "
# "; aField( $conf, "DBtype", $ourdb[$db]['fullname'], 'radio', $db, 'onclick'); print "
\n"; } } print "\n"; } function database_switcher($db) { global $ourdb; $color = $ourdb[$db]['bgcolor']; $full = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; print "
# $full specific options\n"; } function printListItem( $item ) { print "$item
"; } ?>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. or read it online

* MediaWiki home
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* Release notes
* Documentation
* User's Guide
* FAQ

MediaWiki is Copyright © 2001-2008 by Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke and others.
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Thank you! – [[wikipedia:User talk:123Pie|i123Pie]] <sub>[[wikipedia:User:123Pie|bio]]</sub><sup>[[wikipedia:Special:Contributions/123Pie|contribs]]</sup> 20:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC) --[[Special:Contributions/172.189.160.70|172.189.160.70]] 20:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:Either you copied something really strange or your server doesn't execute .php files. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 17:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) help deleting pages==

I took a wiki class a while ago and we created some test pages in class. I found them when I did a circuit search on validation. How can I delete these?

user: jchackba

—[[Special:Contributions/134.134.136.5|134.134.136.5]] 19:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

: Log in as a user with the 'delete' privilege (such as administrator) and press the delete tab (up on the level of the edit tab). [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 20:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Mediawiki Programmierer gesucht / Mediawiki programmersearch ==

*MediaWiki: newest
*PHP: 5.X
*MySQL: 5.X
*URL: local

'''English:''' We look for a German-language Mediawikiprogrammer how makes the Plugin working on our Mediawiki installation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields

'''German:'''
Wir suchen einen deutschsprachigen Mediawikiprogrammierer der uns das Plugin http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields zum Laufen bringt.

Kontakt: info@gerald-mann.com

—[[Special:Contributions/91.17.80.214|91.17.80.214]] 07:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 
:Tested with [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields/CustomEdit.php&diff=prev&oldid=180376 this one] and it worked. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 17:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

==$wgShowExceptionDetails==
Hello, i'm the administrator of [http://www.spiriwiki.com spiriwiki.com] and have a problem with the <edit> on the right. I get the error:

'''Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.'''

But.. I already did that. Still i got this error ?!?
Great thanks.
—[[User:Spiriwiki.com|Spiriwiki.com]] 09:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
:Have you tried Clearing your browsers cache? [[Special:Contributions/172.212.163.21|172.212.163.21]] 16:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) enforcing user login ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11
*PHP: 5.1.2 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.18
*URL: 

Hello to all helpers,<br />
I want to ask you, if there is a chance to enforce an userlogin on mediawiki.<br />
This wiki is planned to be used only from signed users.<br />
We want to prevent anonymous users even from reading posts in the wiki.<br />
<br />
What can I do to enforce an userlogin before entering any post?<br />
<br />
Thanks for your help and best regards<br />
Marco Rudzuck

—[[Special:Contributions/77.178.58.147|77.178.58.147]] 15:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
:[[Manual:preventing access]] should help. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== "This page has been accessed ''X'' times" ==

Hi,

Can anyone tell me ''exactly'' what the counters at the bottom of the page measure? And also on the statistics page, where it lists "total pageviews", what exactly does that include? For instance, would it include PDFs stored in external file folders? All namespace pageviews? Other pages on a part of the server that hosts the wiki, but not the wiki itself? What about cache and repeated pageviews? If someone accessed a page 10 times a day, it only counts 1? If they keep accessing, when does it reset to count again, once a day? I ask these questions (a) because I want to know, and (b) because I track visitor stats using other tools such as Google Analytics and others, and occasionally I see some very strange behavior with the Mediawiki counters which are not always or usually reflected by the other tools, so should I take the Mediawiki counters to be the most accurate? One discrepancy e.g. occurred when there was a temporary jump about 10- to 20-fold in total pageviews and pageviews of most specific pages, for a period of about 24-36 hours, but this wasn't picked up by Google Analytics or the others. I have been assuming it was some kind of slashdot effect from a link on some external site, but I don't have software set up that tells me the referring URLs (yet), so I can't know that. Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/69.45.178.143|69.45.178.143]] 19:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

:I would recommend you [[Manual:$wgDisableCounters|disable the counter]] and rely on other tools (Google Analytics, AWStats, whatever), if only for performance reasons. (That's not really a direct answer, I know, but it's the best I've got.) —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 18:27, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

:: On a side note, which of the alternative tools do you reccomend/use, Emufarmers? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 01:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

:::I use Analytics, although statistics from server logs are going to be more accurate, strictly speaking, since they include users or robots with JavaScript turned off. Stats have mostly been more like interesting diversions than useful metrics for the relatively small sites I've run; with such sites the [[Extension:SearchLog|SearchLog extension]] could help me make sure people find what they search for (if I consulted it more often). —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 01:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks for the input, Emufarmers. The reason I ask also is that the "counters" from the MediaWiki software give me numbers that are an order of magnitude different from what I get from both Google Analytics and StatCounter, the 2 tools I use. For example, both Google Analytics and StatCounter show me getting roughly 200-250 unique visitors and about 400-500 pageviews per day. Yet the MediaWiki "counter" is showing I'm getting '''5,000-10,000''' total pageviews per day?? Besides the anomalous "jump" I described above, the MediaWiki counter tends to have risen (relative to itself) more consistently over time then the Analytics or StatCounter (although those have risen as well). The only conclusion I can come to to resolve the discrepancy is that they're using drastically different definitions of what a "pageview" is. I have been able to find out what definition Analytics and StatCounter use, but not MediaWiki, so that's why I ask. If the MediaWiki counter stats trends over time are reliable, then I'd like to keep tracking it for a while, even if it disagrees with the other 2. Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/66.233.225.115|66.233.225.115]] 21:15, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

:::Views from search engine bots might explain the discrepancy: Bots don't usually have JavaScript, so Analytics will miss them (and it might do some automatic filtering of known bots anyway). MediaWiki's built-in counter probably can't discriminate much. If you install software that analyzes your server's logs, you should be able to see what's really going on. —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 21:36, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

== Highlight Cite (aka references) ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.2
*PHP: php 5
*MySQL: 4.**
*URL: http://l3ga.ferrywijsman.nl

How does Wikipedia let references links highlight at the References part?
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna (film), when I click on [1], the references called become blue.

I want to embed it at my website too.

[[Special:Contributions/86.90.194.103|86.90.194.103]] 19:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

: There is an addition to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]:

/* Highlight clicked reference in blue to help navigation */
ol.references > li:target {
background-color: #DEF;
}

sup.reference:target {
background-color: #DEF;
}

: But I don't know, if this is all. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.156.49|89.55.156.49]] 20:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

==(RESOLVED) Internal error ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0rc1
*PHP: 5.0.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.11-Debian_4sarge7-log
*URL: [http://cli.ir/test]

* when the page has just one section
it can be edited with this urls:

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit
<br />or<br />
http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit&section=0

if i try any invalid section number, i get <nowiki>{{MediaWiki:Nosuchsectiontext}}</nowiki> message.

* when the page has more than one section,
this url work correctly:

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit

but when i use this url i take a internal error:

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit&section=0

i also take this error when i use any other valid or invalid section number, such as 1, 5, 137 etc...

'''The error:'''<br />
internal error:<br />
Invalid h node passed to PPNode_DOM::splitHeading<br />
Backtrace:<br />
0 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Parser.php(4605): PPNode_DOM->splitHeading()<br />
1 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Parser.php(4675): Parser->extractSections('<div style="dir...', '55', 'get', false)<br />
2 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(193): Parser->getSection('<div style="dir...', '55', false)<br />
3 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(982): EditPage->getContent(false)<br />
4 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(473): EditPage->initialiseForm()<br />
5 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(323): EditPage->edit()<br />
6 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Wiki.php(444): EditPage->submit()<br />
7 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Wiki.php(48): MediaWiki->performAction(Object(OutputPage), Object(Article), Object(Title), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))<br />
8 /home/www/cli-ir/index.php(90): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))<br />
9 {main}<br />

—[[wikipedia:fa:user:sepehrnoush|sepehrnoush]] 19:02, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

: Try this [http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24492&postcount=2 link]. I had the same problem and it worked. --[[User:Baumanns|Baumanns]] 17:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Thanks. It worked for me too. :) —[[wikipedia:fa:user:sepehrnoush|sepehrnoush]] 13:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

== Need help migrating an existing Wiki to a new network domain ==

* MediaWiki: 1.9.0
* PHP: 5.2.0 (apache2handler)
* MySQL: 5.0.27-community-nt
* URL: http://systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net/wikipedia/index.php/Main_Page (this is an internal network and is not reachable from outside our company's network)

Our company recently revamped our internal network, changing IP addressing scheme as well as initializing a new internal network specifically meant to be used by our System Test team. The Wiki itself is hosted on a Windows XP machine running XAMPP (machine hostname "systemtest"). Anyway, I'd like to migrate the System Test Wiki from the old domain (hosted at systemtest.azteknetworks.net) to the new domain (systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net). Currently, the main Wiki page is viewable (http://systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net/wikipedia/index.php/Main_Page), but clicking any of the other page links in there results in a 404 Not Found error. This is because the hyperlinks are apparently hard coded to point to the old domain instead of the new one. Unfortunately, it doesn't just seem to be a matter of changing a bunch of html files; I searched in C:\Program Files\xampp for all instances of "systemtest.azteknetworks.net" and it seems as if the web pages are stored in a database or some binary format (the search hits were on files ending in extension .MYD and .MYI).

Can you please help me to migrate our Wiki?

Thanks in advance,

- Jeffrey Wright
- System Test Engineering Manager
- Aztek Networks, Inc.
- jwright@azteknetworks.net

—[[Special:Contributions/72.25.144.182|72.25.144.182]] 17:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
:Tried changing the path at [[LocalSettings.php]]? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Licensing Per Page ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community
*URL: en.codevwiki.org

Is their an extension or modification that is made that can allow licensing to be done on a page by page basis. ie When a new page is started the author can choose the license or licenses he/she wants to use. They can change the licenses from any new revision if 1) they are the only author or 2) all the authors agree to change the licensing effective from a new revision. The license(s) for the revision you are viewing would be shown by icons off to the right of the page. Subpages would be licensed the same automatically as the root page.--[[Special:Contributions/168.156.174.63|168.156.174.63]] 23:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:So does a modification like this exist? If not could someone make one...name your price.--[[Special:Contributions/71.217.200.78|71.217.200.78]] 16:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

:: I don't think so. But you can create license templates and show the users how to insert them. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

::: Good idea. I reccomend using a single template where a parameter determines what license is shown. I think there would be less chance of a singele page being double-licensed that way.
::: Then again, the fault in using a template is that any user can come along and change it. I know some MW members have made extensions that give extra rights to the creator of a page, so although it might be difficult to do it seems like it would be possible. But for now you may want to use a work around, like having a site-wide or namespace-wide license.
::: That gives me an idea. Would it work for the license of a page to be determined by namespace? You could have "PublicDomain:yowassup" and "CopyLeft:apage". [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 19:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
::::Namespace based licensing isn't exactly what I was hoping for but seems like a good workaround.--[[Special:Contributions/71.217.200.78|71.217.200.78]] 00:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

== Desperately need help on AE wiki! ==

*MediaWiki: 1.9.3
*PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.28-enterprise-gpl-log
*URL: http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I am a user on the Activating Evolution site. We desperately need some help.

There appears to be NO administrator or sysops. We are being over run with spammers. So far, I myself have cleaned well over 1500 pages that were spammed. It is a daily (if not hourly) problem, with no way to either block these yahoos or ban them.

All of the main pages are changed daily, and there are several of us that are trying to keep on top of all the cleanup, but as soon as we clean up a page, it gets spammed again. We have set up a Catagory for spammers, and don't know how to stop them with no admin or sysop on board.

Here is a link to the main page: http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

You can check out the special page for Recent Changes and see what we are going thru. Please fee free to check out my user page (Sheba98) and see how many "contributions" I've made since February. Another good one to check is Psych-Gen. And Wireless.

Is there ANY way you all can help? We have emailed NBC with absolutely no response. We are at wit's end, and hate to see the site go to trash.

Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated!

Sheba98
[[Special:Contributions/98.194.216.187|98.194.216.187]] 00:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Well....the bottom line is that you cannot do things admins or sysops can do without being an admin or sysop yourself. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

:::I am very much aware of that. The supposed Admin of the site does not even have a valid email address. We have no admin or sysop or bureaucrat. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. I just hate to see the site go down hill, and am asking for help to point me in the right direction as to who to contact to get help. Sheba98 [[Special:Contributions/98.194.216.187|98.194.216.187]] 01:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

::::Nothing can be done then. Unless you can telepathiclly tell the owner of the site to get some wiki admins.--[[Special:Contributions/71.217.200.78|71.217.200.78]] 03:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
:::::I threw an AVB on your site - (User:Avb) for the time being. Should take care of that spam while you guys are tracking down the real admins. [[User:Tim_Laqua|Tim Laqua]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Tim_Laqua|talk]]</small></sup> 18:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

::::You could try doing a WHOIS query on the site, and contact the registered owner (since it's an "official" link from the NBC site, you may get a response there). [[Wikipedia:User:Dansiman|Dansiman]] ([[Wikipedia:User talk:Dansiman|talk]]) 06:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

== Formatting Errors in IE 7 ==

*MediaWiki: Version 1.12
*PHP: PHP 5
*MySQL: MySQL 5
*URL: http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki/

I recently installed Media Wiki 1.12 on my site (http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki, with PHP5 and MySQL 5, Hosted on Linux thru Powweb) and make most of my updates on Mac OS X. My home PC uses IE 7, and I noticed tonight that the page formatting (for some pages) is incorrect when viewed in IE 7.

Here is a sample page that shows the error in IE7 (Win XP SP2) but not in Firefox or Safari (on Mac):<br />
http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki/index.php?title=Doctor_Who

Suggestions and corrections are welcomed and appreciated. Thank you, in advance!<br />
Email: captain_mills(at)yahoo(dot)com

:Taken Care of... Thanks anyway! :) - CMills

—[[Special:Contributions/71.36.6.253|71.36.6.253]] 06:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

== Offensive signature and SQL help (user response needed)==

*MediaWiki: 1.13alpha
*PHP: latest version
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

How do I edit the signatures in old revisions?? A user had particularly offensive signatures, and we need to keep his old edits, per GFDL. I renamed the user via the database, since Renameuser wasn't installed at the time, but all his old edits show with the offensive old signature. I went to the text table in phpmyAdmin but couldn't find it... anyone know how to fix this so I can edit the old revision?? any MySQL commands? —[[User:G Bowker|G Bowker]] 09:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

* I also need to be able to edit the old revisions as well, via the [[database]]. Any advice appreciated, thanks! --[[User:G Bowker|G Bowker]] 09:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

: For now, edit the page normally to get rid of it. Then there is either an extension or built-in function that allows for the deletion of revisions. If you search around for it you'll find it, Wikipedia makes use of it for similar purposes as yours. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 21:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

* Thanks. Tried the oversight extension.... but it doesn't remove block logs or isn't able to edit offensive old signatures. --[[User:G Bowker|G Bowker]] 12:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Why do you need to remove block logs? Signatures aren't displayed in the logs, are they? And what do you mean isn't able to edit old signatures? (I've also never used the extension.) [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Viewing a list of entries? ==

Is it possible to see a list of all pages , maybe in alphabetical order?
—[[Special:Contributions/128.113.54.152|128.113.54.152]] 13:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
David Doria

: [[Special:Allpages]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] 19:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Templates: replace paramter if ... ==

Parameters: I use [[:File:{{{1}}}|(desc)]] to create a link to desc page of {{{1}}} which is the file name. Now sometimes it can happen that this parameter is an external link. In this case the desc link shouldn't show up. I dunno much about #if so is there a way to e.g. if param1 = http... then "(desc)" = "-" or something? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 09:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23ifeq: The #ifeq]] parser function may be able to do what you want. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 13:11, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
::Thanks checking. Didn't know these options. I also see #if. Yay ;) --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 21:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

== Main page title==
Hello, how to remove page title and subtitle from the main page (likes mediawiki.org or en.wiki). Thank you. Rytis; [[Special:Contributions/88.222.212.231|88.222.212.231]] 14:10, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
:Don't know how they do it, but [[Extension:NoTitle]] might work as well. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 12:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
:: See this section of the FAQ: [[Manual:FAQ#Mediawiki_version_1.9.2B.2C_solution_to_hide_the_main_page_title]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

== The logs look wrong ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

I preferred it when the logs were in the old format of:
10 Jan 2008 22:54 Admin blocked User1 with an expiry time of infinite (test)
rather than the current design seen here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=

Where do I report this bug?? Thanks, AP aka —[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 17:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

:That's pretty much the format logs are in now (though I could be missing something obvious). Could you be specific about exactly what you're referring to? —[[User:Emufarmers|Emufarmers]]<sup>([[User talk:Emufarmers|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Emufarmers|C]])</sup> 01:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

* It was being discussed [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=prev&oldid=204247752 on Wikipedia (the English one)] but someone on SVN has reverted them back, which was probably a good move. The new-look logs in that revision probably weren't good. Thanks, AP aka --[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 16:07, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

== (UNRESOLVED) Coding a [[wikipedia:Template:Navbox|Navbox]] from scratch ==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.1
*PHP: 5.2.5 (isapi)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
*URL: http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Template:Navbox The Official Exalted Wiki]

Is there any guide/suggestions/example code that would help someone code a collapsible navbox from scratch? - [[User:Bodhisattva|Bodhisattva]] 16:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

:You have to configure your [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] and install [[Extension:ParserFunctions]] to get your Navbox to work correctly. I did this but I still have extra div and span tags, :( -[[User:PatPeter|Pat]][[User talk:PatPeter|Peter]], <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]'''''[[Project:Support desk/Support team|<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>]]'''''</span> 06:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

:I gave full installation instructions [http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Exalted_Wiki_talk:Sandbox/Navbox here]. -[[User:PatPeter|Pat]][[User talk:PatPeter|Peter]], <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]'''''[[Project:Support desk/Support team|<span style="color: #006400">MediaWiki Support Team</span>]]'''''</span> 21:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

:: [[User:Bodhisattva|Bodhisattva]] 22:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC): I appreciate the full instructions. However, I'm also getting extra <nowiki></span> and </div></nowiki> tags, and I'm not getting the Show/Hide link, so the template isn't displaying the contents. :(

[[User:Bodhisattva|Bodhisattva]] 20:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC): Can I please get some follow-up help on this?

== Installing LaTex ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.51a-log
*URL: http://www.mathace.net/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page

I have been trying to install LaTeX on my MediaWiki site, but I have had some difficulty since I am on a shared web server and cannot use SSH or run command lines. How can I get LaTeX and all of the necessary executables to work given these limitations, if possible?

—[[Special:Contributions/24.16.117.203|24.16.117.203]] 21:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
:If you want to install the [[Extension:Wiki2LaTeX]] you need to have LaTeX installed before. This can only be done by your administrator. --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 07:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

== Mailto Links ==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.1
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt

Mailto links do not parse - inputting the wikitext

<pre>
[mailto:me@myserver.com]
</pre>

spits out this in plain text on the wiki page

<pre>
[mailto:me@myserver.com]
</pre>

same with

<pre>
[mailto:me@myserver.com EMAILME]
</pre>

also just spits out plain text.

This happens even if I disable all extensions. I did have the FCKeditor installed and running, and i'm not sure if it would have borked something. That's about all I can think of.

—[[User:Killinggameshow|Killinggameshow]] 21:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

: Do normal external links work? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 22:09, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Edited Sidebar not displaying in 1.9.3 ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP:  1.9.3
*MySQL:  5.2.4 (apache)
*URL:  5.0.51a

Hello,

I edited the sidebar page to:

* navigation
** Blackboard
** CourseCompass
** Hard Media
** Pegasus

saved changes, emptied cache and refreshed but sidebar doesn't update
Other changes (Icon, permissions etc) have worked for me.

Added to LocalSettings.php:

## When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make
## sure that cached pages are cleared.
$configdate = gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) );
$wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, $configdate );
$wgStyleVersion = '42x';

I'm at a loss at this stage
:Did you change [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] or something else? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 17:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Solved. Discovered I wasn't using pipes and wasn't editing MediaWiki:Sidebar just Sidebar.

== SVN download ==

*MediaWiki: as used on Wikimedia sites
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 
I downloaded the latest version from SVN, (which is r33047) - how would I go back to the previous revision in SVN using the SVN client I have - TortoiseSVN?? Thanks, AP aka -[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 13:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
:In the contextual menu of TortoiseSVN (right click and then TortoiseSVN) you have a option called "Update to revision...". When you click there, select "Revision" radio button (i.e. not "HEAD"), put the revision you want to have and click OK. [[User:IAlex|<b><font color="#66A7CC">i</font><font color="#9966CC">Alex</font></b>]] 13:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

* Anyone know where a list of all the revisions of MediaWiki are in SVN?? That way I can revert back-and-forward if I need to... I'm currently testing it on a XAMPP server at the moment. Thanks, AP aka --[[User:Kelsington|Kelsington]] 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

== (Resolved) [[Manual:Preventing access|Preventing access]] to blocked users ==

*MediaWiki: 1.6-1.12
Any ideas how to disable blocked users from logging in or reading? ''Please reply at [[Manual_talk:Preventing_access#Keeping_blocked_users_from_reading]].'' Thanks. —[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 06:24, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
:: Resolved by changing address and password --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 09:09, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

== Adding Custom Tags ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log
*URL: [http://iyeru42.info/wiki Wiki of Iyeru]

I want to know how to make a custom tag like <autocolumn> or <userboxsamples> like on the hrwiki.org wiki. I also would rather have answers sent in e-mail, because I '''will never''' check back here. Please e-mail me with answers at iyeru42 [/a/t/] gmail.com, I'm serious too.

Right now, instead of [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Userbox#Templates HRwiki's userbox samples], I'm using [http://iyeru42.info/wiki/index.php/Wiki_of_Iyeru:Userbox this] right now, which is broken and very bulky.

I repeat again: I WILL NOT check back here. IT IS recommended you e-mail via the address above.
—[[Special:Contributions/198.150.12.32|198.150.12.32]] 18:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

== template:clickpic ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12alpha (r26409) (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.50sp1a-enterprise-gpl-log 
*URL: [http://runescape.wikia.com RuneScape wikia]

Hello, i am an editor on one of the Wiki's (RuneScape) and i mentioned the TEMPLATE:CLICKPIC template. Can you change the code to get a ''hover over image'' added?

([http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User:Buzz_9_1990 Buzz 9 1990])

—[[Special:Contributions/192.249.36.3|192.249.36.3]] 09:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

== snippet or piece of code, that show the content of each article ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.0
*PHP: 5.0
*MySQL: 4.1.10

my questions are

which is the snippet or piece of code, that show the content of each article?

and which is the snippet or piece of code, that save this content in the database?

thanks

--[[Special:Contributions/200.77.227.68|200.77.227.68]] 21:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion] might help you. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Change skin in installation that has skins tab disabled? ==
*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.27
*URL: [http://abiliwiki.com/ AbiliWiki]

The creators of AbiliWiki have configured their MediaWiki installation to hide the Skins tab in Special:Preferences. I know you can manually apply a skin to an individual page with the URL, as in http://abiliwiki.com/index.php?title=Home&useskin=monobook , but is there any way to permanently apply a skin to my preferences when they are hidden this way, either through URL syntax as above, or through a form submission? I'd be willing to create an HTML document on my hard drive with a simple form that will send the appropriate data to AbiliWiki's server when I click submit. I know this is kind of an advanced technical question but I sure hope there's someone who can answer it.

P.S. Please notify me at [[Wikipedia:User:Dansiman]] when this question is answered or if you need additional information. Thanks,

—[[Special:Contributions/71.113.146.96|71.113.146.96]] 06:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I received an email from a fellow AbiliWikian that helped me workaround the problem. I am sharing it here in case anyone else has this issue with their own wiki in the future.
<div style="color:blue; border:blue 1px solid;">
:Go to the Preferences page, and save the source code, editing to add this near the top:

:<pre><base href="http://abiliwiki.com/"></pre>

:and then this in the form:

:<pre><input type='text' name='wpSkin' value="monobook" /></pre>

:then submit.</div>
—[[Special:Contributions/71.113.146.96|71.113.146.96]] 01:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

== Theme or Template Issue ==

Ok...I feel lost here and probably wont know how to get back here to get an answer. My email address is admin@onlinechristiancenter.com

I need to know if there is a way to make a theme be for all my Wordpress pages instead of just the first page.

I'm code illiterate. Please help if you can.

Thanks in advance.

Janet

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Product Version
MediaWiki 1.12.0
PHP 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.41

I would like to embed an Excel File which is sitting on our File Server directly into a Wiki page as an OLE object. Is this possible?

—[[Special:Contributions/217.5.177.110|217.5.177.110]] 12:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Embedding an Excel File as OLE into a Wiki page ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Product Version
MediaWiki 1.12.0
PHP 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.41

I would like to embed an Excel File which is sitting on our File Server directly into a Wiki page as an OLE object. Is this possible?

—[[Special:Contributions/217.5.177.110|217.5.177.110]] 12:53, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== Error using $wgWhitelistRead ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Dear,

My MediaWiki is function, but I need to restricted access to other users. Using $wgWhitelistRead I could do it but my main page isn't load with anonymous access. Ps. my main page are in portuguese name "Página principal" and these (I think) it's my problem.

Juliana Calado

—[[Special:Contributions/200.195.42.2|200.195.42.2]] 16:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

== [file:// does not work ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 5.0.51a
*URL: 

Hello,

I just successfully migrated my Wiki to a new server. Everything works, except the external links. I have several places where I use
[file://server/directory/file] to open directly a PDF file. It still works fine on my old server, but not on the new one. It is just getting displayed as text. Is there a special setting i have to activate?

—[[Special:Contributions/217.5.177.110|217.5.177.110]] 13:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 



—[[User:Cowboy|Cowboy]] 04:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) Permission to show recent Changes for anonymous users ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.0-8+etch10 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch5-log
*URL: [http://ephedra.hip.uni-heidelberg.de/bromwiki/en/index.php/Main_Page BromWiki]

Hi Folks,

I have just upgraded my old 1.4 mediwiki to the recent version 1.12.0 and still having some minor troubles to fully understand the new user permission system.
I have left most permission to the default settings. My changes in the LocalSettings.php are as followed:
# Restrict editing by all non-sysop users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;

/** Show the amount of changed characters in recent changes */
$wgRCShowChangedSize = false;

My question: How can I get anonymous users to see the recent changes ? When I log in, I can see them, but a default visitor sees nothing.

I did '''not''' change the DefaultSettings.php, so
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true;

is still the rule.
Which variable do I have to change ?
'''
THX allready in advance,'''
Timm from germany

—[[Special:Contributions/85.216.119.59|85.216.119.59]] 17:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

: Although I do not know exactly what you have to change, I went to your site. On the recent changes page, there was the text "Below are the last '''0''' changes in the last '''0''' days." So somewhere it's set to show the 0 most recent changes. And so it does. Clicking "show last [http://ephedra.hip.uni-heidelberg.de/bromwiki/en/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=50&days=0 50]", for example, causes the changes to appear. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

:: Hi Smaug, THX for your answer
::Maybe I did not express exactly what I meant. I know of course that button, but is there a variable where I can set that default value to for instance 7 days ? If I remember correctly in the older versions by clicking on the "recent changes" button as a anonymous user the wiki has allways shown the changes of the last week. A lot of those folks who are visiting my wiki are not very familiar with this software. And if they just click "recent changes" and see nothing, they leave. I have checked the manual here allready but I cannot find any that helps.
:: Timm

:::Hi to all, I found the solution. One needs to edit the LocalSettings.php and add the following lines:

$wgDefaultUserOptions = array(
'rcdays' => 7,
'rclimit' => 50,
);
::: Greetings, Timm
:::--[[Special:Contributions/85.216.119.59|85.216.119.59]] 16:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

== How can I get my wiki faster? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.51
*URL: [http://www.mediadesign-group.de/c_dj.wiki/index.php5 DJs-ONLY-Wiki]

Hello, if someone of you may take a look on my wiki, you'll see, that it takes a time until it loads complete. So, what can I do to get this faster? Thanks for your help. Best Regards. Mirko.

== change Link color ==

*MediaWiki: 1.7.1
*PHP: 5
*MySQL: 5

Hello,
is it possible, to change the linkcolor? I have a Textfield with Backgroundcolor but in the area you can not read the Text which is a link. I want now change only the linkcolor for this Link not for the whole Page.
It this possible?
Thanks
:Does no one has any Idea for me???:-(

—[[Special:Contributions/87.154.139.191|87.154.139.191]] 10:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

: I have just tested a little bit with [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] (on 1.9.6). Try something like

a {color: ''color'';}
#bodyContent a.external {color: ''color'';} /* for external links */
#bodyContent a.new {color: ''color'';} /* for pages not yet created */

: where ''color'' is a defined color name, color hexadecimal code or color rgb code. But without any warranty. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.188.43|89.55.188.43]] 09:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

== I'm looking for a forum widget for my blog. Can anyone help. ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

—[[Special:Contributions/208.208.47.100|208.208.47.100]] 12:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

: Does this have anything to do with MW? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 18:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

==Batch Enrolling Of Users==
*MediaWiki: 1.10.1
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 4.1.22

I have a list of users which i woiuld like to import into MediaWiki. Is this at all possible? Or Would i have to get each and every user to create an account individually?

--[[User:Adam.phillips | Adam Phillips]] Thursday 1st May 2008 14:23 (GMT)
: Something like this [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImportUsers]???--[[Special:Contributions/87.154.137.197|87.154.137.197]] 04:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

==Trouble with Wikimapia==
I'm having trouble loading wikimapia. I was wondering if anyone else is too? Is there a bug or has someone hacked into the system? It started with missing areas (places) and then, I tried reloading the maps by closing my browser, and now nothing will load. (May 1st 14:26 EST [[w:User:CyclePat]])

== create an admin ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

—[[Special:Contributions/72.8.67.211|72.8.67.211]] 22:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

: You need to log in with a bureaucrat account (that's usually the first account installed when installing MediaWiki, default is WikiSysop as far as I know) and then use special page [[Special:Userrights]] to assign another user admin's rights (simply with check boxes). But you have to create this user account first by special page [[Special:UserLogin]] if it does not exist. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.188.43|89.55.188.43]] 08:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

== How do I require an email address when creating an account? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12
*PHP: 2.5.2
*MySQL: 4.11
*URL: http://www.kokosing.com

How do I require an email address for the 'create an account' page? I noticed in the code there is a variable called 'emailrequired' that, if set, does not display the 'e-mail address is optional' message but rather something else.

I need this because I have set the wiki to be only readable to people with authenticated email addresses.

Thanks for your help!

Dave

—[[User:Dk253|Dk253]] 01:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

== help kill spammers please ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Would someone with power please take a look at this wiki http://wiki.okopipi.org/wiki/Main_Page spammers as using it as there own personal forum.
Irony aside its hard to keep blanking pages with out any admins left who are active. The project is dead and just needs to be shutdown

—[[Special:Contributions/75.172.105.209|75.172.105.209]] 20:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

== Serious Update from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 ==
*MediaWiki: 1.4.3 to 1.11.1
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

We updated our wiki from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 by running those two programs upgrade1_5.php and update.php. After that, still things are not working as we expected. Some pages are displaying the records from mkt_text table, while we expect them fom mkt_cur table; some pages are just missing. I realiz that 1.4 is really old and some tables no long in use. I can see we missed a few important steps, can anyone give me a direction here? how to upgrade the mediawiki from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 correctly?

thanks



—[[Special:Contributions/12.165.188.130|12.165.188.130]] 19:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

== (RESOLVED) How to get influence on print output (e.g. subpress system messages)? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.9.6
*PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community
*URL: http://joergmaske.de/wikip/

Hello!

When printing out a page from MediaWiki, there is not only put the pages text content on this output, but also the page's footer and some additional system messages (I think I can identify them as [[MediaWiki:Tagline]] and [[MediaWiki:Retrievedfrom]]). How can I influence these outputs (subpress footer and system messages)? I found some lines in skin.php, but as a non-programmer I don't dare to try it on my own in those heart files. Regards JörgM

—[[Special:Contributions/89.55.189.229|89.55.189.229]] 08:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
:Okay, I have found a solution by adding some lines to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] now :-), something like

@media print{
h1.firstHeading, h3#siteSub, div#contentSub, div.printfooter, #footer {
display: none;
}
}

:(IDs and classes found at source text of a page.) --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.153.223|89.55.153.223]] 20:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

== Infobox Help ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.3 (cgi-fcgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.24a-standard-

Hi, I was wondering how do you create an infobox?

I have searched mediawiki, wikimedia, and wikipedia. And all the answers I get aren't clear.
All the answers that I get are like "enter such and such code on a template, and you should get this result" and when I do it, the results are not the same.

I tried making a table, but it ends up not being on the right side, where an infobox should go.

Is there a clear step by step instructions of creating an infobox?

—[[Special:Contributions/169.233.29.252|169.233.29.252]] 07:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

: As far as I know infoboxes on Wikipedia are a combination between a template with a special table and cascading style sheets (css). For example, on German Wikipedia there is the template [[:w:de:Vorlage:Infobox]] and css code at least at [[:w:de:MediaWiki:Common.css]], but I don't know if there is some more css code which you need located in other files. Perhaps ask some members of [[:w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes]] to get some more specific help? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.188.43|89.55.188.43]] 07:51, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
: Additionally I realized that in those infoboxes there are used functions ("#if" & co), for example to hide elements which are not filled in. Those functions need the [[Extension:ParserFunctions]]. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.140.95|89.55.140.95]] 06:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

== White screen of death ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12
*PHP: 5.1.6-15 el5
*MySQL: 5.0.22
*URL:

I am getting a whitescreen when I finished installing the DB and copied the Localsetting.php file. I am Running RHEL 5.1, have installed the MySQL and PHP through YUM installer, have also installed dotproject, working fine except when the php is used?

I am suspecting the php is at fault but is new to it so can't exactly say what is cooking there.

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP?

THANKS!
—[[Special:Contributions/165.146.96.91|165.146.96.91]] 08:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

:You probably have a PHP error. You can check the PHP logs of your webserver or turn on the display_errors PHP setting to figure out what the error is. See [[Manual:Errors and Symptoms#You see a Blank Page]] for more information. --[[User:Cneubauer|Cneubauer]] 19:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

== How to Make "Random Page" Select Only Pages from a Certain Category? ==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.1
*PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.51a
*URL: [http://www.dishiwiki.com DishiWiki]

My wiki is a recipe wiki. I have changed the label for ''Random Page'' in the ''navigation'' sidebar to read "Random Recipe." Of course, it randomly :) brings up a page that is not a recipe. All pages that are recipes have a category tag of <nowiki>[[Category:Recipes]]</nowiki>.

'''So how can I structure the ''Random page'' link to pull up only pages categorized as recipes?''' I have explored but am not ready to create a custom Namespace for recipe pages.

I think this "trick" would be very useful for many types of wikis! Thanks for all the help here on MediaWiki and elsewhere. -[[User:Brian7632416|Brian7632416]] 23:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

:Probably the SQL query in SpecialRandompage.php (directory "includes") has to be rewritten, but I don't know much about SQL, and my trial this morning wasn't successful. (Tried to involve the MySQL table "categorylinks" with "cl_to" into the SQL query.) Meanwhile alternatives may be
:* usage of an extension like in [[:Category:Random content extensions]]
:* usage of [[Manual:$wgExtraRandompageSQL|$wgExtraRandompageSQL]]
:but both probably with a lot of pages to include or exclude manually. --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.152.75|89.55.152.75]] 20:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks. I, too, tried massaging MySQL table "categorylinks" column "cl_to." I looked at SpecialRandomPage.php but don't want to mess with it yet. $wgExtraRandompageSQL is unwieldy as long as it is wired for "page_title," but I couldn't find the category variable to substitute for "page_title." I will now look at Random conent extensions. Thanks so much. [[User:Brian7632416|Brian7632416]] 21:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC) [Edit:] Nothing in that group of "random" extensions is what I need.

:::The SQL query of SpecialRandompage.php is limited to the "page" table, as far as I can see; the $wgExtraRandompageSQL variable is part of this SQL query, so it's not possible to involve parts of other tables with it (like the "cl_to" row of "categorylinks"). That's why I said that probably this SQL query has to be rewritten for this purpose.
:::You could use $wgExtraRandompageSQL in LocalSettings.php like the following:
$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "Main_Page" AND page_title != "Page_1" AND page_title != "Page_2" AND page_title != "Page_3" AND page_title != "Page_4" AND page_title != "Page_5"';
:::but you would have to EXclude all the non-recipe pages this way. Using "OR" instead of "AND" and "=" instead of "!=" should be the other way (INcluding all the pages you want), but as there are much more recipes than other pages this would not be the way of choice, I think. Surprisingly I could not prevent the Main page to be shown this way.
:::I tried it also with the extension [[Extension:RandomInclude]] this morning, created 5 test pages (Testseite 1 bis Testseite 5) and included them on a randomtest page as templates (with <nowiki>{{:Testseite 1}}</nowiki>). Works on 1.9.6 (look at http://joergmaske.de/wikip/ and the link Randomtest in the navigation bar), of course showing just the content of the page, not the selected page's name, and I had to disable the cache like mentioned on the short manual. Disadvantages: You have to include all the pages you want to have selectable for random, and the disabled cache. Advantage: You have more control on which pages you don't want to show without using $wgExtraRandompageSQL or changing categories (if this would work sometime). --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.189.114|89.55.189.114]] 08:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

::::Thanks for your work. I see your Randomtest link, and I can use that extension for something else. I'm beginning to think I need a namespace for Recipes, which I have been avoiding.

::::In the meantime, I will try:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "*Tips"';

::::to try to exclude "Kitchen Tips" pages, which have titles like: "Citrus Tips," "Egg Tips," etc. Will the wild card * work, I wonder? If so, I could add "Recipe" to the title of all recipe pages and use:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title = "*Recipe"';

::::but I've never wanted pages to be so "fully titled." Like you, I have just discovered that Main_Page is not being excluded with:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "Main_Page"';

::::so I give up for now. - [[User:Brian7632416|Brian7632416]] 18:20, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

==How to stop text from overlapping==

* MediaWiki: 1.12
* PHP: 5.0
* MySQL: 5.0.22
* URL: www.leetpwned.com[http://www.leetpwned.com]
Hello,
I am attempting to learn how to use the MediaWiki Software and I have run into a problem. The text of the wiki entry is overlapping with my infobox. How do I prevent text from overlapping with my infobox or any other images?

Here is the sample entry I having a problem with
[http://leetpwned.com/index.php?title=BioShock]

I would like the sample entry to look like this page
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock]

Thank you in advance for your help.
:Hm. Installed totally new in the afternoon??? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.153.223|89.55.153.223]] 20:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

::You seem to have fixed this since you posted. The link looks good to me. Still having problems? --[[User:Cneubauer|Cneubauer]] 19:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

:::I was able to solve the problem, thank you everyone for all your help and support. -LeetPwned Admin

== Recurring issue logging in various MediaWikis ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Logging in to various wikis powered by MediaWiki is too often a frustrating experience. I use a password manager, KeePass, so when I register at a wiki (or any other site) I create a new entry and have KeePass generate a high-security password for me. I drag-and-drop this password into the registration form.

So there should be no excuse for my password to be rejected as incorrect when I go to log in and drag-and-drop my login information, or paste from clipboard.

The current problem is with http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page . I've successfully logged in there before... even earlier today! But it's suddenly rejecting my login as having an incorrect password. Grrrrrrr!!!

This time I'm not going to go through the whole process of requesting a new password and creating yet ANOTHER password to be able to log in again, because first I want to know exactly what's going on. If someone could please e-mail me at foxcole@yahoo.com, I'd like to know what the wiki thinks my password ought to be and where that password came from... or, if it does have my correct password, why exactly my login is being rejected.

I would like to note that after I go through all the motions to reset and create another new password, I generally have no further problems with that site. But I shouldn't have to be going through all this in the first place. My original login should be valid forever until I change it myself.

—[[Special:Contributions/63.64.39.28|63.64.39.28]] 21:39, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

== A Wiki protected by htaccess gives an internal error 500 when accessing through a Proxyserver ==

* MediaWiki: 1.11.0
* PHP: 5.2.5-pl1-gentoo (cgi-fcgi)
* MySQL: 4.1.22-log page)
I have may Wiki htaccess protected for educational and research reasons. However after a couple month it was not accessible anymore through a Proxy server feeding only one IP adress to the internet from our company. The server with the wiki on is outside the company. Actually some pages are readable but log in is impossible. Has this problem to do with the WIki settings or with the proxy settings. The access to the Wiki without Proxy works perfectly well.

—[[Special:Contributions/85.1.21.79|85.1.21.79]] 20:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

== Creator special rights ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12
*PHP: -
*MySQL: -
*URL: local

I would like to know if there is a simple way to allow only the creator of a new page to edit it.
In fact, when creating a new page, I would like the author to be able to choose whether the page can be edited by everyone, by registered users or only by himself.

I read a lot on user rights and user rights management but I could'nt find how to define a group including only the creator of a page.

Thanks for your help...

—[[Special:Contributions/81.220.36.67|81.220.36.67]] 09:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

:[[Manual:Preventing access]] tells that "MediaWiki was not written to provide per-page access restrictions". Perhaps have a look at [[Extension:EditOwn]]? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.180.141|89.55.180.141]] 10:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

== I accidentally deleted the LocalSettings.php folder ==

Hi,
I accidentally deleted the LocalSettings.php folder, and I think that's why that I can't replace the Media Wiki image on the top left corner... How can I get it back?

I changed it on the /includes/common/images/wiki.png and doesn't do anything.
:I wonder if your wiki will do anything if you have deleted LocalSettings.php? --[[Special:Contributions/89.55.165.22|89.55.165.22]] 06:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

:: LocalSettings.php is a file, not a folder. Do you mean you deleted the folder it was in? I'm not going to try it out, but I think if a wiki has no LocalSettings.php it will not work. Anyway, if you are missing a LocalSettings.php and it's not in the folder where it is supposed to be, I guess I would say just download a new one. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 18:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

== interact with Asp.Net application ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

I want to use MediaWiki in my application.

Can you please suggest me which mediawiki i have to use and let me know How does MediaWiki used in or interact with Asp.Net application?

:MediaWiki requires PHP. I don't believe PHP and ASP can be run together so you probably can't do what you are trying to do. You can try looking at [[w:Comparison of wiki software]] for a list of wiki software that runs on ASP. --[[User:Cneubauer|Cneubauer]] 19:49, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

== link back to mediawiki from external page?==

*MediaWiki:] 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5
*URL: http://internalsite/socwiki/ ((internal))

I've installed Mediawiki and in order to have a dynamic collapsible menu I created a menu page and dropped it in http://internalsite/socwiki/clientlisting/menu.html.
The functionality I want is to have the menu links reload the page inside the wiki with data from the wiki.

For instance

- menu title (expanded)
- [[Location0]]
- [[Location1]]
- [[Location2]]

When you click on Location0 it will take you to http://172.26.50.211/socwiki/index.php/Location0

I just couldn't find any other way to get the collapsible menu to work in a page other than using an IFrame - but when I link back now - it basically reloads the whole wiki into the content space. so it's like two wikis nested within each other.

Any Help/Info is appreciated.

—[[Special:Contributions/75.127.66.250|75.127.66.250]] 16:58, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

== How to login and link to mediawiki from another web application? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 5.0.45
*URL: http://flinqe.com:8010/wiki/ FlinqEpedia

I am writing a web application and I want to provide access to my copy of mediawiki via links to specific pages in the wiki. I already have a password protection scheme of my own, and would like to automatically login to mediawiki as or before I start mediawiki in a separate window. I'd also like to be able to create new mediawiki users and new pages with personalized empty-page messages.

I am a php newbie, but program in other languages including perl and C++.
I have been trying to get the Api:Login working using Snoopy as suggested in the Api:Login documentation, which references this information:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2007-October/000117.html

The example 2 there works as advertised, but after completing the login, I want to start a particular mediawiki page as the now-logged-in user, preferably in a new window. Using a HREF link on the resulting page doesn't work; I get there but the user is not logged in. Using Snoopy to fetch the page and print_r the snoopy->results gets me to the page, which tells me I'm logged in. But links to new pages, such as "edit", don't maintain the login.

I'm guessing that the problem involves sessions, and in-memory cookies. I would prefer in-memory cookies for their security advantages, but can live with ordinary cookies if necessary.

I've tried searching the web for a solution, but all I've found is complex approaches (like Drupel) which I don't understand, and which seem to require extensive patches to mediawiki.

—[[Special:Contributions/75.147.32.154|75.147.32.154]] 03:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

== How to validate fully upgraded wiki ? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.2 (apache)
*MySQL: 4.1.21-log
(* URL: internal project)

Hello, I'm quite new to this forum even though I've been using wiki for some time now, but I've recently moved from one ISP to another and at that time from a Windowsbased host to a Linuxbased one. Well, I had everything up and running smoothly on my new host, the wiki worked fine (don't remember the version but it was quite old) and I upgraded to version 1.11.2 without any problems, everything still worked fine.

But then I noticed there was a version 1.12.0 and I set out to upgrade to it. Now here's the tricky part, previously on Windows I had shell access and used to run the upgrade.php scripts, but now I don't, so I tried the reinstallation option, backed up everything, made copies of localsettings.php etc and launched the setup.

It immediately failed with some kind of script error about $wfIniGetBool not being correctly defined on line xx in /config/index.php. After some checking of access rights and everything I could think of I decided that oh well, before restoring backups I might just try to get around this and removed the checks for wfIniGetBool. This let me run the upgrader, the database checks were executed and some upgrades were reported, and then the installation was supposed to create a new localsettings.php which again failed since I had missed commenting out one section of wfIniGetBool commands.

This really didn't matter since I was going to replace it with the backup, after which done the site is working happily again and now reporting 1.12.0 as version, but this prompts my question(s).

a) what could possibly be the cause for this failure, I never saw anything about that when upgrading to 1.11.2 ?
b) Was the installer supposed to do something more after creating the localsettings.php ? Is there something I might have missed that I should check for ?
c) Is there some way for me to verify that my site is working correctly, i.e. both that the version now is fully upgraded and also to possibly prevent future issues like this one ?

Best regards // Mike

—[[Special:Contributions/213.114.35.125|213.114.35.125]] 15:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Mikael R.

== Removing link markers in print; request for span element ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

I've run into a problem in Cite.i18n.php. I've been doing some [http://www.princexml.com/samples/#wiki experiments] to create print-quality PDF documents from Wikipedia. In the current markup in the generated list of references, visible markers (^, a, b etc.) are added to allow users to click their way back to the source of the reference. In print, however, these markers should not be visible. Given the current markup, it's impossible to remove the markers by way of CSS as there is no wrapper element around them. I therefore suggest adding a "span" element with a class name of "backlink" or something so that one could remove these markers when printing the document.

—[[User:Howcome|Howcome]] 21:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

: I suggest to move this request to [[Extension talk:Cite]] or at least to add it there. -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.182.231|89.55.182.231]] 07:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

::Done, thanks — [[User:Howcome|Howcome]] 13:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

==Extensions==
Hi. I am looking for extension wchih will allow me to upload images from url, not only from hdd. Is there any? pogo

== How to force all users to use the monobook style ==

* MediaWiki: 1.11
* PHP: 5.2.3
* MySQL: 5.0.41

Hi there I was wondering if there's an easy way to force all users to use the monobook style, making impossible for them to change the style at the user's preferences. Leaving the style as it's defined in the LocalSettings.php file.
Thanks in advance.
—[[User:Juanan|Juanan]] 22:40, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

: Put some thing like

$wgSkipSkins = array("chick", "cologneblue", "myskin", "nostalgia", "simple", "standard");

into LocalSettings.php, with all the skins included in the array aside from monobook skins. Then users won't have any other option. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

==Navigation Tabs?==
Does anyone know how to integrate this feature into a wiki? I've tried copying code into the MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js, failing to work at every attempt.

E.g. [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Bawolff/tabber.js]<br>
example of use: [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Doldrums/Main_page]<br>
original source code: [http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/tabber/]

Help? --[[Special:Contributions/90.200.52.124|90.200.52.124]] 11:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

==control User Preferences==
Does anyone know how to globally change a custom user preference?
this is the code i belief that is adding the check box to the special:preferences / misc. page: <pre> public function onUserToggles( &$extraToggles ) {
$extraToggles[] = 'riched_disable';
$extraToggles = array_merge($extraToggles, self::$nsToggles);
return true;</pre>
But I can't seem to have 'riched_disable' checked by default. [[User:Mlong212|Matt]] 19:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

== QUESTION: How to EXPORT to WORD format ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Is there a way to EXPORT an .xml wiki page to WORD .doc or .docx format?

—[[Special:Contributions/129.219.57.164|129.219.57.164]] 21:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

: There seems to be just a [[Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus|project]] (?) the other way (Word → Wiki). Additionally, I have just found a shareware converter on the web so far, and I don't know if it will meet your needs. But isn't WORD able to import web pages? (Sorry, the latest version I have used is WORD 2000, and that's a long time ago ...) Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.190.92|89.55.190.92]] 08:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Must be logged in to edit pages. How? ==

How do I set my wiki so that guests can't edit the pages. They must be logged in. <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:203.9.156.1|203.9.156.1]] ([[User talk:203.9.156.1|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.9.156.1|contribs]]) 23:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC). Please sign your posts with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>!</small>

: See [[Manual:Preventing access#Restrict anonymous editing]]. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.190.92|89.55.190.92]] 08:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Embedding external media without extensions ==

*MediaWiki: 1.11.0
*PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)
*MySQL: 4.1.20-standard-log

My organization runs a secure MediaWiki wiki. Users must be on a list of allowed users to read or edit wiki content. Authentication is handled with an Apache module and a wrapper for MW.

With these security features in place, we decided that rather than installing extensions to help us with embedding YouTube videos or Google maps in MW articles, we would set the configuration variable $wgRawHtml to true. Since we've done that, we are able to put a larger range of HTML tags in our MW articles.

However, it doesn't work with the "object" tags for embedding a YouTube video or the "iframe" tags for embedding a Google map. Instead, MW just displays the HTML in the article. Using "nowiki" tags around the HTML doesn't help, either.

How can I make this work?

—[[User:Lsloan|Lance E Sloan]] 16:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Permission Issue ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. If I type a path directly to the index.php file I get this:

phpMyAdmin - Error

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

Even former solutions offered have not helped. I installed php with the IIS install. I must use IIS because I also have .net on my computer. PHP works fine. I have run a phpinfo page. I installed phpMyAdmin but when I try to run it I get the above messages.

I have tried the solutions offered in different forum. Including this one: Right click on CMD.exe and "Run as administrator" and then type the commands below

icacls %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\AppData\Local\Temp /grant Users:(CI)(S,WD,AD,X)

icacls %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\AppData\Local\Temp /grant "CREATOR OWNER":(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)

I got a message: 'icacls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

I also right clicked the phpMyAdmin file and set permissions to read. It asked if I wanted it to apply to the child index.php as well I clicked yes.

I stll get the above messages. What now?

just a quick question, is this server side? if so, use a ftp client and right click on your root folder that the php files are in and CHMOD it by typing in 777 into the box. i know filezilla requires you to right click, others actually have option in the file menu for this as well.

edit: when you right click there should be a "setup permisisons" dialog box on the right click menu.

I am still very much a novice so some of that went over my head. I am doing what could be server side, but on my own machine. I really don't know what you mean by ftp client, unless I was accessing it from another computer, which I am not. When I right click on it I don't get a box of any sort that I can type in or any "set up permissions" dialogue box, but a box that says open, search, search, refresh thumbnail.. etc. at the bottom is properties.

Ok, I see now. It looks to me you are using your own computer as a server with IIS, my mistake. Well, first and foremost, you do have php installed on your machine, correct? then you will need mySql along with it. here is a great tutorial I found:

Installing phpmyadmin http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/install_and_configure_phpmyadmin_on_iis

you also need to change the code $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''; in your config.in.php file to $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''yourpathhere";

for example: $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''localhost/ASP/admin";

and change to

register_Global=ON

This post has been edited by duritz: May 20 2008, 10:53

--------------------

Yes MySQL is installed.

It said that $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';. is an option. I might not need to actually do that. I did anyway. The instructions say, "log into your new phpMyAdmin install using the root account" That does not happen. I still get the error message! I still get the error message! I still get the error message!

In Internet Explorer it looks like this:
The website declined to show this webpage
HTTP 403
Most likely causes:
This website requires you to log in.

What you can try:
Go back to the previous page.

More information

This error (HTTP 403 Forbidden) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but it does not have permission to view the webpage.

For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.

I can mess around with the configuration all i want, but I still don't have permission.

I found no "$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''; " so I added that command. I also added the "register_Global=ON" cause it wasn't there either.

—[[Special:Contributions/71.82.6.222|71.82.6.222]] 19:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

== Unable to add OpenSearch from my wiki to my browser ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.6 (cgi)
*MySQL: 4.1.22-standard
*URL: [http://network.the-orc.com/wikimini http://network.the-orc.com/wikimini]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to add my wiki's (details above) OpenSearch to the search engines my browser uses, and am failing miserably.

On IE7 (7.0.5730.11), I get the following error message when trying to add the provider:
“Internet Explorer could not install this search provider. There was a problem with the search provider's information.”

On Mozilla Firefox 2 (2.0.0.14), it just fails silently.

I’ve trying to save the output of opensearch_desc.php to a local file and add it from there, but it fails with the same error(s), although to my naked eye, the format seems fine.

Any bright ideas?

Thanks in advance<BR>
—[[User:OgmiosProject|OgmiosProject]] 18:04, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

: Some more info - I set FireFox's logging of Search Providers to true, and gave it another shot. The interesting part of the error console is as follows:

:_onLoad: Couldn't convert byte array!
:Error: [Exception... "'Failure' when calling method: [nsIStreamListener::onStopRequest]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "<unknown>" data: no]

:Off hand, I'd say it's some sort of odd encoding problem.
:Any ideas?

:Thanks,<BR>
:[[User:OgmiosProject|OgmiosProject]] 13:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

== Password protected? ==
Hey, guys, is there any way to create a password protected page? I only want my group members to edit it [[User:Pingsong|Pingsong]] 17:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC) pandean
:: no one knows?

:::"Page" means the whole wiki or just a single page within a wiki? However, have a look at [[Manual:Preventing access]]. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 08:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== Add Groups ==

Does simply adding a group in LocalSettings.php cause MediaWiki to allow users to be added?

:Yes. [[User:86.138.46.182|86.138.46.182]] 17:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

And how to add a group? I can't find anything about adding groups to mediawiki.

:I found that you can add groups simply by creating permissions for them in localsettings.php. For example entering:
"$wgGroupPermissions['internaluser']['read'] = true;"
:Will create the group "internaluser", and also provide them with read access.

::This is not very correct. It's correct that this way a user group "internaluser" is created. But this group has the user rights of the standard group "user" as well, so you don't need to give them read access additionally – except when you denied read access to the standard "user" group (which is not very senseful :-) ). If you want to give standard users less rights than they have in a standard installation, but to have special users who have these rights again, first deny the right to the "user" group, then give the right back to the special group, e. g.:
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['internaluser']['createpage'] = true;
::At least this is the way how it works in my 1.9.x installations. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 08:15, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== Executing external code ==

How can a link be used to execute other code (PHP, java etc)? I would like to allow the user to click something on the page (button, link, whatever) which would then cause an external program to run.

: There are various methods of executing external code. You may want to investigate writing an extension (see [[Manual:MediaWiki hooks]] for some further information, or try Google). A more specific question detailing what you are actually trying to achieve would be helpful. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 14:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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== Mediawiki-logo ==
If I run my own wiki, is it necessary that I show a link to www.mediawiki.org on my site or to note that my site was set up by using mediqiki-software? I tried to figure this out by reading the GPL but didn't find anything about that. As far as I have come I wouldn't need to mention this ... what do you say??
--[[User:149.148.230.94|149.148.230.94]] 18:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

:MediaWiki itself adds a "powered by" icon to all skins and the version page has copyright information. Under the GPL, I believe this attribution is required. [[User:86.138.46.182|86.138.46.182]] 17:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
::Could someone confirm whether or not the MediaWiki logo is supposed to be kept in place? I could not find any mention in the supplied documentation that this is requested to remain. Thus I have removed it on my Wiki, but will glady re-add it if it is requested by the creators. Furthermoor, there is no mention of leaving the copyright in place on the [[Footer]] editing page. -- A User 16:04, 04 Oct 2006 (UTC)
:::(Could this be added to the FAQ as well) To change/edit/add the powered by or copyright logos, the code is located around lines 1090 (copyright) and 1112. Just change the $url to your url. This should work for all skins that use the normal getPoweredBy and getCopyrightIcon functions. [[User:Adammw|Adammw]] 12:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
To change the logo in 1.11, place this line in LocalSettings.php: $wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/skins/common/images/mywikilogo.png"; In this example, "mywikilogo.png" would be placed at C:\wamp\www\mywikipedia\skins\common\images. The $wgLogo line should be placed at the end of the file. [[User:Svanslyck|Svanslyck]] 14:20, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
:::::There is no obligation to show the logo, the GPL applies specifically to the code and requires that the licence not be removed or modified from any of the code it appears in. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 21:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

== Special Symbols for Editing Screen ==

A colleague from my university's computer center helped me download mediawiki to our provider because I'd like to use it for linguistic projects. However, in the editing mode the table of special characters and symbols that you find in Wikipedia is not available. How can we get that? Can anybody help us? Thanks. --Joachim [[User:132.180.7.27|132.180.7.27]] 15:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

:You need the Charinsert extension. Look at [[w:MediaWiki_talk:Edittools/Archive_02#Technical question: <charinsert>?]]. [[User:Bradleyb|Bradleyb]] 23:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

== Editing template sections ==

Hey all, I help maintain a WIKI dealing with game archive formats ([http://wiki.xentax.com XeNTaXWIKI]), and I recently started implementing a new layout that makes extensive use of templates. However, I've run into a bit of trouble - when trying to edit a section, it takes you to the template edit screen instead of that for the page. I have looked at the documentation here, but haven't found a solution to this. Is there any way around it, apart from either using a seperate template for each section, or hitting the main 'Edit' link every time?

:-Dinoguy1000

: Anytime a template uses a section header, clicking the edit link for that section will take you to the template. The easiest workaround is to not include the section headers in the templates--only show the content of the section--and then put the headers in the page itself. Alternatively, you can include the magicword <nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki> (double underscores on each side) anywhere in the page (even on the templates being included) and you will not have the edit section links appear anywhere in the page. --[[User:76.215.127.150|76.215.127.150]] 15:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Changing the interface text / updating to 1.6.6 ==

Changing the interface text as described in the FAQ (via editing system messages listed in [[Special:Allmessages]]) works well. However, while updating from MW 1.6.5 to 1.6.6 today, I realised that the MediaWiki namespaces was re-initialised, thus '''blowing away all changes I had carefully made!''' Note that this did not happen while upgrading from 1.6.3 to 1.6.5 only weeks ago!

There was nothing I could do but to go back to my (luckily) backed-up 1.6.5 installation.

Is there any way to make the update script leave the MW namespace untouched?
:Already answered you [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:FAQ/de&diff=28454&oldid=28418 here]. Greetings --[[User:Bdk|<span style="color:#116611">:Bdk:</span>]] 00:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

== Images not showing after upgrading to 1.6.5 ==
Greetings, this isn't a problem I'm having but more-so a post hoping to help anyone else who ran into the same problem I did after upgrading. I also posted this in the [[Project:Forum]] page as well. If this is in the wrong place, my apologies admins but I wanted to share this information for anyone else who might have had this problem.

After I upgraded from 1.4.5 to 1.6.5 none of my images worked, thumbed or normal. The weird part was if I reuploaded the file, I received the standard warning that the image already existed. If I proceeded to reupload it, the image would then show normally. I ran the rebuildImages.php script both with and without the --missing switch but no luck.

What it boiled down to was I had to move all of my images. They were in sub folders in images like /1/10, /1/11 etc. I had to move all of the files from those folders to the root folder images/.
* Example: opera.jpg is in images/o/o2/opera.jpg. Move it from images/o/o2 to just images/.
Once this was done, every image loaded up just fine without having to take any further action. Anything with the |thumb option regenerated a new thumbnail into the root of the folder thumbs/. To avoid wasting space, I deleted all of the sub folders in my thumbs/ folder since they were not being referenced and were duplicates anyways. --[[User:Brownc4|Brownc4]] 02:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

:In future, check the effective value of <code>$wgHashedUploadDirectory</code> and set it to true, to see if that helps. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== Smiley ==

How can I add smiley functionality so that if I write :P or :lol: it will be replaced automatically with the appropriate image? Thx<br>[[User:Semut|Semut]] 18:35, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

: No such functionality exists. -- [[User:Sysy|Sysy]] / <sup>[[User_Talk:Sysy|(talk)]]</sup> 16:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

:: This functionality is not available in MediaWiki, and will not be added. However, an extension may be available to do this. If not, you could try writing your own. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 12:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Hook the pre-save transform, rip out <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> sections etc. then do a regular expression replacement. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== Running maintenance scripts from command line ==

Why are maintenance scripts restricted to running from comand line? Could not it be left up to the administrator (with a suggestion that it should better be done from the command line)?

I, for example, don't have a command line access to my site on a shared host, so I cannot do all those maintenances! For example - how to change a language? You write in the FAQ: change the language variable and run "rebuildMessages.php". So, how do I run it?... --[[User:Knakts|Knakts]] 17:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

:Have you looked at [http://mgeisler.net/php-shell phpShell]? The scripts have to be run from the command line for a mixture of security and because certain scripts will take a longer time to run than PHP is allowed when running over the web. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== How do I rename my wiki? ==

I would like to change the name of my wiki. Is it possible to do this without re-installing everything?

The essential thing is:

1) Edit LocalSettings.php and change the $wgSitename setting.

You may also wish to:

2) run maintenance/rebuildMessages.php --update to re-source localized messages. Shouldn't be strictly required with current versions of MediaWiki, but some older versions hardcoded information into the wiki at install time.

3) Run maintenance/namespaceDupes.php --fix in case your new name produced any namespace conflicts which could make existing pages inaccessible.

4) Run maintenance/refreshLinks.php to update link tables.

5) Check Special:Allmessages and Special:Allpages for pages which might need to be moved and links that need to be fixed

Thanks to Brion Vibber on the mailing list. This info is presumed to be accurate as of MediaWiki 1.6. I have not tested it. -- [[User:Sy|Sy]] / <sup>[[User_Talk:Sy|(talk)]]</sup> 15:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

== Importing large amounts of existing material? ==

I'm new to wiki in general and mediawiki in particular. I'm skilled in SQL but unskilled in PHP. My company has a large amount of existing information in online help files, customer support databases, etc. Are there any guides to converting that information to wiki format? I've looked at amazon and bookpool for books that cover these topics, but it looks like the best book is outdated (Perl-based) and the others don't address conversion very much.

: Try http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:WordToWiki or Import, Export function http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Export http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import - Lesiu

== Making cleanup template look like wikipedia's==

I'm trying to figure out why I cannot make the cleanup template look like Wikipedia's. I took the template text, so that it has the same information, although the blue box is not appearing as well. How do I add the blue box? [[User:12.223.26.3|12.223.26.3]] 06:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

== Going direct to Edit page when article does not yet exist from link or search ==

Just set up a new Wiki last week, and during initial customization I found instructions on how to configure it to automatically bring up an edit page with text editor whenever a page is not found. Sounded efficient, so I did it. Since our users are all Wiki Newbies, it turned out not to be so good an idea, after all, but now I can't find the instructions in order to set it back! I would have sworn this info was in the FAQ, but during install and setup I was bouncing back and forth between meta, here, and some third-party sites trying to figure out what to do next, so I could very well be wrong. Can someone please tell me how to set this feature back to the default, and perhaps it should be included in the faq. Thanks.

:It's <code>$wgGoToEdit</code>; remove the override line from LocalSettings.php or set it to false. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 12:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== Protect Namespace ==

Only sysops can add pages to Mediawiki namespace. Is it possible to create new namespace, where only sysops will have permission in adding and editing pages? Or change preferences for existing namespace, i.e. Help: ?
:[[meta:Setting user rights in MediaWiki]] and [[meta:Hidden pages]]. [[User:Seb35|Seb35]] 16:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fast answer! I've never use and don't know php language, but I found in includes/Title.php this code:
<pre> if( NS_MEDIAWIKI == $this->mNamespace &&
!$wgUser->isAllowed('editinterface') ) {
wfProfileOut( $fname );
return false;
}</pre>I copied it again, and changed ''NS_MEDIAWIKI'' in i.e. ''100'' - number of my custom namespace. And it works! - Only sysops can add and edit pages in this namespace, but everyone can read it. I would like to ask you - is it good and safe solution? 21:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

: Yes, but you will lose the change when you next upgrade your copy of MediaWiki, unless you take care. Make sure you note the changes you have made to a separate (new) file so that you can re-apply them after an upgrade. Also be sure to lock your wiki when you perform an upgrade, otherwise there will be a period of time between upgrading to the new version and re-applying your fix when these pages will be editable by everyone! Note that subsequent versions of MediaWiki may not work in the same way, so your fix is not guaranteed to work in the future, however I don't know of any method of achieving the above using the existing settings so unless I am mistaken then hacking the code is the best way, for now. --[[User:HappyDog|HappyDog]] 12:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Editing 'Expand this page' ==

How do i change the 'expand this page' html, that is how do i change what it says when i use the <nowiki>{{expand}}</nowiki> command? [[User:24.110.3.148|24.110.3.148]] 08:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
:Edit [[Template:Expand]] -- [[User:Barrylb|Barrylb]] 18:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

== Error when clicking "Please '''setup the wiki''' first." ==

I get this error when trying to install:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NEW in /includes/MagicWord.php on line 203

Please give response or email fvercuiel@gmail.com

:You're using an older version of PHP that MediaWiki 1.7 does not support. MediaWiki 1.7.0 and later require PHP 5 (5.1.x is recommended). '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 12:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
::I get the same error with PHP 5.0.5 (specifically, 5.0.5-2ubuntu1.4, built 7 Sep 2006 08:02:47).

== Change the mulitple-links-to-one-host-style ==

How can I keep the wiki from translating multiple links to the same host to [1], [2], ...? I try to use the Mediawiki as an Intranet and therefore Documentations often reside on the same host but I still want to provide a visible Link-Title. --[[User:VVA|VVA]] 08:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

:Either use the labelled external link syntax, e.g. <code><nowiki>[http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</nowiki></code> or investigate the use of interwiki links which allow linking such as <code><nowiki>[[m:Main Page]]</nowiki></code>. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 13:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

===How do I change a user's password?===
Assuming that <var>$wgPasswordSalt</var> is set to true (the default), you can use the following SQL query:

UPDATE user SET user_password = MD5(CONCAT(user_id, '-',
MD5('somepass'))) WHERE user_name = 'someuser';
Where obviously "somepass" is changed to the password you want to set and "someuser" is changed to the user name as it is listed in the table "user".

Note: the user_id in the CONCAT string is a column name and is not meant to be replaced with 'someuser'

Note: For error of table 'dbname.user' does not exist, please check the LocalSettings.php for $wgDBPrefix, the user table might be named to ($wgDBPreix)user.

== Underscore in title ==

I want to use MediaWiki for a manual and reference. As several of my functions have '_' within their name, it would be nice if the name of the function would be displayed with _ instead of blank especially in the title of the page. Is there any possibility to tell MediaWiki that the lemma must have a _ instead of a blank? --[[User:87.78.154.2|87.78.154.2]] 15:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

:No. [[User:164.11.204.56|164.11.204.56]] 01:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

== 1.7.1 and $wgDBtransactions ==

After a fresh Mediawiki 1.7.1 install and albeit many tables use the 'InnoDB' storage engine, the default '$wgDBtransactions' remains at its historical 'false' value. It is used in 'includes/Article.php' clauses.

May I set "$wgDBtransactions = true" in LocalSettings.php? Is this variable obsolete?

Thank you [[User:Natmaka|Natmaka]] 16:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

==Hiding some titles==

How is Wikipedia hiding the main page's title but not the titles within? I would like to be able to choose whether the title is shown, but cannot figure out how it is done, despite Wikipedia clearly doing so on the main page. I know how to hide the titles completely using my .php file for my skin, but I am not figuring out how to make the title disappear at will. It would be nice to have a <nowiki>__NOTITLE__</nowiki> magic word that would just do this for me.

:Short answer; JavaScript. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.js. A magic word as discussed was not implemented because some of the developers felt it would be abused and was not needed. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

==Content Migration from different existing wikis to one==
We do have some wikis in our organization (all mediawiki but different server, different versions, mostly v. 1.3.x)) and now plan to insatll one (media)wiki (v 1.7.1) instead. Of course there's lots of content we dont't want to loose, but also old stuff that does not need to be transferred to the new wiki.
Is there a user friendly way of selecting specific pages and transfer those to the new wiki (instead of copy&paste or some work in MySQL (which cannot be done by the users))?

I know of the Special:Export page. Only that Import is not working for older versions and I Don't know whether Export from 1.3.wiki works for import in wiki 1.7.

18 July 2006

:The XML format from earlier versions should be 100% compatible with the current development, release and the most recent legacy (1.6) branches. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

==Delete a file==
We just installed a wiki at work and I need to know how to delete a file as the steps aren't in the article yet. Thanks. [[User:Rlevse|Rlevse]] 13:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
:Also, how to delete a user and reset a password.[[User:140.32.75.204|140.32.75.204]] 18:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

From the mysql prompt:

mysql> DELETE FROM user WHERE user_name = 'Jcarr';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Note that mediawiki seems to like to capitalize the first letter of your login name. If you don't have the username correct, mysql will return "Query OK, 0 rows affected" [[User:Jeff Carr|Jeff Carr]] 20:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:Note that deleting users in that manner does not remove the copious references to them from the rest of the database, and ''could'' cause odd problems later. A safer method is to run <tt>'''reassignEdits.php'''</tt> on the account, assign the edits to a name that does not exist, and then delete the account. As an alternative, consider blocking the user or scrambling their password.

:To delete a page, log in as an administrator, and select the ''Delete'' option from the context menu which appears, in the Monobook (default) skin, at the top of each page.

:To reset a user's password, the simpler option is to ensure there's an email address associated with the account, and ask the user to click "lost password" when logging in. If this is not an option, then look at the <tt>'''maintenance/changePassword.php'''</tt> script or [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mediawiki+password+md5 search the web for '''mediawiki password md5''']. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

==Sessions errors==
I've been trying to fix our install of MediaWiki, and have found that some pages (main page, in particular) do not show up correctly unless logged in. I attempted to edit the page to see if that would fix it, and I got this error:

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in.

and the edits never go through. In getting the wiki to work again, I had copied data from a new objectcache to and older one, could this be related? Thanks very much!
--[[User:128.113.63.60|128.113.63.60]] 13:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

:The first problem sounds like caching. Set <tt>'''$wgCacheEpoch'''</tt> in <tt>'''LocalSettings.php'''</tt> as follows to force MediaWiki to clear old caches:

::<code>$wgCacheEpoch = '20060812042000';</code>

:The second problem, if the edits aren't being saved, could be due to PHP not saving session data in the right location. Check the value of <tt>'''session.save_path'''</tt> in the <tt>'''php.ini'''</tt> configuration file and check it points to a valid, writable path. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

== Semi-protection and time limit ==

I've searched for it quite extensively, but I cannot find it anywhere. How to implement a 4 day waiting period for registered users to be able to edit semi-protected pages, like it is the case in en.w? If someone could point me to the place (which I am almost sure exists) on how to implement that, I'd appreciate it.

:Set <tt>'''$wgAutoConfirmAge'''</tt>, e.g.

::<code>$wgAutoConfirmAge = 4 * 86400;</code>

:in <tt>'''LocalSettings.php'''</tt>. [[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

== change the font size ==

Hi. How can I change the font size of my own wiki? I cannot find the place to change that.

:Browse to the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page on your wiki and add in your CSS as usual, e.g.

::<code>#content p {<br />   font-size: 11pt;<br />}</code>

:[[User:86.134.116.228|86.134.116.228]] 04:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

== Passing a space as argument to an extension ==

Don't know if this is the right space to discuss this. If not, please point me ...

I am trying to pass a space as an argument to an extension.

Example:
<pre>
<extension argument=" ">
text
</extension>
</pre>

The extension code registering the extension is as follows:
<pre>
function extension() {
global $wgParser;
$wgParser->setHook( 'extension', 'doit' );
}

function doit( $input, $args, &$parser ) {

...

}
</pre>

The $args in the function 'doit' are already space free. It seems that the arguments get trimmed(), because something like <code>argument=". ."</code> goes through but <code>argument=" | "</code> results in just a single <code>|</code> without leading and trailing space.

Is there a way to avoid this?

--[[User:83.171.153.127|83.171.153.127]] 22:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

==Remove Edit tab for non logged in users==
Ok, I've read the FAQ, but I can't seem to understand it. Can someone show me how the final code should look when its done? I use the MonoBook skin.--[[User:70.33.138.121|70.33.138.121]] 23:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
:Oops, this is me, didnt realize I wasnt logged in.--[[User:Trek84|Trek84]] 23:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
:Does this item make sense anymore anyway? "How can I prevent editing by anonymous users?" looks more like one actually wants and the "Remove Edit tab" tip does only remove the edit tab but not the in page section edit links anyway [[User:Hholzgra|Hholzgra]] 21:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
:: Well, you can hide it in your global CSS by modifying the skin files, or you could just disable page editing by anonymous users, and they would get the "View source" tab instead of the "edit" tab. [[User:Titoxd|Tito]][[:en:User:Titoxd|<font color="#008000">xd</font>]]<sup>([[:en:User talk:Titoxd|?!?]])</sup> 08:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

== differences between 1.5x, 1.6x, 1.7x ==

Where can I find a list of the main differences between the version 1.5x, 1.6x, 1.7x ?

:Compare the release notes in each version. The release notes shipped with 1.6.0 detail changes since the 1.5 branch, for instance. '''[[User:Robchurch|robchurch]]''' | [[User_talk:Robchurch|talk]] 02:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

== Sign Up as an Administrator ==
How do I sign up as an administrator? How can I create an sysop account?
:If you are the system administrator of the wiki, when you has create your wiki the installation script should ask you the pseudo and the password for a sysop-and-bucreaucrat account. You can use this account for give sysop rights to other users.
:If you aren't system admin, you must ask a bureaucrat the sysop rights or perhaps be eleted. ~ [[User:Seb35|Seb35]] 18:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
::The 1.8 MediaWiki installation script does not ask for this information, it sets up the first user as the administrator. To make an account a sysop you may want to look into the Makesysop extension used here on Mediawiki (which surprising has no page at all describing it nor including the code). Also a good resource is here at [[Help:Managing_user_rights|Managing User Rights]], however as that currently redirects you to Meta you can go directly here: [[meta:Help:User_levels|Meta: Help:User Levels]] --[[User:Grymwulf|Grymwulf]] 04:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

== Transclusion ==
Is there a way of Transcluding a template only if that temaplte exists? I don't want to get the red link if it doesn't exist.

The reason I want to do this is as follows:

I want to use templates on my wiki's main page <nowiki>{{this week{{CURRENTWEEK}}}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{today{{CURRENTDAY}}}}</nowiki> which will display any special information for that day. If nothing is happening on that day then I don't want anything to show up.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zabdiel Zabdiel]] 15:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
:I don't know if it's possible, but you can hack with the [[meta:ParserFunctions|ParserFunctions]] (you must install this on your wiki) :
:Create an intermediate template <tt>Template:DisplayTemplate</tt> (or other name) with
:<code><nowiki>{{#ifexist:Template:{{{templat|}}}|{{{{{templat}}}}}}}</nowiki></code>
:You use <code>{{DisplayTemplate|today{{CURRENTDAY}}}}</code> and will display only if <tt>Template:today{{CURRENTDAY}}</tt>
:~ [[User:Seb35|Seb35]] 18:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

== How to change the date format ? ==

I want to change the date format on the footer

this page was last modifed 16:24, etc I want to remove the timestamp and leave just the date

how would I do this ?

== How to remove the title of "Main Page"==

Hi, I would like to remove the title from the Main Page the same way as in Wikipedia.
I searched google and found a solution, which included editing monobook.js, but couldn't get it working.

== I've got a ? ==

what is the newest version of MediaWiki that works on PHP 4.4.4?
:[[Important Release Notes|MW 1.6.8]] --[[User:Bdk|<span style="color:#116611">:Bdk:</span>]] 22:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

== Thumbnail Image File Size Not Optimized ==

I have noticed that thumbnail image sizes are not optimized. For example, a PNG image that is 63KB turns into a thumbnail that is approximatly 53KB. But when I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro, I can further reduce the size of the thumbnail to 16KB with no noticeable quality loss. How do I make it so thumbnail file sizes become more optimized?

==Linking to .mov files (Quick Time) won't work==
After: allowing uploading of .mov files to my wiki, successfully uploading a certain .mov file and watching it from the page I've been directed to, I found my wiki won't link to it.
If I type, for instance, [[Media:Example.mov]] (assuming my .mov file's named ''Example''), I'd get a red link, leading to "Upload file" page. What am I doing wrong? --[[User:87.69.58.71|87.69.58.71]] 17:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
: Check your apache error logs. Most likely you're running into PHP's 8MB upload limit. I came across this discussion because I was searching for a way around it, which I still haven't found. --Anonymous User, 16 November 2006

==Search in different wikis==
[[User:Proth|Proth]] 16:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
*Hello, I would like to know if there is a way to, from one wiki, search words also in a different wiki and have all the results shown in the first Wiki?
**ex: Type words to search in Wiki A, wiki A search in itself and also in Wiki B and show all the results in Wiki A.
Many thanks in advance.

==Search spécial characters==
[[User:Proth|Proth]] 16:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
*Hello, We still have a recurent problem in searching for special caracters, like accents, in Wiki.
**ex: Search for word "eglise" doesn't give articles containing word "église".
*We can't find any information/solution for this problem. If anybody have a idea...
Many thanks in advance.

:I'm currently working on an extension, [[Extension:DidYouMean|DidYouMean]] that finds titles which differ only by capitalisation, hyphenation, and use of accents and ligatures. It's primarily for the English Wiktionary but once it exists people will be able to massage it into something more general for other wikis. — [[User:Hippietrail|Hippietrail]] 12:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

== Does Webscapia's Coconut CMS work with MediaWiki? ==
Yes, to run mediawiki side-by-side with Coconut CMS you must have version 1.2+ installed! After you have ensured that version 1.2+ is installed, do the following:
1. Login as administrator in the admin panel.
2. Click on modules, and click on the software install tab.
3. Select mediawiki.
4. DO NOT CLICK ON DOWNLOAD. Under the mediawiki click on integration and wait for the installer to configure Coconut CMS.
5. And your done. A new tab should appear in the main menu called Wiki. If this does not happen make sure in /Coconut/admin_cp/functions/func_menucreate.php has a chmod of 777. And then run the integration installer once again.

== setup not working ==

* PHP 5.2.0 installed
* Found database drivers for: MySQL
* PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
* Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
* Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used.
* GNU diff3 not found.
* Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
* Installation directory: C:\Apache\htdocs\w
* Script URI path: /w
* Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
* Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually.

Generating configuration file...
* Database type: MySQL
* Loading class: DatabaseMysql
* Attempting to connect to database server as wikiuser...success.
* Connected to 5.0.27-community-nt
* Database wikidb exists
* Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, user_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', user_password tinyblob NOT NULL default '', user_newpassword tinyblob NOT NULL default '', user_email tinytext NOT NULL default '', user_options blob NOT NULL default '', user_touched char(14) binary NOT NULL default '', user_token char(32) binary NOT NULL default '', user_email_authenticated char(14) binary, user_email_token char(32) binary, user_email_token_expires char(14) binary, user_registration char(14) binary, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) TYPE=InnoDB " failed with error code "BLOB/TEXT column 'user_password' can't have a default value (localhost)".

i fixed it by turning off strict mode

:Please submit this to the [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Bug Tracker] --[[User:Grymwulf|Grymwulf]] 05:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

== Edit sidebar, part 2 ==

I understand how to edit the sidebar above the search box, by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar, But how do I edit the sidebar below it. Some wiki's have an additional box below the toolbox section, for seperate links, such as "Site in a different langusge" or containing Google Adsense.

--[[User:PlantPhotos|Steve Gallagher]] 22:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

:To do this edit '''MediaWiki:Sidebar-lower'''. I dont know if this works in all versions.--[[User:George Drummond|George Drummond]] 22:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

== How do I use the same user-table for different wikis? ==

How do I use the same users table for differents wikis that use the same datebase?
(Asked by [[User:Eloy|Eloy]] 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC))
:Could this be answered please? --[[User:Zervon|Zervon]] 18:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
::Maybe you can create a view with [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-view.html MySQL 5.x]:
::create view schema1.user as select * from schema2.user --[[User:Maletin|Maletin]] 14:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

== Upgrades ==

I just upgraded MW v1.9 to 1.9.2.
<br />Background: My server has php5 installed but it runs php4 as a default. So, I had to do a little trick to install the MW v.1.9 originall by adding .access file and <code>AddType x-mapp-php5 .php</code> and place it at the root directory of my server to tell it to use php5 instead of php4.
;The update instruction tells you to go to command line and type <code>$ php update.php</code>
*So, as simpleminded as I was, I typed <code>$ php update.php</code> but it didn't work
;It's because I should have ignored $ symbol at the command line
*So, I typed <code>php update.php</code>, but I got the message that this MW version requires php5 but my server is running on php4.
;I found out that I had to type <code>php5 update.php</code> in my case.
*So, I typed <code>php5 update.php</code> but now it told me I had to have a LocalConfig.php -- well I am a total beginner, so I just followed the instruction and there was no mention of creating a LocalSettings.php before the update command, but it make sense that I had to have the file...to come to think of it. My bad.
;So, I moved my LocalSettings.php file along with all the customized files into the new wiki files.
*This time it told me that it couldn't connect to the database and told me to check the database name, user name, and password.
;This, I couldn't figure out why it didn't work as all the information on my LocalSettings.php were correct.
*I gave up on update and went for install -- good news is that this worked and I didn't loose anything other than the time I spent on trying to update -- I had the database backed up just in case.
<br ?>I hope this helps others save their time and alleviate pain.--[[User:Kohyin|Kohyin]] 09:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

== How can i remove the external.png arrow from appearing next to external links? ==
In /skins/monobook/main.css Ctrl+F "this can be used in the content area to switch off" and uncomment (remove the #). Also remove the following code:<br />
<nowiki>#</nowiki>bodyContent a.external,<br />
<nowiki>#</nowiki>bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {<br />
background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat;<br />
padding-right: 13px;<br />
}

== Blank Pages despite successful installation ==

Am trying to use MediaWiki on WIMP. Win2k Prof, IIS 6, MySQL 4.1.22, PHP 5.2.1. Downloaded MediaWiki 1.9.3. Installation is successful and main page has come up. But clicking on any link on the Main page is displaying a blank page in IE. What could be the problem. Pls help. Am trying to figure it out for the last 3 days and haven't found a solution. - Radha

: what do the error logs of IIS and PHP say? -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|?]] 12:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how to interpret the log. sorry. But these are the last 2 entries:
12:03:17 127.0.0.1 GET /enlighten/index.php 301
12:03:17 127.0.0.1 GET /enlighten/index.php 200
Today, I reinstalled PHP, recreated the vdir in IIS and put in $wgCachePages = false; in localsetttings.php. And guess what? The main page is itself blank. :( Don't know what to do. - Radha

== Bug in hide section editing? (3.16) ==
<code>$wgDefaultUserOptions ['editsection'] = 0;</code>

works fine for deactivating the section editing links. But if the "raw" action is disabled, the section editing links show up again.

<code>$wgDisabledActions = array('raw');</code>

Why is that?

== Promote user MySQL statement update ==

For MediaWiki version 1.9.3 the mysql command to promote a user to a sysop is incorrect.
INSERT INTO user_group SET ug_id = youruserid, ug_group = "sysop"<br>
the table is now 'user_groups' and the ug_id field has changed to ug_user, hence the correct command would be:
INSERT INTO user_groups SET ug_user = <int, user_userid>, ug_group = "sysop"

Also, you would probably want to do a <br>
select user_id, user_name from user;<br>
first, so you can find the correct user_id value
: Thanks! Interestingly enough, that SQL must have been wrong since the beginning, because I don't see any changes that were done to that table... [[User:Titoxd|Tito]][[:en:User:Titoxd|<font color="#008000">xd</font>]]<sup>([[:en:User talk:Titoxd|?!?]])</sup> 04:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

== Thumbnails do not work ==

http://www.khakain.com/wiki2/index.php?title=Special:Newimages

As you can see, only a few images can been seen in their thumbnail form. This has been going on for over a year. Would upgrading solve this problem? If this isn't the right place to ask, please tell me a good place to go. I've been trying for months to find the reason for this.

note: I don't want to see this on any interwiki pages, by the way.

== How can I make the categories box appear on top of an article page instead of the bottom? ==

This is handled by the "catlinks". Edit the skin. E.g. skins/Monobook.php: Find this section:
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" style="border-collapse:collapse;"
|-valign="top"
|
<nowiki></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php if($this->data['catlinks']) { ?><div id="catlinks"><?php $this->html('catlinks') ?></div><?php } ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php $this->html('bodytext') ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki></nowiki>
|}
Switch the 2 lines to:
{| border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse;"
|-valign="top"
|
<nowiki></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php $this->html('bodytext') ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><?php if($this->data['catlinks']) { ?><div id="catlinks"><?php $this->html('catlinks') ?></div><?php } ?></nowiki><br />
<nowiki></nowiki>
|}

== Using deleteOldRevisions.php ==

It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to use this:
* Run PuTTY
* cd yourdomain
* cd yourwikidirectory
* cd maintenance
* If you're using php5 then type in: /usr/local/php5/bin/php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete
* If you're using php4 then you can just type: php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete

This procedure will work for all of the scripts in the maintenance directory. Make sure you download and look at the script before running it to see if it has any notes or usage guidelines. [[User:David Shenk|David Shenk]] 18:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

== making mediawiki faster? ==

I remember during install it asked me if I had certain things on my server to make the software faster. In the future, if I do get these things, how do I implement them into my wiki later on? Also, I can't recall the names of them? Sorry for my ignorance, any help is appreciated. [[User:66.192.186.99|66.192.186.99]] 19:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

==Removing logo picture==
To remove logo removing of '''wgLogo''' variable and setting
#column-one { padding-top: 21px; }
'''NOT''' works if you splitted navigation bar into two parts, you have to set this too:
#p-logo {
display:none;
height: 0px;
width: 0px;
}
otherwise it redirects you to logo link when you click on first few links in (new splitted) navigation bar

--[[User:Betlista|Betlista]] 15:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

== How can I force users to preview before they save in version 1.10? ==

Does anyone know how to fix [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_can_I_force_users_to_preview_before_they_save.3F this issue] (How can I force users to preview before they save) for MediaWiki 1.10? Thanks in advance. /Minken

:I do it this way on my wiki: (in diff format) --[[User:203.217.47.76|203.217.47.76]], aka [[en:User:Jeremy.Visser]] 22:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Index: includes/EditPage.php
===================================================================
--- includes/EditPage.php (revision 22056)
+++ includes/EditPage.php (working copy)
@@ -1152,6 +1152,10 @@
$checkboxhtml = implode( $checkboxes, "\n" );

$buttons = $this->getEditButtons( $tabindex );
+
+ if ( $this->formtype !== 'preview' )
+ unset($buttons['save']);
+
$buttonshtml = implode( $buttons, "\n" );

$safemodehtml = $this->checkUnicodeCompliantBrowser()

::Thank you very much, Jeremy Visser. It works fine! /Minken

==Removing Edit Tab Doesn't Work==

i'm trying to remove the edit tab so that users who do not have an account cannot edit information on my wiki. i've tried exactly what the FAQ answer says to do. My wiki is a default wiki at the moment. i'm wondering if anyone who comes to the site is logged in by default with their IP address being their username. The IP Address shows up next to the login/signup link at the top right with a "my talk" page link next to it. Does this have anything to do with it my "edit tab" problem? Thanks, [[User:Lefedy|Lefedy]] 14:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

==Title Extension==
What is the name of the Extension that allows you to change the titles of pages? [[User:Plumber|Plumber]] 23:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

== How to start over ==

As a first-time creator of a wiki, I am unsure about some choices on the MediaWiki site config form. Will I be able to go back and do any of them over again, without having to drop all tables in the database and starting from a fresh copy of the MediaWiki software? Are those two steps enough to ensure a fresh start?

== How do I remove the "Talk for this IP" link at the top right when $wgDisableAnonTalk is true ==

When I add this in 1.10, after I log in I get an error on getText(). any ideas? [[User:68.4.226.3|68.4.226.3]] 05:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

test

== Changing tabs? ==

How do I change the tabs on the header above, like "manual" "discussion" "edit" "history".
I´d like to use my own labels for these expressions...

== Background color on namespaces ==

Hi,

How do we change the background color on namespaces? For example, on mediawiki the "Manual" namespace has a grey background, and normal articles has a white one. It's the same on wikipedia. So how can we do this?

Thank you.

--[[User:83.68.199.212|83.68.199.212]] 19:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

== mail features ==

Howto set up mail features?

* The easy way (need to be able to install stuff on the server)

::#install the package php-pear : apt-get install php-pear
::#then as root : pear install --alldeps mail
::#then edit LocalSettings.php and add :<nowiki>$wgSMTP = array(
'host' => "smtp.yourprovider.com",
'IDHost' => "domain for MessageID",
'port' => 25,
'auth' => false,
'username' => "my_user_name",
'password' => "my_password"
);</nowiki>
::#then you will be able to send email confirmation or else

* the hard way (need to have a MTA installed)

::* don't know how to do that

== Disable editing ==

How do I disable editing?

== Category "Access Denied" ==

I doubt I'll get a response here, given the lack of responses to many previous questions, but here goes. I can't add categories (or even links to categories) on my MediaWiki site. I get an "Access Denied" error. [[User:Eep|Eep²]] 11:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
:Consider moving this question to [[Project:Support desk]]. Does that only happen with categories or with all articles? --[[User:Flominator|Flominator]] 11:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

::Well, I don't have any existing categories and was/am trying to create new ones. Oddly, the "Access Denied" only happens if I enter summary text but if I leave the summary blank, the category links show up fine. I don't get it... [[User:Eep|Eep²]] 12:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

== Basil White is Too Stupid to Load MediaWiki ==

I give up. I have no administrative control over a shared S:/ drive. I want to load a "blank Wikipedia" on S:/ with all the enabling software at S:/wiki so people who can get to S:/ can build wiki topics under S:/ and link to files in "parallel" directories, like s:/abc, s:/schedule, etc. I loaded WAMP5 and followed the instructions as best I could and looked at what I loaded at http://basilwhite.com/WAMP5/www/ to figure out how to actually create pages of content. I'd use pbwiki but I don't want any content to exist anywhere than on the S:/drive. I've read all the directions in mediawiki.org, and to this Liberal Arts major, they read like quotes from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/quotes THX-1138]. Won't you help a Liberal Arts major? --> basilwhite @7 basilwhite d0Oo7 c0Oom [[User:Basilwhite|Basilwhite]] 08:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

:: http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/117121.html sent me to http://lifehacker.com/software/wikipedia/geek-to-live-set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php

:: ...which I'll try, but it's not the same as Wikipedia. Sigh... [[User:Basilwhite|Basilwhite]] 00:33, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

== How can I make DefaultSettings.php to Localsttings.php? ==
I have a question: How can I make DefaultSettings.php to Localsttings.php?

==PLEASE make this page editable==

there is no explanation in the hide the main title section '''where''' you should add this code. I was going to add this:

:Paste the following code into your [[Special:Mypage/monobook.js|user:''username''/monobook.js]] page

I also wanted to add this link:

:*[[:w:Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives|Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives]]

Can someone do this? [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 00:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

== What is this Wiki? ==

What type of Wiki is this?([[Special:Contributions/76.247.222.101|76.247.222.101]] 08:38, 22 November 2007 (UTC))
:See [[About this site]]--[[User:BrianOregon|Brian]] 22:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

== Change the value of $wgLogo to point to the URL of your own logo image does not work. ==

I changed the URL to point my Logo.jpg but it only shows on random pages.

[[Special:Contributions/88.115.194.214|88.115.194.214]] 12:00, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

==Search for short words not working after proposed changes==
I've changed the fulltext index to 2 and 2 for both mysql variables and rebuilt the indexes (using the maintenance script), but this did '''not''' fix the problem. I still don't find anything when searching for XY or XYZ, even though the pages containing these words are in the searchindex table. Anything else I can do about that?

== Can you hide the titles of namespaces a user doesnt have access to in the search page? ==

Does anyone know of a way to hide namespaces to which a user has no access in the search page where you select the namespaces to be searched? I've modified the search so the results don't contain text from hidden pages, but it would be nice to hide the fact that a namespace exists at all to avoid hacking attempts. It would also be nice to just hide some of the inherent mediawiki namespaces to have less clutter. I thought I read how to do this somewhere awhile back but I just can't find it now! Thanks for any help.

:I user the extension "Blacklist" to hide my special-pages (and others) from the users (admin has to place a userdefined list into the LocalSettings.php), and this works properly. It should also work with specified namespaces.--[[User:FSLEP|FSLEP]] 08:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

== How Can I Change the Text on the Create Account Page? ==

Specifically, I want to change the "Already got an account? Log in." text.
:Mark some text from a row, copy it, search/find it on Special:Allmessages --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 02:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

== How can I change User Links on top? ==

I'd like to add a new User Link on the very right top of the page and remove some. Where can I change it? --[[User:Subfader|Subfader]] 00:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

== How do I add more buttons on the edit page? - Does not work ==

Hello,

i added in two different wikis the same for additional buttons in MediaWiki:Common.js, but in one the buttons do not appear. is there any variable that needs to be added to local setting to support additional buttons or what else might be the reason?<br><br>
thanks in advance<br>
kind regards<br>
--[[User:TurboKanne|TurboKanne]] 11:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

== Using DPL, how do I get a listing of "lastedited" for a specific month? ==

Using DPL, how do I get a listing of "lastedited" for a specific month?

==Recentchanges only shows max. 7 days???? ==
<u>My machine:</u><br />
MediaWiki: 1.11.1 <br />
PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler) <br />
MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt <br />

My problem:

the function Recentchanges only shows maximum the last changes of the last 7 days, even if you change to "show the last changes of the last 30 days" (&days=30), result: only the last 7 days are displayed.
example:<br />
<nowiki>http://[...]/dewiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Letzte_%C3%84nderungen&limit=500&days=30</nowiki><br />
(there are not many changes, the limit of 500 is enough)

Am I doing something wrong?

Is it a bug?

Is there a "hidden" maximum anywhere, maybe in the LocalSettings.php, or somewhere else?--[[User:FSLEP|FSLEP]] 07:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

: 7 days is the default, yes -- it's called ''recent'' changes for a reason :) The limit can be configured using [[Manual:$wgRCMaxAge]].
: The fact that there's a "30 days" link on the page even if the DB only has 7 is confusing though. -- [[Special:Contributions/217.234.218.114|217.234.218.114]] 09:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
:: Thanks for your answers. This seems to be the solution for my problem.<br />
:: Is it to be placed in the LocalSetting.php? <br />
:: Example: <tt>$wgRCMaxAge= "7 * 24 * 3600 ";</tt> --[[User:FSLEP|FSLEP]] 06:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

== Imaging problem ==

* MediaWiki: [http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page wiki-site.com]
* PHP: ?
* MySQL: no
* URL: http://nuclearvacuum.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page

Whenever an image is uploaded to my Wiki, it uploads OK, but it will not thumb into any other size other then the one it currently is. What code would this be and how could I fix this? -- [[User:NuclearVacuum|Nuclear]][[User talk:NuclearVacuum|Vacuum]] 00:48, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

:I do not believe that this is happening simply because I did not download it to my desktop. It seems to be working fine on others using the same site (and at the same level as mine). What is the problem here, and please answer me. Here is a [http://nuclearvacuum.wiki-site.com/index.php/United_States_of_Europe link] to one of my articles that I put a picture on, so I can show you what it looks like. When I try to resize or put the picture in a thumb, it just says "Error creating thumbnail:" and does not show the picture. -- [[User:NuclearVacuum|Nuclear]][[User talk:NuclearVacuum|Vacuum]] 00:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::Which OS and platform? — [[User:VasilievVV|VasilievVV]] 17:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

:::My OC is '''Microsoft Windows''' and my platform (I believe) is '''Java'''. Does this help you out? -- {{user|NuclearVacuum}} 17:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
::::Try to set <code>$wgUseImageMagick = true;</code> — [[User:VasilievVV|VasilievVV]] 17:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Where is this found? -- {{user|NuclearVacuum}} 17:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

: Add the line to your LocalSettings.php. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

::Where is my LocalSettings.php? Where would it be found? [[User:NuclearVacuum|NuclearVacuum]] 17:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
::: В папке, в которую Вы поставили MediaWiki — [[User:VasilievVV|VasilievVV]] 17:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

::::I did not download this wiki. It does not require me to download it. I have no folder for it. [http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page] -- [[User:NuclearVacuum|NuclearVacuum]] 17:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
::::: *Notices your url.* You seem to be on a wiki-farm. You should [http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/Support_contact contact wiki-site] and get them to help you, since they have access to your LocalSettings.php and other files if you don't. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

== Uneeded Copyright removal ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.6(cgi)
*MySQL: 5.0.51-log
*URL: http://osirius.co.uk/wiki/

I don't own the afformentioned wiki, but I was wondering, how can I tell the owner how to removed the second copyright he has on the bottom of every page? He has it loading on the bottom left of every page, in addition to the pre-loaded copyright notice, so, could I given step by step instructions on how to remove this uneeded copyright? Thanks! —[[User:Logestic|Logestic]] 20:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

PS: Is there anything I can add to my common.css to make it disappear? - [[User:Logestic|Logestic]] 20:43, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

:When looking at the source code, I find out that a gnu-fdl.png should be shown there instead of just the gnu-fdl link. Perhaps this image is not in the location where it should be so just the alternate text is shown:
<pre><nowiki><div id="f-copyrightico"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">
<img src="/w/skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png" alt='GNU Free Documentation License 1.2' /></a></div></nowiki></pre>
:To remove it from being displayed using common.css this should work:
div#f-copyrightico {display: none;}
:Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 09:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== How to change the destination of the login/register link on the right top of the screen ==

* MediaWiki: 1.11
* PHP: 5.2.3
* MySQL: 5.0.41

Hi there mates i'm trying to force that when you click on this link it will redirect you to another site i have on my localhost system. So i can log in thru CAS authentication. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks a lot!

—[[User:Juanan|Juanan]] 10:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

==[RESOLVED] Upgrade Problems==

*MediaWiki: 1.9.2 / 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.6
*PostgreSQL: 8.2.7
*URL: [http://www.vampiregame.co.uk/ Title]

I recently upgraded my MediaWiki installation from 1.9.2 to 1.12.0.

After upgrading, I found that no page was visible. A quick search for DOMDocument revealed that I need to install php-xml. So I ran the command:

yum install php-xml

This took a while to execute (including quite a few updates for dependancies). After the update, postgres failed to start. I checked the documentation, and found that postgres had been updated from 8.1.0 to 8.2.7 (which have incompatible data formats).

Luckily, I had run pg_dumpall before trying to upgrade mediawiki. I restored this dump in the usual way. But now, mediawiki just gives me:

A database error has occurred Query: SELECT * FROM page_restrictions WHERE pr_page = '1' Function: Title::loadRestrictions Error: 1 ERROR: relation "page_restrictions" does not exist
Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/wiki/includes/Database.php(799): DatabasePostgres->reportQueryError('ERROR: relatio...', 1, 'SELECT * FROM...', 'Title::loadRest...', false)
#1 /var/www/wiki/includes/Database.php(1244): Database->query('SELECT * FROM...', 'Title::loadRest...')
#2 /var/www/wiki/includes/Title.php(1725): Database->select('page_restrictio...', '*', Array, 'Title::loadRest...')
#3 /var/www/wiki/includes/Article.php(312): Title->loadRestrictions('')
#4 /var/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(256): Article->loadPageData(Object(stdClass))
#5 /var/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(46): MediaWiki->initializeArticle(Object(Title), Object(WebRequest))
#6 /var/www/wiki/index.php(90): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(StubObject), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
#7 {main}

Can anyone suggest what the problem might be here, or how to fix it? The table page_restrictions appears to exist as far as I can tell.

—[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

:OK, I should have figured this one out sooner. I ran the upgrade script after dumping the database, so I need to do it again. However, I now get an authentication failure for user 'dracula'@'localhost' (Using password: YES)
:I've tried logging in to the database using the same username and password specified in LocalSettings.php, and it works fine. I have no idea if the problem is with MW, PHP or postgres now.
:--[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 15:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

::Resolved - turned out to be a postgres config error --[[User:MrAngel|MrAngel]] 16:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

== Interwiki SQL error ==

*MediaWiki: 1.13alpha trunk version
*PHP: 5
*MySQL: 
*URL: 
I installed the latest version successfully on my localhost wiki, for testing. However, interwiki links do not work from the interwiki-sql file. This is the error message I get:
<pre>
SQL query:

(
'zh', 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-cfr', 'http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-classical', 'http://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-cn', 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-min-nan', 'http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-tw', 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zh-yue', 'http://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
), (
'zu', 'http://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 1
),

MySQL said: Documentation
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''zh','http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('zh-cfr','http://zh-min-nan.wikiped' at line 1
</pre>

I did this via phpMyAdmin, since it is hard for me to use maintenance scripts with XAMPP (the platform I am hosting this on!) If anyone can help me, it's much appreciated!!
Thanks, AP aka —[[User:Sunstar|Sunstar]] 18:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

—[[Special:Contributions/193.134.254.145|193.134.254.145]] 14:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

== display used templates ==

Hello,

can someone help me on this.
If I click edit on a page, I can see all templates used in this page. It displays all pages (sections) I've included with #section-h. Exactly this list I'd like to include in my wiki document. On the bottom of the page I'd like to have a section displaying links to all the pages I've included sections from.

is there a way to display something like this?

Thanks

—[[Special:Contributions/193.134.254.145|193.134.254.145]] 14:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

== search engine optimisation/indexing ==

*MediaWiki: latest
*PHP: im sorry i'm new to wikis i dont know what to write here..
*MySQL: as above
*URL: not yet online

Hello,

hopefully i'm doing this correctly, deleting the lines saying delete etc, heres my question

how do i get my site indexed with google? I can do it in html but the index page for media wiki is in php and i dont want to change any of it for fear of braking it.

Is there a way of adding tags, keywords & descriptions to the wiki ''through'' the actual wiki ?

please help soon

Thanks

james

—[[Special:Contributions/81.151.156.227|81.151.156.227]] 15:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
:Setting
$wgRawHtml = true;
:in LocalSettings.php gives you the power to use all the HTML tags (some are allowed also in false mode), but have a look at the warnings at [[Manual:$wgRawHtml]]. Regards -- [[Special:Contributions/89.55.176.121|89.55.176.121]] 09:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
:PS: Have a look at special page [[Special:Version]] on your wiki for finding out the versions required above.
:: I would reccomend against using $wgRawHtml unless you must. This question has been [[Project:Support_desk/Archive_20#.28RESOLVED.29_code_question.2F_how_to_change_the_code_for_a_wiki_page.3F|asked before]], so have a look there. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 13:16, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== Email related problem (How to set SMTP mode and how to get log for an error) ==

*MediaWiki: 1.12.Orc1
*PHP: 5.2.5(apache2handler)
*MySQL: 4.1.12
*URL:http://192.168.1.122/index.php/Main_Page

I am facing problem in Email notifications.How to set the SMTP mode in DefaultSettings.php.

1. After changing the SMTP Mode according to our requirements and after uncomment the code i am getting an error in these lines.
So how to uncomment these lines so that these lines will also run.

/**
* SMTP Mode
* For using a direct (authenticated) SMTP server connection.
* Default to false or fill an array :
* <code>
* "host" => '192.168.1.123',
* "IDHost" => '192.168.1.123',
* "port" => "25",
* "auth" => true,
* "username" =>myusername ,
* "password" =>password
* </code>
*
* @global mixed $wgSMTP
*/
$wgSMTP= true;

What all other changes we need to do enable Email notification.

2. How to get log files for any error.Is there any option which need to be set.

--[[User:Neelam.jain|Neelam.jain]] 05:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

==How do I create a second database==
Hi, I would like to create a second database with exactly the same structure as the first, and also using the same Mediawiki installation for both. The purpose is to have two different types of contents. How do I go about doing it and what's the disadvantage, if any. — [[User:PM Poon|PM Poon]] 20:58, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

: What is your goal? [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 03:51, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

:: If only I know, LOL. Actually, I was thinking of having two sections, one for me to write exclusively, and another for the community. — [[Special:Contributions/219.95.193.61|219.95.193.61]] 23:06, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

::: You could protect an individual namespace with [[Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection|$wgNamespaceProtection]]. Would that give you what you need? Otherwise, if you just want to have two wikis, you could just install MediaWiki in two different directories with different databases. Or else see [[Manual:Wiki_family]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 14:58, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

==Link to other Languages on sidebar==
Hello, I have down loaded MediaWiki and installed 2 languages are Thai and English.
I would like to know If I have the topic in Thai language , then I would like to link to the topic in English language in to sidebar. How can I do ? [[User:Wondermoon|Wondermoon]] 13:41, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

==Display the edit links inside of the page==
*MediaWiki: 1.11.2
*PHP: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.1
*MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
*URL: private network

How can you make it so that the edit links inside of the article appear even if the page is protected?? I have a page that is protected but uses templates to get the information that is desplayed on the main page... I want to have everyone edit the actual templates but not the main page... Thanks

—[[Special:Contributions/63.77.141.66|63.77.141.66]] 13:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

== leveraging OS permissions for files used as links ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Is there some way to leverage file permissions, like read, write, etc. when using documents and spreadsheets, etc as links from wiki pages? Example: a named wiki user can only read certain spreadsheets, but write onto others. I think I saw a piece about configuring Apache for this purpose(??) but not for IIS. I am using IIS. THANKS

—[[Special:Contributions/68.178.62.32|68.178.62.32]] 20:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

==Unable to enable HTML in wiki==

Product Version
MediaWiki 1.12.0
PHP 5.2.2 (apache)
MySQL 5.0.51a-community
URL: www.danda-comics.co.uk/wiki

OK i've created an FaQ for a game i play inside of a wiki and, although its against the idea of the wiki somewhat i've locked off other users from registering without permission etc so as to save the pages getting vandalised by ingrates. However there are certain things i would like to do which i can't do with the wiki formatting. So i had the intention of enabling HTML so as i could do some additional edditing that way, however Whenever i attempt to input ANY html code into one of my pages, i'm redirected from the wiki to the base page.

I have the following at the bottom of my localsettings.php (i'm typring this in so it may not be accurate in here)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgAllowExternalImages = true;
$wgAllowHtml = true;

Far as i can tell i SHOULD be able to use html with that code in there, but i have no idea why i'm being redirected out of the page, anny assistance would be appreciated (i'm sure its something mind numbingly simple)

—[[Special:Contributions/193.63.197.246|193.63.197.246]] 03:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

:Dunno about redirecting, but the variable is called [[Manual:$wgRawHtml|$wgRawHtml]], not $wgAllowHtml. --[[User:Sayuri|<font color="hotpink"><b>Sayuri</b></font>]] 04:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Whelp i've tried changing that (the allowhtml must've been a previous version or something. ( but still the same problem, whenever i edit a page and put in some html the edit won't stick and i'm sent back to the main site and not the wiki.

== Delete ==

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

Can someone delete my account?

—[[User:Tm93|Tm93]] 23:18, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

: Ask on [[Project:Requests]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 15:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

== New Page ==

How do you add a new page?!

: See [[Help:Starting a new page]]. [[User:Smaug|<font color="#006500">Smaug</font>]] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 15:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

== How do I upgrade? ==

*MediaWiki: 1.6.8
*PHP: 5.2.4 (apache)
*MySQL: 5.0.45-community
*URL: [http://www.evolution-rpg.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page SW: Evolution Database]

How do I upgrade the mediawiki from version 1.6.8 to version 1.12.0? There's a lot of information stored, as well as quite a few modifications having been made with extensions and the theme. I don't want to lose any of it. Is there an easy-to-follow guide that will take me through the process step-by-step?

—[[Special:Contributions/97.115.227.196|97.115.227.196]] 01:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I am the sysop for my wiki site. The problem is that I made some changes in my preferences a while back. Afterwards the page for my sysop account changed. The logo appears on the right, the search page is on the bottom of the Main Page, and I can no longer find my preferences or any other items that should be at the top right of the page. How can I reset this? The history for the page has no record changes being made to my preferences so I cannot seem to solve the problem that way.
Help

== Interwiki Transcluding ==
*MediaWiki: 1.12.0
*PHP: 5.2.5
*MySQL: 5.0.51a

I have a problem when transcluding a template into another site, using $wgEnableScaryTranscluding - What happens: A double linebreak appears before the loaded template. This doesn't happen when i use the template on the same site that it is created.

When i check the sourcecode for the page with the linebreaks, it has added <nowiki><p> <br /> </p></nowiki>. Why is this added and how do i remove it? Not a big problem, but it messes up the layout. --[[User:Aroekene|Aroekene]] 09:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

==Please delete this page==
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SortableTable there is no way to get the code for this extension, because the link has changed. [[User:Odessaukrain|Odessaukrain]] 18:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

*MediaWiki: mediawiki-1.12.0
*PHP: 2.11.4
*MySQL: 5.0.51a

Hey every one!

I have installed all the necessary softwares for math support and generated texvc.exe.And made all the changes mentioned in math.php and localsettings.php. Also, the mediawiki on windows asks to make changes in the image.php file, but there is no such file available in the mediawiki version that I downloaded.

I get the error "Failed to parse (unknown error):"

Please help!

Thanks a lot!!!

== Math support ==

*MediaWiki: mediawiki-1.12.0
*PHP: 2.11.4
*MySQL: 5.0.51a

Hey every one!

I have installed all the necessary softwares for math support and generated texvc.exe.And made all the changes mentioned in math.php and localsettings.php. Also, the mediawiki on windows asks to make changes in the image.php file, but there is no such file available in the mediawiki version that I downloaded.

I get the error "Failed to parse (unknown error):"

Please help!

Thanks a lot!!!

*MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's [[Special:Version]] page)
*PHP: 
*MySQL: 
*URL: 

how can I send an email to a whole grup of users? i.e. I want to tell everybody of the bot-group via email to force their work in the wiki.
thanks
—[[Special:Contributions/84.188.198.121|84.188.198.121]] 13:10, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

== I have a UId - but I cannot comeback - I have my internal number ==

I am lost out and very sorry if I am writing things in the wrong place.

I have a UId - tarcisio and I have asked a new pass to be sent to me, but - perhaps -
I used an e-mail that has been dropped since a time.

I have my internal number. Would I put it here ? I do not think so!

How can I manage to come back?

Tarcisio
tarcisio@member.ams.org

== Changing amount of items in a Category ==

I'm using

MediaWiki 1.12.0 (r16740)

PHP 5.2.5 (cgi)

MySQL 5.0.51a-community

http://theaquariumwiki.com/

My Category listings show 200 items at a time. I'd like to change this number to say 300.

Can someone tell me what I need to edit to do this?
:-)

—[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 13:54, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

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Extension talk:SearchFeed

2008-06-28T09:12:20Z

Quatermass:

--[[User:Alvo|Alvo]] 14:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Cannot make it work, what kind of changes it should track?

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I've got MediaWiki 1.12.0 (r16740)

and all I get after I install and visit the special page Searchfeed is:

<PRE>
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Special:SearchFeed
Line Number 2, Column 1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
^
</PRE>

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 15:35, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

oops.
That error was caused by a bug on my Wiki. Now corrected. Please ignore.

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 09:12, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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== obvious question ==

How is this extension different from the built-in RSS feed functionality ([http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss])? --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 17:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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Does MediaWiki have a RSS already?
I've only upgraded from an old version quite recently.

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 09:12, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
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Extension talk:SearchFeed

2008-06-24T16:17:43Z

Quatermass:

Extension talk:SearchFeed

2008-06-24T16:16:32Z

Quatermass: moved Extension talk:RSS feed for recent chages to Extension talk:RSS feed for recent changes: Spelling error in title

Extension:SearchFeed

2008-06-24T16:16:31Z

Quatermass: moved Extension:RSS feed for recent chages to Extension:RSS feed for recent changes: Spelling error in title

{{Extension|templatemode =
|name = RSS feeds for recent changes
|status = beta
|type1 =
|type2 =
|hook1 =
|hook2 =
|username =
|author = Sushant Mehta
|description = The extension allows you to get the RSS feeds for the recent changes made in the wiki.
|image =
|version =
|update = 03/09/2008
|mediawiki = 1.11
|license =
|download =
|readme =
|changelog =
|parameters =
|rights =
|example =
}}

== Installation ==

# Place SearchFeed.i18n.php ,SearchFeed.php and SearchFeed_body.php extension files in the extensions/SearchFeed directory.
# Save the file in the extensions directory of mediawiki folder.
# Add to LocalSettings.php the line <pre>require_once ("extensions/SearchFeed/SearchFeed.php")</pre>

The extension need the following three file.

=== SearchFeed.i18n.php ===
<pre>
<?php
$allMessages = array(
'en' => array(
'searchfeed' => 'SearchFeed',
),
'et' => array(
'searchfeed'=> 'Muutuste voog',
)
);
?>
</pre>

=== SearchFeed.php ===
<pre>
<?php
# Not a valid entry point, skip unless MEDIAWIKI is defined
if (!defined('MEDIAWIKI')) {
exit( 1 );
}

$wgAutoloadClasses['SearchFeed'] = dirname(__FILE__) . '/SearchFeed_body.php';
$wgSpecialPages['SearchFeed'] = 'SearchFeed';
$wgHooks['LoadAllMessages'][] = 'wfSearchLoadMessages';
#'SearchFeed::loadMessages';
#$wgHooks['LangugeGetSpecialPageAliases'][] = 'SearchFeedLocalizedPageName';

function wfSearchLoadMessages() {
(SearchFeed::loadMessages());
return true;
}

?>
</pre>

=== SearchFeed_body.php ===

<pre>
<?php
class SearchFeed extends SpecialPage
{
function SearchFeed() {
SpecialPage::SpecialPage("SearchFeed");
self::loadMessages(); 

}

function execute( $par ) {
global $wgRequest, $wgOut, $wgParser, $wgUser;
global $wgFeedClasses, $wgTitle, $wgSitename, $wgContLang, $wgContLanguageCode;

$feedFormat = $wgRequest->getVal( 'feed', 'rss' );

if( !isset( $wgFeedClasses[$feedFormat] ) ) {
wfHttpError( 500, "Internal Server Error", "Unsupported feed type." );
return false;
}

$feedTitle = $wgSitename . ' - ' . ' [' . $wgContLanguageCode . ']';
$feed = new $wgFeedClasses[$feedFormat](
$feedTitle,
htmlspecialchars( '' ),
$wgTitle->getFullUrl() );

$term = $wgRequest->getText('term','');
$limit = $wgRequest->getText('limit','50');

$feed->outHeader();

$offset = 0;
$namespaces = array_keys(SearchEngine::searchableNamespaces());
$popts = new ParserOptions();
$popts->setEditSection(false);
$popts->setAllowSpecialInclusion(false);
// $popts->setInterwikiMagic(true);
$popts->setAllowExternalImages(true);
$popts->setTidy(true);

$search = SearchEngine::create();
$search->setLimitOffset( $limit, $offset );
$search->setNamespaces( $namespaces );
$search->showRedirects = true; //$this->searchRedirects

$textMatches = $search->searchText( $term );

while($result = $textMatches->next()) {
$title = $result->getTitle();

$revision = Revision::newFromTitle( $title );
$wikitext = $revision->getRawText();

$lines = explode( "\n", $wikitext );

$contextlines = $wgUser->getOption( 'contextlines', 5 );
$contextchars = $wgUser->getOption( 'contextchars', 120 );

$max = intval( $contextchars ) + 1;
$pat1 = "/(.*)($term)(.{0,$max})/i";

$lineno = 0;

$extract = '';
foreach ( $lines as $line ) {
if ( 0 == $contextlines ) {
break;
}
++$lineno;
$m = array();
if ( ! preg_match( $pat1, $line, $m ) ) {
continue;
}
--$contextlines;
$pre = $wgContLang->truncate( $m[1], -$contextchars, '...' );

if ( count( $m ) < 3 ) {
$post = '';
} else {
$post = $wgContLang->truncate( $m[3], $contextchars, '...' );
}

$found = $m[2];

$line = htmlspecialchars( $pre . $found . $post );
// $pat2 = '/(' . $terms . ")/i";
// $line = preg_replace( $pat2, "\\1", $line );

if(!empty($line))
$extract .= "\n{$line}\n";
}

// $lc = SearchEngine::legalSearchChars() . '&#;';
// $extract = preg_replace( "/[^{$lc}]+/", " ", $extract );
// $extract = preg_replace( "/''[']*/", " ", $extract );

$parserOutput = $wgParser->parse( $extract, $title, $popts,
1, true, $revision->getId());
$text = $parserOutput->getText();

$text = strip_tags($text, "<br><p>");
// $text = preg_replace( "/\<img.*?\>/i" ,' ', $text);
// $text = preg_replace( "/\<a \>(.*?)\<\/a\>/i" ,"\\1", $text);

$talkpage = $title->getTalkPage();
$item = new FeedItem(
$title->getPrefixedText(),
$text,
$title->getFullURL(),
$revision->getTimestamp(),
$revision->getRawUserText(),
$talkpage->getFullURL()
);
$feed->outItem( $item );
}

$feed->outFooter();

exit;
}

function loadMessages() {
static $messagesLoaded = false;
global $wgMessageCache;
if ( $messagesLoaded ) return;
$messagesLoaded = true;

require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/SearchFeed.i18n.php' );
#echo $allMessages; prints>> Array
foreach ( $allMessages as $lang => $langMessages ) {

$wgMessageCache->addMessages( $langMessages,$lang);

}
return;
}
}
?>
</pre>

Extension talk:SearchFeed

2008-06-24T15:35:09Z

Quatermass:

Extension talk:SMF/Users Integration

2008-03-20T10:43:09Z

Quatermass: /* Wiki - SMF */ new section

{{TalkFromMeta}}
===It's not complete===
Most of the needed stuff is stubbed-in and incomplete;
* Doesn't update Wiki DB from SMF DB. It only does the authentication and doesn't even set any groups when creating the new user in the Wiki. The new user doesn't even have Reader privileges.
* Once you have created the account, you sill have to manage it manually. It needs a synchronisation process. The only reason I can see this having been left incomplete is a possible lack of time on the part of the programmer. Otherwise, the code that's there looks good, just not all there.
* It needs a group mapping facility of some kind. Possibly a mapping table in the Wiki DB. This is going to be somewhat complex as SMF allows much greater granularity in member user security. At the least, SMF Administrators should map to Bureaucrats and Moderators should map to SysOps, or vice verse. Once that's done, the "Wiki Editors" group from SMF should map to Editors, while it is arguable that normal SMF users should map to Readers.

'''Work-around''':
::# Install this extention
::# Create the user in SMF in the usual way.
::# Then a SysOps has to fill in all the user details.

The current state of the code makes it not much better than zip. It's a good starting framework (yes, I will be looking at that and refactoring the code.) The way it is, the admin still has to synchronise everything manually, obviating having this little jewel anyway. It has promise but it's not even 30% complete.
:::-- [[User:Slamlander|Slamlander]] 22:46, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

==Rework using MySQL5==
I am considering finishing this project for the original author (who seems to have moved on). I am running both the latest SMF 1.1RC3 and Mediawiki, under PHP5 and MySQL5 and Win2K Advanced Server.

As it is, as stated as comments on the page, this project is far from properly complete. I am considering solutions that include trigger code on MySQL5. This of course makes it useless for MySQL4 compatibility. -- [[User:Slamlander|Slamlander]] 05:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

: Hello Slamlander, please keep in mind that the plug-in was written for MediaWiki 1.4.x, sense then MW's user system has become more complex. ~root 12/22/06

: I just hope somebody continues working on this, I really rely on this extension

Please Please Please someone finish this mod properly, it would be excellent is fully up and running!!1

== Projects Current Status ==

Maybe its because the users of the PHPBB version are more vocal, but a majority of my time is spent working on that version of the plug-in. The plug-in works for SMF in its current form. Well it did for the versions I posted above. What I see so far is people asking for more features. This project has not been forgotten. If you have a suggestion or a question please visit my site http://uber.leetphp.com and post on the forum. 06/13/2007 - Nick
{{EndTalkFromMeta}}

Please continue working on the code... Thank you

-SMF User

== Wiki - SMF ==

Hmm this appears to be a SMF-Wiki integration.

I'm looking for a Wiki-SMF integration. That is, my members of my Wiki login and this makes a SMF login also.

Is this possible? Seems to be a large demand for this sort of thing. But no actual mod/extension.

Would offering money help?

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 10:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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Extension talk:YouTube (Iubito)

2007-10-02T18:47:02Z

Quatermass: /* Parameters not documented */ new section

Well ... I followed your instructions and there weren't any errors. However, how do I add a link for the youTube in the navigation menu at my wiki so my members know it even exists?

==Full URL should also work==
Is there a way users can also use the full URL of a Youtube video? People are not used to deleting part of a YouTube URL. The way to do this could be:
:IF $input string starts with "http:", THEN use this as the embed code directly - ELSE (do as you have done).--[[meta:User:Matt57|Matt57]] 05:24, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

== More Parameters ==

If you want to add some parameters like

<nowiki><youtube>ID|width|height|style</youtube></nowiki>

use the following code instead of the one provided before (just replace this one procedure):

<nowiki># The callback function for converting the input text to HTML output
function renderYouTube($input) {
$params = explode ("|", $input);
$id = $params[0];
$width = 425;
$height = 350;
$addStyle = '';
if (count($params) > 1) {
$width = $params[1];
if (count($params) > 2) {
$height = $params[2];
if (count($params) > 3) {
$addStyle = ' style="'. $params[3] . '"';
}
}
}
$output='<object width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'"' . $addStyle . '>'
.'<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/'.$id.'">'
.'</param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>'
.'<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/'.$id
.'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"'
.' width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'"'
. $addStyle . '></embed></object>';

return $output;
}</nowiki>

<p>Anywhere on your page, you just type the following information:</p>

<youtube>VideoID</youtube>

<p>Where the "VideoID" is the code follows after "watch?v="<br>
In the following case, it is WZpeeRSk-0A</p>
url <nowiki>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZpeeRSk-0A</nowiki>

Good-luck!

--[[User:Kohyin|Kohyin]] 23:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== YouTube opens up in new window ==

This works great embedding the YouTube video except when hitting the PLAY arrow, a new window opens up to the full YouTube page versus playing the video embedded in the page as your sample does.
Am I doing something wrong or has something changed?

Thanks!
-Larry

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FYI, I copied the .php codes from the article page not from the discussion page, and I use the simplified sintax as I mentioned above. My videos are running as they should.--[[User:Kohyin|Kohyin]] 07:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

:If you click on the big "play" button in the middle of the video, it works OK. I also noticed that if you click on the small "play" button on bottom/left, it opens a new page. This bottom/left button works well to pause/replay after starting the video with the big middle button. --[[User:82.255.133.227|82.255.133.227]] 06:54, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Revvr ==

Would it be possible to modify this extension, to play videos from the revver site?--[[User:Rovo|Rovo]] 22:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== Tabe of Contents broken by this extension ==

Hi all...anyone noticed that if you use this extension in a page that has a Table of Contents that the section link to the one below the section that has the video in it actually ends up going to the section with the video in it? (clear as mud?) The work around is to a a single character after the video. [[User:ChuckMcB|ChuckMcB]]
:That's not very clear. I didn't noticed any problem on my wiki. Can you explain better ? --[[User:82.255.133.227|82.255.133.227]] 06:54, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== XSS Vulnerability Example ==

For an example of how this extension is vulnerable to XSS attacks, consider the following:
<pre><youtube>" id="deleteme">
<script type="text/javascript">
var dm=document.getElementById('deleteme');
dm.parentNode.removeChild(dm);
alert('XSS Attack Here!');
</script>
<embed style="display:none</youtube>
</pre>
--[[User:Jimbojw|Jimbojw]] 16:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:This is now fixed !
:Thanks for the concrete example of what is a XSS vulnerability. I've heard this word before but can't get an example of what it is.
:--[[User:Iubito|Iubito]] 06:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
:: That's why the warning template links to the wikipedia article that explains it... -- [[User:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] [[User talk:Duesentrieb|⇌]] 00:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

==Sizing==
Would it be possible to change the size of the youtube video with a code? I am unable to find a way to do this thusfar and it would immensely useful. --[[User:Entropy|Entropy]] 16:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

== Parameters not documented ==

This isn't documented very well.

Of the 4 parameters, ID, width, height and Style. I don't know what Style does.

Can someone explain?

Judging from [http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/] I think 'style' is the Flash version required to be installed in the persons PC?

*Also did you know if you add '&autoplay=1' after the ID then it autoplays? :-))

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 18:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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Manual talk:$wgSpamRegex

2007-05-09T20:43:33Z

Quatermass:

* Are there other categories which this could/should go into? ex. security or spam protection?

[[User:Sy Ali|Sy Ali]] 17:48, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

* On my MediaMiki, using the "Large Example," spam is getting through the regex for "overflow" by dropping the closing semi-colon. So, I deleted the semi-colon and that seems to be working (for now). It might be useful to others to remove it since it's not necessary. I can't, I tried (the spam protection used here won't let me save). [[User:Latrippi|Latrippi]] 02:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

== blocking lots of links ==

Most wikispam I've encountered has taken the form <tt><nowiki>[http://url/ keyword keyword] [http://url2/ keyword2 keyword2]</nowiki></tt> etc. So, what about using this to block many links in a row? I'm thinking something like...

<nowiki>$wgSpamRegex = '/(\[http:\/\/[a-z0-9\.\/\%_-]+(\s+[a-z0-9\.-]+)+\]\s+){10}/i';</nowiki>
or
<nowiki>$wgSpamRegex = '/(\[http:\/\/[^\s]+\s+[^\[]+\s*?){10}/i';</nowiki>

Comments? ([http://www.solmetra.com/scripts/regex/index.php Handy PHP regex tester...])

--[[User:Alxndr|Alxndr]] 03:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

How does one stop the 'MediaWiki:Spamprotectiontext' telling the spammer what words just got banned and therefore rewording their spam to get passed it?

I'd love to know.

--[[User:Quatermass|Quatermass]] 20:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

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