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== Notification on users talk page only == | == Notification on users talk page only == | ||
People's "talk" pages alert them to messages. Their user pages don't. Best wishes! [[User:Robin Patterson| | People's "talk" pages alert them to messages. Their user pages don't. Best wishes! [[User:Robin Patterson|Robin Patterson]] 00:46, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
Thank you for the tip Robin! - Need to write something up about that function. [[TalkPagesForWikiPeople]] - best, mark | Thank you for the tip Robin! - Need to write something up about that function. [[TalkPagesForWikiPeople]] - best, mark | ||
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: Oh, and I just remembered, media wiki also has a talk page connected with every other page, in every namespace. So if I want to leave a comment for you, I don't leave it on your user page, but on your talk page: [[User talk: MarkDilley]] and you'll get a notification (I'm pretty sure) that you have a new message. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 16:34, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | : Oh, and I just remembered, media wiki also has a talk page connected with every other page, in every namespace. So if I want to leave a comment for you, I don't leave it on your user page, but on your talk page: [[User talk: MarkDilley]] and you'll get a notification (I'm pretty sure) that you have a new message. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 16:34, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
:An admin can do it. First, an admin has to delete the page "User:MarkDilley" because it was nothing but a redirect. Then any registered user can move "MarkDilley" page to "User:MarkDilley". | :An admin can do it. First, an admin has to delete the page "User:MarkDilley" because it was nothing but a redirect. Then any registered user can move "MarkDilley" page to "User:MarkDilley". | ||
So Tristam, I just [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] and it goes to my user name or my article name? | So Tristam, I just [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] and it goes to my user name or my article name? | ||
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:: On wikipedia it's really important to preserve edit histories because of the GPL licence. We don't have that issue here with the CC license, correct? So a cut and paste move isn't a problem here the way it is there? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | :: On wikipedia it's really important to preserve edit histories because of the GPL licence. We don't have that issue here with the CC license, correct? So a cut and paste move isn't a problem here the way it is there? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | ||
:::The purpose of moving pages with the move function is to keep the edit history for attributing the page authors. The licence of WikiIndex also requires to attribute the author properly, so the move function is still important. | :::The purpose of moving pages with the move function is to keep the edit history for attributing the page authors. The licence of WikiIndex also requires to attribute the author properly, so the move function is still important. | ||
== Link to yourself automatically using tildas == | == Link to yourself automatically using tildas == | ||
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: Yea, I just don't like the time date stamp, so I don't do that. It is not in my wiki nature :-) | : Yea, I just don't like the time date stamp, so I don't do that. It is not in my wiki nature :-) | ||
::If you don't like the time stamp, you can use three tildes instead. | ::If you don't like the time stamp, you can use three tildes instead. | ||
Okay, well, we're going to have to decide the namespace issue. I just noticed that John Stanton has his page in the article space as well. Where can we have that conversation? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 17:22, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | Okay, well, we're going to have to decide the namespace issue. I just noticed that John Stanton has his page in the article space as well. Where can we have that conversation? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 17:22, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
It is cleaner to have the name of [[Wiki People]] have article pages. Thanks for the tild example | It is cleaner to have the name of [[Wiki People]] have article pages. Thanks for the tild example! [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] | ||
: Mark, you're sounding very dogmatic. Things should be this way because they should be this way. I'm not so sure things are so cut and dried automatically better one way over the other. And if you're not interested in using the features of media wiki, perhaps another engine would be a better choice? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 00:59, 19 Jan 2006 (EST) | : Mark, you're sounding very dogmatic. Things should be this way because they should be this way. I'm not so sure things are so cut and dried automatically better one way over the other. And if you're not interested in using the features of media wiki, perhaps another engine would be a better choice? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 00:59, 19 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
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== Category Sorting == | == Category Sorting == | ||
<nowiki>[[Category:Wiki People| | <nowiki>[[Category:Wiki People|TedErnst]]</nowiki> | ||
The purpose of this code is not to show up and differently on Tristram's page, it's to sort the name properly on the category page. Otherwise, we'd all end up in the U section, if we're using namespaces. If we're not using namespaces, then we could use that code to sort by last name, if we wanted to. | The purpose of this code is not to show up and differently on Tristram's page, it's to sort the name properly on the category page. Otherwise, we'd all end up in the U section, if we're using namespaces. If we're not using namespaces, then we could use that code to sort by last name, if we wanted to. | ||
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==Special:Emailuser== | ==Special:Emailuser== | ||
Hi Mark. [[Special:Emailuser]] is missing from this wiki. You might find it useful to enable it since this is the sort of wiki a lot of people might edit and then not check back for messages for a long time, so emailing them could be the only way of contacting them. | Hi Mark. [[Special:Emailuser]] is missing from this wiki. You might find it useful to enable it since this is the sort of wiki a lot of people might edit and then not check back for messages for a long time, so emailing them could be the only way of contacting them. | ||
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I think that what you are calling [[LocalNames]] is what the [[MediaWiki]] software refers to as an interwiki or intermap link. I can, for example, user the [[WikiPedia:User talk:BlankVerse]] link on every wiki using the MediaWiki software and that will link to my user page on the English-language Wikipedia. I haven't been able to find where the WikiIndex keeps its interwiki map, but it it must have one for that last link to work. The interwiki map for all of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] projects is at [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map] and the [[Usemod]]/[[MeatballWiki]] map is at [http://usemod.com/intermap.txt]. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterWiki and http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterMap. [[User:BlankVerse]] | <small>[[User talk:BlankVerse|talk]]</small> 18:38, 29 Mar 2006 (EST) | I think that what you are calling [[LocalNames]] is what the [[MediaWiki]] software refers to as an interwiki or intermap link. I can, for example, user the [[WikiPedia:User talk:BlankVerse]] link on every wiki using the MediaWiki software and that will link to my user page on the English-language Wikipedia. I haven't been able to find where the WikiIndex keeps its interwiki map, but it it must have one for that last link to work. The interwiki map for all of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] projects is at [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map] and the [[Usemod]]/[[MeatballWiki]] map is at [http://usemod.com/intermap.txt]. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterWiki and http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterMap. [[User:BlankVerse]] | <small>[[User talk:BlankVerse|talk]]</small> 18:38, 29 Mar 2006 (EST) | ||
:These live in the 'interwiki' table on the MySQL database; there is an [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_page_to_work_with_the_interwiki_table extension] available for MW1.5+ to allow them to be edited directly from a [[special:interwiki]] page. | :These live in the 'interwiki' table on the MySQL database; there is an [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_page_to_work_with_the_interwiki_table extension] available for MW1.5+ to allow them to be edited directly from a [[special:interwiki]] page. | ||
InterWiki links are different than LocalNames ([http://www.communitywiki.org/LocalNames CommunityWiki:LocalNames]) | InterWiki links are different than LocalNames ([http://www.communitywiki.org/LocalNames CommunityWiki:LocalNames]) | ||
:True, but I don't see a "try here, and if you don't find it try somewhere else" form of link anywhere in the standard MediaWiki distribution . InterWiki links always point to an explicitly-specified wiki and page name. | :True, but I don't see a "try here, and if you don't find it try somewhere else" form of link anywhere in the standard MediaWiki distribution . InterWiki links always point to an explicitly-specified wiki and page name. | ||
You are correct, MediaWiki is not set up for local names. | You are correct, MediaWiki is not set up for local names. | ||
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Talking to Ted and stopped by to understand this wonderful site a bit more. How wonderful a gift this is. Would love to connect more with you and think about you often. Skype: juliecaldwell | Talking to Ted and stopped by to understand this wonderful site a bit more. How wonderful a gift this is. Would love to connect more with you and think about you often. Skype: juliecaldwell | ||
Hugs, | Hugs, [[Julie Caldwell]] | ||
== names == | == names == | ||
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I also am having trouble upgrading. I upgraded to 1.6.3 today and got a bunch of SQL errors. The truth is, I don't know much about PHP, Mediawiki, or MYSQL. What I do know a lot about is Guitar and some with HTML and web design. | I also am having trouble upgrading. I upgraded to 1.6.3 today and got a bunch of SQL errors. The truth is, I don't know much about PHP, Mediawiki, or MYSQL. What I do know a lot about is Guitar and some with HTML and web design. | ||
== re: deletion == | == re: deletion == | ||