User talk:Slicer

Yay! The Wiki was upgraded!
This is a copy of my message to Thorvald Natvig that I did not get a response to, and I wanted to place the information somewhere it could be accessed.

Sent: Sat 12/13/08 2:43 PM

Wow I haven't been to SourceForge in a while, preoccupied with other things. Anyway now that we have version 1.13.1 I would highly suggest installing:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions

Install it (pick 1.13.1 in the dropdown menu, not trunk), placing the (four? I think) files in your mediawiki\extensions directory and add

require_once("$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php");

At the bottom of LocalSettings.php before

?>

Also, if you want to ever re-open the Wiki but stop spam, you can add this to your LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['*'           ]['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user'        ]['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['createpage'] = true; $wgAutoConfirmAge = 86400 * 4; # Four days times 86400 seconds/day
 * 1) Only users with accounts four days old or older can create pages
 * 2) (like Wikipedia!).  Requires MW 1.6 or higher.

I would also suggest the Rename User Extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser

the User Merge and Delete Extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete

and the Character Insert Extenion:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert

-PatPeter 20:38, 5 January 2009 (UTC)