User talk:WikiSysop

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)

Subpages
I once again wanted to place a hard copy of this e-mail somewhere for easy reference:

I did not realize that we do not have subpages installed on the Wiki, so when I went to add Parser Functions they still did not work. If you could could you enable them? Go to your LocalSettings.php and under the $wgFileExtensions line add:

$wgNamespacesWithSubpages      = array(        NS_MAIN                 => true,        NS_TALK                 => true,        NS_USER                 => true,        NS_USER_TALK            => true,        NS_PROJECT              => true,        NS_PROJECT_TALK         => true,        NS_IMAGE                => true,        NS_IMAGE_TALK           => true,        NS_MEDIAWIKI            => true,        NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK       => true,        NS_TEMPLATE             => true,        NS_TEMPLATE_TALK        => true,        NS_HELP                 => true,        NS_HELP_TALK            => true,        NS_CATEGORY             => true,        NS_CATEGORY_TALK        => true, );

For further help as me or go here.

PatPeter 00:43, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Redirects
Placing e-mail content here for quick reference.

Also, could you add this: /* Marking redirects */ .allpagesredirect, watchlistredir, .redirect-in-category { font-style: italic; }

To your MediaWiki:Common.css? That or give me admin and I could do it for you. -PatPeter 00:12, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Pages for deletion
Here I have listed pages not necessary on the Wiki and in need of deletion:


 * Template:Docs - Not even a template, just a categorized blank page.
 * Template:Docs en - Another categorized blank page, these templates only waste space, a user should just write these categories on the page.

-PatPeter 00:43, 16 February 2009 (UTC)