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Interwiki mappings?

• Heh, I know it's pretty quiet here, but I thought I would mention this before I forgot. On the page Help:Template, I noticed the redlink for m:Help:Template. Which, after digging around a bit, I think can be solved outside of MidrangeWiki using the information here. — MrDolomite | Talk 15:39, 2 August 2006 (CDT)

Listed on wikiindex

I added a listing [1] over on http://www.wikiindex.com/ . — MrDolomite | Talk 16:30, 10 September 2006 (CDT)

FWIW I looked on wikiindex but could not see an entry. |FKOL]] 00:54, 10 January 2008 (CST)

• Hmm, the direct link above worked, and so did this search.— MrDolomite • Talk 12:19, 10 January 2008 (CST)

Deletion requests

Not that we have a bunch of them yet, but I made (hopefully) simple way to request deletions. Add the template {{delete}} to whatever is to be deleted and it will show up in [[Category:Deletion requests]]. Then, whomever has the authority to do deletes (um, you :), can decide yea or nay. — MrDolomite | Talk 11:29, 13 October 2006 (CDT)

MediaWiki 1.8 upgrade

Good deal, I'll holler if anything seems odd. I upgraded my local wiki recently and haven't had any trouble, but you never know. — MrDolomite | Talk 06:35, 6 November 2006 (CST)

HTML Comments in Templates

Hmm, when I look at the HTML source of an article which uses the {{stub}} template, the google comments are showing. I'm just not sure if they are from the template code or from somewhere else. I'll do a few tests and see what happens. — MrDolomite | Talk 15:12, 3 January 2007 (CST)

• From Restricted state

		<h1 class="firstHeading">Restricted state</h1>
		<div id="bodyContent">
			<h3 id="siteSub">From MidrangeWiki</h3>

			<div id="contentSub"></div>
												<!-- start content -->
			<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
			<p><b>Restricted state</b> is a condition where all the subsystems on the iSeries server have ended and only a single user job remains active in the controlling subsystem. <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/experience/wmrstate53.pdf" class="external autonumber" title="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/experience/wmrstate53.pdf" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>
</p>
<div class="editsection" style="float:right;margin-left:5px;">[<a href="/index.php?title=Restricted_state&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div><a name="External_links"></a><h2>External links</h2>

<ul><li>(<a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/experience/wmrstate53.pdf" class="external text" title="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/experience/wmrstate53.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF</a>) of <i>iSeries Restricted State Experience Report</i> from the V5R4 <a href="/index.php/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> <a href="/index.php/InfoCenter" title="InfoCenter">InfoCenter</a>.
</li></ul>
<p><br />
</p>
<div class="notice metadata" id="stub"><i>This article is a <a href="/index.php/Category:Stubs" title="Category:Stubs">stub</a>. You can help by <span class="plainlinks"><a href="http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php?title=Restricted_state&action=edit" class="external text" title="http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php?title=Restricted_state&action=edit" rel="nofollow">expanding it</a></span>. </i></div>

<!-- Saved in parser cache with key wiki-mw_:pcache:idhash:1956-0!1!0!1!en!2 and timestamp 20070103210539 -->
<div class="printfooter">
Retrieved from "<a href="http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Restricted_state">http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Restricted_state</a>"</div>
			<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
			<div id="catlinks"><p class='catlinks'><a href="/index.php?title=Special:Categories&article=Restricted_state" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <span dir='ltr'><a href="/index.php/Category:Stubs" title="Category:Stubs">Stubs</a></span> | <span dir='ltr'><a href="/index.php/Category:Definitions" title="Category:Definitions">Definitions</a></span></p></div>			<!-- end content -->

			<div class="visualClear"></div>
		</div>
	</div>
		</div>
		<div id="column-one">
	<div id="p-cactions" class="portlet">
		<h5>Views</h5>

HTML Comments in Templates Part 2

Grr, based on some quick testing, I would say "No Dice". It appears that the wiki-parser does not even pass those wiki source comments out to the HTML. The google_ad_section lines in the HTML must be coming from somewhere else. I was going to say Mediawiki:Monobook.css or MediaWiki:Monobook.js but there is no google in there.

I'll check on http://meta.wikimedia.org and http://www.mediawiki.org about wiki-parsing and HTML, along with the mediawiki-l mailing list archives. — MrDolomite | Talk 15:38, 3 January 2007 (CST)

From User:MrDolomite/Foo wiki source

*Ok this is main article text
*Ok this is main article text
<!-- This is a comment in the main article -->
*Ok this is main article text
*Ok this is main article text
*Ok this is main article text
*Ok this is main article text
<!-- This is a comment in the main article -->
*Ok this is main article text
*Ok this is main article text

From User:MrDolomite/Foo HTML Source

												<!-- start content -->
			<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
			<ul><li>Ok this is main article text
</li><li>Ok this is main article text
</li><li>Ok this is main article text
</li><li>Ok this is main article text
</li><li>Ok this is main article text
</li><li>Ok this is main article text
</li><li>Ok this is main article text
</li><li>Ok this is main article text

</li></ul>

<!-- Saved in parser cache with key wiki-mw_:pcache:idhash:1937-0!1!0!1!en!2 and timestamp 20070103212855 -->
<div class="printfooter">
Retrieved from "<a href="http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/User:MrDolomite/Foo">http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/User:MrDolomite/Foo</a>"</div>
			<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
						<!-- end content -->

Mediawiki 1.9.0

Cool, I'll keep my eyes open for post-upgrade goofiness. The Wikimedia family of sites have been at 1.9 for a bit and are now actually onto 10ish. — MrDolomite | Talk 12:27, 11 January 2007 (CST)

Unable to upload file

On page Special:Upload, getting this error.

The upload directory (/home/wiki/html/images) is not writable by the webserver.

 — MrDolomite | Talk 12:37, 11 January 2007 (CST)

• Yep, all set on the uploads. It wouldn't let me upload a .svg file though, so I changed it over to a .jpg. But then I never tried uploading an .svg before, so maybe this old setting [2] has cropped up. — MrDolomite | Talk 09:30, 12 January 2007 (CST)

Sub-pages in templates

Trying to use a sub-page trick to document templates and realized that sub-pages are not turned on in the template namespace. From this info on meta, I think all that needs to be done adding this line to the LocalSettings.php file.

# Enable subpages in the template namespace
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_TEMPLATE] = true;

Thanx — MrDolomite | Talk 12:51, 11 January 2007 (CST)

• That did the trick. I updated {{Delete}} to use the new documentation sub-page trick. — MrDolomite | Talk 09:27, 12 January 2007 (CST)

ParserFunctions Extension request

I've been copying various templates and organizing tools over from other wikis and found out a stumbling block. meta:ParserFunctions would need to be installed on the wiki. While it does quite a bit, the part I was looking for is the #ifeq ability, which can be used for checking for existence of parameters when coding templates. I've installed it on my own local wiki with no issues. Thx. — MrDolomite | Talk 13:02, 26 January 2007 (CST)

• Wow, thanks for the quick response on a Friday afternoon no less. :) Works fine, did a quick test using {{bu}} and it works just fine. — MrDolomite | Talk 15:16, 26 January 2007 (CST)

  • And it {{bu|W|orks}} {{bu|J}}ust {{bu|F|ine}}

  • Works Just Fine

HTML in comments part 3 OR Google search settings

Saw this and figured I would pass it along. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/controlling-how-search-engines-access.html  — MrDolomite | Talk 08:59, 30 January 2007 (CST)

Redirects for WDSCi

Should be ok to search for WDSCi and then end up at [[Category:WDSC]]. The regular WDSC page is already a redirect to the category. So, rather than doing this...

WDSCi -> WDSC -> Category:WDSC

instead I made it like this...

WDSCi -> Category:WDSC

WDSC -> Category:WDSC

Hopefully this still makes sense. Looking at the non-redirected pages probably helps.

• http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php?title=WDSCi&redirect=no
• http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php?title=WDSC&redirect=no

— MrDolomite | Talk 09:16, 20 March 2007 (CST)

MidrangeWiki access

Good to know I did the WDSC redirect stuff and was able to explain it. :)

The only thing that may help would be if I could work on [[Category:Wiki maintenance]], specifically [[Category:Deletion requests]]. Since most of the items in there are my goofs, I could at least clean up after myself. To do that, I think one has to be part of the sysop group. I'll check on http://meta.wikimedia.org and http://www.mediawiki.org to see. — MrDolomite | Talk 09:59, 25 March 2007 (CST)

Colorized Recent Changes

Howdy, can you let me know if Special:Recentchanges is now showing the byte counts in color for you? I think I have it right, but I can't be sure if it's fixed, or if it is just me. Thanks.— MrDolomite | Talk 10:16, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

• Yep, that's what I was going for green for positive byte changes and red for negative ones. Course, any color can be used, just by changing MediaWiki:Monobook.css — MrDolomite | Talk 19:14, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

FTP moves

Ok, to me, moving around FTP, FTP (CMD) and File Transfer Protocol, along with some of the redirects and disambiguation links makes logical sense, but I wanted to run it past someone else to doublecheck. :) Here are the filtered move log and delete log. — MrDolomite • Talk 15:58, 11 September 2007 (CDT)

Cite extension request

It would be helpful to have the Cite extension installed here. It makes doing footnotes/references/citations/whatever you want to call them easier, as it is done in a common way, with automagic links within the article. Thx.— MrDolomite • Talk 13:50, 27 September 2007 (CDT)

Thanks, it works like a charm, although I might have created a cite monster :) See 5722-JV1 and PASE. Thanks for the note about the email, this wasn't a hot request, but good to know for the future. Thx.!!!!

sigs

Hee, it is a combination of the WP:GNOME in me and being too lazy to dig through the history to find out who wrote what. So really {{unsigned|Starbuck5250}}, is just a way for a user other than User:Starbuck5250 to make a note that the text or section was added by that user, but they forgot to add their signature using the 4 tildes ~~~~ — MrDolomite • Talk 23:22, 3 December 2007 (CST)

New {{DeletionNotice}} template

I saw the article, CardSystems, you tagged with {{delete}}. I agreed that there wasn't any iSeries-related content, so it is outta here. :) And while I don't expect a large volume of deletions to be happening on the wiki, I created {{DeletionNotice}} to let people know. — MrDolomite • Talk 08:07, 23 December 2007 (CST)

whosonline extension request

This could be a handy extension, to let people know when others are around and online. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Whos_online You can see an example here at WikiIndex.— MrDolomite • Talk 12:36, 10 January 2008 (CST)