Talk:Main Page

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I'm trying to configure my mediawiki to accept the <math>...</math> tags. I got the texvc precompiled binary from sourceforge and added in the math directory. And I changed the value of $wgUseTex in LocalSettings.php to true. But that is not helping. After reading the very inadequate help file I found that I had to install teTex, dvips, and convert in the PATH: Could anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks a lot. --Praveen Gollakota 06:38, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The link from http://wikiquote.org/ to the Swedish language main page is broken due to an error: currently it reads "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/sv:", but the correct address is "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/sv:Huvudsida". I don't know how to fix this. Could someone please help me?

Sorry for your inconvinience, it was my fault. The link to SV WQ was fixed (the source of Wikiquote portal is Www.wikiquote.org portal). Thank you for your report again! --Aphaia | Translate Election | ++ 19:04, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

How can I include occitan translation of wikimedia meta wiki? I would like to translate it!

Enfiando 3 partes em meu cu? poubelle

• Quick version.
• Modify as appropriate for your purpose.
• A smaller logo would be preferable; currently some 15/16 of the data is retrieved but not actually used.

Aliter 16:47, 15 July 2005 (UTC) Reply

Hi!

My name is my username, go find out what it is. I have been temporarily blocked from deleting pages on Wikipedia. I do not know why I converted to a vandal but ever since I was shocked to find content ripped off from here in a newspaper article without the bastard having given any credit to Wikipedia, I have been thinking hurtful thoughts about the whole business of writing for the papers. So I thought, why not delete all matter from the source itself. Wont given an opportunity for these armchair know-alls to strut 'their' stuff so!

I' m wondering if and how it's possible to set up multiple wikis using a single installation. For example, Wikipedia uses subdomains suchs as **en.wikipedia.org** and **nl.wikipedia.org** to host a wiki for each language. This would be exactly what I want. However, the number of "languages" (topics in this case) may grow up to (i guess) 100 or more. It would be very unusefull to have a seperate database for each of them. I'm wondering if there is a smarter solution (like WikiCities has)

Is there an option to hide the edit button for anyone except the autor of the page ? thanks lucas email: lucasvo@gmx.ch

No. 86.133.54.206 17:39, 28 November 2005 (UTC) Reply

talk to Mr.A.K.a if you don't understand.

Does this really change the result??

Some improvements to the spanish version that cannot be added to the main page because it's protected:

• New template: {{Active Commons}} – Active wikicommons
• Links for editing templates of active projects (and not only to show them). For example:

{{active Wikipedias}} <small>({{edit|Template:Active Wikipedias|this list}})</small>

Can someone add them (or remove the protection)? Thanks --surueña 22:18, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)

Hello,

I didn't see any helpful links to where one would request specific server maintenance tasks. Specifically, a couple months ago, there was a nightmarish crash; since then on en.Wiktionary.org, some periodic maintenance tasks don't seem to be happening. I suspect some cron jobs got commented out during the recovery? At any rate, Wiktionary's wikt:Special:shortpages for example, has not been updated in quite some time. (Also, where would I request that it be updated more frequently, say once a week, or twice a month?) Thanks in advance. --Connel MacKenzie 07:05, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In a very important Dutch-Flemish newspaper there is a very nice article about the Dutch Wikipedia in the edition of this weekend. In the article the have printed the url "meta.wikimedia.org" . The link on the on the mainpage of Meta is to help the new vistors to not get lost and find there way to the dutch Wikipedia. This because Meta is very confusing to a new visitor who thinks this is a encycopedia. Please keep it there for the weekend. --Walter 23:01, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It is removed now --Walter 09:22, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm getting the following error message. I'd a successful installation and working wiki. All I did was to change the log file name. Please help.

[Tue May 03 12:34:20 2005] [error] [client 10.89.33.218] Invalid method in request \x16\x03\x01 [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: dir(/skins) [<a href='function.dir'>function.dir</a>]: failed to open dir: Invalid argument in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache2\\htdocs\\wiki\\includes\\Skin.php on line 22 [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function read() on a non-object in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache2\\htdocs\\wiki\\includes\\Skin.php on line 27 [Tue May 03 12:34:21 2005] [error] [client 10.89.33.218] Invalid method in request \x16\x03

Can anyone add the categories [[Category:EN]] and [[Category:Main page]] to this main page?

Just curious - how long will it take before it gets moved up a notch on the main page?

Or is there a forum type thing out there ?
I just started using mediawiki, and it is pretty cool. Often time I want to create many pages with 
the same outline, so I'd like to use templates.
To do this I went to http://example.com/wiki/Template:Project, and created a page.
Now everytime I want to start a new page I want to create a new project page I want it to
inherit everything from Template:Project.
I tried calling {{Project}} from within the newly created page, but this sort of creates a link 
to the Template:Project. If I modify something in this page it modifies Template:Project.
I don't get it.
Any help ?
TIA,
rouble

the best place to ask is the mediawiki-l mailing list...

In Section "Code & technical issues" the MediaWiki link is considered as external link (but it link to the same site). Is it a typo?

NO. It was intentional and necessary. --Aphaia | Translate Election | ++ 07:26, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/

Done. Aphaia | Translate Election | ++

What I want to do is add a small image on the footer of every page. How do I?

You cannot, sorry. No anon editor can edit our footer and even if you are registered, you need to build consensus of the community. --Aphaia | Translate Election | ++ 07:21, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Which hosting services run WikiMedia engine?

Any hosting provider that has MySQL and PHP support should work. Don't know any specific examples, though, sorry; host my own sites.

James F. (talk) 00:31, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Linking your personal wiki I am going to set up a wiki and wanted to know if there is any where in which it would automatically be listed for people to see? Like a community area to search topics that interest you?

Damo--Thedamo 07:32, 14 July 2005 (UTC) Reply

How can you use this software to create a virtual classroom?

I'm not sure if this is the right place to mention. I've noticed the past few days that the search on this site is not working. Even if I search for words like "history" and "delete" there are no results. I've tried go and search to no avail. Please delete this if there is not a problem, or if it gets fixed - thank you!

for cad drafting and gis solutions visit www.dimensionicad.com

Read carefully... --Obarskyr 20:48, 6 August 2005 (UTC) Reply

I am new to Wiki. I am looking for a solution where we need a system with part of the pages being editable and the edits trackable. Most of the page is a form that cannot be edited (in a wiki way). Can I enable wiki type of editing for parts of a page? ( I am sure you could... looking at how this site is working. Any advice is appreciated. thank you.

Hi - I've been asking about this for quite some time now but perhaps this is a better place to make the request. The Ido Wiktionary has the 5th most number of words and it would be nice to see it added to the front as well. Most articles are just the word and its translation into Ido, that's true, but that is what we most need at this time, a large searchable database with every language available. 211.202.17.124 02:08, 18 August 2005 (UTC) Reply

Could some admin please remove the MediaWiki version info, its just going to get outdated all the time and isn't very useful anyway. --Dittaeva 09:09, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

i removed both of them. kate

Where can I find Wikimedia Terms Of Service?

I intend to host a fairly large community supported site on wikimedia and I want to confirm that this is permitted. I don't want to get banned or get my site deleted. --gorgan_almighty 15:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC) Reply

your question doesn't make sense. do you mean mediawiki (the software) or wikimedia (the non-profit foundation that runs wikipedia)? what do you mean by "host a site on wikimedia"? kate.

Is it possible to embed WikiMedia content in a perl/php enabled website without installing wiki software? I know I could use an IFRAME but that would include the WikiMedia side menu as well. --gorgan_almighty 16:09, 13 September 2005 (UTC) Reply

yes, but we will block your site from accessing our content, because it's not allowed. download the database from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ and host it yourself, instead of wasting our (very limited) resources. kate

To whom it may concern: the links to the Kyrgyz wikipedia have a wrong Kyrgyz translation. "Kyrgyz" in Kyrgyz is not "Kırgızca" but "Кыргызча". Could someone please correct this mistake? ru:User:Bektour

Just wondering, where are ordered these boxes ? Does the price look fair ? Dake 19:36, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

When is the delivery? We need the power. 80.185.26.49 09:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

This mo.wikipedia.org is not a wikipedia in a language like any others. There are very heated debates about it, mostly at that encyclopedia itself, and recently, I did a post at en:Wikipedia:Village_pump (policy)#Moldovan_Wikipedia where one can read why this is such an issue.

People have different opinions about whether this mo.wikipedia should exist or not, but what they agree on that there must be some public discussion on it.

Where to do it, and how to do it that's the big question. Should it start as request for comment (where?), should it be a vote for deletion (where?)? Feedback is much appreciated; I am not sure if ever before the question of existence of an entire wikipedia language branch was put into question. en:Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC) Reply

Take a look at the Kashmiri Wikipedia, it's even more heated. Mithridates 05:55, 31 October 2005 (UTC) Reply

I suggest a logo contest for Meta-Wiki logo. All the Wikimedia projects have their own logo, excepting Meta-Wiki. And perhaps a name change too (i.e. Coordinawiki).

I agree --Mac 18:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC) Reply

Hey guys. I'm a sysop at a small wiki called "N at Wikicites" (InterWiki prefix: wikicities:c:N:). This wiki is about a game called N. It has 500 levels in 100 episodes and every level and episode has its own highscore. It's nearly impossible to manage this huge amount of highscores manually so I thought about a PHP script to read the highscores from a database server.

I tried a small Hello World PHP script in the sandbox of the german Wikipedia but it didn't work. The code <?php echo "Hello World..." ?> was displayed instead of the expected output (Hello World...). A nowiki section didn't solve the problems. What can I do?

-- Lord of Destiny -- 80.184.190.34 18:39, 20 October 2005 (UTC) Reply

Hello! Has anyone an idea why i become an "Internal error: no valid response from search server (10.0.0.16)" when i click the search button. Is this a misconfiguration or my mistake? --Xarax 15:19, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I just noticed that on the recent changes we have a list of the following:

Pedia: af ar bg ca da de el en eo es et fi fr fy he hi hr id it ja ko la lv mi ms nl nn no pl pt ro ru s sl sr sv zh Wiktionary: ar ca cs de el en eo es fi id it ja ko la lb lv nl no pl pt ro ru sl sq sr sv zh

Could we get io added to these two? It's both the 4th largest Wiktionary and...32nd largest Wikipedia, I believe. Mithridates 05:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC) Reply

Ah, I see it's up there now. Thanks. Mithridates 10:25, 5 November 2005 (UTC) Reply

This comes up on virtually every edit I try to make (including this one!) Anyone have any idea why? Only seems to affect Meta, not Wikipedia; haven't tried any other wikis recently -- Gurch 13:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC) Reply

No, I got it on Japanese Wikiquote. Some wikis are affected, others not. You were just lucky on your wiki(s). The reason could be available from developers. --Aphaia ++ 15:35, 4 November 2005 (UTC) Reply

Sorry, this wiki is so messed up that I couldn't find the right page for this. I want to request that a user who has the right to delete on all wikis will go through http://kl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages and delete all pages with no content or "... ON WHEELS!" in the title. Thanks. --141.35.17.32 16:43, 4 November 2005 (UTC) Reply

Hello!? --141.35.17.32 17:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC) Reply

Wikipedia in catalan just reached 20,000 articles ([1]), which is the best place(s) for an announcement ? 82.41.17.69 00:22, 20 November 2005 (UTC) Reply

I've tried asking on the Talk:developer page but it seems pretty dormant so I thought I'd ask here. I'm the bureacrat and a sysop on the Welsh Wiktionary and I have a few requests.

Change the namespaces:

• Wiktionary to Wiciadur
• Sgwrs Wiktionary to Sgwrs Wiciadur
• Help to Cymorth
• Help talk to Sgwrs Cymorth
• Category to Categori
• Category talk to Sgwrs Categori

Give the prefixes Atodiad, WiciSawrws, Cymraeg, Odliadur and Mynegair the same non-entry status as Wiktionary_Appendix / Appendix, WikiSaurus, Rhymes and Concordance on the English Wiktionary.

Put in sensitivity, like other wiktionaries, so that entries can begin with a small letter.

Change the project title from Wiktionary to Wiciadur.

Thanks in advance to anyone who'll take care of this, --Adam7davies 13:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Reply

Aren't there any developers who can help? --Adam7davies 09:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

Where can i download the mediawiki source as it is modified and used on meta.wikimedia.org? --QuestionUser 16:28, 31 December 2005 (UTC) Reply

Please change under "Last minute!" (削除) {{Fil de l'information}} (削除ここまで) into {{information thread}}--Theo F 15:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

Done.

James F. (talk) 19:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

Thanks --Theo F 14:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

can this be turned off? even the login screen auto-capitalises the login name you enter before checking against the database, so adding a user "bob" to the database and then trying to log in as "bob" will return a "there is no user Bob" error.

I have never seen this "autocapitalization". Presently all the characters I type are un-capitalized, unless I press the "shift" key. --Theo F 14:20, 5 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

i think not. create a new page and look at the URL for it. wikimedia capitalises the words in the title. adam7davies has already mentioned this in relation to "welsh wiktionary" [above] in that entries that begin with a small letter are capitalised when wikimedia creates the page for that entry.

i have noticed this also in regards to user creation; if i create a user "bob" mediawiki actually writes the username to the database as "Bob". it also autocapitalises the name a user enters in the login screen before passing it to the database for processing, so that if i edit the database fields directly to change the stored user name to "bob" and then try and log in through mediawiki as "bob", the login is denied with a "there is no such user Bob" error.

maybe an esoteric point - but it seems weird that you can set up an account with a username which mediawiki then alters before creating the account - and then also alters the username you enter when trying to log in so that it conforms to the previously altered username stored when the account was set up in the first place. why not just leave things as the user entered them?

Hi, i dont know where to put this, so i ask here.

The german wikiversity at http://de.wikiversity.org needs 3 custom namespaces + discussion pages

• "Kurs" and "Kurs Diskussion" Subpages: yes defaultseach: yes
• "Übungen" and "Übungen Diskussion" Subpages: yes defaultseach: no
• "Prüfung" and "Prüfung Diskussion" Subpages: yes defaultseach: no

someone can tell me where to put this request?

thanks, greetz Tomen 22:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

Make a Bugzilla ticket about it. If you have problems with that I will do it for you. If you have no responds after some weeks you can ask about it in #wikimedia-tech (IRC, freenode) and/or send ask it at wikitech-l (mailinglist). --Walter 12:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

I don't know where to put this question, so I'll just do it here.
I have a template, which I put on "Years", I use the {{PAGENAME}} for the current page (year), then I have so that I can type in the year before and the year before that. But it would be so much easier if that also could be autogenerated, so it would be like pagename-1 and pagename-2 or something. So if the {{PAGENAME}} is 2000, it would automaticly write out 1999 and 1998. Possible? --Hipshot 00:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

Hello It's 19:30 on Mon Jan 16, 2006 in Santiago(City NE of Cordon),Isabela,Philippines.

My site is at http://www.michaelmlazo.coms.ph/MichaelManaloLazo.html Just Surfing. Thanks.

I am interested in including your search relevancy into my wiki, but cannot find any documentation on it. Can anyone help?

Please mail me, or tell me where to look.

--Rfarrell 12:40, 31 January 2006 (UTC) Reply

Proth 12:27, 1 February 2006 (UTC) Reply

Hello,

I do have the same problem...

Please, Heeeeelp {:o(

Does a "Howto" exists???

What exactly is "search relevancy"? -- user:zanimum

It was recommended at Village Pump to ask my question here.[2] How are the other international Wikipedia sites monitored so that they follow the Wikipedia spirit and policies? I think there is danger that a small group of bureacrats can hold the new encyclopedia to themselves and keep out the users from editing, for example, by adding protection to certain articles for no reason, but then continuing to edit the article how only they want. This has been problems with administrators abusing their authority at the Finnish site. What can Finnish or any wiki community do, if the bureacrats of the site will not follow the rules? Another question, how are the first adminstrators of a new international Wikipedia site selected? 192.100.124.218 08:17, 2 February 2006 (UTC) Reply

Requests_for_permission#Admins_for_Wikipedias is where such admin permissions are requested. Dispute resolution is a good place to consult for conflicts. Can you explain what articles and users in particular are causing this issue, in your opinion? -- user:zanimum

There is more information on Board of Trustees Site Feedback page. I hope you and Wikipedia authorities will comment there. [3] 192.100.124.218 09:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC) Reply

Hey guys,

As a way to make the experience on wikis more user friendly, I believe it is always good policy to add the "main" category to the main page. Especially in this case, the main category is called Top level, instead of "Main" and no matter how often I come back to this site, I always have to keep looking for it when it should really be one of the most accessible pages.

To be perfectly honest, I believe that the "Main" category should actually be included in the sidebar by default in future releases of the MediaWiki software and I will most likely make a suggestion to that effect. This way it would automatically be translated according to the user's language preferences in the sidebar. In the meantime, I leave it up to the admins to decide whether they simply want to categorize the main page or add it to the sidebar, and then try to spread the word in the interwiki community concerning the decision. : )

Stéphane Thibault 14:09, 6 February 2006 (UTC) ^Talk Reply

Hello !! Αυτό το μύνημα αποτελεί την πρώτη δήλωση μιας προσπάθειας για να δημιουργηθεί ενα blog στην ελληνική γλώσσα. Ελπίζω η προσπάθεια να ευωδοθεί και να αποτελέσει κατι το όμορφο και χρήσιμο . IanosLink title

I suggest two new "wikiprojects," wikiserver, a collection of links to (non-wikimeda foundation) websites. My other idea, as dialup becomes obsolete and broadband improves, wikicasting, podcasts that anyone can initiate or edit.203.214.4.49Febuary 2006 (UTC)