Talk:Main Page

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How do I setup texvc?

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)

How do I edit http://wikiquote.org/?

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! --User:Aphaia/sig 19:04, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Off-site search

Enfiando 3 partes em meu cu? poubelle

<form name="search" class="inline" method="post" action="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search"> </form>

<img height="50" width="50" border="0" alt="Wikipedia Search" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/2/2a/Nohat-logo-nowords-bgwhite-200px.jpg">

<input type="text" name="search" value="" style="width:240px;" />

<input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" /> <input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" />

• 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)

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!

Hosting multiple wikis

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)

Hide Edit Button

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)

For those who have no idea.

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

Does this really change the result??

Improvements to the spanish version

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)

Where to make server request(s)?

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)

Notice for readers of dutch newspaper

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)

Need help with the error message

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

Main Page categories

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

Estonian at 10000

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

Is there where we ask questions about mediawiki ?

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...

Why "MediaWiki" link is an external link?

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 intentinal and necessary. --Aphaia | Translate Election | ++ 07:26, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please add a link to bug reports on the Main page

http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/

Done. Aphaia | Translate Election | ++

How do I edit the footer?

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 you are registered, you need to build consensus of the community. --Aphaia | Translate Election | ++ 07:21, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Query

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)

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

Search not working

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!

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Wiki Aquired Psychological Syndrome

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

Partial Wiki?

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.

Ido on the Www.wiktionary.org template

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)

I am dis-invited by Jimbo, so this is a warning to others

Hi there to this discussion. I came here from an online link . I am concerned to have to post here my wikipedia username. I would refer all those concerned with honesty and history to be aware of my situation. I have to report that the wikipedia is being subverted daily by revisionism, and that I have been personally dis-invited from further participation by the founder himself(see his talk page) because of my activities in combatting such editing. I report to you all that the cancer is very much alive , and contradicts any good principles and intentions any of us might share for the future. I go so far as to say that this is making of the wikipedia a polluting ifluence, rather than a beneficial one. If such as myself are ram-rolled out of existence, then the articles rapidly slide backwards to obfuscation, apologia and un-truth . I can be pushed out -I am advised to go with my head held high, so I go- but the WP has a serious problem that stays . I warn all you good people to be very awake to the problem, and to fight against intellectual piracy of this important means of dissemination . The founder has stated that he is not interested, and currently I await the answer by him as to whether really a majority of users over-rule a majority of sources. The cabal majoritariansim in WP is at odds with the supposed respect for source, and the contradiction is alive in respect of my username history from the start. I have tried reason , and the founder suggests that there is simply no merit in communicating with those who do not wish to listen . However I am appalled at the infection of google-able cyberspace by such cabals .yrs "Famekeeper"

Please remove MediaWiki version info

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?

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)

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.

Embedding WikiMedia content in a standard website

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)

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

Localised Wiki names II

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

Hardware ordered August 30, 2005

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)

Moldovan_Wikipedia

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)

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

Logo

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)

PHP scripts in MediaWiki pages

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)

German Wikisource Search

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)

Recent changes

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)

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

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data.

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)

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)

Request

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)

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

20,000 articles in catalan

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)