[02:32:51] good day, I just have a fresh install of mediawiki and when I go to import file I get "Fatal exception of type MWException". What could be the problem? [02:42:34] ok found my mistake, cancel last [02:58:49] Abort! [02:59:16] danger will robinson [08:44:59] hi all. any opinions on what's the better syntax highlighter plugin? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlighter or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi [08:45:03] ? [09:01:21] antgel after reading those pages, what do you think? [09:10:32] Erkan_Yilmaz: well, the geshi one is (meant to be) in the tarball, so i'd assume it's recommended. the non-geshi one, not so much. fair comment? [09:15:18] antgel: yes, I'd say that. At least GeSHi works with current versions of MediaWiki and it's actively maintained. I'm not sure about the other [10:12:09] hi. is there some plugin to mark page status (draft, revised, release...) and assign visibility to different user groups (e.g.: anonymous users can only see "released" pages)? [10:14:23] mcon: Mediawiki is not designed for that use case. [10:14:35] mcon: There may be something among the Extensions, though. [10:17:10] !e FlaggedRevs [10:17:10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs [10:17:31] mcon: maybe that extension ^ [10:18:27] Vulpix: Thanks. looks interesting... [10:33:47] mcon: Still there? [10:34:05] Caliburn: Yes. I'm here. [10:34:10] I've found an extension that *may* be better [10:34:27] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleStatus [10:34:35] Caliburn: Thenks. that being? [10:35:34] Wait, no [10:35:43] D: [10:35:54] I can't find a download for it... so ignore my message [10:35:59] * Caliburn fades back into the darkness [10:36:28] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleRatings [10:36:32] mcon: ^ [10:38:05] Sorry, given you the wrong link :P [10:45:59] Caliburn: Uhm... I see several Extensions (including ArticleRatings) allowing to catecorize/rate articles. They have associated user rights to allow certain users to review and rate the articles. My use case would be a bit different and it's unclear to me what I should use. Use case would be: I have a relatively restrictive wiki; only a few people can edit main atricles and I require registration for commenting; I [10:45:59] would like to rate articles (and associated Discussion page) on "maturity": i.e.: anonymous users should be able to see (but can't comment) only "released" pages, Registered users should be able to see (and comment) release and "draft", Editors should be able to se, change and comment everything from "skeleton" up and also to move articles assigning "maturity". I am not interested (here) to "quality" ratings from [10:45:59] readers (that's *another° story). [10:47:10] Hmm... [10:48:58] the general use case of FlaggedRevs is to allow anons or users to edit pages, but only the "approved" version of the page is displayed by default. Then a specific group of users can approve or reject edits to manage what's the "approved" version of the page [10:49:36] I don't know exactly how rights are implemented on that extension, so I don't know if that would cover your use case [10:55:25] Vulpix: I'm looking at it just now. It seems to be able to do a lot more than I need... but I'm unsure it can completely hide a page if not "mature" enough. Anyways it seems the way to go, if I can get a grasp of configuration ;) Thanks. [10:56:41] well, it doesn't "completely" hide it. It displays the approved version by default, but if you edit the page you'll see the latest (unapproved) version [11:14:43] Vulpix: That's unclear to me. If I have an "unapproved" page that shouldn't even exist for anonymous. [11:16:19] if it has no approved revision, the page will be blank, When editing the page, the unapproved wikitext will be there [11:17:03] MediaWiki uses a linear revision system, hence you start editing from the last revision. There's no concept of branches [11:17:29] that's why you'll always see the last revision (approved or not) when editing [11:18:33] otherwise you won't be able to amend your own edit (or someone else if it hasn't been approved) [11:18:34] Vulpix: I plan to have the following workflow for pages: skeleton -> draft -> approved. I do not need branches. Anon users should see only approved pages. Registered users should see approved+draft. [11:19:38] that will be true for that extension, if for "see" you mean viewing pages normally, not editing them [11:20:07] Vulpix: editors (including myself) should be able to do everything, including adding new skeletons and "promoting" pages. [11:20:42] what I mean is: don't use approved revs to hide sensitive information for anons, because that information can be leaked if someone edits one of such pages [11:21:40] Vulpix: Ok. thanks (I'm leaving now); (un)related question: is there a way to add spell-checking to standard editor (not VisualEditor)? [11:22:47] in case you're not aware, browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer already include a spell check [11:23:20] that works better than any spell ckech that you could include in MediaWiki or any other webpage ;) [11:27:12] Vulpix: THANKS. I simply didn't think about enabling that, [13:28:05] hi all. running my first mediawiki installation. hoping that we can move the company away from the dependence on google docs. is there a way to ping (notify) other users in comments on an article? in google docs it's just +user@whatever.com, and the user gets an email that they were pinged. i'm using the comment plugin at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Comments but happy to use other comments as necessary [14:28:35] is it possible to add another user as a subscriber to a given page? let's say i want a colleague to be aware of all updates on a given talk page [14:39:45] antgel: the only way would be with an extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PushToWatch for example (I don't know if that extension will work with current version of MediaWiki) [18:50:53] how can i take the main page title off [18:58:09] <^d> vev: Usually with site CSS or somesuch. [18:58:30] ah ok [18:58:39] merci ^d [18:58:49] <^d> You're welcome [20:47:35] NICK mcg [22:50:06] I have a question. I am trying to set up a media wiki. And I was wondering how do I enable Module Pages? [22:50:20] Just like en.wikipedia has [23:08:29] Clarkcj: You have to install the Scribunto extension for that [23:08:32] !e Scribunto [23:08:32] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto [23:29:28] is there an "interesting" category that enwiki and mediawiki.org share? I want an example API query for categoryinfo that'll return something on both enwiki and mediwiki.org. "Category:Featured_content" is the obvious one on enwiki, but it's not on mw.org :-/