[09:42:17] hey everbody [09:42:31] didnt actually expect this channel to exist [09:43:33] i just deployed my first media wiki site, and im having a tiny problem that i dont know how to solve, i got an extension named ShortDescription, i think ive installed it correctly but i dont know how to make it actually work, anyone out there that could potentially help me? [09:44:37] S76656e: have you read the extension documentation page? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortDescription#Usage [09:44:45] yeah [09:45:06] i evne used that example didnt do anything for me [09:47:26] is the raw magic word visible on the page output? so do you see the short desc code on the rendered page? [09:47:34] http://www.networkpedia.org/index.php/Test_page [09:49:15] I see the short description on the tagline, and the GETSHORTDESC tries to get the short desc of the article "Bacon" which does not exist [09:52:06] am i missing something obvious here? lol [09:53:40] for me looks like its working just fine [09:54:23] but i dont see the description box on the right [09:55:07] oh wait, i think this extension is not the extension i think it is [09:55:28] not sure what box you're referring to [09:55:58] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft [09:56:18] the one on the right that gives a short description about the company, CEO, foundation year etc [09:56:35] that's an infobox [09:56:46] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Infoboxes [09:57:26] that now is all making sense [09:57:47] not an extension, that's "just" a complicated template [10:00:50] oh.. is it difficult to implement? [10:00:59] is there a place where we can get the code from? [10:02:14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_Wikipedia_infoboxes_tutorial [10:02:16] gonna try this [10:15:41] This is a old version of the infobox, but doesn't require lua and the modern stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Transwiki#Special_templates [10:15:47] so it should be easy to transport over [10:17:19] !slow [10:17:23] !performance [10:17:23] [10:28:15] p858snake thats awsome dude, thanks, this is gonna save so much time, whast your preffered? [10:29:18] I don't use any [14:24:25] I'm a bit confused as to how one can make 2FA mandatory for certain groups (i.e. if you don't have it you can't be granted the group or it will be removed from you automatically) [14:24:34] I saw that OATHExclusiveRights exists but it's not clear at all how to use it [14:24:47] (and yes, with the OATHAuth extension) [14:28:15] how can i load Special:Randompage on my front page? [14:28:26] i want a random article to popup when someone visits [14:35:42] Hi, someone has sent me a text file containing MediaWiki markup, is there an easy way to render this without a server ? [15:13:13] S76656e: You probably want only the article contents and not the entire page, right? [15:14:08] yeah something like that [15:14:25] grummund: you can try to edit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox and paste the contents there, and hit preview [15:15:14] like a small excerpt [15:16:34] Well, that may complicate things a bit more :) [15:16:54] First, to get a random title from the wiki, you can use the random api: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Random [15:18:10] Then with that title, you can do another call to the parse API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext. For an excerpt, you may get one if your wiki has the TextExtracts extension installed, using an api that provides that [15:19:50] cant i just call a imbeded page using Special:randompage ? [15:20:38] thanks for that. only i would be fired for posting confidential info on the net ;-) [15:22:17] it's readable as text. that will have to do for now. [15:22:44] * grummund will look in to setting up a private server later... [15:38:44] S76656e: you can use an iframe that points to Special:Random, but of course it will contain the entire page, including skin links like login, navigation, etc [15:46:54] Is there a hook that matches every log event? [15:59:30] Would returning false from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/MediaWikiPerformAction allow me to step in as legal want us to have all logged actions by people in a certain global group to trigger an email [17:14:56] Hello, I am using the Kartographer extension on our communities wiki. Can anyone tell me how to draw in geojason code from our internal commons? Like on Wikipedia? I get an error : Title "my-title" is not a valid map data page. [17:22:13] i think we need to be using "service": "geoshape", [17:22:34] Anyway, the example give here -- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#External_data [17:22:43] is what I would like for our community to be able to do [17:23:56] across 14 different language subdomains [17:35:41] or maybe i need to be using the GeoJson namespace [17:41:54] if anyone know of the chat name for Kartographer, I might better be in that space [19:16:28] How 2 install extensions [19:18:32] WikiJS: follow the installation instructions on the extensions documentation page [19:18:57] I’m using cpanel [19:19:07] how to install checkuser on cpanel [19:19:37] I also have a File Manager [19:21:16] I have no shell access [19:23:44] download from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/CheckUser, put the files in a directory called CheckUser in your extensions/ folder [19:24:16] add "wfLoadExtension( 'CheckUser' );" to localsettings.php, somehow run update.php [19:24:33] Well I xannot [19:24:41] So [19:25:16] you can use the web installer instead of running update.php [19:25:30] but I'd recommend finding a better host instead (one that gives shell access)