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MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« on: June 17, 2010, 01:57:57 AM »
Do you work with PHP? Do you know about MySQL? If so, have you considered becoming a Mediawiki hacker? This thread is for your questions regarding the wiki interface. If you're trying to write an extension but you're stuck, feel free to ask away!
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Re: Mediawiki designers' helpdesk
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2010, 10:35:16 PM »
I think the Help Desk takes care of this.  However, if it is filled with more questions than we can answer, especially these kinds, we could split it.  And, if there are soo many questions that not even two threads can hold them (this is if we have a ton of activity), there could be a subsection... or they could all go in this section and all the other threads could be sticked.

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Re: Mediawiki designers' helpdesk
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2010, 02:25:34 AM »
Dude, this is a bit different. Not many people work with the interface itself :P

But we'll see if it's necessary. If not, then I'm not going to fight for it ;P
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Re: Mediawiki designers' helpdesk
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2010, 02:36:49 PM »
Dude, this is a bit different. Not many people work with the interface itself :P

If not, then I'm not going to fight for it ;P

Neither am I ;P

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2010, 08:47:00 PM »
so, wait niether of you will fight for or against this? it's going to be the most mutually passive battle i've seen.

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2010, 12:40:40 AM »
[admin]Austin, stop editing other people's posts. Consider this a warning.[/admin]

Never mind
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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2010, 12:43:51 AM »
um...unless the edit is in this thread itself, i'm not sure posting that is appropriate.....







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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2010, 12:58:03 AM »
He edited your post, it says « Last Edit: Today at 04:39:37 PM by ????  »  so, unless you had porn or something like that in your post, there is no valid reason to edit it. It is also the second time I see him doing that

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2010, 12:58:55 AM »
i did not notice that before....sorry.







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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2010, 01:01:53 AM »
i did not notice that before....sorry.
No prob, it's an easy thing to miss.

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2010, 01:03:19 AM »
I edited in a warning to Tacopill for going a bit off topic, but then edited it out because I didn't want to go doing that again.

Also, please PM me a warning instead of this. :L

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2010, 01:05:12 AM »
Quote from: ????  link=topic=279.msg6506#msg6506 date=1283216599
I edited in a warning to Tacopill for going a bit off topic, but then edited it out because I didn't want to go doing that again.

Also, please PM me a warning instead of this. :L
Oh, I am sorry, then. The warning will be removed.


Sorry again, will do so next time. I am used that in the MW forums warnings are public.

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2010, 05:32:13 PM »
Do you work with PHP? Do you know about MySQL? If so, have you considered becoming a Mediawiki hacker? This thread is for your questions regarding the wiki interface. If you're trying to write an extension but you're stuck, feel free to ask away!

I know a bit of php and MYSQL enough to fix errors or mess ups but not enough to code by hand.

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2010, 10:29:52 PM »
That's about my level (for now). Though one problem I couldn't fix was this, which happened when I tried to install Mediawiki 1.16. It's.. long :P but they say you should give every line when reporting errors. I don't have a clue what's wrong, and the one person who did reply didn't really help (tl;dr is just pointless). Anyone here got any ideas?
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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2010, 11:46:29 PM »
i was actually thinking of designing a few extensions myself. But before i do so, i need to learn how extensions work, go deeper in to how the mediawiki software works, etc.

But i can teach the basics to anyone who would like to know.

And sorry, moydow...i'd like to help....but i don't know where to begin.







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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2010, 12:00:52 AM »
If you want to write extensions, you need to have an understanding of PHP.

About your problem...I've never seen that before, so I'm afraid I can't help. Sorry.
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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2010, 08:04:38 PM »
Don't worry about it; I managed to find the problem. It appears the arrows in next and prev page links aren't recognised by WIN1252. I had to edit each one out of the SQL manually. :/ But it works now! :)
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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2010, 08:07:33 PM »
woo!







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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2010, 10:44:32 PM »
Not sure where to post this, but does anyone know how to add a background-image to a table like Mario Wiki has it? >_<;

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Re: MediaWiki Designers' Helpdesk
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2010, 12:19:30 AM »
(Credit to 2257 for the answer)

You add
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