Hi Jim -

I'm logged in, but cannot edit even my UserPage.

The "Contact This User" link on your UserPage delivers "This user has opted not to receive email".

I don't understand.

regards ben

p.s. I've been working with the WikiPedia pop-up plugin ... it's becoming quite useful!

--BenTrem 16:45, 11 March 2007 (MST)

Hi BenTrem, thanks for commenting!

As per your (totally valid) observation:

> I'm logged in, but cannot edit even my UserPage

I know, I know. Sorry about that.

Originally I was hoping that vanilla MediaWiki would allow this setting - that Users would be able to edit their own User pages as well as Talk pages for any namespace. It doesn't appear to be as simple as setting a configuration - it appears to require an actual extension.

Since this wiki is really only to house my Blog and documentation/distribution of open source software that I write, I don't see a strong need to figure this problem out.

In other words, I'm using MediaWiki as my content management system even though it's not designed for this task. Given that the ArticleComments extension provides a facility for users to leave comments, and they can link back to their own Webpages, I feel (at this time) that this is an acceptable level of end-user participation.

On the other hand, if the ability to modify talk pages and user pages directly is a determining factor for continued participation - or if there's a strong desire for the community to be more involved, this will of course affect the urgency of the matter.

Thanks again --Jim Wilson

--Jimbojw 21:01, 11 March 2007 (MST)

Looking for A Jim Wilson That lived in Thompson MB. If you are that person email me at lawlas@saktel.net I would like to talk to you. Thanks

--Lawrence Sochaski 07:28, 2 May 2007 (MST)

Sorry Lawrence - that's not me :( ... but good luck in your search!

--Jimbojw 09:36, 2 May 2007 (MST)

Jimbojw,

I like the mediawiki skin you are using. Can I get it somewhere?

Thanks,

Michiel W.

--Michiel 02:35, 19 May 2007 (MST)

Hi Michiel,

Thanks! I'm glad you like the skin.

I threw this thing together and called it "BlogLike" since I needed something that resembled a blog. It was my intention to package it along with the ArticleComments Extension and WikiArticleFeeds Extension for a "How to use MW for your blog" solution.

I'm now happy with WikiArticleFeeds, and pretty happy with ArticleComments, but the skin has some usability and functional bugs (that I care not to list in full here). Although it was always my intent to release the skin as OSS, I don't want to do so until these bugs are fixed.

It's on my TODO list to reimplement the skin for my site again, correcting glitches etc, after which, I plan to write an article announcing the release package and generally describing how to use MW as a blogging platform.

Thanks for asking, and stay tuned!

--Jimbojw 21:36, 20 May 2007 (MST)

Hi Wilson,

I was looking into your wiki sites and the extensions you are working since long. And liked the way you are comming up with the extensions.

I need some help from you regarding the programming for MediaWiki. I have a site which is using Media Wiki, www.indianwebshowcase.com, as I need some modifications for the script - hope you assist me in this regards, kindly let me know whether you can help me and let me know your concerns too.

awaiting reply, Thanks in advance, Sravan www.indianwebshowcase.com

--Sravan 23:16, 4 June 2007 (MST)

Hi Jim,

Might sounds stupide questtions. But since you achieve it I try to ask you... [1]. I moved my search portlet over the content, however I can not make it appear inline (search-input go-button search-button), even if I use display: inline; Can you please tell me how you achieved this?

[2]. I also moved the Personal portlet to the top of classical mediawiki navigation section but I would like to add a title and I can see you were able to add 'Personal tools' title. Can you please tell me how you achieve this?

thanks in advance, Alain

--Alain 06:21, 5 June 2007 (MST)

Hi Sravan,

Regarding your request for assistance with your Indian Web Showcase site - on occasion I've been known to do contract MediaWiki extension and skin development.

Feel free to send me an email with more information regarding your specific requirements: wilson.jim.r<at>gmail.com

--Jimbojw 07:02, 5 June 2007 (MST)

Hi Alain,

In answer to your questions:

> [1]. I moved my search portlet over the content, however I can not make it appear inline (search-input go-button search-button), even if I use display: inline; Can you please tell me how you achieved this?

My p-search div has the CSS attribute float:right, and the elements inside have display:inline. I'm not sure what else you might need to do in your particular use case.

> [2]. I also moved the Personal portlet to the top of classical mediawiki navigation section but I would like to add a title and I can see you were able to add 'Personal tools' title. Can you please tell me how you achieve this?

The default Monobook skin will hide the h5 heading inside the p-personal div. You may override this setting by adding the following CSS style rule:

#p-personal h5 {
  display:block;
}

Hope this helps!

--Jimbojw 07:08, 5 June 2007 (MST)

Hi! I would like to extend your ShareThis extension to support ordering.

In other words, I would like to list delicious first, simpy second, etc. I don't really know PHP though. I know Perl. ;-) Something like this?

$wgShareThisSiteList = array(
 '1' => array('del.icio.us' => '...',
 '2' => array('simpy' => '...',
  etc.
);

Then of course update the code that uses this variable. Thoughts?

Joshua

--Jclerner 09:04, 8 July 2007 (MST)

Hi I've sent you a mail (old_school_junkie@hotmail.com) but I also included more questions here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:ArticleComments

Thank you so much!

--Martin 11:15, 18 August 2007 (MST)

There's a bug in the extension ArticleComments:

You can add the text "<!--" in the comment area and the next comments are "commented" (like in HTML) and will not be visible.

--Eloy 14:07, 30 August 2007 (MST)

--Eloy 14:10, 30 August 2007 (MST)

Hi Eloy,

I see your point about the inline HTML comments. I'm inclined not to consider this a bug per se since it's something that the mediawiki syntax allows, however I see your concern about how HTML comments can be left unfinished.

At this time I'm not motivated to put in a "fix" for this - however, the code is open-source, so you're welcomed and encouraged to play with it if you like.

--Jimbojw 23:12, 3 September 2007 (MST)

Hello, based on the MediaWiki extenstion "Add metas" that is based on your extension "MetaKeywordsTag" I have written the following extension to define various meta tags in the LocalSettings.php via the setting

$wgMetatags = array(
'Author' => 'Christian Koller, webmaster@austrozoom.org'
);

Feel free to post it at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/

Greetings from Austria, yours Christian Koller, MBA MAS (christiank@austrozoom.org)

The modified source-code:

<?php
// Adjusted by Christian Koller to read meta tag values from global variable $wgMetatags
// which must be defined in LocalSettings.php5
 
if( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
    echo( "This file is an extension to the MediaWiki software and cannot be used standalone.\n" );
    die( 1 );
}
 
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array( 
    'name' => 'Add metas', 
    'status' => 'experimental',
    'author' => 'Luis Diaz, modified by Christian Koller',
    'version' => '0.1 (modified)',
    'url' => 'http://www.buntulug.com.ar/wiki/Add_Metas',
    'description' => 'Add some custom metas to your wiki pages.',
);
 
$wgHooks['OutputPageBeforeHTML'][] = 'wfAddMetas';
 
function wfAddMetas( &$out, &$text ) {
	global $wgTitle, $wgParser, $wgRequest, $action;
	global $wgMetatags; // Contains the meta tags as array
	if(	   $action !== 'edit'
		&& $action !== 'history'
		&& $action !== 'delete'
		&& $action !== 'watch'
		&& strpos( $parser->mTitle->mPrefixedText, 'Special:' ) === false
		&& $parser->mTitle->mNamespace !== 8 ) {
		
		// Loop through meta tags array
		if(isset($wgMetatags) && is_array($wgMetatags)) {
			foreach ($wgMetatags as $key => $value) {
				if(strtolower($key) == 'keywords') {
					$preDefinedKeywords = $wgTitle->getPrefixedDBKey();
					if(strlen(keywords) > 0) {
						$out->addMeta( 'Keywords', $preDefinedKeywords.', '.$value );
					} else {
						$out->addMeta( 'Keywords', $value );
					}
				} else {
					$out->addMeta($key, $value);
				}
			}
		}
 
		/* Set additional meta headers here .... But only if necessary */
		//$out->addMeta( 'verify-v1', 'Crv1cxKgghk0+cTs7CEaeXo4O0zicqMXEKgnJwNDfAA=' );
		//$out->addMeta( 'Description', 'you meta description');
		//$name = $wgTitle->getPrefixedDBKey();
		//$out->addMeta( 'Keywords', $name.', your meta keywords' );
		//$out->addMeta( 'Author', 'the author');
		//$out->addMeta( 'Rating', 'General');
		//$out->addMeta( 'Revisit', '1 DAYS');
		//$out->addMeta( "revisit-after", "5 days");
		return true;
	}
}
 
?>

--Christian Koller 06:15, 7 September 2007 (MST)

Hi Christian!

That's a very interesting take on the extension indeed. Well done!

> Feel free to post it at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/

Since it's your code, I'll let you decide when/where you'd like to post it. All are free to add Extensions to mediawiki.org, so you can post it yourself if you like!

Glad you liked the original extensions, and keep up the good work!

--Jimbojw 22:43, 7 September 2007 (MST)

Thought you'd be interested in Debatepedia.org's recent launch with the International Debate Education Association

http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/Welcome_to_Debatepedia%21

--Brooks Lindsay 14:32, 2 November 2007 (MST)

Hi - I'm trying to install the WikiArticleFeeds extension in Mediawiki, but when I run it, the wiki pages display the text of the php file (rather than parsing it). I copied and pasted the code listed on the HTML page because when I try to download the raw source, I get a 404 error. I'm wondering if there's a problem with the code I have, but I'm not a programmer so don't know enough to debug it on my own. Any chance you can send me the raw code so I can upload that and test it? TIA (for the extension, too - it's exactly what we need).

--Jenny Levine 08:45, 20 November 2007 (MST)

Hi Jenny,

Downloading the raw source is the right way to get the file - I can't explain the 404 you got (I can't reproduce it here).

However, this URL may also work to let you look at the corrected source:

http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiArticleFeeds&action=raw&ctype=text/css

--Jimbojw 09:44, 20 November 2007 (MST)

Hallo Mr. Wilson,

I have a question and hope that you can help me. You have many and good MediaWiki Extensions, I search for a Extensions for my MediaWiki with that the a Article can change just by the User's who has created it and now one else without the sysop.

I hope you know a Extensions which can help me.

with regards Hassin

--Hassin 05:14, 19 April 2008 (MST)

Please see question at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:WikiArticleFeeds#DPL_and_WikiArticleFeeds_does_not_update about WikiArticleFeeds and dynamic behavior.

--Dan Barrett 10:52, 13 May 2008 (MST)

Hi,

  I am very new to this Media wiki. Just now i am learning PHP also.

Now i am devloping a new intranet site for my office. I used your ArticleComments.php in my project. I am trying to modify that page, but its not working fine. I dont know much about this PHP coding that why i am facing this problem.

My requirement is:

This form is to get the information from the users. There are four option, this will be displayed as radio button. He select that option (radio button) and enter the name, url, comments and press submit button. Each option will have there own page. According to the option, the given informaion will be displayed in that page(not in same page, that option page). I dont know from where i have to modified your code.

Please help me.

--Travimca 03:14, 16 October 2008 (MST)

Reffering to: Popup links in MediaWiki to new window

Hi, this article is very helpful and works fine. Thanks for that. I also have external links in the Mediawiki:Sidebar and there it doesn't work. Do you have an idea? Thanks in advance. Best regards Klaus-J

--Luksch, Klaus-J (luksch@promeos.com) 02:17, 7 November 2008 (MST)

I am doing a mediawiki project and have a small list of actions and extensions I would like to implement and I wanted to know if I can run them passed you and possibly get a quote and hire you to do the implementation.

gmail: wturner76

--[N/A Bill Turner] 03:47, 26 November 2008 (MST)

Hi,

Nice to be at your site, I am right now on one of wiki project using Mediawiki..trying Metatag the uploading for future search. Can you please help me on this.

--Moovendhan 05:24, 31 December 2008 (MST)

Hi Bill,

At this time, I'm not really available for MediaWiki contract work. I've been pretty busy with other projects, but feel free to email me some details if you like: wilson.jim.r-at-gmail.com

--Jim R. Wilson 02:39, 5 January 2009 (MST)

I've added youre extension ArticleComments and it works just fine for my intranet wikisite. But is it possible to let the extension automaticly add < br > or \ n since the enter button doesn't seem to have effect?

--AndiRay 01:08, 7 April 2009 (MST)