adding special pages

Hi everyone,

I would like to add a new special page and so I've been trying to setup the 
BoardVote special page in my mediawiki installation as a test, but I haven't 
been able to make it work. I've used the instructional page on MetaWiki 
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page) but it appears 
that there have been changes to how special pages are added to MediaWiki that 
aren't on this page. From what I read I think that only one file is required 
to add a special page and that it goes in the extensions directory.

I tried putting BoardVote.php

(http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/BoardVote/BoardVote.php?rev=1.3&only_with_tag=MAIN&view=markup) 
in the extensions directory of my MediaWiki installation, but it still did 
not show up in my Wiki's list of special pages.

Could anyone help me find what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be much 
appreciated!

Thanks,
Andrew.

Re: YurikBot

Angela a écrit:
> On 7/31/05, Anthere <anthere9 <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>You mean a bureaucrat can actually anytime directly take any existing
>>account, move it to another account, and reattribute it to anyone else ?
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>Was each project informed on this ? 
> 
> 
> Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikinews were informed of it.
> Wikiquote and Wikisource don't have mailing lists, and I forgot about
> the Commons (sorry). The help pages about changing username were
> updated on meta, so hopefully even those not on mailing lists would
> have some knowledge about the feature. This is going on the assumption
> that members of those lists will translate the information there are
> disseminate that within their own language projects.
> 
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-July/040905.html
> 
> 
>>Do you know if some projects
>>developped rules about such a feature use ?
> 
> 
> I'm not aware of any such rules. On the English Wikipedia, it's
> currently a judgement call of the few bureaucrats who are doing this

Re: adding special pages

edward molasses wrote:
> I tried putting BoardVote.php
> (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/BoardVote/BoardVote.php?rev=1.3&only_with_tag=MAIN&view=markup)
> in the extensions directory of my MediaWiki installation, but it still did
> not show up in my Wiki's list of special pages.
>
> Could anyone help me find what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be much
> appreciated!

Did you include it from LocalSettings.php?

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Rename request

Please change the following two usernames on nl.wiktionary:

tsca -> Tsca
tsca.bot -> Tsca.bot

"after the changes to the software I can no longer log in, as my
usernames start with lowercase letters. The local bureaucrat (Gerard)
is unable to change my usernames to uppercase. Hopefully someone here
can help. Thank you."

The stewards tool isn't case sensetive, so we can't do it ourselves.

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REL1_5 branched

I've created a REL1_5 branch now; the release will come on that and
we'll be running REL1_5 on the servers for now.

This will allow some somewhat more experimental stuff to go on HEAD.

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Re: REL1_5 branched

On 8/1/05, Brion Vibber <brion <at> pobox.com> wrote:
> I've created a REL1_5 branch now; the release will come on that and
> we'll be running REL1_5 on the servers for now.
> 
> This will allow some somewhat more experimental stuff to go on HEAD.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion  <at>  pobox.com)

Does that mean 1.5 Final is imminent?

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Re: REL1_5 branched

Steven Hilton wrote:
> Does that mean 1.5 Final is imminent?

It'll be out when it's out.

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A few old requests

1. Could anybody create pl.wikimedia.org?
2. Could anybody rename tsca and tsca.bot to Tsca and Tsca.bot on
nl.wiktionary.org?
3. Could anybody explain what's the current way of locking
inactive/vandalised wikis? Stewards can't set the developer access,
and only developers can lock and unlock databases.
4. What's the current situation with the "rollback" flag? Will it be
activated anytime soon, or will it still be inactive?

I understand that the developers are pretty busy with the Wikimania
hacking days and the current server problems, but at least a short
reply "We'll do it later" will be okay.

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Re: A few old requests

Dariusz Siedlecki wrote:
> 1. Could anybody create pl.wikimedia.org?

Any special requirements for it?

> 2. Could anybody rename tsca and tsca.bot to Tsca and Tsca.bot on
> nl.wiktionary.org?

Done. (Just the user record, haven't touched other stuff.)

> 3. Could anybody explain what's the current way of locking
> inactive/vandalised wikis? Stewards can't set the developer access,
> and only developers can lock and unlock databases.

This isn't something we do, afaik.

> 4. What's the current situation with the "rollback" flag? Will it be
> activated anytime soon, or will it still be inactive?

There's no such flag currently. Adding it would require a community
decision and may not be a good idea.

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Re: adding special pages

Thank you, I didn't include it in LocalSettings.php, it works now! Sorry, I 
suppose this was a bit of a silly mistake. Thank you for the help.

Andrew.

On Monday 01 August 2005 12:50 am, Brion Vibber wrote:
> edward molasses wrote:
> > I tried putting BoardVote.php
> > (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/BoardVote/Boa
> >rdVote.php?rev=1.3&only_with_tag=MAIN&view=markup) in the extensions
> > directory of my MediaWiki installation, but it still did not show up in
> > my Wiki's list of special pages.
> >
> > Could anyone help me find what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be much
> > appreciated!
>
> Did you include it from LocalSettings.php?
>
> -- brion vibber (brion  <at>  pobox.com)