Help:Wiki system admin stuff
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To do list
- Change default search namespace to include HELP, BAYTEAM, and CATEGORIES; will also need to change defaults for all existing users. See Wikimedia documentation.
- Move the tasks on this discussion page to some sort of subpage under BayTeam:Conversion to wiki.
- Add intended article titles for all pages to be converted to Project:Conversion to wiki. Efinch 09:51, 21 February 2007 (PST)
- Add intended categories to the same list. Efinch 09:51, 21 February 2007 (PST)
- Ha! I've been trying to figure out why tagline didn't work! And found the answer while looking for something else (on [Mediawiki Help Desk]. To deal with eventually:
- Hi, how add one line of text under title? example en wiki:
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Thanks for help. --88.222.212.231 12:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- Edit the page MediaWiki:tagline on your wiki. Note that the "tagline" is hidden per default, and only shows up in the print version, and when you copy&paste. To make it visible, you would need to put #siteSub { display:block; } into your MediaWiki:common.css page. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- Add History and Discussion tabs for non-logged-in users. (User:MikeB)
- Find a way to include email addresses in pages so they're not visible to harvesters. (User:MikeB)
- Add edit tab back for nonusers but adjust text from "You have to log in to edit pages. " to something that indicates how you become eligible for making edits and direct them with appropriate links. (User:Efinch and User:MikeB)
- Related to preceding; Do we want to make becoming a BT member paypalable? (Review info on what we can do regarding paypal fees.)
To do: change category label and link
copied from Mediawiki Support Desk question.
Background: When you use [[Category:foo]] in a page, it automatically displays the text "Category:foo" and makes "Category" a link to "Special:Categories".
Problem 1: On my installation, I want to change the text "Category:" to something else.
Problem 2: Would also like to have that text link to something other than Special:Categories.
Have spent an hour and a half looking through system messages & phps and wikipedia & wikimedia help & can find nothing. Elf 15:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- The text can be changed by editing MediaWiki:Categories, the link by editing MediaWiki:Pagecategorieslink - on your wiki, of course. If those (pseudo-)pages do not exist, simply create them with the content you want. You may have to flush the parser cache to see the effect, no sure - for testing, use the edit preview mode (that's never cached), to purge all pages, simply touch LocalSettings.php. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 16:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much! I don't know why I couldn't find those before on Special:Allmessages -- but now that I see them, I also see that what I probably need is MediaWiki:pagecategories rather than MediaWiki:Categories. 75.30.114.204 17:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
