Fremantle Society website
I have recently started helping to maintain The Fremantle Society’s website (fremantlesociety.org.au), and it’s reminding me of why I work in IT and of how much I’ve been missing being part of any...
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WordPress TwentyTen theme ported to MediaWiki
Last week I needed a simple, reader-focused skin for a MediaWiki install, and I figured WordPress’ TwentyTen theme would be suitable. So I ported it to MediaWiki. The skin can be downloaded from...
View ArticleMediaWiki_TwentyTen now has nicer ToCs
I’ve finally gotten around to updating my MediaWiki port of the TwentyTen WordPress theme. There’s more to be done, but this morning I moved the page Tables of Contents to the sidebar (issue #2). It’s...
View ArticlePrintable WeRelate
Last year I wrote a little script for producing GraphViz graphs, and LaTeX books, from werelate.org family history data. I’ve been tweaking it a bit now and then, and using it for my mum’s genealogical...
View ArticleSemanticForms popup forms are tiny
Popup forms created with {{#formlink:popup}} in SemanticForms not showing the right size (tiny, like 40 pixel square)? Skins should have their main page content in a block with an ID of ‘content’,...
View ArticleReqWiki semantic software requirements management
ReqWiki is a Semantic MediaWiki-based system for software requirements management. It looks very interesting. We know that requirements engineering has a large impact on the success of a project, yet...
View ArticleGlossaries in Semantic MediaWiki
A simple glossary system for Semantic MediaWiki that lets you define key terms for use in technical documentation etc. A term can be referenced from anywhere in the wiki with {{defined term...
View ArticleWhat web-based software to use
My current favourites, based on the idea that software should be constructed with a specific use in mind (obviously, wikis are an odd exception to this): Blogging: WordPress Photography: Gallery...
View ArticleWhat goes Where on the Web
Every now and then I recap on where and what I store online. Today I do so again, while I’m rather feeling that there should be discrete and specific tools for each of the things. Firstly there are the...
View ArticleEditing MediaWiki pages in an external editor
I’ve been working on a MediaWiki gadget lately, for editing Wikisource authors’ metadata without leaving the author page. It’s fun working with and learning more about OOjs-UI, but it’s also a pain...
View ArticleMediaWiki Documentation Day 2017
It’s MediaWiki Documentation Day 2017! So I’ve been documenting a couple of things, and I’ve added a bit to the Xtools manual. The latter is actually really useful, not so much from the end-user’s...
View ArticleJazz and the MediaWiki package
And rain, I mustn’t forget the rain. I’m worrying about the roof, although far less than I used to (it’s a different roof). The jazz is the radio; it’s on. But the main point this morning is exploring...
View ArticleDisplay Title extension
The MediaWiki Display Title extension is pretty cool. It uses a page’s display title in all links to that page. That might not sound like much, but it’s really useful to only have to change the title...
View ArticleCFB Folder 1 done
The first folder of the C.F. Barker Archives’ material is done: finished scanning and initial entry into ArchivesWiki. This is my attempt to use MediaWiki as a digital archive platform for physical...
View ArticleExtension:DocBookExport
There’s a new extension recently been added to mediawiki.org, called DocBookExport. It provides a system of defining a book’s structure (a set of pages and some title and other metadata) and then pipes...
View ArticleNew MediaWiki extension: AutoCategoriseUploads
New MediaWiki extension: AutoCategoriseUploads. It “automatically adds categories to new file uploads based on keyword metadata found in the file. The following metadata types are supported: XMP (many...
View ArticleMediaWiki with two database servers
I’ve been trying to replicate locally a bug with MediaWiki’s GlobalPreferences extension. The bug is about the increased number of database reads that happen when the extension is loaded, and the...
View ArticleWrong date? Just add 3½ days
More PHP date weirdness, this time in the Cargo extension for MediaWiki: + // 'o' is better than 'Y' because it does not add leading + // zeroes to years with fewer than four digits. + // For some...
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