I am having a hard time finding an example of what I am looking for. I am trying to show recent changes on one of my category pages using {{special:recentchanges/day=5,limit=10}}. I am part of a busy Wiki and am trying to limit the search to just a particular category or my watchlist.
I can see from the "Help:recent changes" page on the main MediaWiki website that it lists "namespace" as an integer but I cant seem to get it to work narrowing down to just a specific category in conjunction with the above line.
Long story short: I would just like to show recent changes to a specific category or my watchlist on my main category page. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Tgr's answer is correct, copying here: Namespaces are unrelated to categories. You cannot filter Special:RecentChanges by category. You can use Special:RecentChangesLinked instead which is similar.
For more, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tracking_changes
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it's for work so i can't disclose details, but basicly orders come in and they get listed via a external website. the thing i want to do is to list them so i can copy them easily. i've been searching for a way to export the page to excel, but this didn't work out. now i'm looking into devtools for chrome to filter them out.
what i'm looking for is a way to filter a bunch of numbers from a page, and quickly be able to copy them. it doesn't really matter how. below i added a picture to show the overall scructure of the page itself.
All suggestions are welcome!
greetings, niels
Yes you can with Javascript.
However, the image you provided does not contain the necessary information to help solve your exact question.
Get the element that contains the value that you want to receive via element inspect in your browser.
Use .innerText to retrieve the value inside of the element.
For example, let's say I want to fetch your Stackoverflow username from this post, here's how that would go (you can copy paste the code in your web-console to see the result):
document.getElementsByClassName('user-details')[0].childNodes[2].innerText
The same principle applies to numbers or other values/data. Without the page structure, it is impossible to give you a concrete answer to your question. Hopefully the above gives you some guidance as to what you should be looking for.
I'm sorry I do not know how to word that title better. I have tried searching google but my terminology isn't helping my results.
Let me explain the context. When you're on a news website or blog and you're on their homepage like: www.homepage.co.uk/ and then you click an article it will go somewhere like this: www.homepage.co.uk/2017/article/ how do they make the 2017 appear? because if you remove the /article/ from the url it takes you to an archive of all the links in that year? I don't understand, is there a process to this?
When I click a link in my website it goes to: www.website.co.uk/link
I want to be able to have that 2017/link/ in the url so they can find the archive of that year just like on their websites?
How do I do this?
I am sorry if I am not explaining this very well.
I understand changing my filenames to : "2017/article.html" might work but I do not believe that is the correct way of doing it?
Thanks a lot for your time and suggestions!
You're asking about a couple of things: one is the taxonomy of the site. Taxonomy, if you don't know, is the "shape" of or how your site is organized. News sites, for instance, are usually organized by date and perhaps topic (Health and Leisure, Politics, Entertainment, etc.). The other aspect of your question is regarding what you might call RESful "hacking" of URLs. One of the tenents of REST is that URLS (uri, to be accurate) are supposed to be hackable. A news site might have /2017/10/10 to display all articles for Oct 10. Maybe you remove the last "10", and get all the articles for October so far. If you are not using a site platform that does this for you, you will have to maintain that taxonomy yourself, and manually write all the links. Systems such as Drupal and Joomla, among others, will translate your taxonomy into automatically-maintained links. In editing a page on one of these platforms, you typically only refer to the system's internal name of the page (could be a shortened version of the article's title in the above example), and the underlying engine takes care of reconstructing the URL for you (in case the page moves, or its tags/taxonomy changes).
This is a big topic, and I encourage you to do some further reading:
http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Building-a-website-taxonomy-in-eight-steps
https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/organizing-content-with-taxonomies/organizing-content-with-taxonomies
By "dynamic links", I mean a list of links that will constantly be updated.
To illustrate my question, I have a website that I am constantly writing new articles for. I currently have about 10 articles. If someone is to read article #5, there is a list of links to all 10 articles in the right panel of the page. As I update the site, and article #1 becomes out of date, I'd like to replace article #1 with article #11. Rather than updating the links within every article (so 10 times), is there a way to update the links once and have them all update simultaneously to every page?? Could I create an iframe for this??
Thanks for any and all help!
What's your goal? Do you want to learn to be a web developer? Or are you mostly concerned with getting your articles published?
If you want to be a web developer, I'd recommend steering clear of large CMS system like Wordpress or Drupal. Those are great products. But you want to learn the basics first. I think starting a PHP tutorial is the way to go.
If you just want to publish your articles, I'd recommend you find a nice place to create a blog. There are so many to choose from. It all depends on how much you want to spend.
Feel free to ask follow up questions. Web development sounds simple. But it's really a complex topic. I can't imagine what is must be like starting out these days with so many choices and competing technologies.
One way to do it would be to use Server-side includes. (Wikipedia) They work like this:
<!--#include file="some-content.html" -->
or
<!--#include virtual="some-folder/some-content.html" -->
The difference is file="" finds a file relative to the current page, whereas virtual="" finds it from the domain root. Either way, this method can use any type of regular text file as a source. The actual addition of the content is done by the server (hence the name) so its contents will be parsed as regular HTML and all CSS will apply to it as if the file were part of your page. I don't know about compatibility with different hosts, but if your web server supports it, this is probably the easiest way to go.
I have been searching for a few days and it is hard to find specifics for wikimedia.
Does anyone know of an extension, or report that will show internal links to nonexistent pages?
We host a wiki where we have users that have crated some excellent content, but to have to go through each page to find the links to pages that have not been created yet is next to impossible due to the amount of content.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated...
Go to your Special:SpecialPages list and you will find
Wanted categories
Wanted files
Wanted pages
Wanted templates
which are (more or less) dynamic lists of all redlinks in your wiki.
If you want to only see a list of dead links for a specific page or a group of pages, you can use DynamicPageList to run a linksfrom query with openreferences = yes. Go here for more info: http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=DPL:Manual_-_DPL_parameters:_Criteria_for_page_selection#linksfrom
one of my clients (www.expertmanage.com) requires random ordering of frontpage articles. We are using Joomla 1.5. I have gone through primary order and category order options, but there is no way to show up articles in random order. Can this be achieved somehow by editing the query on front page blog layout controller ?
If you goto Joomla's extension website, you can find some that can help you. Try auto-frontpage for instance (here) or you can search the list of frontpage extentions. I'm sure you would find a solution to your problem (frontpage extensions)