I'd like to have a featured post on the homepage of my mediawiki. Is there an automated way to grab a piece of a random post to display on the homepage? Or, do I just have to pick a post and copy and paste a portion myself?
Thanks!
I checked http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and found these 2 extensions, that allow you to insert a random article on your homepage:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Blurb
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Did_You_Know
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I have an internal deployment of mediawiki. In some articles are external links. I have another page that makes API calls to the wiki to pull articles into another website. When I pull those articles in, links do not get pulled in properly. Here is an example.
Wiki article:
Use [http://example.com THIS LINK] to contact the vendor.
API URL:
https://mysite.com/mediawiki/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extracts&titles=Vendor
API results:
Use THIS LINK to contact the vendor.
Notice the link is completely stripped away. I've also tried to add my own html into mediawiki for links but mediawiki escapes < and > symbols and so the API see's '<' and '>'. Also mediawiki displays html and not an actual link.
How do I make mediawiki API calls and keep link information?
For this, you can use action=parse instead. The query would look like this:
https://mysite.com/mediawiki/api.php?action=parse&format=json&page=Vendor&prop=text
I tried blogger.com - it does not support such an obvious thingL copy-paste an image from my computer into the new blog post I'm editing. Is there any blogger site, which would support this?
Once alternative is to set up Blogger to post from email. That way, you can use GMail or any other email clients where you can paste the image from clipboard.
For more information on how to set it up on Blogger, please refer to Post via email
This is the most common way I update my blogs, with the added benefit of the content archived via GMail, and easily re-shared.
I have a WordPress blog account already (abc.wordpress.com). And I have my own web site: www.xyz.com
I would like to integrate my WordPress blog content into my own site. Hopefully something like blog.xyz.com or just replace the home page of xyz.com with abc.wordpress.com
I know that I can download WordPress' code from wordpress.org and run my own WordPress. And having my own MySQL database, but WordPress is always releasing new code. I don't have the time to keep updating the source on my end to match it.
I'm running my own site as a hobby, so I prefer to let WordPress.com to manage the content for me and continue reuse my own blog at abc.wordpress.com, but make the content show up in my own site: xyz.com
I hope I was clear when explaining this.
Anyone knows a way to do this?
Thanks.
If your main worry is about the updates, I would say don't be. A simple click of the 'Updates' button in the wordpress admin is all you need to do in order to apply the updates for wordpress. A notification will pop up alerting you of any updates.
And as Calle has already mentioned, you can retrieve your content via RSS, or you could just export your current content from Wordpress.com, import the content into your own site, and manage it there. Everything would be in one spot.
Good Luck.
I don't know how good you are with programming but there's a PHP library called Simple Pie which would help you retrieve your content via RSS (which Wordpress automatically generates for you). The adress is here: http://simplepie.org/
If you are not very good with programming, perhaps you can get someone to do it for you or find a script which is already written somewhere. I do think RSS is definitely the best way to go.
I also think you exaggerate the problems of hosting Wordpress yourself. It's not something that you have to keep updated with, and if you want to, all you have to do is log in from time to time, perhaps once a month (how often are you writing articles?), and click "update" and Wordpress will do everything for you. Both for your plugins and WP version.
For the ability to use your own domain (xyz.com) and have wordpress redirect users from abc.wordpress.com(your wordpress blog) to your domain requires a premium account.
If you have a premium account then you can just log in to wordpress.com, click 'upgrades' and select 'domains'. From there you will see the option "Map an Existing Domain" and you will want to enter your domain here. Now your wordpress.com blog is what will show when users enter your domain's url (xyz.com).
Alternatively, if you need a workaround with a free wordpress.com account then you want to just embed your blog and for that you will need to use an RSS feed. Note: this method will not maintain your wordpress styles it will merely transport the content. Also by default not all browsers support RSS feeds.
You can view your blog's current feed by adding 'feed' to the end of your wordpress.com url, i.e. abc.wordpress.com/feed. You can read more about feeds here (http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/). Now you are just left with the task of figuring out how to embed the feed into your page.
One final hail-mary you might attempt is just redirecting your domain to your blog. Reference on how to do this different ways here: (http://css-tricks.com/redirect-web-page/). Example, place this tag in the section of your domains pages:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL='http://google.com'" />
(this will redirect after 0 seconds to the specified url)
Have a wiki installed in our organization, and want to start using it.
Failed to find the answers for the next 2 basic questions:
How do I configure the entry page to show a list of all existing pages
How do I create a new page (!). Only succeeded doing it by typing a url of an non existing page. Guess there are nicer methods for this
Thanks
Gidi
For how to show a list of all pages, look at DynamicPageList, which is part of MediaWiki. (There's a more advanced third-party version, but it's not needed for such a simple task.)
Creating a new page really is exactly as you said: Type a URL and save some edits. Most beginning editors will edit a link into a page, and then use that link to browse to the page, so that they don't accidentally forget the spelling and lose the page to the Ether. (Of course it would show up in the recently edited and other special pages.)
This is more of a webapps.stackexchange.com question though.
How can you detect when somebody else's web page was last updated (or was changed)?
01. Open the page for which you want to get the information.
02. Clear the address bar [where you type the address of the sites]:
and type or copy/paste from below:
javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
03. Press Enter or Go button.
The last changed time comes with the assumption that the web server provides accurate information. Dynamically generated pages will likely return the time the page was viewed. However, static pages are expected to reflect actual file modification time.
This is propagated through the HTTP header Last-Modified. The Javascript trick by AZIRAR is clever and will display this value. Also, in Firefox going to Tools->Page Info will also display in the "Modified" field.
In general, there is no way to know when something on another site has been changed. If the site offers an RSS feed, you should try that. If the site does not offer an RSS feed (or if the RSS feed doesn't include the information you're looking for), then you have to scrape and compare.
Take a look at archive.org
You can find almost everything about the past of a website there.