In MediaWiki, you can use a variable ("Magic Word") such as
{{PAGENAME}}
or
{{REVISIONDAY}}
to get specific information related to the current page being viewed. Is there a similar variable (or perhaps a different way) to get the current user who is logged in to the wiki, i.e. something like
{{USERNAME}}
context: Trying to use the #ask query in Semantic MediaWiki to narrow the list of resulting pages to show those only the user has created or edited:
{{#ask: [[Case Reflection:+]] [[Contributing User::{{USERNAME}}]]
| format=template
| template=Case Reflection Form Summary
| link=all
| sort=Last Edited
| order=DESC
| default=You have no case reflections related to this Case Study.}}
There are a bunch of extensions for that such as GetUserName, MyVariables, UserInfo. The whole concept of showing usernames is incompatible with page caching though (you need to parse the page again every time someone looks at it) so generally not a good idea.
I was just searching for the same thing, and looking to see if I could do it without extensions. It looks like there's a default feature that allows this, as long as you want it as part of writing a static version to a page, not to say "Hello, Username!" (That last case is why they have not implemented it as a standard variable, because it causes caching problems.)
Wikimedia feature request T14733 resolves with:
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
{{REVISIONUSER}} will dynamically show the last editor, which is usually not what you want. But if you want, for example, to make a template that includes the user's handle as part of some inserted text, this should do the job. I think in your example above,
[[Contributing User::{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}]]
(I'm not sure if Semantic Mediawiki will make you escape out the substitutions, but if it does, further instructions are at Manual:Substitution, Multilevel substitution section.)
Related
I've installed a mediawiki and imported an example page from Wikipedia. But the template is not shown properly. https://wordpress-251650-782015.cloudwaysapps.com/wiki/Cheeta
Any hint on what could be the cause?
You're most likely missing one or more required templates/Lua modules this template relies on. If you want to get all the required templates/modules you can get them via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export by inserting the template name and ticking the box saying Include templates, and then importing the file generated from that via http://wordpress-251650-782015.cloudwaysapps.com/wiki/Speciale:Importa. However in most cases, except if you desperately want the exact look and feel its easier to write your one template, because Wikipedia templates get enormously complex
This is similar question as OneNote pages API doesn't return pages in section-groups.
I'm using the Get sections and get Section pages with Sections expanded to get names for all pages in a notebook. However using the same requests all the time, the sections in section groups sometimes disappears, and wont reappear before recreating the group.
Is this a bug that one can somehow work around, or is there a better way of polling all the page names from a specific notebook? The pages need to be in order.
If you are trying to get all the page names for a Notebook, a work-around exists by using an OData nested filter. The idea is to query for all pages, $expand the parentNotebook, and then $filter on the id of the parentNotebook. Here is an example URL.
GET ~/pages?$expand=parentNotebook&$filter=parentNotebook/id%20eq%20'{$notebook_id_here}'
Here is another SO question where someone employs a similar pattern: Best way to use One Note API to GET specific pages in specific section in specific notebook?
Update:
You can control the order of the returned pages by using OData's $orderby and specifying properties that exist on the entities in the returned entity set (in this case, the entity is pages). From dev.onenote.com: "The default [order] is lastModifiedTime desc (most recently modified page first)."
Under https://dev.onenote.com/docs#/reference/get-pages there is a section, "Page properties", that shows all the properties returned by this call. Since we are getting all the pages available to a user that exist in a notebook, the only property we can use is unfortunately createdTime.
The query param to add looks like $orderby=createdTime
In full:
GET ~/pages?$expand=parentNotebook&$filter=parentNotebook/id%20eq%20'{$notebook_id_here}&$orderby=createdTime
I just tested this using Fiddler against my own pages so I think it should work. The nice thing is that it is a single request.
GET https://www.onenote.com/api/v1.0/me/notes/pages?$expand=parentNotebook&$filter=parentNotebook/id%20eq%20'{$YOUR_NOTEBOOK_ID_HERE}'&$orderby=createdTime
this is one heck of a confusing question to ask so here it goes. Firstly, I'm not asking you to write me any code I just need help going in the right direction for what I'm trying to achieve here. Basically the task is this, I want to scan a select area of a web page's source code for changes and if something does change, I want to report it somewhere (like a console or something). However, I do not want just a notification of change, I also want what the change is/was. I've been looking into things like jsoup but I am still struggling to even find out what this is called.
Any pointers would be insanely appreciated. Thanks, Optimistic.
Here are some steps assuming this is from a node.js project:
Get the URL for the specific script file you're looking for a change in.
Using the request() module, fetch that URL.
Break the data up into lines (probably using .split()).
Find the specific line you are looking for either by counting line numbers of by searching for some representative text in that line.
Using some sort of search in that line (perhaps a regex), find the current value of the exact item in that line you are looking for.
Save the current value.
Then, at some future time, repeat this whole process and compare what you find to the previous value.
If this is being done from a browser instead of node.js, then use an Ajax call to retrieve the file. If the file is on another domain from your web page and that domain does not permit cross-origin requests, then you cannot solve this problem in an automated fashion from a browser in your own web page.
Here is how I would do it with Jsoup:
Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).get();
String scriptCssQuery = "script"; // Tune this CSS query to find THE script you need.
Element script = doc.select(scriptCssQuery).first();
if (script != null) {
String scriptLines = script.html();
// Store the changing line somewhere and compare it to its previous value...
}
I have a MySQL database, and few perl scripts using which i am generating the webpages.
On Html page links are available,
For example-
Customer_link => (calls customers.pl) query executed - select * from customers.
Now there is one more link say Customer_in_mumbai => it should remove all the customers whose city is not mumbai.
How to achieve that?
do i need to execute the query once again with where clause or any other way is also possible so that i can simply remove the customers whose city is not mumbai?
Also if i need to execute the query again, do i need to write one more perl file, if not how can i use the same file?
You can use Javascript to manipulate on the client side of things after it's been loaded/displayed. There's nothing you can do on the server side to change a page once it's been downloaded without Javascript.
The rest of your questions indicate a lack of familiary with how dynamic web pages are generated. You can have a single page that does all that, using standard HTTP query variables to modify how the script operates. e.g.
http://example.com/yourscript.pl?remove=mumbai
then have Perl retrieve that remove value and use it to modify how the database query runs. But showing you that is beyond the scope of this site - we're not here to teach you, just help fix problems.
From your question, it seems you only want to remove it from the page temporarily for the user. You can achieve that simply by remove rows with mumbai as a value with Javascript. That should save you server side processing. Use a Library like JQuery to achieve it easily.
What are the best practices for allowing a user to maintain the html title tags of all the major pages of his/her site?
One way could be to allow the mapping of URLs to some text.
For example, we have an app with the following (most complex) url format:
http://lang.example.com/searchpage.zaf?a=foo&b=bar&c=RANDOM
There are several parts to this:
Language sub domain
Search page
Static parameter 'a' (user may want this in the title)
Dynamic and relevant parameter 'b' (user may want this in the title)
Dynamic parameter 'c' which can be ignored
Never done this before, so I'm asking how you would tackle this!
I handled the one to one mappings via a look up table which is managed by the user and the other features with code.