So I have the wiki exactly as I want it but the sitename variable always reverts to lowercase...
I assume there is a special character maybe..like in c# you have \t or \n to format text but I cannot find anything of the sort..
THis is directly from the wikipage describing sitename
"Site name
The $wgSitename variable holds the name of your wiki setup. This name gets included many times throughout the system, such as via MediaWiki:Pagetitle. For instance, the Wikipedia tagline "'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."' makes use of this setting."
It states that wikipedia uses sitename to title its site as .... 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.'
They have multiple capital letters
Thanks ahead of time.
That text actually comes from the page MediaWiki:Tagline. Edit that page on your wiki and you can make that line say anything you want. You also have to edit MediaWiki:Common.css like it says in that link to make the tagline show up on pages.
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Is there a way to configure MediaWiki installations in such a way that MediaWiki installations will not replace underscores by spaces?
(And if so how can this be configured for a particular namespace?)
Yes, there is. {{DISPLAYTITLE:_foo_bar}} can be used iff the specific title you intend to show - here: _foo_bar - would result in the regular page title such as foo bar.
Due to some design decisions MediaWiki will replace an underscore in the regular title by a space (and simplify two consecutive spaces into a single one). Now with {{DISPLAYTITLE:.....}} you can force MediaWiki to display the title you intended instead of the simplified one MediaWiki will use after processing your input. So you can name a MediaWiki page title _foo_bar though MediaWiki will internally register such a page as foo bar.
For every page where you want such a specific title instead of the default one you have to provide a {{DISPLAYTITLE:.....}} separately.
This feature was not part of the first releases of MediaWiki.
I have a page(such as: Air Canada), in page, there is a property IATA, value is "AC".
Then, in Main_Page, I used:
{{#ask: [[Category:Airline]]
| ?IATA
}}
to list. (#ask is a feature in Semantic mediawiki extension)
It can work OK.
But, if I created a redirect page(AC) to "Air Canada", then, the string "AC"(listed in Main_Page) will be changed to "Air Canada".
So, my question is how to disable this translator?
It sound to me like you should use make the property IATA use the type text (add [[Has type::Text]] to the page Property:IATA. Otherwise the wiki will assume the type page, and unless you want to have specific pages about each IATA code, separate from the airline pages, that's not what you want.
And to answer you question: You can set $smwgQEqualitySupport = SMW_EQ_NONE; in LocalSettings.php to disable the functionality you are talking of, but doing so would be quite odd from a user's point of view, as redirects are basically a kind of aliases, and if the alias works in the MediaWiki world, you want it to work in the same way in the Semantic MediaWiki world.
I'm using PHPstorm 6.
When i try to format my code which contains french characters, i got a issue like you see on the pictures.
NB : i got this just when i put my text into a tag like :
<span>génie Informatique</span>
So before formatting i was this :
And after formatting i got this
Thanks
What kind of file is that -- HTML?
In any case: you do have light green background between the tags. This suggests that you have another language injected between those tags (Language Injection functionality), which may use completely different formatting rules (not HTML -- e.g. JavaScript or whatever you may have injected there).
Possible solution:
Place cursor somewhere between such tags, Alt+Enter (or click on light bulb icon) and use "Uninject Language" option.
Alternatively: Settings | Language Injections -- find and disable (or even delete) offending entry there (will be "global" or "project" type in last column).
I have a number of templates that create headings based on a formula. I am wondering if there is anyway to create an "edit" link that will take you directly to that section? The way that it currently works, the edit link takes you to editing the template itself. Could I possibly create a customized link that would keep you on the page and take you to right part?
Here is some sample code to help clear things up...
Template:Head:
==={{{1}}}===
This is a heading titled "{{{1}}}"
Test Page:
=Section 1=
{{head|1.1}}
{{head|1.2}}
{{head|1.3}}
=Section 2=
{{head|2.1}}
{{head|2.2}}
{{head|2.3}}
At the moment, if I want to edit the information for template "2.3", I have to edit all of section 2. (Note that for this example, that isn't a big deal. For the actual templates I am working with on my site, the templates have dozens of parameters and there are sometimes 10 or more in a section.)
Bottom line, is there way to create a custom edit link inside of the {{head}} template that would take you directly to editing the templates call on the page "Test Page"? Hope that makes sense.
Edit: Is there perhaps a way to make use of "anchor" tags? Can anchors be passed in to the URL?
To restate your problem, when you transclude a section heading the header isn't treated as being part of the destination page, so the edit link takes you back to the source. So you need a separate container for the template in order to edit it individually, and a complete section is the smallest editable container.
The only way I can think of doing this is using subpages (or virtual subpages if you don't have that ennabled in this namespace, doesn't change anything). So instead of placing {{head|1.1}} on MyPage, put it on MyPage/Subpage1 and then transclude that into MyPage in the usual way ({{:MyPage/Subpage1}}).
{{head}} can then include a custom edit link to the template input by using HTML heading tags (<h2> is equal to ==, etc.) to suppress the standard edit link and then use one of these templates (probably {{ed right}}) to create a custom edit link pointing to MyPage/Subpage1.
The way to create anchors in Mediawiki, by the way, is to use a <span id="name"/> tag, but that doesn't create a container that can be edited (or at least, not that I've been able to work out through URL tinkering).
I'm pretty sure there's no way to do that. As far as MediaWiki's section editing feature is concerned, the only thing that begins a new section is a line of the form:
=== Some text here ===
with the number of = signs determining the level of the heading. There's no way to get MediaWiki to let you edit any segment of the document that doesn't begin and end with such a line (or the beginning or end of the page).
Well, OK, I'm sure you technically could do it with an extension, in the sense that you can do anything with a MediaWiki extension. All you'd need to do is provide some way (e.g. a special parameter in an edit URL) for to user to indicate "I want to edit this template", then extract the template from the wikitext, present it to the user for editing, and write the result back into the page text over the original.
The tricky part will be extracting the template from the page source. (Finding and replacing templates on a page is a fairly common task for MediaWiki bot writers, so you might want to look for ideas there.) Whatever method you end up using for that, there will probably be edge cases where you need to give up and tell the user "Sorry, but I can't figure out how that template is transcluded here."
I'd want to extract all full urls of images of "Google"'s page on Wikipedia
I have tried with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Google&generator=images&gimlimit=10&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|dimensions|mime&format=json
but, in this way, I got also not google-related images, such as:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Crystal_Clear_app_browser.png
How can I extract just only images that I see on Google page
Retrieve page source code, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google&action=raw
Scan it for substrings like [[File:Google web search.png|thumb|left|On February 14, 2012, Google updated its homepage with a minor twist. There are no red lines above the options in the black bar, and there is a tab space before the "+You". The sign-in button has also changed, it is no longer in the black bar, instead under it as a button.]]
Ask API for all pictures on page, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Google&generator=images&gimlimit=10&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|dimensions|mime&format=json
Filter out urls but those which match picture names found in step 2.
Steps 2 and 4 need more explanation.
#2. Regexp /\b(File|Image):[^]|\n\r]+/ should be enough. In Ruby's regexps, \b denotes word boundary which might be unsupported in language of your choice. Regexp I proposed will match all cases which come to my mind: [[File:something.jpg]], gallery tags: <gallery>\nFile:one.jpg\nFile:two.jpg\n</gallery>, templates: {{Infobox|pic = File:something.jpg}}. However, it won't match filenames which contain ]. I'm not sure if they're legal, but if they are, they must be very uncommon and it should not be a big deal.
If you want to match only constructs like this: [[File:something.jpg|thumb|description]], following regexp will work better: /\[\[(File|Image):[^]|]+/
#4. I'd remove all characters from names which match /[^A-Za-z0-9]/. It's easier than escaping them and, in most cases, enough.
Icons are most often attached in templates, contrary to pictures related to article subject, which are most often attached directly ([[File:…]]). There are exceptions though, for example in some articles pictures are attached with {{Gallery}} template. There is also <gallery> tag which introduces special syntax for galleries. You got to tune my solution to your needs, and even then it won't be perfect, but it should be good enough.