User talk:Harry Brumer

The navigation sidebar settings: MediaWiki:Sidebar
The boilerplate text automatically inserted by Preloader.php upon new page creation in the main namespace: Template:Boilerplate
MediaWiki sysadmin Hub: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hub
Redirect code: #redirect [[Glycoside Hydrolase Family 16]]

Some useful configuration pages

Sitenotice - for adding info to every page

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

Sitesubtitle - Edited, not sure of the effect...

MediaWiki:Sitesubtitle

Some useful extensions

Boilerplate extension - might be useful for creating new page templates

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Boilerplate http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Preloader

Handle refs. with Biblio:

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Wikiomics:Biblio

some templates from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages

one thing that is semi ugly is that your login name appears at the top of your page or in the list of contributors (for instance User:HBrumer3 or User:Bernie); wouldn't it be nicer if the full real name of people would appear just like on the Board of Curators' page with Harry Brumer or Bernard Henrissat ?

Useful icons gallery

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ipatrol/Galleries/Icons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rocket000/Useful_icon_gallery

Log

This section is a little Mediawiki maintenance log, which might become it's own page someday.

Started 02 September 2009.

UserContactLinks extended syntax extension

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Contact_Links
Allows replacement of "[[:User:username|full name]]" with "(3 tildes)User Name(3 tildes)", where User Name can be:
- wiki username
- user full name (first space last)
- last name of the user
- partial match of any part of user full name
Had to slightly edit both PHP files to break-up (3 tildes)User Name(3 tildes) to "^^^user^^ ^" in description; this was resulting in "incorrect user" being shown on Special:Version.

Harry Brumer 07:59, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Implemented ContactPage extension

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage
Gives world-accessible contact form: Special:Contact
Took some tweaking to get it to work:
- Line 125 in SpecialContact.php ($captcha = ConfirmEditHooks::getInstance();) broke Mediawiki
- Upgrading to ConfirmEdit-MW1.15-r50221 broke reCaptcha, e.g. on user signup page.
- Fixed by commenting out offending Line 125
  - All seems OK
  - reCaptcha works on all pages, including Special:Contact (must not be logged in as sysop to see it) and user signup page
Also hacked ConfirmEdit.php to put "contactpage" captcha trigger there, instead of in LocalSettings.php (left a comment in the latter to that effect).

Harry Brumer 15:43, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Playing around with image thumbnail settings

see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Image_thumbnailing
$wgUseImageMagick turned off in LocalSettings.php
- Was generating errors on Special:NewFiles (ImageMagick not installed...)
Not clear if $wgUseImageResize should be used or not in MW 1.15
- Unclear info at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseImageResize
- Now uncommented in LocalSettings.php, maybe some effect with .gif (see GH11).

Harry Brumer 14:12, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Implemented Extension:Cite/Special:Cite.php

Generates full citation information for each page via a toolbox link
see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Special:Cite.php
- Mediawiki:Cite text created from cite_text file in extension directory (contains citation formats & layout)

Harry Brumer 13:12, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

"Date retrieved" code doesn't seem to be working right. Tried to implement a solution Wikipedia is running using the ParserFunction extension and the time function, but ParserFunction seems to break the wiki. Also, had to disable MassEmailer due to some weird conflict that generated an error trail when saving Mediawiki:Cite text.

Harry Brumer 15:13, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

New version (r50579) of Extension:ParserFunctions added

Fixed earlier problem with ParserFunctions breaking the wiki
Allow use of time function in Mediawiki:Cite text to give the current time in the "Date retrieved" line.

Harry Brumer 09:39, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Pages in Category test

Might be something for MainPage, although claimed to be "expensive": http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit
- Now containing 189 GH family pages and 33 lexicon pages.

Harry Brumer 10:35, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Stopped implementing Extension:EditUser

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EditUser
- On ice for the moment.
- ChangePassword mainentance script will probably do what I need for now. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ChangePassword.php

Harry Brumer 13:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Implemented Extension:LookupUser

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LookupUser
Gives SpecialPage Special:LookupUser showing user prefs., including email address.
Currently accessible only to Bureaucrat group only (LocalSettings)

Harry Brumer 13:48, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Implemented Template:Smallcaps

Wraps some markup for simple implementation of small caps, e.g. for use in d/l sugar nomenclature.
NOTE (from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smallcaps/doc Smallcaps template doc page):

Your source text is not altered in the output, only the way it is displayed on the screen: a copy-paste of the text will give the small caps sections in their original form; similarly, an older or non-CSS browser will only display the original text on screen. This can be seen as a problem, solved with (the sc template).

Code

{{Smallcaps|Your Text in 4004 bc}}

Displayed

Your Text in 4004 bc

Pasted

Your Text in 4004 bc

So, the code needs to look like this: {{Smallcaps|d}}, to get d. {{Smallcaps|D}} gives D.

Harry Brumer 16:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Tested Extension:DynamicPageList (a.k.a. Intersection)

Allows showing intersections of Categories
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:DynamicPageList
- Worked OK but could only give simple linear lists.
- Was difficult to figure out how to sort alphabetically given limited documentation, had to read the code to find the "categorysortkey" option.
- e.g., this sort of worked:

<DynamicPageList>
category=Glycoside Hydrolase Families
category=Curator approved
ordermethod=categorysortkey
order=ascending
mode=none
</DynamicPageList>

However, not really pretty. Extension disabled.
Might use DynamicPageList2: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party)

Harry Brumer 12:00, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Implementing Extension:DynamicPageList2

Allows showing intersections of Categories, plus many page analysis features.
Essentially supercedes Extension:DynamicPageList
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party)

Examples

Pages in categories Glycoside Hydrolase Families and Curator approved, sorted by title, formatted as a normal category page

G