In theory it ought to be possible for mediawiki to email a user who has put an email address in their preferences, when a watched page is edited, and this setting is enabled in the preferences. Although email otherwise works fine at my site and ISP, I cannot get this to work. Any thoughts greatly ap...

In theory it ought to be possible for mediawiki to email a user who has put an email address in their preferences, when a watched page is edited, and this setting is enabled in the preferences. Although email otherwise works fine at my site and ISP, I cannot get this to work. Any thoughts greatly ap...

Many thanks for this quick reply. I had since put that line into my mediawiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php file but that will I suppose be overwritten by the next mediawiki upgrade, so its helpful to know the same thing works in LocalSettings.php

Thanks again,

WW

I'd like to be able to upload and link to files such as document.doc, spreadsheet.xls (as in TWiki) but it seems gumax only allows .jpg, .png or .ogg to be uploaded. How do I change the skin to allow the former?

Many thanks!

WW

I found a solution to allow myself to edit the mediawiki:sidebar page. I included the following in my LocalSettings.php and then removed them after I made the changed I wanted: $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editinterface'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['editinterface'] = true; $wgGroupPermissi...

I'm a new user here, and am having the same issue. i want to modify the: Navigation * Main Page * Community portal * Current events * Recent changes * Random page * Help * Donations bar to have different headings. But I cannot edit the page found using the search suggested. Where can I find more spe...