Difference between revisions of "User talk:Mrxc"

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Hey Mr. XC, I've noticed that after I edit a page, the old stale content shows up instead of the new content I just added. I thought it might be my editing prefs, but now I don't think so. Perhaps the server or MediaWiki installation is giving the wrong cache refresh response, or something? FYI here are my current settings:

x Show preview before edit box
Show preview on first edit
x Enable section editing via [edit] links
x Enable section editing by right clicking on section titles (requires JavaScript)
x Edit pages on double click (requires JavaScript)
x Show edit toolbar (requires JavaScript)
Mark all edits minor by default
Use external editor by default (for experts only, needs special settings on your computer. More information.)
Use external diff by default (for experts only, needs special settings on your computer. More information.)
Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary
Use live preview (requires JavaScript) (experimental)

Wonderist 21:44, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed this yesterday. This is a brand new install on different web server than what I am used to and on an unusual configuration that shares the URL with Drupal. The HTTP headers appear to be normal. For now, I turned off some of the wiki cache features. Lets see if that fixes this. If it happens again, try pressing Shift+F5. If that fixes it, then it is some kind of cache issue between the server and the web browser. If that does not work, try adding ?action=purge to the end of the URL. If that fixes it, then it is a wiki cache issue. Thanks. --Mrxc 22:05, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

By the way, I'm not experiencing the browser cache issue anymore. Feel free to delete my first comment above. ‽ Wonderist (talk) 04:00, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Just saw Special:ListUsers. Is ClintB supposed to be an administrator, or just a bureaucrat? ‽ Wonderist (talk) 04:54, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

That would be something to ask Brian. He probably does not know the difference between the two yet. --Mrxc (Talk) 05:37, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki support

Do we have interwiki support yet? If so, is there documentation on it? My plan is to make links to the MediaWiki site, especially its Help namespace really easy to link to so that we can much more easily use their existing help pages without having to duplicate everything. Also, interwiki would be good for Wikipedia links. These should be really super easy for people to link to, for a couple reasons:

• If we have any serious discussions among members of the community, on whatever topic, allowing them to easily link to Wikipedia articles would save a lot of time and reduce duplication of effort.
• This will make our wiki more usable, and hence more popular with people who use it.
• It will also make people more likely to include links in their discussions, which we encourage anyway as part of rational discourse, and providing evidence.
• More links == more popular in Google. Links to Wikipedia are especially good links.

Additional namespaces

I notices we have several namespaces I've never seen before, like the 'MediaWiki' namespace, and the 'Atheism United' namespace. I didn't realize MediaWiki supported so many namespaces. Is it very easy to add arbitrary namespaces of our own? Just curious.

Might be useful to have a Group namespace as a parallel to the User namespace. E.g. Group:American Atheists would be more 'officially' their page than American Atheists might be. Just like User:Brian is more Brian's than Brian Sapient might be. If you catch my drift.

Somewhat-related question: What is the 'Atheism United' namespace for, as distinct from the default namespace (i.e. no namespace specified)?

Inter-RRS links

This would be totally awesome in a huge way: Some BBCode tweak to allow us to link to this wiki super-easily, and some sort of inter-wiki tweak to allow us to link from this wiki to RRS super-easily. I cannot stress enough how awesome this would be. Not asking for it right away, but it would be good to know how feasible it is or isn't.

Categories

Searching/merging

I'm trying to get a handle on the category system. One thing I would really like to see would be a way to 'merge' the lists of pages from two (or more) categories, so that I could do like Boolean filtering searches like Urgent AND Stub, or Atheist OR Agnostic. The former is probably easier than the latter, and honestly I'd be happy with just that. But does such a feature exist anywhere?

Sub- and super-category trails

I'm also trying to make the sub- and super-categories work nicely. Right now, on the Atheism United page, at the bottom, you see a list of categories, including their super-categories. But there are duplicates like Category:Stub appears several times, because I have marked several category pages as stubs.

I think this is a bug. Certainly it makes it much harder to work with sub-categories, which seem like they would be very useful. Is there some way to fix this, or a workaround?

This is sort of connected to the 'searching/merging' question, because if I only put the Category:Community on the Category:Online forum, and only put Category:Online forum on the Rational Response Squad page, then when you go to the Category:Community category page, you won't see Rational Response Squad in the alphabetical list. So a dilemma: 1) You have to add both Category:Community and Category:Online forum in order to have it listed in both categories, but 2) when you do that, Category:Community shows up twice in the category trail at the bottom of the page.

Sub-pages

Do we have sub-page support? Can we get it if we don't? It might be useful for different organizations to be able to create their own 'mini-wiki' pages underneath their main page.

we need Template:Infobox Organization

we need Template:Infobox Organization as used on Secular Students page --Brian 00:58, 31 October 2011 (UTC)