User talk:Cook879

Thank you
Thank you for all your help, everything seems to be working great thus far. 16:55, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Support Tickets
Does anyone monitor the service tickets? 13:44, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * All staff members have access to them. I'm saw the technical team have seen your requests and will deal with them when they get a chance. Also I'm away for the next week so it's best to message one of the other staff members or support@shoutwiki.com during this period.--Cook879 (talk) 20:01, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Upload size
Hi, in case you didn't realize the file upload size has been increased to 5MB.--Cook879 (talk) 22:34, 13 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Yup thx--96.38.34.77 01:16, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Checking my code
I am having trouble getting the Top Icon to display on my protected pages. Would you be able to double check my code and see if I missed anything? 17:43, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * That's some confusing template. Is it from Wikipedia? It's probably a compatibility issue. Generally it is better to create something, as it will be a lot easier to use and guaranteed to work.--Cook879 (talk) 21:41, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yea its from Wikipedia, but works on the wiki I have on my server http://wiki.darkhaven.org/index.php/Template:Top_icon. 14:03, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Also Template:Coord is not parsing correctly. 14:15, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Update-Template:Coord is parsing correctly now(.js problem) but still not showing at the top like Template:Top icon 15:37, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed, added code from http://portalpedia.shoutwiki.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css

/* For positioning icons at top-right, used in some templates */ .skin-vector div.topicon { position:absolute; z-index:100; top:-50px; display: block !important; } .skin-monobook div.topicon { position:absolute; z-index:100; top:10px; display: block !important; }


 * Good to see you've fixed it :)--Cook879 (talk) 22:08, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Module Namespace
Could I get this namespace added? It may have something to do with the Top Icon Problem. 13:31, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Do you still want this added?--Cook879 (talk) 22:08, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure, Ifit's not to much trouble go ahead and add it. Worst case senerio is it won't get used. 13:24, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * What number do you want for it?--Cook879 (talk) 14:19, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 828 and 829 for the corresponding talk namespace 00:32, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Done.--Cook879 (talk) 21:36, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

commons
Would it be possible to turn on commons for my wiki? 13:26, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Done.--Cook879 (talk) 21:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Interwiki Links
Can I get "T" to point to "http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1"

I hope I'm not being too demanding 01:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I have to say I'm a bit confused by this request. An interwiki link is for linking to other wikis. If you want to link to http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1 from your wiki obviously you'd just use $1 . If you wanted the interwiki link to here from other ShoutWiki wikis then it's best to use s:w:techinfodepot:$1 which can be shortened to $1 by creating a template. Of course I may have interpreted this all wrong.--Cook879 (talk) 21:43, 29 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Yea just scratch this, dunno what I was thinking. 01:41, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

No hurry, but when you get some free time could I get these entered?

en = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1 de = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/de es = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/es fr = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/fr it = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/it pl = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/pl pt = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/pt ru = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/ru se = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/se th = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/th zh = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/zh zh-hant = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/zh-Hant zh-cn = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/zh-cn zh-tw = http://www.techinfodepot.info/$1/zh-tw dhwiki = http://wiki.darkhaven.org/index.php/$1 20:24, 13 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Done.--Cook879 (talk) 22:32, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Crap, I screwed up need to add /wiki to all of them except the last one. Sorry. en = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1 de = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/de es = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/es fr = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/fr it = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/it pl = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/pl pt = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/pt ru = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/ru se = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/se th = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/th zh = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/zh zh-hant = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/zh-Hant zh-cn = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/zh-cn zh-tw = http://www.techinfodepot.info/wiki/$1/zh-tw 01:56, 18 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Fixed.--Cook879 (talk) 12:57, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

wikipedia should not point to  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1  it should point to  http://en.wikipedia.org/$1  17:42, 28 May 2013 (UTC)


 * I beg to differ - linking to an article on Wikipedia requires /wiki/$1.--Cook879 (talk) 21:04, 28 May 2013 (UTC)


 * My bad, you are correct. Dunno what I was thinking. 03:08, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Username
With all the bots creating accounts, I am wondering if DarkShadow is a legitimate and/or active username. If not would it be possible to have that name freed up so i may use it. I know i have Dark Shadow but DarkShadow is the one I am accustomed to. 13:12, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey. DarkShadow was registered on November 14, 2010 by someone with a darkhaven.org email address. It hasn't been used since November 17, 2010.--Cook879 (talk) 22:17, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Cool thx for the heads up. DarkShadow (talk) 23:06, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Can you promote DarkShadow to steward? 00:48, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Namespace
When you get time could you add the namespace Manual (102) and Manual Talk (103)? Thx -- 15:03, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Done.--Cook879 (talk) 16:36, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Could I get a list of namespaces added to localsettings? -- 04:19, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

100 => 'Portal', 101 => 'Portal_talk', 102 => 'Manual', 103 => 'Manual_talk', 108 => 'Books', 109 => 'Books_talk', 446 => 'Course_pages', 447 => 'Course_pages_talk', 710 => 'TimedMediaHandler', 711 => 'TimedMediaHandler_talk', 828 => 'Module', 829 => 'Module_talk', 3100 => 'DD-WRT', 3101 => 'DD-WRT_talk', 3200 => 'Tomato', 3201 => 'Tomato_talk', 3202 => 'Network', 3203 => 'Network_talk', 3204 => 'Software', 3205 => 'Software_talk', 3206 => 'Windows', 3207 => 'Windows_talk', 3208 => 'Electronics', 3209 => 'Electronics_talk', 3210 => 'Computers', 3211 => 'Computers_talk', 3212 => 'JTAG', 3213 => 'JTAG_talk', 3214 => 'Linux', 3215 => 'Linux_talk', --Cook879 (talk) 16:47, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

If i could get a change in namespaces when you get a sec. I need

$wgExtraNamespaces[102] = "Property"; $wgExtraNamespaces[103] = "Property_talk"; $wgExtraNamespaces[104] = "Manual"; $wgExtraNamespaces[105] = "Manual_talk";

Thx -- 06:56, 21 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Done --Cook879 (talk) 11:26, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Picture issues

 * most gifs still don't show properly
 * I have uploaded some pics and they are jpg and they don't display properly. D-Link_DIR-865L Fixed

-- 10:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The gifs on Main Page seem to be working fine right now.--Cook879 (talk) 11:27, 27 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Changed original statement to reflect -- 11:48, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, can you point me to an example of one that doesn't?--Cook879 (talk) 12:03, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure this is a collected list. Problem Images -- 23:23, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Nimbus toolbox
Whats the link to modify the toolbox? -- 22:40, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Nevrmind, I can't seem to get a purge link to work in the MediaWiki:Nimbus-sidebar -- 22:52, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I've fixed the purge link. As for toolbox, it's not supported in the form of other skins. "What links here" is under the "More actions" dropdown menu at the top of the page, Special:SpecialPages in the area under the navigation and above the search and in the footer. The others are not currently present.--Cook879 (talk) 23:00, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thx for th fix, ok how do I customize the area where Special:SpecialPages resides? That's the area I am calling the toolbox. In the Monaco skin it's Mediawiki:Monaco-toolbox -- 01:59, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * At the moment, it's not. I've created a ticket for the issue on our bug-tracker, so if you add yourself to the CC list you will be able to keep up to date if and when any progress is made. The bug is bz:222.--Cook879 (talk) 22:27, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

tagline/siteSub
How do I hide this in Nimbus? -- 04:52, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Our technical team have hidden this on Nimbus skins by default, so this should no longer be an issue.--Cook879 (talk) 22:14, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

special:random
is there a way to tag pages not to show in this? ie.. soft redirects and subpages. -- 13:38, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * As of now, there is no way to really do this. Sorry for any inconvenience. I suppose you could head to our bug system and create it, but I don't see there being a solution to the problem for a while.--Cook879 (talk) 22:06, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Default Skin
I would like to set Nimbus as the default Skin for techinfodepot.info Thx -- 23:20, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Done.--Cook879 (talk) 10:11, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Would it be possible to switch to Monaco as the Default skin? Thx -- 16:07, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Whoops - swear I did this but apparently not - sorry for the delay.

Dump
is it possible to get a wiki dump before the downtime/maintenance? -- 17:15, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I doubt it - the tech team are obviously very busy preparing for the maintenance. As it said in the blog, the data of your wiki is on a different server and so will not be affected.--Cook879 (talk) 08:11, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

upload limit
I noticed since the update that the max file size has went from 5MB to 2MB. Is there any place to return to 5MB? -- 07:32, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey - file a bug at BugZilla the technical team should resolve the issue soon.--Cook879 (talk) 16:32, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Crap, I was afraid you were gonna say that:) forgot my login and password, guess i'll make a new one . Remembered it. bug filed. -- 19:10, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I dont think anyone is monitoring shoutwikibugzilla -- 18:39, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * They technical team will be checking it often but they work on a priority system - most users work fine with 2MB so I the priority on this one pretty low (say to getting new features working).--Cook879 (talk) 19:40, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

extensions
Are you able to install extensions? Bug 241 -- 19:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I have decided to design Infoboxes to do away with the subpages, so i no longer need this extension. -- 14:57, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I thought I replied to the original message. Sorry about that.--Cook879 (talk) 17:34, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Need setting in localsettings.php
I am using the push extension so I can make edits on my local wiki and push them to techinfodepot when done. It has a feature to be able to push images too, but for that to work I need "$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['upload_by_url'] = true;" in localsettings.php

I am the only one able to use this utility on my local wiki. TIA -- 20:35, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Done.--Cook879 (talk) 22:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

I apologize, I need "$wgAllowCopyUploads = true;" right under it. -- 11:43, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Done--Cook879 (talk) 12:42, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

You can revert those changes, I will just upload images manually. The most important thing about the extension is working withe pages themselves. Thanks for your help. -- 17:14, 9 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Done--Cook879 (talk) 20:10, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Extension Semantic Forms/Semantic Forms and templates
I have decided that there is no other way to do some of the things i am wanting to do with the data on the wiki. I have installed this extension on my root wiki and would like it installed on my wiki here. Is that possible? -- 19:58, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I've enabled Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms on the site. --Cook879 (talk) 19:24, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I have an issue. The form on the left is from my site on shoutwiki, the form on the right is from my wiki at home i push from. I don't think something is right with the semantic install on my site at shoutwiki. Look for the red circled area.

-- 23:58, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, personally I'm not too sure - I'll ask the others, but in the meanwhile do you want to let me know your config settings and I'll see if there's any differences.--Cook879 (talk) 02:20, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Useing the Extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle
 * in localsettings i have

require_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticBundle/SemanticBundleSettings.php" ); require_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticBundle/SemanticBundle.php" );
 * In SemanticBundleSettings.php I have

<?php

/** * SemanticBundle - A pre-packaged bundle of extensions meant to be used on wikis * based around the Semantic MediaWiki extension. * * Sample of the settings file for the Semantic Bundle * * @link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Bundle Documentation * * @file SemanticBundleSettings.php * @ingroup SemanticBundle */

if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) { echo "This file is not a valid entry point."; exit( 1 ); }

include_once( "$IP/extensions/Validator/Validator.php" ); include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki.php" ); enableSemantics( parse_url( $wgServer, PHP_URL_HOST ) );
 * 1) Semantic MediaWiki basic installation.
 * 2) More info: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation

include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticResultFormats/SemanticResultFormats.php" );
 * 1) Semantic Result Formats
 * 2) More info: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Semantic_Result_Formats#Installation

include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticForms/SemanticForms.php" );
 * 1) Semantic Forms
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms


 * 1) Semantic Forms Inputs
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms_Inputs
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticFormsInputs/SemanticFormsInputs.php" );


 * 1) Semantic Compound Queries
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Compound_Queries
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticCompoundQueries/SemanticCompoundQueries.php" );

include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticDrilldown/SemanticDrilldown.php" );
 * 1) Semantic Drilldown
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Drilldown#Installation


 * 1) Maps and Semantic Maps
 * 2) If you're planning to use Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps, you should also set
 * 3) $egGoogleMapsKey or $egYahooMapsKey (AFTER the include_once statements).
 * 4) More info:
 * 5) http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps#Installation
 * 6) http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps#Installation
 * 7) include_once( "$IP/extensions/Maps/Maps.php" );
 * 8) include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticMaps/SemanticMaps.php" );


 * 1) Semantic Tasks
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Tasks#Installation
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticTasks/SemanticTasks.php" );


 * 1) Semantic Internal Objects
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Internal_Objects
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticInternalObjects/SemanticInternalObjects.php" );


 * 1) Semantic Image Input
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Image_Input
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/SemanticImageInput/SemanticImageInput.php" );

include_once( "$IP/extensions/AdminLinks/AdminLinks.php" );
 * 1) Admin Links
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Admin_Links#Installation

include_once( "$IP/extensions/ApprovedRevs/ApprovedRevs.php" );
 * 1) Approved Revs
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Approved_Revs#Installation

include_once( "$IP/extensions/Arrays/Arrays.php" );
 * 1) Arrays
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Arrays#Installation


 * 1) Data Transfer
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Data_Transfer#Installation
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/DataTransfer/DataTransfer.php" );


 * 1) External Data
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data#Installation
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/ExternalData/ExternalData.php" );


 * 1) Header Tabs
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Header_Tabs#Installation
 * 3) include_once( "$IP/extensions/HeaderTabs/HeaderTabs.php" );


 * 1) Page Schemas
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Schemas#Installation
 * 3) require_once( "$IP/extensions/PageSchemas/PageSchemas.php" );

require_once( "$IP/extensions/ReplaceText/ReplaceText.php" );
 * 1) Replace Text
 * 2) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text#Installation


 * 1) Widgets
 * 2) Also need to do some permission setup: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets#Folder_permissions
 * 3) More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets#Installation
 * 4) require_once( "$IP/extensions/Widgets/Widgets.php" );
 * 5) $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editwidgets'] = true;
 * -- 10:50, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * We don't have Semantic Bundle, but shouldn't cause too much of an issue - I probably just forgot to do something - I'll get the others to see if they notice anything.--Cook879 (talk) 14:27, 6 March 2014 (UTC)