WikiChristian talk:Village pump
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Creating new page and editing
How/when can I create new pages and edit some other pages?
--Lion 02:33, 21 January 2008 (PST)
Getting rid of file names with external links
Does anyone know how to get rid of files that have been spammed and have an external link to pornographic sites in their names. Search for "Paradise Community Church" and you'll see what I mean. There are 127 articles that have this external link attached to their name. How do we get rid of them? --Muser 06:02, 5 November 2007 (EST)
- I've found out how to get rid of the above. Move the page to its original title and delete the redirect. Kathleen.wright5 08:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Image
Has a cross or crucifix ever been considered as the main image for this site? I think that the Holy Bible image reinforces Sola Scriptura, which may be representative of English-speaking Christians but certainly not the other billion. Christianity is so much more than the Bible.
15:38, 1 December 2007 (EST)
- You're right, a cross may indeed be a more representive image of Christianity. I'm not too fussed either way though - it's the words in the website that are more important than the logo. --Muser 05:41, 3 December 2007 (EST)
Missing logo -- update
Quite a while back (it's in Archive 1) I mentioned that the logo in the upper left-hand corner of the default skin doesn't show up in some browsers. I believe I figured out why. For reasons unknown to me at the moment, IE6 doesn't seem to like the background-image style. Might I suggest using the more standard <a href=...><img.../></a>? --Joe Sewell 16:50, 11 March 2008 (PDT)
Page move fixup
I took the liberty of correcting the "Add New Post" link herein to edit this page, not the redirect page of Wikichristian:Village pump. Redirects don't work when editing, at least not in the version of MediaWiki being used here. --Joe Sewell 16:51, 11 March 2008 (PDT)
Aquatiki Ventures Forth: Extensions
Hey all, how's everyone doing? (I'm interested to see who will reply to this!) I have a lot of questions, but let me restrict myself to one subject at a time. I assume people who are reading this know what extensions are. You can see which one's we have here on Special:Version. There is a nearly complete list of all available ones at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix. The two that I see as incontestably needed on this wiki are Character Escapes (for easy entry of non-standard or non-Latin characters), and Parser Functions (which everyone uses for templates to be able to have #if-then functionality). What is highly contestable is Semantic MediaWiki. This allows a wiki to join The Semantic Web (Google it, and bask in its brilliance!) Basically, this allows pages to have attributes (like size=400 or FavoriteColour=blue) and allows the description of the links between pages (IsAChildOf or IsParentOf, for the breadcrumb trail). I can see why we might not want to open that can of worms, but I'll let whomever wants voice specific rationales pro and con before I say any more. Thanks for letting me in! ;-) --Aquatiki 04:16, 17 July 2008 (PDT)
- Hi. I'm unsure of the specific pros and cons being a not very technical person, but as a general rule I've noticed that adding extensions almost always makes the wiki more powerful and useful. --Graham grove 14:26, 17 July 2008 (PDT)
- Do you have access, Graham? I can't imagine any debate about ParserFunctions or Character Escapes: they are ubiquitous. We should install those ASAP in order to make templates. SMW is worth reading about/looking over. The kinds of things you can do with it are powerful and amazing. --Aquatiki 15:16, 17 July 2008 (PDT)
- I'm afraid I don't really know how to install add ons. I'm happy to learn if necessary, although I'm sure speaking to Prab about it would be a quicker way to get things done! --Graham grove 13:24, 18 July 2008 (PDT)
- How do we get Prab's attention? I've been talking to him on his talk page, but he seems pretty busy. --Aquatiki 15:49, 18 July 2008 (PDT)
