mulambo at gmail
Sep 14, 2005, 2:43 PM
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Re: "create new articles from the search form"
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last time i will post about this, promise..
my #2 assumption is wrong, i was hitting search instead of 'go'.
\duh :(
On 9/14/05, Mulambo <mulambo[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> success, thank you all!
>
> two notes i'd like to make, in my noobishness before i emailed I
> thought that in editing the two pages i had to substitue the name of
> my wiki for 'MediaWiki', this is obviously not so as anybody that
> isn't up before 6 without coffee and tell you.
>
> 2. MediaWiki:Nogomatch will only be shown if you search for a term
> that exists on your(the) wiki, but doesn't have an exact match article
> title.
>
> thanks again all.
>
> On 9/14/05, Geoffrey Kilpin <geoffkilps[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok - let's see if I can respond properly....
> >
> > What I did (by looking at Wikipedia) is edit MediaWiki:Nogomatch to be the
> > following:
> >
> >
> > <span style="font-size: 135%; font-weight: bold; margin-left: .6em">No page
> > with that title exists.</span>
> >
> > <span style="display: block; margin: 1.5em 2em">
> > You can <b><a href="$1">Create an article with this title</a></b> or <a
> > href="index.php?title=How2:Requested articles">Put up a request for it</a>
> > </span>
> > Hope that helps ....
> >
> >
> > On 9/14/05, Mulambo <mulambo[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 9/14/05, Mulambo <mulambo[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I want to add a link to create a new article from the search page when
> > > > > there are no matches returned for the search, i've gone over and
> > > > > echoed what is stated in
> > > > >
> > > >
> > http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Help:Searching#Create_new_articles_from_the_search_form
> > > > > but I get nothing on the search page after, anybody have any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Which version of MediaWiki are you using? The Wikicities instructions
> > > > were aimed at MediaWiki 1.4.
> > > >
> > > > The MediaWiki mailing list is better for this sort of question unless
> > > > you are talking about a Wikimedia site. You can subscribe to that at
> > > > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
> > > >
> > > > Angela.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > haha, my bad about the wrong list, I'm using the latest (as of yesterday)
> > > 1.4.
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Geoffrey Kilpin
> >
> > Search all How2s - www.how2.za.net
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