Help talk:Editing/Archives/2004

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Renaming from Help:Edit to Help:Editing

Wouldn't help:editing be a better page name? --mav 02:54, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Good idea, I changed it.--Patrick 04:49, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Help

Is it possible to start numbered lists at a particular number? I am trying to solve the problem of lists that are broken by indents, such as here. gracefool 11:39, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

How to enable blending of ends to links

How to enable this feature in MediaWiki 1.3 beta? I see it is working here, but I can't make it work in MusicWiki.

From Rowan Collins at mediawiki-l:
After following up a lot of red herrings, I finally tracked this down to a single character in MediaWiki:Linktrail. This should end "(.*)$/sD", but somewhere along the line that $ has been escaped, giving "(.*)\$/sD" - so instead of looking for an end-of-line, it's looking for an actual dollar-sign. This gives the amusing but not particularly useful effect that adding a dollar sign at the end of a link will activate the feature on that link (and disappear the $).
In other words, all you need do is change your MediaWiki:Linktrail page to be the same as [1] by deleting the stray.

AlissonSellaro 16:55, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

pre autoflow

Can we make the monobook css file include autoflow for pre sections? The bottom one is autoflowed:

IF a line starts with a space THEN
  it will be formatted exactly
    as typed; in a fixed-width font; lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
  * pasting preformatted text;
  * algorithm descriptions;
  * program source code;
 IF a line starts with a space THEN
   it will be formatted exactly
     as typed; in a fixed-width font; lines won't wrap; ENDIF this is useful for: * pasting preformatted text;
 ENDIF
 this is useful for:
   * pasting preformatted text;
   * algorithm descriptions;
   * program source code;

If you resize your window so it wraps, you can see that the bottom one has a scroll bar instead of resizing the whole page uglily with an overlapping border. I know I can put this in my personal monobook.css (and i will) but it should be global shouldn't it? - Omegatron 17:04, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

Attack of the incredibly long, somewhat redundant section heading

Instead of "Wikitext for which the result does not depend on the position in the wikitext page", might I suggest "Position-independent wikitext"? (Or "Location...", or...?) - dcljr 07:43, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Done--Patrick 08:13, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Table of Contents?

I installed mediawiki on my server but I can't for the life of me figure out how you create a table of contents thing on the pages using the headers as links to each section. Can anyone give me info how? -Shapiro 21:40, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ah nevermind, didn't realize you had to have 4 sections before one would show up. -Shapiro 21:54, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
You can force TOC to be show using __FORCETOC__ or __TOC__ (see Help:Section#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29) AnyFile 11:56, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)