Userbase Technical Issues

[edit] Rendering in different browsers

I checked layout on different browsers. Thanks for vmplayer :-) See screenshots at See http://www.rakekniven.de/images/gallery4/index.php?twg_album=diverses%2Fscreenshots%2Fuserbase --Mark Ziegler 11:36, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IE6

Using IE6 it looks not pretty at all. for details. Does someone knows how to debug css problems on Win/IE6?

[edit] IE7

Userbase together with IE7 looks much better. Page is usable, but not shiny. Same question about debugging/improving css.

[edit] Safari

On Win. It looks nice. Some asian languages are not displayed correctly.

[edit] Google Chrome

on win. looks pretty nice. Some asian languages are not displayed correctly.

[edit] Opera

on linux. looks pretty nice

We have a serious man-power shortage for this. Do you (or anyone else around) have php skills and could spare a little time? If so leave a message for danimo.

Doing what? Opera has no problem with userbase :-) Cheers. --Mark Ziegler 14:48, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Firefox 3

looks pretty good. no problems at daily work.

[edit] Konqueror

looks good

[edit] Using categories

I would like to see the usage of more categories. e.g. a category for "Graphic". What do you think? --Mark Ziegler 11:52, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

In what context? Could you be more specific? --annew 12:13, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs and empty pages

Empty pages which have not been touched for a while will be deleted. I think we should not delete an empty page unless it has been around for, say, 1 month. Sometimes people start work then come back to it later. 3 months, though, is too long, IMO. --annew 16:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tasks for userbase-admin group

Some of the following tasks may already have been addressed - please mark them so, if they have.

RSS feed is faulty - sending multiple copies every time anything is posted to userbase. The rss feed being used is the one built in to Mediawiki. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7346 Even upgrading will not solve this, as it is present in the latest version too. The mediawiki authors do not intend fixing it. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2009-September/032056.html They suggest that we should change to Atom feed. Alternatively there is Extension:RSS feed for recent changes - however, this is marked 'Experimental'.

The extension has been installed on our testbox, and doesn't appear to be any improvement. I can confirm that Atom feeds appear to be totally reliable. They don't suffer from the multiple copies problem, and can give a single report with the warning that interim changes have taken place. --annew 12:22, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Breadcrumb navigation required - jstaniek volunteered for this There is a Mediawiki extension, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BreadCrumbs2 which would be perfect. However, we need to move pages in userbase into the tree structure that we would want to show.

Should the Random page link really take you to a page in a different language? There was some talk about name-spaces being used for languages (tstaerk). Frederic Sheedy is interested in working with us on this. It looks as though the Namespaces extension might help, but I haven't yet read up on it.

Style - font configuration. Body text appears as dark grey, table text appears as black (and unpleasant)--annew 10:40, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Mediawiki logo should appear somewhere in page template - possibly below navigation links, near license logos?

Selecting a different language than english in preferences will only last 'til next login. It turns to english again. --Mark Ziegler 22:02, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

OpenID problems - using same openid for userbase and techbase doesn't work. Reports that launchpad-OpenID doesn't work with userbase either

Burkhard Lück requests tools to help migrate documentation. The following two extensions are suggested:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate #probably only to help translate wiki pages

This is about export content to e.g. docbook:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DocBook_XML_export

and

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XML_Bridge

I have filed a request to sysadmin for the latter extension

The search is poor. Lucene is said to be a good replacement.

[edit] Issues dealt with

Mediawiki bug - does not search for items if search-term < 4 characters

(Made changes to the wiki config to allow this, needs change to my.cnf as per these instructions: http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/configuring-mediawiki-to-search-for-three-letter-words --Mfitzp 16:46, 18 August 2009 (UTC))

Fixed. Not sure when or by whom --annew 12:03, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Currently if you enter http://userbase.kde.org/Applications/ it opens a new empty page. We need something that tells it to always ignore a trailing slash :(Made changes to the wiki config to allow this, needs change to Apache httpd.cnf as per these instructions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Ignoring_the_Trailing_slash --Mfitzp 16:46, 18 August 2009 (UTC))

- didn't work as defined. Finally fixed by dfaure on 21-09-09. Full explanation at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205009 -annew 12:01, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

'Watch this page' doesn't work

Appears to be fixed. Got my first ever email reporting a change to a watched page. --annew 12:22, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Style - needs comparing with techbase.

All the new mediawiki installations share the same 'skin', so the main points of styling automatically are consistent. --annew 12:22, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File upload: permitted extensions and formats

Could we please add .swf for screencasts (for instance) or should we put screencasts outside userbase? for instance on blip.tv (other ideas?) ? --Mr jay 01 21:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

I think it would be safer to keep screencasts externally, linking them from appropriate pages. It doesn't matter much where they are hosted, providing you are confident that they will be available for a reasonable span of time.--annew 13:56, 22 July 2009 (UTC)